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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, working-class hero?

On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.

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  • Monday, March 31, 2008 05:54 PM

    OK electro, here's my solution

    (given the problem that the most expensive conditions are neurological things like MS which require a lot of care). you pay the people that love said patient to care for him/her. still expensive, but a lot less so. now here comes the controversial aspect - what happens if that person HAS NO ONE to love them? TOUGH - they are warehoused in squalor till they die. you NEED people who love you to live - that is the species. i can't do any better - i tried, i really did.

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