Article: Watch out: Here comes personal responsibility

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.

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