1. We affirm the importance of access to a livable income.
2. Job banks and other innovative training and employment programs which
bring together the private and public sectors must become federal, state and
local priorities. People who are unable to find decent work in the private
sector should have options through publicly funded opportunities.
3. Workforce development programs must aim at moving people out of poverty
- a "living wage" campaign and "living wage" standard will go a long way toward
achieving this goal.
4. We urge that a national debate be held and broad public mandate be sought
regarding (fiscal and monetary) economic strategies and policies as they impact
wages. This debate is long overdue. The growing inequities in income and wealth
between rich and poor; unprecedented discrepancies in salary and benefits
between corporate top executives and line workers; loss of the "American dream"
by the young and middle-class - each is a symptom of decisions made by policy-makers
far removed from the concerns of ordinary workers trying to keep up.
5. A clear living wage standard should serve as a foundation for trade between
nations, and a "floor" of wage protections and worker's rights should be negotiated
and set in place in future trade agreements. The United States should take
the lead on this front - and not allow destructive, corporate predatory practices
under the guise of "free" international trade.
1. We affirm the importance of access to a livable income.
2. Job banks and other innovative training and employment programs which
bring together the private and public sectors must become federal, state and
local priorities. People who are unable to find decent work in the private
sector should have options through publicly funded opportunities.
3. Workforce development programs must aim at moving people out of poverty
- a "living wage" campaign and "living wage" standard will go a long way toward
achieving this goal.
4. We urge that a national debate be held and broad public mandate be sought
regarding (fiscal and monetary) economic strategies and policies as they impact
wages. This debate is long overdue. The growing inequities in income and wealth
between rich and poor; unprecedented discrepancies in salary and benefits
between corporate top executives and line workers; loss of the "American dream"
by the young and middle-class - each is a symptom of decisions made by policy-makers
far removed from the concerns of ordinary workers trying to keep up.
5. A clear living wage standard should serve as a foundation for trade between
nations, and a "floor" of wage protections and worker's rights should be negotiated
and set in place in future trade agreements. The United States should take
the lead on this front - and not allow destructive, corporate predatory practices
under the guise of "free" international trade.
Holy shit, where did this take place??? That's terrible!!!!
Re:So what your sayin is....
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To paraphrase: "It's the money, stupid!" Democrats and Republicans can't be trusted anymore because of their respective national committee's ability to give them lots of cash from corporate donations. Get rid of the money machine and eventually we'll have a government that we can be proud of.
"Social Security is a success story providing retirement income to 35 million people, and disability insurance and life insurance to almost all workers. Its sound financial base ensures solvency well into the future. But because politicians and investment firms use scare tactics for their own benefit, millions of Americans believe that Social Security is endangered.
According to the Social Security trustees' projections, if nothing is done to adjust benefits or revenues, the program would still pay every penny of scheduled benefits through 2037. (The trustees assume slow economic growth. If growth is at or near its historic rate, the program can pay all scheduled benefits for over sixty years.) After 2037, while the trust fund would be depleted, the program would still take enough annually to pay benefits in excess of what the average retiree receives today. So much for the widespread idea that baby-boomers may never see any benefits."
It's worth looking into, maybe he is right, the politicians have been using scare tactics to actually make everyone think that there is a "problem". I certainly hope so, I pay $35 into the social security fund every week...
I got my absentee ballot and several of these candidates aren't listed and others are... Can anyone explain this?
This is who is listed on my absentee ballot-
Harry Browne - Libertarian
Pat Buchanan - Reform
George Bush - Republican
Al Gore - Democrat
John Hagelin - Natural Law
James Harris - Socialist Workers
Denny Lane - Vermont Grassroots
David McReynolds - Liberty Union
Ralph Nader - Progressive/Green
Howard Philips - Constitution
And I cannot believe how many people are running for President....
Listed as running:
Harry Browne - Libertarian
Pat Buchanan - Reform
George Bush - Republican
Al Gore - Democrat
John Hagelin - Natural Law
James Harris - Socialist Workers
Denny Lane - Vermont Grassroots
David McReynolds - Liberty Union
Ralph Nader - Progressive/Green
Howard Philips - Constitution
It's too bad that most of these people haven't gotten any press, I would be interested in knowing what other than Bush, Gore, Nader, Browne and Buchanan think. Does anyone know what the others stand for?
It's just too bad that no one other than the 2 major parties have a chance in winning, their ideas are so stale...
Hahahaha, have to agree with you on that. Slashdot isn't supposed to cater to what everyone wants, there are different sections and the readers all have a wide variety of interests and opinions. When ever I see a red hat story my eyes glaze over, but I know that there are plenty of people that find it interesting...
I've read alot of interesting views on this subject today, all backed up with facts and evidence.
Why don't you all also send them into your local paper's op/ed section? I mean, maybe some other people who aren't on the web would like to hear your opinions.
If anything, it will reach a more diverse reader base. Maybe I'm being too optimistic but it can't hurt to atleast try to infiltrate "their" source of news...
...if I should ever have kids, then it's MY decision what games they can/cannot play, and what movies/tv shows they can/cannot view, not the government! It's not their job to play parent to the nation's kids!
True, I do feel bad for those kids whose parents take no interest in their lives and don't set any limits, but that is their right also, though it is sad that some parents just don't *care* to be involved with their kids.
It's just not the government's job to censor what children should see, it's the parents!
Yes, but the Libertarian party wants to limit Government involvement, but there *has* to be some Government involvement...
If it means being able to access unreleased songs
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I would definitely pay for a subscription to the service, but what I guess the record companies don't realize is that there are plenty of Napster users out there like me, that get introduced to new music on Napster and then go buy the cd (or try to find it on ebay if it's no longer in print, as the case was recently for me for KMFDM Naive orange cd).
I like being able to download songs that are very very rare, or that are no longer being put out by record companies or just plain haven't been released.
It's great to be able to find rare and unreleased songs and according to some record stores, napster has even helped sales...
On http://cnn.org/2000/TECH/computing/10/02/napster.c ollege/index.html, it was written- "Take local record store owner Gordon Lamb.
You might expect him to despise Napster. After all, he sells the music that millions of Napster users are swapping for free.
But business at his college-town shop, Wuxtry Records, is good. And worldwide music CD sales are reportedly up half a billion dollars this year overall.
Lamb thinks Napster should get some of the credit.
"It has helped us a lot," he said. "People have discovered things on Napster and then come in and special-ordered them or bought them right off the shelves." "
I think that other people would pay this nominal fee for use of this service, if it meant being able to get to material easy that record companies won't release.
2000-09-04 16:35:32 Here come the UltraSPARC III's! (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-09-06 20:48:03 No UltraSPARC III Coming this Month (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-09-08 16:14:28 Embedded UltraSPARC (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-09-08 16:25:53 Answer to Sun's Recent Cache Woes? (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-09-12 16:11:00 Sun Tidbits of Major Import (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-09-26 16:57:03 Sun rises with new generation of servers (articles,news) (rejected)
This really pisses me off. *I* should be the one with the control over what my children can and cannot see if and when, if and when I decide to have any.
True, I do feel bad for those kids whose parents take no interest in their lives and don't set any limits, but that is their right also.
But I do agree that if George "Dubya" gets elected things will only get worse. I'm voting for Nader, how about you?
From the Green Party Platform (http://www.gp.org/platform/gpp2000.html#speech)
"Although we see regular assaults on the freedoms of speech enshrined in our nation's founding documents, we oppose censorship in the arts, media (including the World Wide Web and Internet), and press. We encourage individual and social responsibility by artists, creative media, writers - and all citizens"
This is a form of censorship because the parents aren't being given the full right to control what their kids can and cannot see.
Exactly. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the internet is the one place where information is FREE, free from corporate influences.Look at all of the mega-mergers that are always covered in the news, and now most of these corporations control the very news sources that the public is *supposed* to get unbiased news from.
It is a fact, all of the major news sources, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and the major newspapers in the country are controlled by large corporations that don't want to see them get bad press and checked up on by media hounds. By controlling the major media outlets, they are able to control what the public can and can't see and hear.
The one place they are having a hard time with this is the internet. It is impossible for these companies to control a medium that has no real boundries.
The net is the one place where the corporations can't control what we see and hear, and I certainly hope this doesn't change any time in my lifetime.
hmmm....I think that link for the encoder is wrong, not sure though, what is bad about audiocatalyst? I don't know much about it....thanks so much for your help!
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From the Green Party's platform website
C. LIVABLE INCOME
1. We affirm the importance of access to a livable income.
2. Job banks and other innovative training and employment programs which bring together the private and public sectors must become federal, state and local priorities. People who are unable to find decent work in the private sector should have options through publicly funded opportunities.
3. Workforce development programs must aim at moving people out of poverty - a "living wage" campaign and "living wage" standard will go a long way toward achieving this goal.
4. We urge that a national debate be held and broad public mandate be sought regarding (fiscal and monetary) economic strategies and policies as they impact wages. This debate is long overdue. The growing inequities in income and wealth between rich and poor; unprecedented discrepancies in salary and benefits between corporate top executives and line workers; loss of the "American dream" by the young and middle-class - each is a symptom of decisions made by policy-makers far removed from the concerns of ordinary workers trying to keep up.
5. A clear living wage standard should serve as a foundation for trade between nations, and a "floor" of wage protections and worker's rights should be negotiated and set in place in future trade agreements. The United States should take the lead on this front - and not allow destructive, corporate predatory practices under the guise of "free" international trade.
C. LIVABLE INCOME
1. We affirm the importance of access to a livable income.
2. Job banks and other innovative training and employment programs which bring together the private and public sectors must become federal, state and local priorities. People who are unable to find decent work in the private sector should have options through publicly funded opportunities.
3. Workforce development programs must aim at moving people out of poverty - a "living wage" campaign and "living wage" standard will go a long way toward achieving this goal.
4. We urge that a national debate be held and broad public mandate be sought regarding (fiscal and monetary) economic strategies and policies as they impact wages. This debate is long overdue. The growing inequities in income and wealth between rich and poor; unprecedented discrepancies in salary and benefits between corporate top executives and line workers; loss of the "American dream" by the young and middle-class - each is a symptom of decisions made by policy-makers far removed from the concerns of ordinary workers trying to keep up.
5. A clear living wage standard should serve as a foundation for trade between nations, and a "floor" of wage protections and worker's rights should be negotiated and set in place in future trade agreements. The United States should take the lead on this front - and not allow destructive, corporate predatory practices under the guise of "free" international trade.
Yes, but did you read the disclaimer on the Greens website? It states-
This platform is not binding for candidates on any level.
Holy shit, where did this take place??? That's terrible!!!!
To paraphrase: "It's the money, stupid!" Democrats and Republicans can't be trusted anymore because of their respective national committee's ability to give them lots of cash from corporate donations. Get rid of the money machine and eventually we'll have a government that we can be proud of.
That is EXACTLY what Nader is trying to do....
From Ralph Nader.
"Social Security is a success story providing retirement income to 35 million people, and disability insurance and life insurance to almost all workers. Its sound financial base ensures solvency well into the future. But because politicians and investment firms use scare tactics for their own benefit, millions of Americans believe that Social Security is endangered.
According to the Social Security trustees' projections, if nothing is done to adjust benefits or revenues, the program would still pay every penny of scheduled benefits through 2037. (The trustees assume slow economic growth. If growth is at or near its historic rate, the program can pay all scheduled benefits for over sixty years.) After 2037, while the trust fund would be depleted, the program would still take enough annually to pay benefits in excess of what the average retiree receives today. So much for the widespread idea that baby-boomers may never see any benefits."
It's worth looking into, maybe he is right, the politicians have been using scare tactics to actually make everyone think that there is a "problem". I certainly hope so, I pay $35 into the social security fund every week...
I got my absentee ballot and several of these candidates aren't listed and others are... Can anyone explain this?
This is who is listed on my absentee ballot-
Harry Browne - Libertarian
Pat Buchanan - Reform
George Bush - Republican
Al Gore - Democrat
John Hagelin - Natural Law
James Harris - Socialist Workers
Denny Lane - Vermont Grassroots
David McReynolds - Liberty Union
Ralph Nader - Progressive/Green
Howard Philips - Constitution
And I cannot believe how many people are running for President....
Listed as running:
Harry Browne - Libertarian
Pat Buchanan - Reform
George Bush - Republican
Al Gore - Democrat
John Hagelin - Natural Law
James Harris - Socialist Workers
Denny Lane - Vermont Grassroots
David McReynolds - Liberty Union
Ralph Nader - Progressive/Green
Howard Philips - Constitution
It's too bad that most of these people haven't gotten any press, I would be interested in knowing what other than Bush, Gore, Nader, Browne and Buchanan think. Does anyone know what the others stand for?
It's just too bad that no one other than the 2 major parties have a chance in winning, their ideas are so stale...
Hahahaha, have to agree with you on that. Slashdot isn't supposed to cater to what everyone wants, there are different sections and the readers all have a wide variety of interests and opinions. When ever I see a red hat story my eyes glaze over, but I know that there are plenty of people that find it interesting...
I've read alot of interesting views on this subject today, all backed up with facts and evidence.
Why don't you all also send them into your local paper's op/ed section? I mean, maybe some other people who aren't on the web would like to hear your opinions.
If anything, it will reach a more diverse reader base. Maybe I'm being too optimistic but it can't hurt to atleast try to infiltrate "their" source of news...
...if I should ever have kids, then it's MY decision what games they can/cannot play, and what movies/tv shows they can/cannot view, not the government! It's not their job to play parent to the nation's kids!
True, I do feel bad for those kids whose parents take no interest in their lives and don't set any limits, but that is their right also, though it is sad that some parents just don't *care* to be involved with their kids.
It's just not the government's job to censor what children should see, it's the parents!
$600,000 according to cnn :(
Yes, but the Libertarian party wants to limit Government involvement, but there *has* to be some Government involvement...
I would definitely pay for a subscription to the service, but what I guess the record companies don't realize is that there are plenty of Napster users out there like me, that get introduced to new music on Napster and then go buy the cd (or try to find it on ebay if it's no longer in print, as the case was recently for me for KMFDM Naive orange cd).
c ollege/index.html, it was written- "Take local record store owner Gordon Lamb.
I like being able to download songs that are very very rare, or that are no longer being put out by record companies or just plain haven't been released.
It's great to be able to find rare and unreleased songs and according to some record stores, napster has even helped sales...
On http://cnn.org/2000/TECH/computing/10/02/napster.
You might expect him to despise Napster. After all, he sells the music that millions of Napster users are swapping for free.
But business at his college-town shop, Wuxtry Records, is good. And worldwide music CD sales are reportedly up half a billion dollars this year overall.
Lamb thinks Napster should get some of the credit.
"It has helped us a lot," he said. "People have discovered things on Napster and then come in and special-ordered them or bought them right off the shelves." "
I think that other people would pay this nominal fee for use of this service, if it meant being able to get to material easy that record companies won't release.
The Libertarian Party gives too much power to the states and when that happens, as it did in the US in the 1800's, we got a civil war...
Something like that cannot happen again by reducing government. There needs to be some sort of rule...
2000-09-04 16:35:32 Here come the UltraSPARC III's! (articles,news) (rejected) 2000-09-06 20:48:03 No UltraSPARC III Coming this Month (articles,news) (rejected) 2000-09-08 16:14:28 Embedded UltraSPARC (articles,news) (rejected) 2000-09-08 16:25:53 Answer to Sun's Recent Cache Woes? (articles,news) (rejected) 2000-09-12 16:11:00 Sun Tidbits of Major Import (articles,news) (rejected) 2000-09-26 16:57:03 Sun rises with new generation of servers (articles,news) (rejected)
This really pisses me off. *I* should be the one with the control over what my children can and cannot see if and when, if and when I decide to have any.
True, I do feel bad for those kids whose parents take no interest in their lives and don't set any limits, but that is their right also.
But I do agree that if George "Dubya" gets elected things will only get worse. I'm voting for Nader, how about you?
From the Green Party Platform (http://www.gp.org/platform/gpp2000.html#speech)
"Although we see regular assaults on the freedoms of speech enshrined in our nation's founding documents, we oppose censorship in the arts, media (including the World Wide Web and Internet), and press. We encourage individual and social responsibility by artists, creative media, writers - and all citizens"
This is a form of censorship because the parents aren't being given the full right to control what their kids can and cannot see.
That would be cool considering I usually spend atleast $500 a semester on books :(
Or possibly the fact that Pat Buchanan denied the Holocaust during the last election....
Sorry for the lack for formatting!
www.emerson.edu http://www.emerson.edu/gradapp/programs/vma.html
Exactly. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the internet is the one place where information is FREE, free from corporate influences.Look at all of the mega-mergers that are always covered in the news, and now most of these corporations control the very news sources that the public is *supposed* to get unbiased news from.
It is a fact, all of the major news sources, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and the major newspapers in the country are controlled by large corporations that don't want to see them get bad press and checked up on by media hounds. By controlling the major media outlets, they are able to control what the public can and can't see and hear.
The one place they are having a hard time with this is the internet. It is impossible for these companies to control a medium that has no real boundries.
The net is the one place where the corporations can't control what we see and hear, and I certainly hope this doesn't change any time in my lifetime.
It's good to be informed about as much as you can...ignorance is no excuse.
....have several big name silicon valley companies donated close to 22 million this year alone to the 2 presidential candidates???
hmmm....I think that link for the encoder is wrong, not sure though, what is bad about audiocatalyst? I don't know much about it....thanks so much for your help!