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Unfortunately, this is what appears to be in the works. Bush’s proposal to add personal investment accounts to Social Security is likely to hurt America’s youth. If payroll taxes from current workers are diverted to personally-owned stocks and bonds, there is no way to pay benefits to current retirees without digging into the deficit. Having turned the largest budget surplus into the largest budget deficit in history, to the point that every man, woman and child in America owes $25,000, Bush has not established a shred of credibility when it comes...
Then why did this election hurt so much...
Late in the night at Avigail, Yehoshafat runs through a list of erev rav that ranges from Jewish kapos, who aided the Nazis during the Holocaust, to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence group. "Esau always wants to hurt Jacob," he says, referring to the biblical enmity between the wicked son of Isaac and his good brother, whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away...
Despite the fact that his policies hurt them, too many middle or lower income voters were wooed by Bush’s promise to pursue a social agenda that incorporates certain aspects of his faith. Four million evangelical Christians voted for the first time this election. This groundswell of evangelical voters—an interest group that includes fully 30 percent of all Americans—tipped the contest in battleground states like Ohio in Bush’s favor. Bush, who frequently professed his faith and regularly met with Christian leaders, worked hard to target this interest group...
...went to the Frozen Four with 17 players and it didn’t hurt us a bit,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone. “Last year, as we said, we just need to be one goal better than the other team...