EPI: Bush's privatization of Social Security is not fair to today's working women who still take on the majority of child rearing and who have much lower employment rates than men, particularly in their twenties. "This privatization solution prefers and subsidizes men, who are better able to enter the labor market early, and punishes women who take time-out early for child care or more education."
The graph also shows that all Americans would get less benefits under the Bush scenario.
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Bloomberg: "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his government may sell eight U.S. refineries as part of a strategy by the world's fifth-largest supplier of oil to reduce dependency on sales to the U.S.
'Not one Venezuelan works at these refineries,' Chavez said in Buenos Aires yesterday, according to Venezuela's Communication and Information Ministry. 'They don't give us one cent of profit. They don't pay taxes in Venezuela. This is economic imperialism.'"
Fairness is something the Bush administration does not care about.
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