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- From: shapiro@cfsctc.enet.dec.com (Steve Shapiro)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Promises, Promises
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.142018.25230@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:14:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.194326.27962@news.nd.edu> <31711@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
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- In article <31711@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>, msnyder@uchost.UUCP (Michael
- Snyder,000,0000,0000000) writes...
-
- >And what's wrong with carefully following the track record?
- >Gotta start sometime, why not now?
-
- For quite some time now I have wanted someone to produce such lists and hold
- our elected officials to the items on the list.
-
- Whether it is the president a senator, congressman or even just a local
- legislator, I believe that their campain statements, assertions, promises, etc.
- should be enumerated and made public in a manner such as Rush has done.
-
- We as the citizenry should then evaluate the performance of these elected
- officials based on their ability to deliver what they promised.
-
- As an analogy, as an employee of a company, your performance is evaluated and
- based on that performance, you get a raise, benefits, bonus, etc. You are held
- accountable for your responsibilities. Same should be for the politician. Hold
- them accountable.
-
- As was indicated in a previous post, hindsight is 20/20. I can understand that
- things look differently when you are outside the loop because you may not have
- all of the facts for a fully informed decision.
-
- Personally I don't want ALL of the promises to be kept. When I evaluate Clinton
- in about 3.5 years, I will look at what he DID and DID NOT do.
-
- I am glad for his flip on the Haitian issue because I believe that it was an
- inappropriate promise in the first place. So it goes.
-
- I remember 4 years ago when Bush was elected and he did some flips shortly
- coming to office and used the excuse that he didn't realize the full extent of
- some things. The thing that floored me was that he had been vice president for
- the preceeding 8 years, and if HE didn't know the full extent of the things he
- was promising, then something was definitely wrong.
-
- Well, so it goes. Politics as usual. Change? Hah! I'll be lucky if I even have
- any change in my pockets after all of the tax increases which are being
- proposed are signed into law.
-
- Regards,
- Steve.
-
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