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plain truth that ordinary women and men have the common sense and
ability to control their lives, given the knowledge and the means.

We have many problems yet to solve.

We are second from last among industrialized nations in the
money we spend on our children's schools.

We've let our infrastructure, our streets and roads and
bridges, fall apart.

For many in the middle class, only mom's paycheck keeps them
out of the poorhouse.

Most Americans can't afford to be sick, can't pay the doctor.

Yet we seem to find more than enough to feed the military machine.

In just three years in the 1980s we spent more than $1
trillion dollars on military expenditures.

To understand how much one trillion can buy, use six of
America's midwestern states as an illustration. We could build a
$75,000 dollar house, place it on $5,000 dollars worth of land,
furnish it with $10,000 dollars worth of furniture, put a $10,000
dollar car in the garage - and give this to each and every family
in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado and Iowa.

We'd have enough left over to build a $10 million dollar
hospital and a $10 million dollar library for 250 cities in those
six states.

There'd still be some money left. After giving every family
a furnished house and car, and each town a library and a