Tonight on Bill Moyer's journal - must see TV

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Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson on The Debt Dilemma

Photographer Lori Grinker on The Displaced of the Iraq War

Susan Jacoby The Age of American Unreason
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02152008/profile.html

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Thanks for the link.

I'll have to watch it online since we have a stupid fundraising art auction going on here tonight during Bill's usual time slot. Grr.

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2. Kick n/t

[L. Coyote]

9. ditto, kicking before the next hour

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3. Thanks K&R n/t

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4. Balanced the budget in the 90's? One Trillion added to the Social

Security Trust during the Clinton years. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the Trillion dollars helped.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/funds.html

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5. Jacoby is excellent n/t

[Subdivisions]

6. I thoroughly Jacoby's segment. She has a very good grasp

of how we've gotten to where we are. I'll be getting her book soon.

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7. Missed her segment, will watch online. n/t

[L. Coyote]

8. Thanks. AND on NOW = Benefits Denied, Corporations are taking benefits from workers

Benefits Denied = http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/407/index.html

Corporations are taking benefits from workers by calling them "freelancers."

Temporary workers and independent contractors make up nearly a third of the U.S. workforce, and represent a growing asset to companies who rely on freelance flexibility. But corporations are using the designation "freelancer" to avoid paying health care and other benefits, even though many of these workers put in the same hours as their covered counterparts. NOW looks at the effect of this tactic on the lives and personal economy of freelance workers.

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[SeattleGirl]

10. Watching now.

Excellent as always.