Economists insist that the social security program will be tapped later this year to pay the government's bills despite Bush and Daschle's promises. ... In years to come it seems as though social security will be abolished. ... The people that are paying social security now, where is their check going to be. ... No matter how taxes were lowered or whatever was going on in the economy, the social security surplus would never be touched. ... They voted for the money instead of the issues....

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Being vocal about our issues in the society is a taboo. ... There are scores of Indians, who on social media, stir up debates on a woman's right to dress up as she pleases. ... We are staring at a virtually stagnant social scenario. ... Social media campaigns on various issues from demands of free speech to free Wi-Fi have been immensely effective. ... India is complex and as yet, indecisive on many issues pertaining to liberty. ...

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One of the more prevalent issue's in the recent provincial election of Ontario was the policy of privatization. ... Privatizing protection (i.e. water testing) places too much social responsibility on a private company interested in profits. ...

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The Statement also says that "as a social system we seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation, governed by 2 central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life." ... The SDS is claiming that the public is not involved with the "shar[ing] in social decisions". ... In the document, the SDS discovered a great way to prevent materialism: make money not an issue. ... Because the Statement is calling for American society and government to change and not the governments and societies of the world to change, we...

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According to Preuss, these problems were threefold: The genuine economic devastations wrought by the communist regimes, the transformation of the social and economic classes of the command economy into the social and economic classes of a capitalist economy and, finally, the creation of a constitutional structure for political entities that lack the undisputed integrity of a nation state (48). ... The conflict between West Germany's goals of national unity and international integration remained the main issue in the country's politics for many years. ....

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Thirdly, there is a large political focus on issues such as pay equity and abortion rights. ... He says, "White men today are the most anti-government sector of the electorate and least likely to support social welfare policies." ... There are certain areas and issues of politics that the gap is more apparent. A main issue that comes to debate is gun control. ... It is in the nature of woman and men to think differently on certain issues. ...

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Background leading up to the French revolution includes various social, political, and economic conditions. ... Legal divisions among social groups had existed for hundreds of years. ... Most members wanted to take these troubling matters and discus and vote on them as separate estates, but the third estate urged that they combine and all as one discus and vote on the issues together. ...

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Socrates was a very social person, he believed in argument over writing, so he would spent a great deal of his time in the market place and public areas of Athens. ... In our world today the youth are being corrupted by television, video games, some parents, and just about every thing, In the United states we do think about it but it is not a big issue, we have other issues to worry about I know in some countries they will chop off your hands for stealing and sometimes are killed for what we considered to be miner offenses. ...

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By definition the word democracy deals with a form of government where the majority rules, a government in which the ultimate power lies in the masses. Between 1820 and 1840 Jackson's economic policies and the events that coincided with the great migration westward aided this change in power from th...

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I have encountered many people when working in groups that refuse to discuss issues and prefer to act instantly. ... It might be tedious, but I believe it is the only ethical way of obtaining a goal or resolving an issue as a group. ... It also seems that the debates between the two leaders are no longer about the issues, but about power and control of Animal Farm. No matter what the issue is, the two will always disagree. ... This reminds me of a police state where the state exercises a rigid oppressive control over the social life by means of a military or police force. ...

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However, the biggest misconception is that women vote on these issues as a block. ... When analyzed by race, white women tend to vote on the issues in about the same proportion as white men. ... In comparison to white women, African-America women tend to vote in higher numbers on "compassion issues". African-American women tend to vote in higher numbers than white women on issues such as more social security spending, for bigger government, more spending for the poor, and more welfare spending. ... There are some issues which women do vote or act as a generalized group on though. ...

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They are not voting on the issues. ... They have found many correlations between certain social and age groups along with their voting habits. ... The more educated are more usually more familiar with issues. ... To find out any of the politician's issues they can go on the web while talking to friends. ... Many people often label themselves by a specific party and vote on a ticket instead of on the issues. ...

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They are not voting on the issues. ... They have found many correlations between certain social and age groups along with their voting habits. ... The more educated are more usually more familiar with issues. ... To find out any of the politician's issues they can go on the web while talking to friends. ... Many people often label themselves by a specific party and vote on a ticket instead of on the issues. ...

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He made it so that careers were based on what people good do, not what social class they were from. ... He issued new codes to ensure legal equality. ... These codes also set a new character for France, socially bourgeois, legally everyone was equal, and it set up a beurocratic government. ... I think when he first started to rule he had some very good ideas about people being equal and destroying the social barriers, but to be a true "hero" I think he would have had to taken it one step further and made a democratic government, with limits on the different branches of government, and obvio...

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Since leaders have had the ability to impact the nation in countless ways, could this be a solution to African-American problems and issues? ... Du Bois wrote "The Position in the American Social Order: Where Do Were Go from Here?" ... For West believed the race related issue of the Los Angeles riots were not caused by racism, rather provoked by racism (West 237). ...

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These topics often crop up in debate over the republic issue. ... Another argument is that we should not share our head of state with any other country, as queen even though she has appointed a govenor general, she still has duties to us and on that note to the other 15 countries she is head of state to.Now if we had a president even one with less duties than the current govenor general he (or she ) would still be focused totally on Australian issues and not be worried whats going on in Canada or some other british country. The monarchists believe that the only duties the queen has ...

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Citizenship is, at its core, social responsibility. ... Our right to vote suggests not only that we have that privilege, but that we have an responsibility to become informed about the election process, as well as learn as much as we can about the issues involved. ... So that we don't get too distracted, I'll ask you to set aside the issue of rights for another day. ... Before voting in an election, each citizen should be well informed about the issues and candidates. ...

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I grew older and wiser and I took those opinions and began to form my own opinions based off of prior beliefs, and realized how I really felt about the current events that was a daily issue being discussed nationally. ... For the matter of abortion, it shouldn't even be an issue. ... She ever so often rants about the debt ceiling, its unnecessary excessive spending, and how the middle class has yet to prosper in the recovery of the economy like the other social classes. ... Me and my dad will begin to talk about a political issue and she'll butt ranting and raving about something tha...

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USA government has plenty of will and money to bomb other countries into submission, to bring democracy, but no desire to help Americans deal with their domestic issues. ... Until people unite and organize in social movements and create new political parties and challenge the current bureaucratic, corrupt system, there will not be a change for the better in this country....

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The evolution of storytelling has come a long way ever since films like The Kleptomaniac (1905), A Corner in Wheat (1909), and Sherlock, Jr. (1924) came out. Movies today are all about playing with the viewers mind. As Hugo Munsterberg states in The Photoplay: A Psychological Study (1916) "our est...

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A direct democracy requires that all citizens attend regularly held meetings to make laws and decide issues where everyone has a voice. ... The founding fathers that were trying to shape the new country were represented as a social elite. ...

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Revolutions begin as a protest against tyranny, but end by creating a state far more powerful than the one that they replace. Discuss with reference to France and Russia. The French revolution was the catalyst that ended the system of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and brought about the...

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He explains that athough this book was written so long ago it wasn't until now, this century, that democracy has become an issue regardless of "sex, race or ethnic origin (pg. 3)." ... Bad working conditions with little educational supplies, average rate of pay, little respect, low social status, amongst others things are some reasons for this. ...

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