Trying to modernize our current old and outdated poverty programs so they can serve the poor far better, at far less cost to taxpayers, as Paul Ryan and others are trying to do, does not mean opposition to any such programs at all.

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On immigration, for instance, on which Rubio has been one of his party's most outspoken proponents of efforts to "modernize" the current system, he didn't mention his past support of a route to citizenship for undocumented immigrants now in the United States.

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Despite reaching that far back into history, Motorola is just as eager to modernize the targeted hardware list to keep its complaints relevant -- the current iPad, the iPhone 4S and other devices are at risk of a trade ban, posing more of a threat to Apple's bottom line than the dust-covered (and near-finished) initial legal challenge from October 2010.

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It took Democrats (with Republican help) several generations to build the current entitlement state, and GOP reformers will need a similar strategy to modernize it.

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