Here and there: Mandates add up to real money
"A billion here, a billion there,” the late U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen is rumored to have said (no evidence exists that he actually did say it), "and pretty soon you're talking real money.”
What would another U.S. senator from Illinois , Barack Obama , make of that sentiment? Perhaps this: "A billion here, a trillion there and it's still not enough to give us good universal health care.”
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