Privatize to nothing:

Born broke! How old were you when you could totally provide for yourself?

Does investing in children provide a "good return"?

Consider this, if children are healthy, they likely have few if any adult health problems, costing US nothing. If children are given good basic education they can provide for themselves. If they receive advanced education, they make more money and pay more tax.

Isn't it time to provide for our children? Isn't it a good return on the investment? The only way to do this is with government (we all chip in, (taxes) really paying for what we have received.)

How many times have you heard that a "insurance member" was denied services ? I hear it a lot and here is more proof. Do we want to trust our health and our family's to these "corporations"?

California Accuses Blue Shield of Illegal Cancellations
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121307HA.shtml
Lisa Girion, The Los Angeles Times, reports, "California's top insurance regulator has accused Blue Shield, one of the state's largest health plans, of 1,262 violations of claims-handling laws and regulations that resulted in more than 200 people losing their medical coverage."

more news below

Senate Republicans Block Energy Bill
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307R.shtml
The Washington Post's Steven Mufson reports, "By a narrow margin, the Senate today failed again to block a Republican-led filibuster on an energy bill as GOP leaders made a stand against a $21.8 billion, 10-year tax package that would have extended incentives for wind and solar energy and reduced some tax breaks for oil companies." [republicans keeping those oil corporations in the big bucks, paid for by US]

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Entertaining article on China. Quite realistic and perhaps the most telling of any article on China I have read. Excellent for all, especially students as this is a different China than textbooks.

The Last Empire: China's Pollution Problem Goes Global
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121307EB.shtml
Jacques Leslie, Mother Jones, reports on the environmental effects of China's emergence as an economic power. Leslie writes, "The catch is that China has become not just the world's manufacturer but also its despoiler, on a scale as monumental as its economic expansion."

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What havoc has the US done?

Freedom Lost
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121307WA.shtml
Mark Lattimer, The Guardian UK: "After the invasion of Iraq, the US government claimed that women there had 'new rights and new hopes.' In fact their lives have become immeasurably worse, with rapes, burnings and murders now a daily occurrence."

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Hidden U.S. Deaths Of Gulf Wars
Since Gulf War 1 - 73,846 US Dead, 1,620,906 Disabled

By Peter Marshall E. Boomhower

12/13/07 "ICH" -- -- The US department of veteran affairs has issued an official report (See report in full) that confirms 73,000 U.S. troops killed and 1.6 million "disabled" by Persian Gulf wars. 73,846 U.S. Troops Dead (Page 6) and 1,620,906 permanently disabled ( Page 7)

George Walker Bush has presided over the worst defeat of the United States Military since Vietnam and has deliberately skewed reporting of the deaths and injuries to conceal the facts.

The Department of Veteran's Affairs, in conjunction with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has released the truth because they need the American People to know our military is literally, destroyed.

They cannot release these horrific numbers via the chain of command because they are under orders to conceal the truth at all costs, so they let slip a report which now cannot be "un-slipped."

Here are the facts and a link to the government source to prove these facts:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18878.htm

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Critics Say Labor Board Favors Business

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407O.shtml
Steven Greenhouse reports for The New York Times, "Senate and House Democrats attacked the Republican-led National Labor Relations Board at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, saying its recent decisions had favored employers over workers."

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Bush Threatens To Veto Bill That Bans Torture