How is it that we have all these policy obligations to help our less fortunate fellow citizens, through transfer payments and the like, but such limited obligations to people in other countries, many of whom are far poorer?

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He spoke to the Ohio audience about his "compassionate conservative" agenda to help out the less fortunate, rebuilding the morale and strength of the military, and protecting Social Security for current retirees and younger people under his partial privatization plan allowing for some investment in the stock market.

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