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Izquierda: It Was Only Twenty Million Dollars.
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The publication of the Socialist Party of Texas. Sunday, March 11, 2007. It Was Only Twenty Million Dollars. Plan, submitted by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC/Commission) to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or CMS for approval, an estimated 365,591 children were in need of CHIP services in 1998. Now seven years later, 145,500 eligible children have been dropped from the CHIP program due to budget cuts. [2]. Plan and the 2004 budget deficit reality? HHSC issued approxim...
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Izquierda: Free Trade Dilemmas: Some Observations About Mexico
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The publication of the Socialist Party of Texas. Sunday, March 11, 2007. Free Trade Dilemmas: Some Observations About Mexico. By Michael S. Yoder. The traditional agricultural sector has fared even worse than plant workers. To make the country a more attractive credit risk to multinational lending institutions, the state began privatizing the nation’s ejidos. Or state-owned collective farm lands that, despite their inefficiency, provided a rural social safety net for campesinos. Socialist Party of Texas.
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Izquierda: God, Privatization, and War
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The publication of the Socialist Party of Texas. Sunday, March 11, 2007. God, Privatization, and War. God, Privatization, and War. By Raul F. Cano, Jr., State Secretary, Socialist Party of Texas. Both proposals were clear gifts to Corporate America and the private health industry. Alternatively, socialism proposes that the resources and the goods produced by the workers of a nation be used to create a system that guarantees universal healthcare and a dignified life for seniors. Socialist Party of Texas.
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Izquierda: March 2007
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The publication of the Socialist Party of Texas. Sunday, March 11, 2007. Dramatic hunger in the United States is not as prevalent as in other countries such as Somalia and Sudan. The unfortunate fact that our problem of hunger in this country is not as obvious, it also tends to go unrecognized but is no less serious and is often ignored buy local and state bourgeois politics. They are more like life support to many and not an answer to the basic situation at hand. This newly organized entity might also b...
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Izquierda: Wake Up or Die
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The publication of the Socialist Party of Texas. Sunday, March 11, 2007. Wake Up or Die. The Global Warming Imperative. Ladies and Gentlemen, lest there be any doubt in your mind about this, global temperatures are. And, of course, all of the above will more than likely lead to crop failures; increased food prices; job losses; and other economic catastrophes. Perhaps the most ominous threat is, with the corresponding rise in oceanic temperatures, the gradual destruction of oceanic phyto-plankton, which i...
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Izquierda: Report from the Border: Navigating Through Local Politics
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The publication of the Socialist Party of Texas. Sunday, March 11, 2007. Report from the Border: Navigating Through Local Politics. A question I ask myself every day is whether a socialist can work within the system, alongside the power elite, and still accomplish something worthwhile. Often I think one can, and other times I have my doubts. Laredo has a hockey arena! Why does the pro-business Laredo government embrace me, despite my doing battle with developers? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It Wa...
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Izquierda: Matters of State
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The publication of the Socialist Party of Texas. Sunday, March 11, 2007. Here in Texas our lawmakers have managed to reach an agreement for the redistricting of a new congressional map. This fiasco may or may not yet be over. Although most of us thought that this was all settled quite a while back, what concerns many is the fact that this agenda needed to be revisited at all! It could also be said that the new map may violate the federal Voting Rights Act. Texas, which required even more time for a finis...
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Izquierda: Hunger in Texas
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The publication of the Socialist Party of Texas. Sunday, March 11, 2007. Dramatic hunger in the United States is not as prevalent as in other countries such as Somalia and Sudan. The unfortunate fact that our problem of hunger in this country is not as obvious, it also tends to go unrecognized but is no less serious and is often ignored buy local and state bourgeois politics. They are more like life support to many and not an answer to the basic situation at hand. This newly organized entity might also b...
