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Posted on 10/13/2003 11:55:48 PM PDT by Tamzee
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SAN FRANCISCO--An eastern visitor to these western slopes is primed beforehand on the questions he'll face when he gets home. He'll be expected to return as an expert on topless waitresses, the hippies of Hashbury and Ronald Reagan.
On the first question, suffice it to say after diligent research that there's quite a discrepancy between the idealized female form and its fleshy embodiment. As for the hippies, they somehow bring to mind those dropouts of another day, the mendicant monks of the Middle Ages, and strike you as more to be pitied than scorned.
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So with his arguments about the monstrosities of the state's medical welfare program. The governor makes perfectly clear he's no callous man, saying over and over again that there's no question of the state's responsibility to the unfortunate and that he will not "retreat from that responsibility."
But why, he asks, should those who earn their own way, and pay their own doctors, provide medical care for their fellow citizens "more comprehensive than they can afford for themselves"? Answering that is a little sticky too.
This is as relevant a question today as it was forty years ago.
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LOL. This comment would never fly today.
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