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| | Social democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Modern social democrats are generally in favor of a mixed economy, which should be mainly capitalistic but with governmental provision of certain social services. | | | Social democrats usually retort by arguing that their policies are in fact enhancing individual rights, by raising the standard of living of the vast majority of the population and eliminating the threat of extreme poverty. | | | A great many social democratic parties have adopted policies of the centrist Third Way, which supports a deregulated economy and emphasises equality of opportunity as the benchmark for social equity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-democracy
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| | NEWS ANALYSIS / Unpopular options underlie ideas to fix Social Security / Credit-card culture leaves U.S. unwilling to pay for benefits |
| | Despite ferocious opposition from Democrats to Bush's plan to allow workers to divert 4 percent of their wages to private accounts, the idea of creating private accounts as an add-on to Social Security is actually fashionable in both parties. | | | Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system in which payroll taxes collected from today's workers pay for the benefits of current retirees. | | | The solvency of Social Security and private accounts are separate issues, although Bush often fudges the distinction. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/07/MNGU8B751D1.DTL
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| | Glossary of Terms: So |
| | Social democrats often say that the most effective way of defending and improving workers’ living standards is not to award pay rises, but to increase the benefits that workers receive via state services. | | | Promotion of the concept of social wage invariably means arguing against fighting for pay rises, and is based on the assumption that class struggle is a bad thing; better to use the democratic process to elect social democrats to government and legislate improvements in the social wage. | | | The methods of social control and integration may be: regulation, commodification, education and ideology, or democratisation. |
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/o.htm
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| | Glossary of Terms: So |
| | Social democrats often say that the most effective way of defending and improving workers’ living standards is not to award pay rises, but to increase the benefits that workers receive via state services. | | | Promotion of the concept of social wage invariably means arguing against fighting for pay rises, and is based on the assumption that class struggle is a bad thing; better to use the democratic process to elect social democrats to government and legislate improvements in the social wage. | | | The methods of social control and integration may be: regulation, commodification, education and ideology, or democratisation. |
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/o.htm
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| | Social Security Choice |
| | The statement came two days after Democrats at the president’s State of the Union address cheered his failure to cajole Congress into reforming Social Security. | | | The AARP thinks that Social Security Trust funds should be invested in higher-yielding securities…just as long as you and I aren’t allowed to do the investing ourselves in personal accounts. | | | By 2030, spending for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid alone will be almost 60 percent of the entire federal budget. |
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http://www.socialsecuritychoice.org
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| | Social Solidarity versus Social Capital by Andy Blunden |
| | Social scientists from left to right, community activists and churchpeople, liberals like Francis Fukuyama to social democrats like Robert Putnam, both the leader of the (Australian) Opposition Mark Latham and next in line to the Liberal throne, Peter Costello, all seem to agree that what communities suffering under neo-liberal policies need is “social capital.” | | | The value of the idea of “social capital” is that it sheds light on the non-economic factors which allow poor or marginalised communities to improve their situation irrespective of welfare payments or other measures of redistribution. | | | But if the quantity of social capital cannot be taken as an indicator of anything in itself, without breaking it down into its component parts, then the whole rationale for the concept of “social capital” is gone. |
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http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/social-solidarity-preface.htm
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| | Social Security |
| | The Republican National Committee unveiled an ad touting George W. Bush's plan to revamp Social Security, joining the Democrats in what is likely to escalate into an arms race of televised propaganda powered by soft money. | | | Social Security Expected to Be Primary Retirement Income for 94 Percent of Seniors | | | Social Security Investment Accounts, Indexing in Bush Budget |
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http://www.seniorjournal.com/SocialSecurity.htm
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| | Oliver Kamm: A reputation worth revising |
| | As such he helped secure a prolonged period of opposition, impotence and futile sloganising for Germany's Social Democrats. | | | As such he helped secure a prolonged period of opposition, impotence and futile sloganising for Germany's Social Democrats." | | | The Social Democrats, while nominally (till the Bad Godesburg Conference of 1959) a Marxist party and erroneously believing that there was a democratic socialist alternative to allying with the United States, was staunchly anti-Communist under the leadership of Kurt Schumacher. |
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http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/05/a_reputation_wo.html
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| | THE CCF THE ORIGINAL REFORM MOVEMENT |
| | As trade unionists, as socialists and social democrats we have as much to be proud of in Alberta's reform heritage as the Preston come latelys. | | | Social Credit was seen as the new voice of rural urban resistance to the Eastern establishment, especially the banks. | | | The original reform movement in the prairies was based on a labour farmer, socialist alliance against both the political and business monopolies that dominated the Canadian political economy. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/ccf.htm
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| | Social Security ... [Media Matters for America] |
| | In his April 29 column, Gelernter claimed that President Bush's plan for Social Security would let workers invest only 4 percent of their payroll taxes into private accounts, and that Democrats are lying when they say Bush wants to privatize Social Security. | | | Angle also stated that the Democrats "didn't talk much about what they were for," but failed to note that Bush still has not presented Congress with his legislative proposal to address Social Security's solvency issues, which some Republicans have recently pressured him to do. | | | In fact, Social Security's outlays are projected to begin exceeding its revenues in 2018, not 2011, according to the 2004 report of the Social Security trustees. |
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http://mediamatters.org/topics/socialsecurity.html
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| | CNN's Zahn and Johns followed GOP talking point ... [Media Matters] |
| | Democrats are doing all they can to blur the very important distinction between 'personal accounts' and 'privatization.' They are employing the word 'privatization' for the specific purpose of eliciting negative reactions among seniors because it carries connotations of dismantling the publicly run Social Security system. | | | 'Privatization' is a false and misleading word insofar as it is being used by Democrats to describe Republican positions on Social Security. | | | From gay marriage to the Patriot Act to creating private accounts in Social Security, to tax cuts to tax reform, the math in the Congress works in the president's favor to stay the conservative course. |
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200411090007
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| | Reason: Social Security as Social Engineering |
| | Social Security reform could be for Republicans the kind of donnybrook that health care reform was for Democrats in 1994. | | | Social Security's surpluses have subsidized general budget spending for decades; if the government needs to use general revenues to subsidize Social Security, that will be no tragedy. | | | Social Security is often said to be insolvent, because in about 2018 its benefit payments will exceed the revenues it collects through its dedicated payroll tax. |
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http://www.reason.com/rauch/011505.shtml
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| | The State of Social Welfare — www.greenwood.com |
| | While Marxist socialists, democratic socialists, social democrats, and reluctant collectivists were all eager, at various times, to construct their vision of the ideal society, the idea of state welfare was slow to take root. | | | The state welfare dream was that citizenship would guarantee every individual a secure lifestyle, with a minimum degree of insecurity, and the wherewithal to develop to the greatest possible extent as individuals and as members of society. | | | Description: With the end of the 20th century, Dixon and Scheurell decided it was an opportune time to critically assess what governments have achieved with their plethora of public social welfare policies. |
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http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=C6795
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| | The Social Security Network |
| | Social Security Battle Pits Bush Against Democrats, Own Party | | | Bernard Wasow responds to four common questions about Social Security's financing and its relationship to the national debt and federal budget. | | | The annual report of Social Security's trustees, including new official projections of the program's future financial status, is now available. |
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http://www.socsec.org
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| | Greenspan says gov must adjust Social Security, Medicare - Aug. 27, 2004 |
| | The challenge of funding retirement programs like Social Security and Medicare loom at the same that the U.S. budget deficit has swelled to record levels. | | | Democrats have criticized the Bush administration for pushing through tax cuts that added to the deficit, while Republicans argue the deficit will shrink as tax cuts encourage greater investment and saving. | | | He said it will be much easier to address the chronic deficit in the Social Security account than to address the shortfalls in the Medicare program which will be "much larger and much more difficult to eliminate." |
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http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/27/commentary/column_hays/social_security
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| | ZNet Activism Boston Social Forum |
| | MA State Representatives Patricia Jehlen and Byron Rushing, both progressive Democrats, also did great service to the BSF by joining our advisory board. | | | Third, the resolution was a public recognition that the BSF was going to be a large "convention" in its own rightâand that it would benefit the local economy by bringing more visitors to the city. | | | Unions, meanwhile, are riven with healthy and long-overdue debates about how they can survive the corporate-driven onslaught of neoliberal policies aimed at their total extinction. |
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http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6204§ionID=1
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| | Blog for Democracy |
| | The relative strength of the red state Democrats and the current weak position of the two Midwest Democrats did not surprise Larry Sabato, political science professor at the University of Virginia. | | | Democrats holding the top state office in Wyoming, Arizona and Kansas could be considered strangers in a strange land. | | | The organization, with a staff of 30 and a $5.5 million yearly budget, teams lawmakers up with corporate interests to push decidedly pro-business bills through state legislatures. |
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http://www.blogfordemocracy.org
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| | ScrappleFace: Kerry Threatens to Unveil Social Security Plan |
| | As painful as it is for me to say it, gore had it right with (one of the stupidest metaphors i've ever heard) "i'm going to put social security and medicare in a 'lockbox' to protect it." As SS goes into the general fund, you have loads of greedy senators (mostly democrats. | | | I am also smart enough to know that their social agenda is at cross-purposes to the interests of those on fixed incomes (i.e., social security). | | | Since there really isn't a fund our Social Security payments go into, but rather the payments become part of the general fund, the socialist progressive dims see their power eroding if they have fewer tax dollars to dole out to their pet projects. |
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http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/002177.html
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| | What kind of fight can win another world? |
| | The BSF was an important step along the road toward future social forums in the U.S. It also highlighted many of the political questions that activists will have to debate in our fight to show that another world is possible--above all, the question of whether supporting Democrats should take precedence over independent organizing. | | | But the issue underlying many discussions during the weekend--Election 2004 and the case that progressives should hold their nose and vote for the pro-war campaign of Democrat John Kerry--wasn’t in keeping with the non-party tradition of the social forum movement. | | | In contrast, the Boston Social Forum was a bubble of resistance and commitment to social justice--expressed across a wide spectrum of political and cultural events. |
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http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/508/508_10_BSF.shtml
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| | Dont let Social Security debate pass you by - Minnesota Daily |
| | Social Security can be fixed without drastic benefit cuts and without creating huge deficits if Republicans drop their preoccupation with private accounts and join with Democrats to forge a bipartisan solution. | | | Social Security will start paying out more than it collects in payroll taxes in approximately 15 years and in approximately 40 years or 50 years Social Security will only be able to pay approximately 75 percent or 80 percent of promised benefits, depending on whose estimate you look at. | | | Right now, Social Security collects more in payroll taxes than it pays out to beneficiaries, so there is a surplus credited to the Social Security trust fund. |
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http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/05/02/64435
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| | OpinionJournal - Extra |
| | A common social security program, or medical care program, or public school program, helps to create the kind of cohesion that Europe's social democrats like to call "social solidarity"--a sense that basic humanity and citizenship in the political community require equal treatment in at least some areas of economic life. | | | The dollars often arrive ostentatiously (Social Security checks in the mailbox) but depart surreptitiously (payroll withholding and employer "contributions" to Social Security). | | | It would derive its revenue from the progressive income tax rather than Social Security's regressive payroll tax. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra?id=110006605
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| | Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: March 13, 2005 - March 19, 2005 Archives |
| | This ought to be the Democrats moment, as the presidents Social Security proposal crashes against the wall of the publics deep doubts. | | | Social insurance was meant, in the first place, to insulate people from the effects of a previous regime which assumed that, like it or not, all folks should be risk-takers. | | | For Brooks, the hellish reality is the rising cost of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security (which, tellingly, he bundles as "the entitlements") and the boorish surreality is the partisan polarization of politicians who won't deal with the crisis. |
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_03_13.php
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| | JS Online: Youthful audience is target of Social Security reforms |
| | Social Security: Youthful audience is target of reforms | | | Bush, though, made a forceful argument to reform the Social security system now, repeatedly stressing that it won't change for those currently getting payments, or those born before 1950, essentially people now age 55 or older. | | | In this case, there is disagreement about whether Social Security even needs to be fixed. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/may05/327274.asp
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| | CNN.com - Bush cites progress in Social Security debate - Mar 16, 2005 |
| | WASHINGTON (CNN)-- President Bush continued to shift the focus of the Social Security overhaul debate from personal accounts Wednesday, saying he had seen several interesting proposals to change the system. | | | Most Democrats are opposed to private accounts and say that Bush's plan would increase the deficit because of transition costs. | | | They also say such accounts would do nothing for the solvency of Social Security. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/16/bush/index.html
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: The Fifth International? by Greg Yardley |
| | Just as American radicals return home from the conference eager to pass their ideals on to others, including the Democrats' far-left base, the rest of the world's leftists return to their governments full of fervor, eager to impede America's foreign policy and prevent its war on terrorism. | | | As long as the World Social Forum remained in the hands of the lunatic, guerilla-loving left, it was all but irrelevant to America, which, barring a cataclysm, is not going to see the armed overthrow of the government any time soon. | | | While the organizers of the World Social Forum claim the event is a "open meeting place" for those interested in building "a planetary society centered on the human person," in reality, it's nothing but an organizing meeting for unreconstructed socialists, constantly attempting to turn world political forces against America. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8593
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| | European Social Forum |
| | At the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre in February, for example, the political discussions were dominated by the non-governmental organisations, the left social democrats and the broad organisations represented most centrally by Attac France. | | | The beneficiaries of this new militancy were, without question, the social democratic parties in Europe. | | | Social democracy has nothing to offer the movement--its leaders will find reasons to support the war on Iraq, with or without UN validation or not, even if Chirac and Schröder are currently negotiating the terms of that support. |
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http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr269/gonzalez.htm
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| | DSA in Boston |
| | Invited speakers include leaders from the Canadian Federation of Students and the French National Student Union (each representing hundreds of thousands of students) along with members of the International Union of Socialist Youth - the world's largest youth political coalition. | | | This July 23-25 the Boston Social Forum will bring thousands of activists together to examine issues, plot strategies, network and help build the left community in advance of the Democratic Convention. | | | All sessions of the Social Forum are being held at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus. |
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http://www.dsausa.org/LatestNews/2004/boston1.html
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| | Social democrat - definition of Social democrat in Encyclopedia |
| | With the 2000 Ralph Nader campaign arguably having cost the Democrats the election, the Democratic Party, which has moved away from welfare state policies under Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is under pressure to adopt some social democratic measures in its platform (such as universal health care). | | | As of 2004, social democrats generally do not see a conflict between a capitalist market economy and their definition of a socialist society, and support reforming capitalism in an attempt to make it more equitable through the creation and maintenance of a welfare state. | | | Left critics allege that some professed social democrats, such as Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder, end up doing the work of the capitalists by implementing tax cuts, cuts in social programs, privatisations, industrial deregulation, and a rolling back of the welfare state rather than extending it. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Social_democrat
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| | Social Security - "Total Unity" |
| | The Democrats in the Senate split nearly evenly on the recent bankruptcy bill, and some Democrats have been tagged as waffling in their opposition to the presidentâs Social Security plan. | | | DEMOCRATS AND SOCIAL SECURITY In September 1998, Vice President Al Gore went to the Capitol for a Social Security pep rally with congressional Democrats, including House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and others. | | | Back in 1998, Democrats realized it was politically safe to rally around Clinton's statements about a Social Security crisis because they knew he did not really intend to take any action that matched his rhetoric. |
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http://www.thereisnocrisis.com/node/3510
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