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Article: Watch out: Here comes personal responsibility
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 5, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This one is for Priscilla Parten, the Derry, N.H., woman who had
the temerity to ask Lamar Alexander who would care for the elderly if
the budget is cut according to the GOP pattern.
The answer from the presidential candidate, one of the men hawking
their wares across New Hampshire, was that "we're going to have to
accept more personal responsibility in our own families for reading
to our children and caring for our parents, and that's going to be
inconvenient and difficult. . . . "
Happy New Year, Priscilla, and open up your calendar. Scribble
down two rather large words under 1996: personal responsibility.
They're going to be the watchwords of the 1996 campaign.
Personal responsibility ...