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Pennsylvania is really three states. Philadelphia is part of the liberal Northeast, Pittsburgh is Midwestern, and the center of the state is rural and conservative. Philly could be the key: Kerry needs to win by a big margin by turning out 35,000??newly registered voters. He will also try to win the Pittsburgh area. Bush will try to prevail in the Philly suburbs. He's even courting the Amish...
...kidney transplants and dialysis for anyone whose kidneys fail. Congress expected to pay nearly $140 million for 5,000 to 7,000 dialysis patients. The first year's bill came to $241 million for 10,300 patients. In a decade, the number of patients has soared to 82,000???including dying cancer victims and nursing-home octogenarians?at a cost of $2 billion, which accounts for 10% of all Medicare payments for physicians...
...year, private school at least another $3,000 a year. State-college tuition in the year 2000 is projected at $30,000 for four years. The loss of the new mother's former salary for five years at home after the birth may easily amount to more than $60,000???given a $15,000 yearly income and 8% inflation...
Former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird estimates that at least 100,000???and perhaps as many as 250,000???military families could be eligible for welfare. Says Colonel Eliot: "When 16% of the Air Force can qualify for food stamps, patriotism doesn't make it as a motivator." Military base commissaries are taking in over $10 million annually in food stamps. Complains a paratroop sergeant in Alaska: "If the Government can give me $71 a month in food stamps, why can't it give it to me in salary...
...even within the prescribed quotas for military manpower and non-nuclear weaponry, West Germany also built a standing army of 489,000???the largest, best-equipped and most disciplined in Western Europe and second only to the U.S. and Turkey in the NATO alliance. That military machine faces an enduring dilemma: it has to be strong enough for the defense of Central Europe, but never so strong as to provoke the Soviet Union's obsessive fear of a renascent, militaristic West Germany. "We must be cautious," says Defense Minister Hans Apel. "Neither in Eastern nor Western Europe can we create...