[CTRL] Fw: Re: 10,000 people in U.S. work in forced labor
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: "Party of Citizens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:47 PM Subject: Re: 10,000 people in U.S. work in forced labor > - Original Message - > From: "radtimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:39 PM > Subject: 10,000 people in U.S. work in forced labor > > > > 10,000 people in U.S. work in forced labor > > > > http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/10854587p-11772265c.html > > > > The Associated Press > > September 25, 2004 > > > > SAN FRANCISCO - At any given time, some 10,000 people in the United States > > are forced to work against their will under threat of violence, a new > > report found. > > > How many in Canada under Prime Minister SS Martin's gestapo? > > Z > http://www.geocities.com/partyofcitizens > > > > The report, "Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States," released > > Thursday by the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley, > > and a Washington, DC-based nonprofit group called Free the Slaves, was > > based on interviews with social service providers, government officials, > > and labor advocates, as well as newspapers stories published between > > 1998-2003 that described incidents of forced labor. > > > > One of eight cases explored in the report concerned Lakireddy Bali Reddy, > > the Berkeley landlord and restaurateur sentenced to more than eight years > > in federal prison in 2001 for smuggling teenage girls from India for sex > > and cheap labor. > > > > Reddy came under investigation in 1999 after a 17-year old girl died of > > carbon monoxide poisoning in a Berkeley apartment he owned. > > > > Reddy was also ordered to pay $2 million in restitution, and the report > > said a civil suit associated with the case was settled in April for $8.9 > > million. > > > > Researchers found that almost half of forced laborers work in prostitution > > or the sex industry, close to one-third are domestic workers, and one in > 10 > > works in agriculture. And while examples of forced labor have been found > in > > at least 90 cities in the United States, most are concentrated in states > > with large immigrant populations like California, Florida, New York and > Texas. > > > > "I think everyone recognizes this is a very real issue and we're working > > hard to address it," said Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for U.S. > > Immigration and Customs Enforcement. > > > > Researchers found that victims of forced labor come from at least 38 > > countries, but most are from China, Mexico and Vietnam. Some are born in > > the United States. > > > > The report urged increased public awareness about human trafficking, > > increasing monitoring of workers in sectors where forced labor is > > prevalent, and ensuring that victims have adequate social services when > > they escape. > > > > . > > > > To unsubscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with one line in the text > saying: unsubscribe LABOR-L, or see instructions at: > http://listserv.yorku.ca > > > > To unsubscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with one line in the text saying: unsubscribe LABOR-L, or see instructions at: http://listserv.yorku.ca > www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [BCPOLITICS] Re: Canada.
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From: "Party of Citizens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "A. Javier M. M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [BCPOLITICS] Re: Canada.
> You are welcome to join the BCP list and discuss it. It just gets down to
> using a standard English dictionary definition of gestapo ... one of those
> imported words like kimono I guess.
>
> Z
> http://www.geocities.com/partyofcitizens
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> - Original Message -
> From: "A. Javier M. M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Party of Citizens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:41 AM
> Subject: Canada.
>
>
> > >
> >
> > I don't know your name, but on other way, those I have seen in your web,
> about
> > canada, about welfare, and 'new gestapo',,,
> >
> > Well, this is other history.
> >
> > Political investigation, History and Laws analyze, in fact, give a not
> very
> > nice 'photo', not only in canada, but in Europe too.
> >
> > Canada, has least population than Spain (About 30 Million), and much
more
> land.
> >
> > The politics developed there, since 1990, I remember, where really wrong
> and
> > evil, at least what I study.
> >
> > This is 'stuff of other box', as we say here.
> >
> > Many time, here, we have investigate about 'socialism', about
'Democracy',
> > about 'Gender', about 'Europe Constitution'.
> >
> > It seems to be a Walt-dysney picture, ¹Does not?.
> >
> > But under this, other facts ('Facts', remember) appear, not from any
> > 'reveled-books', but from Europena Pairlament, from Premier Minster of
> Canada
> > (1989), and many, many more.
> >
> > A not very nice reality, is discovered.
> >
> > Hope to talk a bout this ,,,
> >
> > BEst Regards.
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [CTRL] Victims of vaccine? N.C. troops say military program is unsafe
-Caveat Lector- The military doesn't care if you die--just as long as you follow orders. Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] priest resignation, child abuse military, 10,000 'slave' laborers in U.S
-Caveat Lector- scroll for articles Priest's resignation tied to online sexual purchases By Pat Moore Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 9/24/04 "Stuart - A Martin County priest accused of skimming cash from the weekly offerings at St. Joseph Catholic Church resigned two months ago for another reason: his online purchases of gay pornographic movies, sex toys and bondage paraphernalia. The Rev. Alden Christopher Allen, 52, stepped down in August after Treasure Coast prosecutors notified the Palm Beach Diocese that they felt the priest was "living beyond his means." They also discovered he was taking $500 to $750 weekly from collection plates and stashing it in a "gray box" with no accountability to parishioners. But diocesan officials were not as concerned with the potential theft of parish money as they were with credit card and eBay records showing Allen shopped online for pornographic DVDs, body-piercing rings, tattoo lotions, mink pillows and other items." http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2004/09/24/m1a_MCPRIEST_0924.html Child Abuse Seen on N.C. Military Bases 9/25/04 By Emery P. Dalesio Raleigh, N.C. (AP) "The cases exemplify new statistics showing that children from military families located in two counties are twice as likely to be killed by their parents or other caregivers than other children statewide. Cumberland County is home to Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base, while Onslow County has Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base and New River Marine Corps air station." Http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4514049,00.html 10,000 'slave' laborers in U.S.: hookers, maids 9/26/04 San Francisco "At any given time, about 10,000 people in the United States are forced to work against their will under threat of violence, a new report found. The report, "Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States," released Thursday by the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Washington-based nonprofit group called Free the Slaves, was based on interviews with social service workers, government officials and labor advocates, as well as news storiesResearchers found that almost half of forced laborers work in prostitution or the sex industry, and close to one-third are domestic workers. Researchers found that victims of forced labor come from at least 38 countries, but most are from China, Mexico and Vietnam." http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-slave26.html www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [SUPERWHITE-SUPREMIST] Re: [ISRAEL_V_EDOM] israelite Israeli Government does not recognize Israeli nation {01} (fwd)
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To: Israelite Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [SUPERWHITE-SUPREMIST] Re: [ISRAEL_V_EDOM] israeliteIsraeli
Government does not recognize Israeli nation {01}
Russia offered Birobidjan in the 20's or 30's and it is a great location.
You can almost see Japan from there. Maybe the Russians can lead them out
of Israel to that promised land now and let the True Israelites in.
Z
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Israelite Knight wrote:
> Well, now we know why "Israel" never in half a century ever won an Olympic
> Gold Medal: "Israel" doesn't exist. How fitting for these double-minded
> morons who blasphemy God and Jesus by calling themselves "God's chosen
> people"!
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Party of Citizens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "hengist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 4:10 PM
> Subject: (Archive Copy) [israelite (Moderated)] Fw: Israeli Government does
> not recognize Israeli nation {01}
>
>
> > Bull's eye. Only if all of the churchocrats sustain closed-minded
> > bigotry to match that of JKKK will the Edomites retain their support.
> >
> > Unless Jesus Christ lied when He said He came ONLY to find the lost sheep
> > of Israel (because the torch of civilization had been passed to us from
> > the Hebrews and the Patriarchs of Babylon before them) that nation of
> > self-identified ANTICHRISTS cannot be True Israel.
> >
> > But as for White Right Israelite thing, keep in mind that we will likely
> > become Super-White as we colonize the planets and move beyond ... genetic
> > engineering and all that.
> >
> > As for my super-white pigmentation choice, how about nice shiny yellow
> > and black bands? I'd like wings too! And a stinger would be a nice option.
> > Guess who should watch his backside thereafter (hint, initials JKKK).
> >
> > Zandu Goldbar
> > $
> > WASP FOR PROFIT
> >
> > PS-Thanks for the reminder below. I'm long overdue for a trip to the
> > library and a half day of reading the Edomite/Idumaean encyclopedias.
> >
> > On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, hengist wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > "The [Israeli] Interior Ministry refuses, saying that no such
> > > nation [Israel] appears on its list. "
> > >
> > > Hmm. must be a Jewish 'thing', ... we wouldn't understand.
> > > But then again, knowing the Talmudic mind and propensity
> > > for legal nit-picking. Perhaps, the savants of Esau/Edom
> > > [see Jewish Encyclopedia (Vol. V, (1904), p. 41)] are just
> > > a mite leery of their misappropriation of the title 'Israel'.
> > >
> > >
> > > http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10003/
> > >
> > > A Nation? What Nation?
> > > by Uri Avnery
> > > (Friday 24 September 2004)
> > >
> >
> > --
> --
> > >
> > > "For many people it is difficult to give up the Zionist myths with which
> they grew up. They try to evade any discussion on this subject - and indeed,
> it is hardly ever mentioned in our media."
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> --
> > >
> > >
> > > It sounds like a joke, but it is quite serious.
> > >
> > > The government of Israel does not recognize the Israeli nation. It says
> that there is no such thing.
> > >
> > > Could you imagine the French government denying the existence of the
> French Nation? Or the government of the United States of America not
> recognizing the (US) American nation? But then, Israel is the land of
> unlimited possibilities.
> > >
> > > Every person in Israel is recorded in the Interior Ministry's "registry
> of inhabitants". The registration includes the item "nation". This entry
> also appears on the Identity Card that every person in Israel is legally
> obliged to carry with them at all times or risk criminal prosecution.
> > >
> > > The Interior Ministry lists 140 recognized nations which its officers
> can register. This includes not only established nations ("Russian",
> "German", French" etc.) but also "Christian", "Muslim", "Druze" and more.
> The "nation" of an Arab citizen of Israel, for example, may be recorded as
> "Arab", "Christian" or "Catholic" (but not "Palestinian" - the Interior
> Ministry is not yet aware of the existence of such a nation.)
> > >
> > > Most Israeli inhabitants carry, of course, identity cards saying
> "Nation: Jewish". This has now become a subject of debate.
> > >
> > > A group of 38 Israelis have asked for the cancellation of their
> registration as "Jewish" and its replacement with "Israeli". The Interior
> Ministry refuses, saying that no such nation appears on its list. The group
> has petitioned the High Court of Justice to instruct the ministry to
> regi
[CTRL] "Iraqization" = "Vietnamization" = Defeat
-Caveat Lector- Eventually reality strikes. The US is a Hollow Empire, the world's biggest debtor that depends on Japan and China to avoid debtors prison - with a population facing a long term drastically falling standard of living. Reality always exposes the empty rhetoric. flw washingtonpost.com Endgame How Will We Know When We Can Finally Leave? By Michael Hirsh Sunday, September 26, 2004; Page B01 As Iraq descends into something resembling chaos, it's hard to remember how grand, even orderly, the plans for its future once were. I had a glimpse of those plans last January in Baghdad as I interviewed L. Paul Bremer in his dusty office at the center of Saddam Hussein's old Republican Palace. I asked Bremer, who was then midway through his tenure as America's viceroy in Iraq, whether what he was attempting was unprecedented. Perhaps it was, he said, but the model he was using was the resurrection of post-Hitler Germany. Bremer, a historian by training, then reached over to his desk for a thick briefing book that laid out detailed timelines for the development of each Iraqi ministry. He pointed out a chart that he consulted more than any other: "MILESTONES: Iraq and Germany." It laid out the handover of state institutions during the 1945-52 occupation of Germany, side by side with corresponding plans for Iraq over a more compressed period. That way, Bremer said, he could "keep track of where we are versus Germany." The U.S. occupation embraced that model so completely that officials lifted whole passages from Marshall Plan-era documents in designing the future of Iraq -- once forgetting, in a section dealing with currency, to change "Reichsmark" to "dinar." The administration's ultimate endgame in Iraq was -- and still is, if judged by rhetoric alone -- to emulate in the heart of the Arab world the amazing transformation of Germany in the heart of Europe. It was to convert a fierce enemy into a loyal ally, a regional security threat into a bulwark of regional security. Today, faced with worsening violence, administration officials tend to emphasize how hard a task the postwar rebirth of Germany was (though there was no real insurgency, and by 1948 the "German Miracle" was well underway). When I asked one White House official recently about the troubles in Iraq, he too harked back to postwar Germany. He quoted Dwight D. Eisenhower as saying in June 1945, "The success of this occupation can only be judged 50 years from now." Like Germany, Iraq is a "generational project," this official said. But if the administration is rhetorically projecting ahead a generation, its own plans for Iraq do not go beyond the next two years -- and never did. Its strategy calls for a national legislature to be elected in January, a constitutional convention a few months later and a permanent government by the end of 2005. The Pentagon has also outlined a rotation plan for U.S. troops in Iraq extending to October 2006. Yet it has not laid out an exit strategy for troops, arguing that to do so would encourage the insurgents, and administration officials have not made clear what the benchmarks of success would be. American troops, after all, are still deployed in Germany -- and that was considered a great triumph. When it comes to laying out longer-term plans for Iraq, "there is a deafening silence from the administration," Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said recently. "Incredible rhetoric, deafening silence." Americans must begin to penetrate that silence by reckoning with some grim realities about the Iraqi endgame. The first is that there is no prospect of "winning" in Iraq, at least none that even remotely resembles the administration's rhetoric. The German model has become part of what Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican critic of the war, has called the "grand illusion" of Iraqi progress. Indeed, far from following the path of America's postwar triumph in Germany, the administration's approach on the ground is closely tracking one of America's greatest foreign policy follies: Vietnamization. That was the name for President Richard Nixon's disastrous policy of handing off the war to the ill-prepared South Vietnamese army and a thinly legitimate government in Saigon, so that U.S. troops could come home. Now the Bush administration is hanging its hopes on Iraqification, the propping up of equally unprepared Iraqi forces in hopes that we can ready them in time to forestall defeat long enough to withdraw. This dramatic downshift in U.S. ambitions for Iraq continues a pattern of gradually lowered expectations dating almost from the beginning of the "postwar" insurgency. In the first months of Bremer's tenure as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, in the spring and summer of 2003, he doggedly followed the German protocol -- a new constitution guaranteeing rights first, then voting, and only after that sovereignty. He and his superiors back in Wash
[CTRL] Victims of vaccine? N.C. troops say military program is unsafe
-Caveat Lector- ï Victims of vaccine? N.C. troops say military program is unsafe http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/9763416.htm?1c ELIZABETH LELANDCharlotte Observer Sun, Sep. 26, 2004 Two days after a military nurse injected Lavester Brown with the anthrax vaccine at Pope Air Force Base near Fayetteville, his heart failed. Brown was 34, an avid athlete, career military. Doctors had warned him to avoid vaccinations, he said, because of a reaction to a malaria drug in the early '90s. But when Brown told superiors, he said, they warned he could be kicked out of the military if he didn't get vaccinated for anthrax. Brown was afraid: of the vaccine, of losing his job. He had a wife and four young children to support. "I kept telling them, `I can't take the shot.' " The vaccination is mandatory, part of the military's war on terrorism. Brown had been in the Air Force 14 years and was trained to follow orders. So when a commander, a major, a captain and a first sergeant all ordered him to be vaccinated, Brown, a technical sergeant, rolled up his sleeve and took the jab. He is now awaiting a heart transplant. Thousands of soldiers have suffered unexplained illnesses after getting the anthrax vaccine, ranging from muscle aches to death. The federal Food and Drug Administration says the vaccine has no more side effects than other vaccines, but cases like Lavester Brown's raise troubling questions: Is the vaccination safe? Should the military require troops to take it? There was concern about the anthrax vaccine long before the threat of global terrorism. In the 1990s, the FDA found problems with quality control procedures at the only U.S. company that makes the vaccine, then owned by the state of Michigan. The FDA warned that if the problems were not corrected, the company could lose its license. The state halted production in 1998 and began renovations, then sold the plant to BioPort. After terrorists hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001, and anthrax-laced letters killed five people and infected at least 13 others, demand for a vaccine erupted. In January 2002, the FDA gave BioPort approval to distribute its vaccine to the military. The FDA and the Department of Defense and BioPort all say the vaccine is safe. A vocal group of current and former military personnel, doctors and members of Congress claims it is not. Three lawsuits challenging the vaccine are now in federal court. To the emergency room Brown knew nothing of the controversy on Friday, Feb. 27, when he got the fourth in a series of six anthrax shots.He rarely got sick, not even a cold. He didn't drink. He didn't smoke. He stood 5 feet 11 1/2 inches and weighed 207 pounds, but so much was muscle, he looked lean. The day after the fourth anthrax shot, Saturday morning, he played basketball at the gym as usual but quickly tired. He went to the emergency room that night, he said, and a military doctor diagnosed a gastrointestinal infection. By Sunday, he felt as if his body was filling up with fluid. The muscles in his neck throbbed and bulged. He had trouble breathing. Back at the emergency room that night, he said, a doctor again diagnosed gastrointestinal infection. Something else is happening, Brown remembers saying. I can't breathe. He said his wife, Ebony, insisted on X-rays. "When they looked at the X-rays," Brown recalled, "the doctor got this look on his face. I knew something was terribly wrong." Brown said his heart was so enlarged, it had almost stopped pumping. He now takes medication to keep it beating until a transplant becomes available. He has dropped to 151 pounds, and walking only a few feet exhausts him. Friday, he was medically retired from the Air Force. Before he got sick, Brown sometimes worked two jobs to provide for Ebony and their four children, ages 5 to 12. Now Ebony works and the children help care for him, and that's been a tough transition. "I wish we had done our homework before Lavester got in line (for the vaccine)," Ebony said. "We trusted the military." Mandatory shots Until recently, anthrax had been considered primarily a livestock disease. People can be infected in three ways -- through skin contact, by eating infected meat or by breathing airborne spores -- but it's rare. The military became convinced that Iraq had developed biological weapons, including anthrax, and might pack its Scud missiles with the deadly bacteria. Nearly everyone who inhales anthrax dies if not treated. In 1998, the Defense Department made vaccinations mandatory. Since then, about 1.2 million military personnel have received the vaccine, six doses over 18 months, followed by yearly boosters. (Several hundred thousand, a Pentagon spokesman said, got the vaccine during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.) Out of 4.7 million doses given since 1998, the government says it has received 3,817 reports of adverse reactions, from headache, fatigue and fever to cancer, cardiac arrest and a
[CTRL] Calcuttaization - The Frog Boils Slowly and Thoroughly
-Caveat Lector- This is only the tip of the iceberg. The DemiKan RepubliKrat long term policy is to import millions of illegal uneducated, unskilled workers to keep low pay service industry jobs low paying and export most factory and higher paying service jobs to China and India. 15% of the US working population will thrive, .5% will get very wealthy - and the rest will eventually fall to a Third World living standard. The Calcuttaization of the US is proceeding right on schedule. flw washingtonpost.com Poverty Up as Welfare Enrollment Declines Nation's Social Safety Net in Tatters As More People Lose Their Jobs By Griff Witte Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 26, 2004; Page A03 Tina Taylor was a model of what welfare reform was supposed to do. Taylor, 44, a single mother, had spent six years on public assistance. After 1996, when changes were made in welfare law to push people into work, she got a job that paid $400 a week and allowed her family to live independently. For the first time in a long time, she could afford to clothe and feed her two children, and even rent a duplex on the beach in Norfolk. After losing her job last year, however, Taylor has been unable to find full-time work in an economy that still has a million fewer jobs than it did at the start of a brief recession more than three years ago. She is back in poverty. But she hasn't gone back on welfare. Her story illustrates a seeming paradox in the U.S. economy: Though the number of welfare recipients continues to decline, poverty rates -- particularly for single mothers and children -- have surged in recent years. Just last month, the government reported that the number of people on welfare had declined by 149,000 at the end of 2003 compared with 2002, while the number in poverty rose by 1.3 million. Those divergent trends offer fresh ammunition to both sides in the debate over whether, eight years after the fact, welfare reform is working. Nationally, fewer than half of the families eligible for welfare received it in 2001, the most recent year for which statistics are available, compared with roughly 80 percent before the 1996 legislation. Reform supporters say that is exactly what the changes were meant to accomplish -- recasting welfare as a last resort instead of a crutch. "What is happening is that people are making do, without having to go back on welfare," said Douglas J. Besharov, a University of Maryland professor and resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. But some advocates for the poor say cases like Taylor's show that families are not getting the assistance they need at a time when a good job -- or any job -- can be hard to find. "The same people who fall through the employment net now also fall through the welfare net," said Ellen Bravo, outgoing director of the Milwaukee advocacy group 9to5, National Association of Working Women. In Taylor's case, she mistakenly thought that if she enrolled in welfare, she would have to give up her child-support payments. No one at the social services office told her about a recent policy change that would entitle her to welfare benefits and child support, she said. For more than a year, her family lived in what the census defines as "deep" poverty -- earning less than half the poverty level of $14,824 for an adult supporting two children. In Taylor's case, she was getting by on about $217 a month in child support and $274 in food stamps. "I worked my way out of poverty," said Taylor, recalling the days when she had a degree of financial independence. "Now I'm all the way at the bottom again." Bravo said stories like Taylor's are not uncommon. The state welfare agencies that administer the program, she said, have an incentive to keep people off the rolls because they're striving to meet targets for reducing their caseloads. "The program was designed with a premium put on getting people off the rolls. The idea was ending welfare rather than ending poverty; reducing caseloads rather than reducing suffering," she said. The 1996 reform, which was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton, ended the federal entitlement to welfare benefits and transformed the system into a series of state-run programs funded by U.S. government grants. The new programs imposed limits on the amount of time recipients could stay on welfare -- generally two consecutive years, or five over a lifetime. They also required many recipients to look for work or participate in training programs before they could receive their checks. In the first few years after the law passed, as the economy moved toward full employment in the late 1990s, millions left the welfare rolls for jobs. There were 4.9 million people on welfare at the end of 2003, down 3 percent from the year before and less than half the 12.2 million total from August 1996. The poverty rate also dropped in the first few years after the legislation's passage, from 13.7 pe
Re: [CTRL] Kerry flip on West Bank wall may cost votes, some say
-Caveat Lector- The article is speculating that Kerry could lose Arab votes because he earlier had told an Arab audience that the wall was a "barrier" to peace. Just another example of trying to be on both sides of an issue. - JR . - Original Message - From: Prudy L To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 7:50 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Kerry flip on West Bank wall may cost votes, some say -Caveat Lector- What would cost votes? Both Kerry and Bush are ready to stand behind every act that Israel makes. Both are ready to commit American lives and money at Israel's behest. No difference here at all. Prudywww.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Kerry flip on West Bank wall may cost votes, some say
-Caveat Lector- What would cost votes? Both Kerry and Bush are ready to stand behind every act that Israel makes. Both are ready to commit American lives and money at Israel's behest. No difference here at all. Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
