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- From: kmitche@eis.calstate.edu (Kenneth Mitchell)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: List of Clinton's (to be) broken promises.
- Message-ID: <BxuKDK.1u7@eis.calstate.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 06:22:32 GMT
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- btenison@eng.auburn.edu (Bruce Tenison) writes:
- > Here is a few of the promises which were posted in the alt.president.clinton
- > newsgroup...
- >
- > ----- Begin included file -----
- >
- > On the front page of the 11/9/92 New York Times, there is a
- > piece entitled "Clinton, After Raising Hopes, Now Tries to Lower
- > Expectations." In this piece, the major campaign promises made
- > by President-Elect Clinton are summarized as follows.
- >
- > 1. He said he would end welfare "as we know it."
- > 2. He would restore America's industrial manufacturing base so
- > that good, high-paying jobs are widespread.
- > 3. He would insure that no working family would fall below the
- > poverty line.
- > 4. He would make "health care a right, not a privilege," for all
- > Americans without subjecting businesses to an additional tax burden
- > or rationing health care.
- > 5. He promised to eliminate adult illiteracy in five years.
- > 6. He promised to halve the Federal deficit in four years without
- > raising taxes on the middle class or significantly cutting the
- > Government entitlement programs that account for the bulk of
- > Federal spending.
- > 7. He promised offering a modest tax break to the middle class.
- > 8. He would guarantee all Americans either a college education or
- > two years of vocational training after high school, under the
- > guidance of a national service program that would "solve the
- > problems of this country while educating a generation of Americans."
- > 9. Mr. Clinton pledged to keep abortion legal while "making it as
- > rare as possible."
- > 10. He promised to end racial, religious, geographical, and sex-
- > oriented divisions in society.
- > 11. He promised to safeguard environmental concerns without
- > costing jobs.
- > 12. He promised to protect the rights and privileges of workers
- > without costing business growth.
- >
- > Now I see what the Democrats were so excited about: "Read
- > my lips -- Utopia!"
- >
- > C. Perttunen
- >
- > ------- End included file ------
- >
- > Bruce
- >
-
- You forgot one; he promised to keep a kosher kitchen in the White House!
-
- Ken Mitchell
- kmitche@eis.calstate.edu
-