Capriles had vowed not to end the social programs that Chavez had set up, and he had promised to fight corruption that had grown in the public sector.
Social programs were not new to Venezuela, but Chavez elevated them in scope and prominence.
There has not been some massive expansion of social programs, programs that help the poor, environmental programs, education programs.
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House Speak John Boehner this morning said he will develop a Plan B, which will include tax hikes on million-dollar earners but will not cut entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Social programs and robust capitalism are not, as so many would have you believe, inherently opposed propositions.
Publicly funded social programs administered by tenured sinecures are not subject to this performance feedback loop.
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During his current campaign, Romney is not talking about eliminating the big-ticket programs like Social Security, and he has firmly defended robust levels of national security spending.
He has to know that a significant percentage of Americans are not anxious to see dramatic cuts made in social safety net programs, even if Boehner is ultimately correct and these cuts, to some degree, need to be made.
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The U.S. can afford a social safety net, but our current programs are not sustainable, even in a robustly growing economy.
In contrast CISCO has not adopted evangelism or ambassador programs (other than in is social responsibility marketing) but instead made its investment in thought leadership.
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But he is not actually questioning conservatives' call to cut federal spending and social programs dramatically, which could restrict growth and alienate efforts to appeal beyond the base.
The debate now raging in the Diet and within political parties, is not just about how to finance the costs of old age social programs, but also about the morality of allowing lavish spending on old people to create a burden for their children and grandchildren.
They were not ideologues but somehow we got balanced budgets, enough money for social programs, the first Civil Rights Act in nearly 100 years, the desegregation of public schools, and a successful space program.
By contrast, he has not threatened to veto debt-ceiling measures that cut too deeply into social programs.
Their cuts to social programs are very extreme, somewhat unrealistic, and likely to not be supported by a vast majority of the American public.
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Romney could go with the current GOP incarnation of the anti-tax, Bible thumper who would demonize social programs, but most everyone would see that as pandering, not problem solving.
What if we had a national consensus that Social Security and Medicare were not personal insurance, the way we have sold those programs to ourselves for four generations?
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Like social security, is it not simple common sense to adjust the age of eligibility for programs for the elderly accordingly?
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Live TV is still valuable as an ad medium because of how a TV media buy on one of these programs can be amplified through social media which is earned, not paid media.
Unfortunately, recent surveys which have been done as part of our research programs at the Center for Effective Organizations show that most organizations do not integrate social and environmental performance into the way the organization operates.
Its cuts, not only to Spain's education budget but also to spending on health, justice and social programs, seem designed to "prevent the state being one that takes care of its citizens, " she said.
"Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history, " Eisenhower wrote his brother.
Social Security is one of our entitlement programs that for now is stable, but will not be if we don't make some changes.
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It seems to me the proper solution to the growing burden of social spending, then, is not to lower the safety net so far that it bounces against the ground, by slashing social-support programs.
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