Lake County Opinion
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Now they're after retirement savingsFeb 06, 2010 10:00 pm - And now we wake up to find that the 0bama administration and the secretaries of Labor and Treasury are making plans to force all IRA owners and 401(k) participants to in...
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Plan could leave retirees out in coldFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - On Christmas Eve the U.S. Senate slid through its own version of the health are reform bill. The bill fails to protect the earned post-retirement health care benefits of...
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High court decision empowers the richFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - The Supreme Court has spoken! Rich people are entitled to more freedom than poor people. One dollar, one vote. Thomas C. Curtis Rolling Meadows ...
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Death penalty an effective deterrentFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - The Hammurabi Code of ancient Mesopotamia called for a death sentence for all manner of crimes. Why shouldn't it be effective today? The death penalty could be the only ...
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Want to see a bully? Look in the mirrorFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Our government spends more (borrowed) money on its military forces than the rest of the world combined. We maintain hundreds of military bases placed all over the world,...
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Stop using private armiesFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - A national coalition of groups opposed to Blackwater, now called Xe, have called on Congress to investigate the U.S. Justice Department's handling of the criminal case a...
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Minimum wage cut won't help workersFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - It was with disgust and alarm that I read the letter by Kristen Lopez Eastlick in the Jan. 18 Fence Post suggesting that job growth could be spurred by a cut in the mini...
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Regarding Obama, Buffett puts it bestFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Having listened to the State of the Union address, I am reminded of a song from Jimmy Buffett called "You'll Never Work in This Business Again." As far as I am concerned...
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Be a good neighbor; shovel your walkFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Recently, while driving south on McLean Boulevard in Elgin, I was forced to brake and swerve into the left lane near the intersection of McLean and Larkin. The reason? A...
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Improve care and spend less moneyFeb 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Last year's deep cuts in state funding for mental health services, coupled with similar cuts the previous year have devastated Illinois' already weak mental health syste...