Rolunda Baker Medicare Crisis Medicare is another project of Lyndon Baines Johnson Great Society. Spending is obviously out of control. On June 5th the government announced that the Medicare Trust Fund would go broke if something isn’t done with the spending (nationaldebt). In 1965 when LBJ started Health and Medicare‚ the Total Federal Spending for the year was $101 Billion. By the year 2000 we will spend over 4 times than amount on Health and Medicare alone‚ and Medicare will equal the annual
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Sanitation goals BY S H A H N A S I R K H IS R O | 1/2/2014 12:00:00 AM PAKISTAN faces a crisis that threatens the lives of millions of Pakistanis every year. It is also a crisis which in its resolution offers the potential for increased wealth‚ health and dignity for the whole country. This crisis is in our access to water and‚ in particular‚ sanitation. They are the most basic of daily human needs‚ human rights recognised in international conventions to which Pakistan is a signatory
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Syria Chemical Crisis On August 21‚ near Damascus‚ chemical weapons were released on Syrian citizens. There is much debate on where the attack originated from. Some people think its rebels and others think it’s the Syrian government. They have estimated at least 1‚400 men‚ women‚ and children have died as a result of this attack. President Obama is deciding weather or not the United States will take action. Russian president Vladimir Putin has
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enticed the peoples of Eastern Europe to embrace freedom.” Despite such a rich tradition of democracy‚ the burning question which has been recurrently on the lips of renowned academics and political thinkers/actors is whether or not Britain is facing a crisis in democracy‚ with some responding to this question in the affirmative. It has therefore been argued by critics such as Willy Brandt who is reported to have declared that “Western Europe [had] only 20 to 30 more years of democracy left in it‚ after
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An Essay to Politics: Crisis in Ukraine Ukraine‚ a once member of the Soviet unified organization called Warsaw Pact‚ is now being seized by it’s former ally‚ Russia. It is one of the most tragic events involving militarism since the invasion of Georgia in Europe. Ukraine declared it’s independency when the Soviet Union went down. What I see is‚ the tension is caused by the deed of Ukraine to be a member of the EU or European Union. Therefore‚ Moscow would not want this because of their interests
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Crisis of 2008 What happened? Is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It threatened the total collapse of large financial institutions‚ which was prevented by the bailout of banks by national governments‚ but stock markets still dropped worldwide. In many areas‚ the housing market also suffered‚ resulting in evictions‚ foreclosures and prolonged unemployment. The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses
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The Manufactured Crisis written by David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle is a book disproving the horrible reputation America’s education system has been given by the media and by the government. Americans have almost been programmed to believe that the public school systems are failing and that in order to make their children successful they have to be sent to private schools. The Manufactured Crisis is a well written book jammed packed full of research and observation that overwhelming disproves
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Origins of recent liquidity crisis in commercial banks of Bangladesh At present our commercial banks are passing a difficult situation. Most of the banks are in liquidity crisis. And this type of shortage of money makes difficult to engage in various transactions. Now the main causes behind this are given below:- Currency value: - In the recent year‚ our country has experienced a decline in the value of Tk against currency which has created has huge liquidity crisis in the banking sector. For
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Do you agree with the view that the Suez Crisis of 1956-57 did no damage to the fortunes of the Conservative party? The Suez Crisis which was aided by the French and Israelis wasn’t just a disaster for the Conservative party but Britain as a whole as it created lots of problems and tension internationally especially with the USA. To a certain extent the Conservative party did take some damage although the sources point out some other arguments which suggest it wasn’t just them who suffered.
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I. Background to the crisis in Syria Protests asking for the release of political prisoners began mid-March 2011 and were immediately met by Syrian security forces who at first detained and attacked protestors with batons‚ and later opened gunfire‚ and deployed tanks and naval ships against civilians. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad refused to halt the violence and implement meaningful reforms demanded by protestors such as the lifting of emergency law‚ broader political representation and a freer
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