Ask Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and William Kristol. Ask Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney and George Bush. Ask the American Congress. They not only know how to extinguish vast amounts of American wealth, they have done it by attacking Iraq.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff57.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3889/


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From ufpj-news

International Business Machines Corp. said yesterday that it will freeze the pension plans of some 120,000 employees in the United States, effective at the end of next year, and will offer instead an improved 401(k) plan.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010606LB.shtml

In a national campaign aimed squarely at Wal-Mart Stores, lawmakers in 30 states are preparing to introduce legislation that would require large corporations to increase spending on employee health insurance, according to the AFL-CIO, which planned to announce the initiative this morning.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010606LA.shtml

Robert Kuttner discusses the Bush administration's new Medicare Plan. He says the new plan's political purpose was never to deliver good benefits. One administration goal, running the program through the private insurance industry, conflicted with the imperative of a clear, cost-effective plan. The second administration goal, fattening the drug industry, led to a provision explicitly prohibiting the government from negotiating bulk price discounts from drug companies.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010606HB.shtml

Medicare officials responsible for overseeing $300 million awarded annually to private contractors regularly attended conferences sponsored by these groups. In a letter sent Wednesday to the head of the agency that runs Medicare, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee wrote that one such Florida conference "appeared to be more of a party than a diligent working meeting."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010606HA.shtml

As it hunted down tax scofflaws, the Internal Revenue Service collected information on the political party affiliations of taxpayers in 20 states.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010606R.shtml