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Article: Malveaux At Large: Nothing Common About Common Sense
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- The Sun Reporter
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- August 17, 1995
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Julianne Malveaux
Sun Reporter, The
08-17-1995
Malveaux At Large: Nothing Common About Common Sense.
Anybody with common sense, I ranted and railed to no one in particular, would know better than to cut Medicare without considering its impact on all of us - young, middle-aged, and old. It is tantamount, I shouted, to rewarding people who worked all their lives with a slap in the face. A Congress with common sense, I bellowed, would know better than to trash the social safety net. Not tatter it, or shred it, but rip it into shreds. But then I caught myself, ranting and railing and shouting and scrapping, because a key word in my argument was just one: common sense. And it occurred to me that ...