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THE MENU Yesterday I went into a restaurant that serves delicious hamburgers. Their menu looked something like this: OUR HAMBURGER MENU In order to serve our customers the finest food and keep them satisfied and healthy we have prepared the following tasty and healthy hamburgers. Junior Hamburger $1.00 Quarter Pounder 3.00 Cheeseburger 5.00 Bacon Cheeseburger 6.00 Small Fries 1.00 Medium Fries 2.00 Huge Fries 3.00 All you can drink beverages 2.00 No Gratuity Prices and menu items subject to change with proper notice Many times I had eaten at this restaurant and enjoyed its simplicity. Occasionally I asked for something...

Governor George W. Bush had a memorable line in last Tuesday’s final Presidential debate: “If this were a spending contest, I would clearly come in second.” Vice President Al Gore had his own memorable phrase: “Governor Bush wants to spend the surplus on a tax cut for the top 1%.” Quite apart from the oddity of treating a tax cut as a “spending” program, those two statements demonstrate a much greater difference between the two candidates for our nation’s highest office than simply different levels of federal spending. They go to the heart of the candidates’ respective visions of the...