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Article: When politicians push Personal Responsibility, they mean ours, not theirs
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 31, 1995
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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 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 is the catchall moral phrase uttered by
politicians in ...