From: rovero@attu.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Promises, Promises
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:38:52 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School,Monterey CA


The following was taken from the Sunday, 17 January, Monterey Peninsula
Herald.  No author listed.  It's not Rush's list, but a list from some
member of the media.  Not responsible for misspellings, all quotes are
those of the author and refer to Clinton's actual words.

A PARTIAL LIST OF CAMPAIGN PROMISES

Here is a partial list, in no particular order, of promises Bill Clinton
made during the presidential campaign.  Most are taken from Clinton's
campaign book, "Putting People First", others from campaign speeches and
literature.

+ Cut the deficit in half over four years.

+ Raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

+ Reverse the Bush administration's policy of forcefully repatriating
  Haitian refugees.

+ Develop a national apprenticeship program in which high school students
  not bound for college would get two years of vocational trainging.

+ Create a National Service Trust Fund from which any student could borrow
  for college.  The money would be paid back either through payroll
  deductions or through community service work.

+ Require employers to spend 1.5 percent of annual payroll on continuing
  educatiobn and training for all workers.

+ Implement national health-care reform that includes universal coverage,
  a national annual spending cap on health care, tax changes to discourage
  rapid increases in drug prices, insurance reforms, including a 
  universal claim form and "pools" allowing small businesses to band
  together to buy more affordable coverage.

+ Reduce the White House staff by 25% "and challenge Congress to do the
  same".

+ Eliminate 100,000 federal government jobs through attrition and require
  federal managers to trim administrative costs by 3%.

+ Ask Congress to give the president the line-item veto.

+ Eliminate the tax deduction for lobbying expenses and remove loopholes
  that allow lawyer-lobbyists to avoid public disclosure requirements.
  Also, require greater disclosure of contacts between lobbyists and 
  lawmakers, including campaign contributions.

+ Prohibit high-level administration officials from lobbying the 
  government in their area of work for five years after leaving the jobs.

+ Seek campaign finance reform that limits political action committee
  contributions, sets voluntary spending limits on House and Senate
  races and reduces the cost of television advertising.

+ Increase funding on AIDS research and name an AIDS policy director to
  coordinate all federal AIDS policies.

+ Lift the ban on travel and immigration to the United States by foreign
  nationals with the HIV virus.

+ Freeze the spending on federal consultants.

+ Create a national network of community development banks to provide
  business and other loans in low-income areas, primarily inner cities.

+ Add 100,000 new police officers to the streets, through a new police
  corps and allowing those leaving the armed forces to get military
  retirement credit for police work.

+ Offer business a targeted investment tax credit designed to encourage
  investment in new plants and equipment.

+ Make permanent the research and development tax credit.

+ Cut in half the capital gains tax on new business investments, provided
  the stock is held for five years.

+ Create a civilian research agency to serve as an incubator for transferring
  new technologies into new products.

+ Pass legislation giving the United States stronger sanctions "if other
  nations refuse to play by our trade rules."

+ Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit so that no parent working 40 hours
  a week has an income below the povery threshold.

+ Reform welfare laws to allow only two years of benefits to able-bodied
  recipients, who would be offered expanded education, training, and
  job-placement services.

+ Sign Bush-vetoed legislation allowing workers 12 weeks of unpaid leave
  to care for a newborn child or sick family member.

+ Create an Internal Revenue Service database to track deadbeat fathers and
  collect overdue child support.

+ Fully fund Head Start and the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition
  program.

+ Push for open choice among public schools, but oppose efforts to use
  federal money to allow private school choice.

+ Raise standards and develop new national competency exams for students,
  with an emphasis on making improvements in math and science while
  reducing class sizes.

+ Provide funds to violence-ridden school districts to help with security
  costs.

+ Help communities establish Youth Opportunity Corps to counsel
  disadvantaged students and dropouts.

+ Demand that other nations tighten export laws governing nuclear
  components and conclude a treaty banning chemical weapons.

+ Allow cities to redirect the use of 15 percent of their federal funding
  to local priorities.

+ Pass and sign the "Brady Bill" creating a waiting period for handgun
  purchases and banning assault rifles.

+ Support the creation of "community boot camps" as an alternative to
  prison for first time, non-violent offenders.

+ Provide funding for drug treatment on demand.

+ Increase the ceiling on FHA mortgages to 95% of home price, and make
  permanent the low income housing tax credit.

+ Allow vacant HUD housing and military base buildings to be used to 
  house the homeless.

+ Sign the motor-voter bill allowing instant voter registration when
  renewing driver's licenses and other government permits.

+ Support statehood for the District of Columbia.

+ Eliminate tax deductions for "excessive" executive pay, and tax breaks
  for "American companies that shut down their American plants and ship
  our jobs overseas".

+ Close "loopholes" that allow foreign countries to avoid taxes on their
  U.S. operations.

+ Transfer, dollar for dollar, reductions in defense spending to 
  "investment in the American economy" with an emphasis on transportation
   infrastructure, a national information network and developing better
   environmental technologies.

+ Conduct a national "defense jobs inventory" to match those losing 
  defense-industry jobs with new positions.

+ Make conversion loans and grants available to smaller, defense related
  firms.

+ Increase average fuel economy standards from 27.5 mpg to 40 mpg by the
  year 2000 and to 45 mpg by 2015.

+ Increase energy efficiency in every federal agency and convert the 
  federal vehicle fleet to natural gas.

+ Prohibit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

+ Oppose the creation of a Palestinian state.

+ Sign legislation banning the permanent replacement of striking workers.

+ Support the North American Free Trade Agreement, provided stronger
  environmental and workplace safety standards are negotiated.

+ Increase the minimum wage to keep pace with inflation.

+ Reduce U.S. troop levels in Europe to 75,000 to 100,000; rather than
  150,000 called for by Bush.

+ Develop greater air and sealift capacity for the military, including
  production of the C-17 transport plane.

+ Lift the military's ban on homosexuals.

+ Cut $60 billion MORE from defense over the next five years than
  Bush favored.

+ Push for development of a United Nations rapid deployment force to
  respond to world crises, thereby reducing reliance on U.S. forces.

+ Condition China's favorable trade status on improvements in human
  rights and democratic reforms.

+ Establish Radio Free Asia in the model of Radio Free Europe.

+ Lift the Social Security earnings test.

+ Use $20 billion a year in federal money for a Rebuild America Fund 
  to be spent on infrastructure. (The size of this stimulus package is
  now the subject of considerable debate within the transition).

+ Support construction of the Space Station Freedom.

+ Sign the Freedom of Choice Act, guaranteeing abortion rights.

+ Repeal President Bush's "gag rule" prohibiting federally funded clinics
  from offering abortion counseling.

 
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