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Having given more than $1 billion in aid to Eastern Europe, Soros is now spending tens of millions of dollars in the United States to promote medical marijuana, rights for legal immigrants, alternatives to incarceration, and better care for the dying.
Specific cliches— working wife, working mother, house-wife , etc.—are discussed, with sober explanations of why they are offensive and with suggestions for suitable alternatives.
To get a sense of the long-term implications of broad fiscal policy choices, we examined the fiscal and economic outlook over the next 75 years under two alternatives: (1) assuming that the federal government saves only the Social Security surpluses and (2) assuming that the federal government saves the entire unified surpluses.
The alternatives are described in sufficient detail to support time and cost estimates and cost/benefit analyses.
The Department points out that due to the programmatic changes mandated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, there were no significant alternatives available that would both accomplish the objectives of the act and minimize any significant economic impact on the small entities.