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...Both quit many log months...
...poor can and should be helped, they are open to urgings from the right that the effort is pointless or misguided. The air these days is full of that kind of talk, and not just in Washington. On the best-seller list, The Bell Curve argues that government should quit much of the antipoverty business because the poor are doomed by their mostly hereditary low IQs. Now that California voters have approved Proposition 187, which would deny schooling and medical care to illegal immigrants and their children, similar proposals are being promoted in Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas...
...Americans were overtaxed and overregulated and reeling under the weight of Big Government. To illustrate those themes, the Master invoked stories of welfare queens driving Cadillacs and buildings full of bureaucrats, each taking care of a single Indian. Reagan's facts were so routinely off-base that his staff quit trying to explain them. In 1982 the President spoke glowingly about British legal traditions. In England, he said, it used to be that "if a criminal carried a gun, even if he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty...
...nine city councillors quit today and resigned, the chance of me being elected are slim," he added. "The majority of my votes are in the exhausted pile...
...children to orphanages if their mothers, after a limited stay on welfare, cannot support them. Whitewater questions did not faze her. The First Lady continued to portray her family as victims of an affair she described as a "sideshow." Later in the week, however, her friend Webster Hubbell, who quit last March as Associate Attorney General, tentatively agreed to plead guilty to charges brought by the Whitewater special prosecutor that he had committed mail fraud and tax evasion when he worked alongside Mrs. Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock...