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It's also a culture that hurts the larger society--not just those on welfare--by producing crime, destroying urban life, fanning racial tension, etc.
Gore wants to make him talk about three losing issues: Reaganomics (which hurts Bradley among Democrats because he voted for Reagan's 1981 budget cuts), vouchers (Bradley's past support of pilot voucher programs offends powerful teachers' unions and Democratic voters who think vouchers threaten public schools), and ethanol (Bradley's past opposition to ethanol subsidies irks Iowans, who count on these subsidies to prop up farmers).
George Carey, the archbishop of Canterbury, noted that "it hurts to be denied the Lord's Supper by a fellow disciple of Jesus Christ."
There is also a part of me that hurts, but I don't really want to expose that to a stranger.
That Hurts!