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...four-word answer: save Social Security first." The Democrats jumped up and applauded. And Gingrich thought about it for a second; then he stood up and applauded. And the Republicans looked at him, and looked at one another; then they stood up and applauded. At that precise moment, a trillion dollars in the budget shifted from the column marked "tax cut" to the column marked "Social Security...
...Bush held fast because he believed he alone, not his royal mathematicians, had broken the code, concocted a proposal that was big enough to please his base and fair enough to satisfy the middle. Over time he got better at talking about it; he stopped confusing billion with trillion. By the closing weeks of the race, he talked about it everywhere, even in schools, and with every bit as much theological certainty as when he says there are no second-class children and no second-class dreams...
Sometimes it is the more conventional attacks that get the camps riled. Republicans are incensed, for instance, at Democratic ads that say Bush can't use the same $1 trillion to let young workers invest in private accounts and pay seniors their benefits. Officials in both parties believe the ads have helped give Gore a recent edge with Florida voters, which is why the Democrats plan to keep running it. Which leads to another axiom of political advertising: if it's working, stick with...
...through all that, the American people have continued on with their work and their families and their lives, and fueled an economic expansion that today, in the year 2000, has left the federal government in Washington with a budget surplus of 4 trillion dollars...
...look around, at this country and at the new millennium and at that 4 trillion dollars, and I see a chance. A chance to invest in a restructuring of the Social Security program so that it can thrive on people looking out for their own money. A chance to let parents choose the best place for their children to learn. A chance to make health care and prescription drugs more affordable by giving folks a choice, so that the taxpayers don't pay for what someone doesn't need...