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Updating Dirksen

That famous quip of our late Sen. Everett Dirksen needs to be updated. Considering the national debt and the colossal federal stimulus packageshould now read: "A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money."

Richard Westgard

Buffalo Grove

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