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Efficiency obliterates identity
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Efficiency
Identity
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Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
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Power
American Politics
Has Beens
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The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.
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Bottom
Economy
Half
Mind
Governed
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Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
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Children
Fifty
Today
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People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
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People
Real
Television Commercials
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Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.
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Gathering
Leaks
News
Routine
Washington
Daily
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In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.
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Life
Humans
Term
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In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.
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Aloud
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Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
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Democracy
Teach
World
Restore
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The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.
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Democracy
People
Problem
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Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
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Defined
Done
Tolerate
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Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
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Captives
Democracy
Ideas
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The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
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Do It Yourself
Pension
Versions
Version
Flop
Painfully
Pensions
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If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
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Inflation
Protected
Wealth
Enhanced
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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
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Authority
Class
Governing
Odor
Burnt
Classes
Washington
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The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
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Animal
People
Relate
Way
People Will Treat
Animals
Treat People Will
Reflected
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The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
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Government
Liberty
Struggle
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Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
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Cynicism
Genuine
Nevertheless
Possibilities
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In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
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Jobs
Average
Died
Years
Working People
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If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
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Government
Order
Volunteer
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
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People
Powerful
Self
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
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Globalization
Instruments
International
International Relations
Marketplace
Regimes
Dynamic
Organizing
Instrument
Regime
Relations
Unfettered
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If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
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Arsenal
Overwhelming
People
Thinking
World
Awesome
Washington
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Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
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Relate
Advocate
People Will Treat
Animals
Treat People Will
Reflected
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Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
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Bottom
Economic
Economic Policy
Economy
Half
Policy
Inadvertently
Recession
Squeezed
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Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.
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Wisdom
Lag
Too Much
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In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
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Finance
Banking
Crime
Deeds
Doe
Foul
Modest
Prison
Prison Time
Deregulated
Occasionally
Realm
Victims
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A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
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Jobs
Government
Law
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The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
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Dollars
Protector
Readiness
Roles
Self
Threat
Commercial
Washington
Global
Interests
Mix
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The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.
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Everyday
Might
Quests
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A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
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Country
Determinism
Giving
Precedence
Profound
Broad
Gain
Suddenly
Table
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As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
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Bloody
Finest
Humiliation
Republic
Cleansed
Designed
Rituals
Populace
Reassure
Restored
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Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.
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Diligent
Healthcare
Income
People
Retirement
Wages
Afford
Incomes
Low
Moderate
Rates
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Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.
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Government
War
Exercise
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Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
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Creating
People
Powerful
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The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.
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Acting
Ancient
World
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The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
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Covering
Drama
Events
Political
Reporters
Ritual
Convention
Essentially
Meanings
Searching
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If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
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Finance
Bottom
Citizens
Country
Healthcare
High Quality
Including
Percent
Plenty
Rate
Retirement
Years
Per
Ladder
Wage
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The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?
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Government
Dollars
Political
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Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
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Honesty
People
Perfect
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Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.
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Law
People
Rights
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Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.
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New York
Grace
Punishment
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If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.
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Benefits
Done
Rights
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If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.
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Peace
Destiny
Self
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The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.
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War
Echoes
Engineering
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Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.
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Distance
Principles
Reality
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The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.
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Creative
Entrepreneur
Vision
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The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.
William Greider / Journalist
Quality
Democracy
Long
Order
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