Word: allowed
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Facts are nothing without opinions. But this should not mean that opinions, molded and sufficiently hardened, should be allowed to substitute for facts. Nor should any serious democrat allow "character" to be transmitted ineffably from podium across the smog-ridden cities and cornfields of America and directly into the voting booths without so much as a piece of evidence to help...
PLAN: Insure more low- and middle-income children through the Children's Health Insurance Program, and allow CHIP parents to buy subsidized coverage. Pass a patients' bill of rights with the right to sue. Add a prescription benefit to Medicare, and lock away $435 billion to ensure that it stays solvent...
PLAN: Use about half the Social Security surplus - roughly $1 trillion - to allow young workers to invest one-sixth of their payroll taxes in private accounts...
PLAN: Provide vouchers. Continue to support the Department of Education. Allow states to develop their own standards and tests. Ensure literacy of every child by the third grade. Promote enforceable standards at the local level. Provide choice of schools to parents and children and publish school report cards on the Internet...
PLAN: Oppose vouchers. Allow parents to choose best public school, or publicly accountable charter school, for their child. Support standardized teacher testing, accountability. Provide report cards on individual school performance. Invest $115 billion in rebuilding schools and updating technology...