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OBAMA ADOPTS REVIEW'S PLAN FOR SOCIAL SECURITY
[We've been arguing this for years. This is the first time that a major
candidate has proposed it]....Sam Smith, Editor of The Progressive Review
ABC NEWS - "If we kept the payroll tax rate exactly the same but applied
it to all earnings and not just the first $97,000," Obama wrote this
week in an Iowa newspaper, "we could eliminate the entire Social
Security shortfall." Obama's idea, which he described on the op-ed page
of Friday's Quad City Times as being "one possible option" and not a
formal plan, would raise more than $1 trillion over 10 years by
subjecting income of more than $97,000 to a 12.4 percent tax. Half of
the tax would be paid by employees and half would be paid by employers.
Obama is floating the idea of a tax hike on the rich as a way of
assuring lower- and middle-income voters that he sees an option for
ensuring Social Security's solvency that would not burden them. Obama
has been indirectly criticized by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for
suggesting on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that a
higher retirement age should be "on the table."
By suggesting the elimination of the Social Security tax cap, Obama has
distinguished himself as the presidential candidate most willing to
touch the "third rail" of American politics. No other major candidate
has come close to offering a specific idea with the potential of
generating as much revenue.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3638710&page=1
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GIULIANI'S BIZARRE CELLPHONE ADDICTION
NEWSMAX - Rudy Giuliani shocked the National Rifle Association Friday
when he took a cell phone call from his wife in the middle of his speech
to the group. . . Giuliani was talking from the podium about the
importance of the right to bear arms when his cell phone apparently
vibrated and then rang.
"Let's see now. This is my wife calling, I think," the former mayor
said, reaching for the phone in his pocket, as an amazed audience looked
on.
"Hello dear... I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now," he said
into the phone as his incredulous audience listened.
"Would you like to say hello?," Giuliani said to his wife. "I love you,
and I'll give you a call as soon as I'm finished, okay? Okay, have a
safe trip, bye-bye. Talk to you later dear, I love you."
Looking a bit embarrassed, Giuliani said to the audience: "It's a lot
better that way." . . .
Last April 9, NewsMax reported that Giuliani was attending a roundtable
discussion with heavy-hitter Republicans at the Oklahoma History Center
in Oklahoma City. Two of the three co-hosts were CEOs of Fortune 500
companies.
One participant started to ask a question about Iraq.
"In the middle of the question, Mayor Giuliani's personal cell phone
rang, and he answered it," a participant said. "At first, I think people
thought he was kidding. But then he just started talking, and without
looking up or saying anything to us, he just got up, left the room, and
never came back. Everyone waited about 20 minutes, and then the room
started to break up. It was bizarre behavior."
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/giuliani_nra_cell_phone/2007/09/21/34806.html
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OBAMA ADOPTS REVIEW'S PLAN FOR SOCIAL SECURITY
[We've been arguing this for years. This is the first time that a major
candidate has proposed it]....Sam Smith, Editor of The Progressive Review
ABC NEWS - "If we kept the payroll tax rate exactly the same but applied
it to all earnings and not just the first $97,000," Obama wrote this
week in an Iowa newspaper, "we could eliminate the entire Social
Security shortfall." Obama's idea, which he described on the op-ed page
of Friday's Quad City Times as being "one possible option" and not a
formal plan, would raise more than $1 trillion over 10 years by
subjecting income of more than $97,000 to a 12.4 percent tax. Half of
the tax would be paid by employees and half would be paid by employers.
Obama is floating the idea of a tax hike on the rich as a way of
assuring lower- and middle-income voters that he sees an option for
ensuring Social Security's solvency that would not burden them. Obama
has been indirectly criticized by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for
suggesting on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that a
higher retirement age should be "on the table."
By suggesting the elimination of the Social Security tax cap, Obama has
distinguished himself as the presidential candidate most willing to
touch the "third rail" of American politics. No other major candidate
has come close to offering a specific idea with the potential of
generating as much revenue.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3638710&page=1
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GIULIANI'S BIZARRE CELLPHONE ADDICTION
NEWSMAX - Rudy Giuliani shocked the National Rifle Association Friday
when he took a cell phone call from his wife in the middle of his speech
to the group. . . Giuliani was talking from the podium about the
importance of the right to bear arms when his cell phone apparently
vibrated and then rang.
"Let's see now. This is my wife calling, I think," the former mayor
said, reaching for the phone in his pocket, as an amazed audience looked
on.
"Hello dear... I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now," he said
into the phone as his incredulous audience listened.
"Would you like to say hello?," Giuliani said to his wife. "I love you,
and I'll give you a call as soon as I'm finished, okay? Okay, have a
safe trip, bye-bye. Talk to you later dear, I love you."
Looking a bit embarrassed, Giuliani said to the audience: "It's a lot
better that way." . . .
Last April 9, NewsMax reported that Giuliani was attending a roundtable
discussion with heavy-hitter Republicans at the Oklahoma History Center
in Oklahoma City. Two of the three co-hosts were CEOs of Fortune 500
companies.
One participant started to ask a question about Iraq.
"In the middle of the question, Mayor Giuliani's personal cell phone
rang, and he answered it," a participant said. "At first, I think people
thought he was kidding. But then he just started talking, and without
looking up or saying anything to us, he just got up, left the room, and
never came back. Everyone waited about 20 minutes, and then the room
started to break up. It was bizarre behavior."
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/giuliani_nra_cell_phone/2007/09/21/34806.html
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