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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (504981)	12/7/2003 11:17:00 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769667

AMONG THE DEMOCRATIC presidential candidates, Howard Dean wants to spend $110 billion over 10 years for children's health care and early education, while Wesley Clark antes up $70 billion for universal preschool, plus another $100 billion over two years for job creation. Richard Gephardt would dedicate $150 billion in the next five years for states and cities to spend on homeland security protections, on top of his $250 billion-a-year health care plan. John Kerry would give students four years of public college tuition in exchange for two years of national service (for $6 billion); John Edwards goes him one better, offering the first year free at public universities and community colleges, at an annual tab of $5 billion. washingtonpost.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (504981)	12/7/2003 11:18:28 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769667

During the 1992 Democratic primary campaign, Paul Tsongas liked to taunt Bill Clinton with a stuffed "pander bear" to exemplify the Arkansas governor's willingness to spend to court particular constituencies. In 2004, it would take a menagerie. Sure, presidential campaigns always feature lofty policy proposals with lofty price tags -- proposals that often give way to budgetary and legislative reality once the candidate finds himself in office. Remember candidate Clinton's promised middle-class tax cuts? Those were dumped even before he was inaugurated. On the campaign trail, selling pain is a lot harder than hawking candy.