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- From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
- Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.elections,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: WELLLLL! IT'S DAY ONE. WHERE'S THE PLAN???
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 03:57:31 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, visser@convex.com (Lance Visser) says:
-
- > Constructive Criticism #1:
- >
- > Get on the phone with your local party hacks and convince then
- > to tell Bill Clinton and his handlers that the deficit is a serious
- > problem. That lying to people and telling us that the deficit can
- > be solved by growth is something they should not do.
-
-
- Holy BACKPEDAL, Batman!
-
-
- >
- > Tell Bill that there is the political will outside washington to
- > really do something about the deficit right now if he has the
- > courage to resist bad "ideas". Some specific items to note:
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-
- Ahhh, but *is* there? After all, Clinton was elected by 43%
-
- >
- > 1. Federal programs and spending cannot be expanded any
- > more. The Federal government cannot take on huge new
- > responsibilities until the deficit in the budget is
- > brough under control. That means NO national health
- > care plan, NO national service plan, NO sixty billion
- > dollars of new federal economic "stimulus".
-
-
-
- Holy NUCLEAR BACKPEDAL, Batman!!!
-
-
- I know 80% of the voters who will be mighty unhappy with
- this one now.
-
- >
- > 2. The deficit can only be controlled by a combination of
- > tax increases and spending cuts. We cannot spend more
- > deficit money to reduce the deficit as Clinton and his
- > people are saying currently.
-
-
-
- Hey, obviously you're wrong. Reich says we can do it.
- Ted Frank says the deficit isn't important.
- Dr. Eisner says it doesn't matter, too. Not even if it
- were $14 TRILLION.
-
- >
- > 3. The way by which social security and medicare are
- > currently being funded is unfair in that in both
- > cases, the programs should be supported by the taxes
- > raised in their name. Social security surplus taxes
- > should not go to reduce the deficit in the rest of the
- > budget. If Medicare cannot support itself from its tax,
- > then its tax should be raised until medicare pays for itself.
-
-
- Oh, ho, ho!
-
- I don't think social security is unfair.
- I think it's perfectly reasonible for me to pay into it
- for another 10 or 20 years and watch it go boom.
-
- Yep, me and millions of other americans are just going
- to sit there, pay, and watch our futures wither away.
-
- Because it's RIGHT! And it's FAIR!
-
- Come on, Lance! Man, just when all us useless bitchers
- were about to hop on-board, you're changing trains!
-
- Come on! Free health care! Family leave for all!
- More jobs! A healthy gas tax to wean us away!
- Tax the top 2%!
-
-
- Everybody, get on-board.
- Don't miss the graaavvvvvvyyyy train!
- Everybody get on-board!
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- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
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