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...painful prescriptions. Much of what he proposes is philosophically charming, but the sacrifice he posits would be borne unequally, and his numbers are as questionable as those of his rivals. His pie charts and bar graphs convey heft, but when studied carefully, the bottom line relies on so many dubious and unspecific assumptions (how, exactly, are health-care costs to be contained?) that his repeated assertion is effectively refuted: it is not "just that simple...
...legal profession and its practitioners. The anti-lawyer diatribes seem to have found a receptive audience in the general public, while the substantial contribution of lawyers to society (especially corporate lawyers) is conveniently ignored, lost in a flurry of witless one liners and politically inspired attacks of dubious veracity...
...like President Bush's plan. We worry about the dubious relationship among tax dollars, the churches running religious schools and the corporations running private ones. Furthermore, we think that public schools should be respected as social equalizers. Bush's plan gives the rich and the middle class a financial incentive to desert these crucial institutions...
Negative ads still abound, but they are generally straightforward and issue- oriented. One purpose of these attack ads, campaign insiders say, is to lay the groundwork for points the candidates can expound on later in the debates. Statistics (however dubious) are everywhere. Fittingly, Ross Perot's first half-hour ad, which aired twice last week, was a no-nonsense lecture on the sorry state of the U.S. economy, filled to the brim with charts and graphs -- not the kind of fare prime-time viewers would be expected to sit through. Yet it drew an impressive 12.2 rating (representing 11.36 million...
...cost of simply administering regulatory programs has skyrocketed from $9.6 billion to $11.3 billion in the last three and a half years. In other words, let's set aside that Bush is basically a moderate-conservative Keynesian who thinks supply siders are just plain silly. The economics themselves are dubious...