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Subject: DAN QUAYLE: ATTACK PUPPY UNLEASHED
Date: 14 Oct 92 05:15:52 GMT


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                  DAN QUAYLE: ATTACK PUPPY UNLEASHED
                          THE COMPLETE STORY

      Dan Quayle lobbed grenades all night but none hit.  So Dan
 Quayle resorted to old Republican tactics -- he lied.

      He repeatedly lied about the Clinton/Gore economic plan yet
 said absolutely nothing about the Bush/Quayle proposal.  That's easy
 to understand since the Bush Administration has the worst economic
 record since Herbert Hoover and has no plan to change their dismal
 track record.

      The economy wasn't the only thing Dan Quayle didn't want to talk
 about.  He didn't mention his secretive Competitiveness Council, Iraq
 Gate or Iran Contra eventhough George Bush - just hours before the
 debate - finally admitted he knew about the arms-for-hostage deal
 with Iran after he denied it for the past six years.

      Quayle used the debate to set an all-time record for denials and
 lies.  Here is the encyclopedic list.

            THE CLINTON/GORE PLAN: RHETORIC VS. REALITY

                     THE CLINTON ECONOMIC PLAN

 RHETORIC: "Bill Clinton's economic plan and his agenda will make
 matters much, much worse..."

 REALITY: More than 550 economists, 500 CEOs, and 9 Nobel-Prize
 winning economists disagree with Dan Quayle.  They think he's dead
 wrong and have endorsed the Clinton plan.  [Release, 10/8/92]Clinton
 knows how to make things better.  In 1991, his fellow governors voted
 him the "most effective governor in the nation." [Newsweek, 9/14/91]

                               TAXES

 RHETORIC: "He will raise your taxes..."

 REALITY: The Clinton/Gore plan includes $60 billion in middle class
 tax cuts and $12 billion in tax cuts for the working poor.  It will
 only increase taxes on the wealthiest few, those making more than
 $200,000 a year.  [Putting People First]   George Bush said "Read My
 Lips: No New Taxes" and then signed the second-largest tax increase
 in history.  He raised taxes on the middle class.  [Wall Street
 Journal, 8/12/92]

                              SPENDING

 RHETORIC: "...he will increase spending..."

 REALITY: The conservative Cato Institute called Bush "the largest
 spender to sit in the White House in the past 30 years" -- noting
 Bush "increased the domestic budget more in 4 years than Carter and
 Reagan combined did in 12 years." [Cato Institute, 6/19/92]  The
 Clinton/Gore plan slashes $144 billion in unnecessary government
 spending and cuts the deficit in half in four years.  [Putting People
 First].  Bill Clinton has the record of a low spender, not a big
 spender.  Arkansas' general spending growth since 1979 has been 13
 percentage points below the national average; growth since 1983 has
 been 24 points below the national average.  ["Fiscal Survey of the
 States," National Governors Association]

                          BIG GOVERNMENT

 RHETORIC: "...he will make government bigger..."

 REALITY: For the first time there are more U.S. jobs in government
 than in manufacturing.  [Bureau of Labor Statistics]   The White
 House budget grew by 56 percent in real dollars and 26 percent in the
 number of employees since Bush took office.  [U.S. Budget, 1991 and
 1993]  The Clinton plan will cut 100,000 jobs in government through
 attrition; cut administrative spending across the board by 3 percent;
 and cut the White House budget by 25 percent, while challenging
 Congress to do the same.  Unlike George Bush, Clinton has the record
 of someone who reduces the size of government.  Relatively speaking,
 the size of government in Arkansas has been shrinking under Gov.
 Clinton, not growing bigger as Mr. Bush claims." [Wall Street
 Journal, 10/1/92]

                               JOBS

 RHETORIC: "...jobs will be lost."

 REALITY: Jobs have already been lost under Bush/Quayle: There were
 35,000 fewer private sector jobs in September 1992 than there were
 when Bush took office in January, 1989.  [Bureau of Labor
 Statistics].  The Clinton plan will create 8 million jobs over 4
 years.  Clinton has a strong record of creating jobs, in fact. In
 1992 Arkansas led the nation in job growth.  [Bureau of Labor
 Statistics]

                          BALANCED BUDGET

 RHETORIC: "President Bush is for a balanced budget amendment.  Bill
 Clinton is opposed to it."

 REALITY:  George Bush has never submitted a balanced budget to
 Congress; Bill Clinton has balanced 12 budgets in 12 years.
 [Arkansas Development and Finance Authority]  In fact, George Bush
 has requested $1.1 billion more than Congress has appropriated.  And
 the balanced budget he supports will not take effect until 1997.
 [House Committee on Appropriations]

                           LEGAL REFORM

 RHETORIC: Dan Quayle said, "We want to reform the legal system
 because it's too costly.  Bill Clinton wants the status quo."

 REALITY: Bush and Quayle want consumers and victims to pay the huge
 legal fees run up by big corporations, if those corporations find a
 way to beat the consumer in court.  They want to limit the extent to
 which corporations can be punished for deliberately polluting, or
 putting out dangerous products.  [Report from the President's Council
 on Competitiveness; Agenda for Civil Justice Reform, 8/91]  Bill
 Clinton supported legal reform in Arkansas, not the status quo.
 Medical malpractice insurance rates are the lowest in the country in
 Arkansas; auto insurance rates are seventh lowest.  Tort lawsuits
 fell by 10 percent from 1987 to 1990, the last year records are
 available (Wall Street Journal, 9/8/92)  The top contributing
 industry to the Bush/Quayle campaign is lawyers and lobbyists,
 contributing $1,369,002.  [National Library on Money and Politics,
 8/19/92]

                       RATIONING HEALTH CARE

 RHETORIC: "Bill Clinton wants to ration health care."

 REALITY: Bill Clinton's health care plan will not produce rationing.
 The Clinton approach of global budgets and employer-based universal
 coverage is supported by major health professional organizations
 (e.g., American Academy of Family Practitioners, American College of
 Physicians, and the American Nurses Association) -- the very groups
 most opposed to rationing.  A bipartisan panel of three Republican
 and two Democratic health experts says that the Clinton health care
 plan will save the average family $1179 more every year than Bush's
 plan; insure all Americans, while the Bush plan would leave 27
 million people uninsured; save $746 billion, even after covering
 every American, while the Bush plan would save only $157 billion.
 [Washington Post, 10/2/92]

                           PERSIAN GULF

 RHETORIC: Dan Quayle said, "You cannot sit there in an international
 crisis [like the Gulf War] and sit there and say, `Well, on one hand
 this is okay and on the other hand this is okay.'"

 REALITY: It's strange to hear Dan Quayle talking about making
 decisions about the Gulf War.  According to "Nightline," Dan Quayle's
 "trip to Latin America and his vacation in Arizona suggest to some,
 that the Vice President was not a key player." ["Nightline," 10/2/90]
 Bill Clinton supported Desert Storm.  In fact, he supported sending
 the Arkansas National Guard to support that effort -- the third
 largest sent by any state in the U.S.  He supported giving the
 President the authority to go to war -- the issue voted on by the
 U.S. Congress.  He agreed with the argument that we should allow
 sanctions more time to weaken Saddam before using military force.
 Many Republicans, such as Specter, Murkowski, Roth, and Coats did
 too.  But he has been clear that the Congress should give the
 President the authority, "I personally don't think it would have been
 a good thing for Congress to go on record, in essence, watering down
 and weakening the full impact of the U.N. Resolution.  (Arkansas
 Gazette, 1/15/91)

                     THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT

 RHETORIC: "This is the Persian Gulf War, the most important event in
 his [Clinton's] political lifetime..."

 REALITY: Does Dan Quayle really believe that the Gulf War was more
 important than the end of the Cold War, civil rights laws in the
 United States or the empowerment of women in this nation?

                  THE CARIBBEAN BASIN INITIATIVE

 RHETORIC: "You know full well the Caribbean Basin Initiative, you've
 supported that."

 REALITY:  Senator Gore has never supported the Caribbean Basin
 Initiative.  On December 17, 1982, then-Representative Gore voted
 against the program.  This was a vote "to oppose passage of the bill
 to provide duty-free entry into the United States of certain products
 from most Caribbean nations and to allow tax deductions for the
 expenses of conventions held in the Carribean."  The measure passed,
 260-142.   On July 14, 1983 Gore opposed the passage of the Caribbean
 Basin Initiative.  The bill provided trade and tax preferences to the
 nations of the caribbean region.  Despite Senator Gore's opposition,
 the bill passed, 289-129.   On April 24, 1990 the Senate passed the
 Customs and Trade Act, S. 504, 92-0.  This is one of the votes cited
 by Quayle and was not a specific vote on CBI.  In fact, on the only
 vote on CBI at that time (a measure to decrease the tariff on rubber
 sole shoes), Senator Gore voted no.  The vote cited by Quayle was a
 vote on an omnibus trade bill that included legislation to increase
 trade to Hungary; a ban on the export of logs from federal lands; the
 reauthorization of the office of the United States Trade
 Representative and other U.S. trade programs, including CBI
 programs.  [Pgs 211-217 1990 CQ Almanac]

                               NAFTA

 RHETORIC: "He's on both sides of the issue. Take the NAFTA
 agreement..."

 REALITY: The Washington Post reported that "Clinton's position on the
 [NAFTA] agreement has remained the same, from speeches during his
 March do-or-die primary fight in Michigan, where feeling against the
 agreement is strong, to an answer he gave to a United Automobile
 Workers Union official in Le Grange, IL., who raised fears [in July]
 of further job losses to Mexico.  In all those appearances, Clinton
 has taken the position that a good trade agreement can strengthen the
 economies of both the United States and Mexico and increase Mexico's
 wealth so Mexicans can buy more U.S. products." (Washington Post,
 8/13/92)

                               TAXES

 RHETORIC: "Your proposal is to raise $150 billion in taxes."

 REALITY: The Wall Street Journal states that the net tax increase of
 the Clinton plan is $46 billion -- less than half the $106.7 billion
 net tax increase from George Bush's 1990 broken promise tax increase.
 [Wall Street Journal, 8/12/92] Dan Quayle ignores the fact that $58
 billion of the savings in the Clinton/Gore plan comes from closing
 foreign loopholes and make foreign companies pay their fair share of
 taxes.  [Putting People First]

                         DEFENSE SPENDING

 RHETORIC: "Bill Clinton wants to cut defense another $60 billion.
 I'd say to the defense workers in California and elsewhere, a $60
 billion defense cut is going to cut a lot of jobs out."

 REALITY: The Clinton plan includes 95% percent of the spending of the
 Bush plan -- the difference is $1.42 trillion versus $1.36 trillion
 over five years.  The Perot plan calls for $1.38 trillion.  And the
 Clinton plan for prudent defense cuts is similar to plans supported
 by people like Senators Nunn, Domenici, Simpson and Rudman.
 Since the Reagan administration buildup, California has lost over
 150,000 defense jobs.  [McKinsey & Company, Report to the L.A.
 Chamber of Commerce, May 1991]

                               CAFE

 RHETORIC: If they think increasing the CAFE standards, the fuel
 economy standards, to 45 miles a gallon is a good idea -- 300,000
 people out of work."

 REALITY: Under George Bush and Dan Quayle the American auto industry
 has lost 89,000 jobs and will lose 67,000 more [New York Times,
 2/25/92;  U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
 Employment and Earnings]   Bill Clinton and Al Gore know that the
 U.S. can support a strong auto industry, increased fuel efficiency,
 and a clean environment.  They will not force the auto industry to do
 the impossible and will work in partnership with the auto industry to
 develop the appropriate technologies to improve fuel efficiency, keep
 America clean and keep the auto industry strong and secure.  Bill
 Clinton himself said on CAFE, "And I certainly don't think that you
 can ask anybody to do anything that's technologically impossible."
 [Reuters, August 21, 1992]   The Clinton/Gore plan includes a
 comprehensive manufacturing policy with the following elements: a
 targeted investment tax credit; a permanent R&D tax credit; and
 support for consortia to develop new technologies that will help the
 auto industry create jobs, and meet the demands of a global economy
 and a clean environment.  Instead of causing auto workers to lose
 jobs, building more fuel efficient cars will strengthen the U.S. auto
 industry and create jobs.

 RHETORIC: Jim Stockdale said:  "I read where Senator Gore's mentor
 had disagreed with some of the scientific data that is in his book."

 REALITY:  Jim Stockdale misconstrued the words of the late Roger
 Revelle.  In an op-ed piece written by his daughter Carolyn Revelle
 Hufbauer with the assistance of her mother, two sisters and brother,
 Mr. Revelle's family stated that his words had been misinterpreted to
 imply criticism of Senator Gore when.  In fact, "Nothing could be
 further from the truth,"  Ms. Hufbauer wrote:  "Roger Revelle
 proposed a range of approaches to address global warming.  Inaction
 was not one of them.  He agreed with the adage 'look before you
 leap,' but he never said 'sit on your hands.'"  [Washington Post,
 Sept. 13, 1992]

                             TIMBER

 RHETORIC: "You ought to talk to the timber people in the Northwest
 where they say that, well, we can only save the owl, forget about the
 jobs."

 REALITY: According to a Reagan-appointed judge, the real reason for
 the timber crisis in the Northwest is the Bush administration's
 failure to comply with the law and the failure to develop a sound
 forest management plan.  [Washington Post, 6/25/91]

                        ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES

 RHETORIC: "You ought to talk to the coal miners.  They're talking
 about putting a coal tax on.  They're talking about a tax on
 utilities, a tax on gasoline and home heating oil -- all sorts of
 taxes." REALITY: The Clinton/Gore plan does not include increases in
 any of these taxes.  George Bush, on the other hand, recently signed
 a 56 percent increase in the gas tax.  [Congressional Quarterly
 Almanac, 1990]  Dan Quayle is seizing on a few phrases and distorting
 them.  Gore believes that other nations, not the U.S., should pay the
 lion's share of efforts to help developing countries with their
 environmental problems.  Even Bush's own Environmental Protection
 Agency Administrator, William Reilly, has said that Senator Gore "has
 done some important things.  I don't think he's an environmental
 extremist." [Reuters, 8/7/92]   Though the Clinton plan does not
 include a carbon tax, it does include a permanent R&D tax credit
 which will help firms develop clean coal technology.

                   ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS ABROAD

 RHETORIC: "Senator Gore has suggested to have the taxpayers of
 America spend $100 billion a year on environmental projects in
 foreign countries... it's in your book.  On page 304.... It is
 there... It is in your book." REALITY: As noted by Brooks Jackson on
 CNN, "nowhere in the book does Gore propose $100 billion of foreign
 aid for environmental projects." "Gore writes that the money the
 United States spent on the Marshall Plan to rescue post-World War II
 Europe would equal $100 billion a year today, but he does not urge
 spending that much now." [Knight-Ridder, 10/13/92]

                            PAYROLL TAX

 RHETORIC: "He says he's for the pay or play health insurance.  That's
 a seven to nine percent payroll tax on every worker in America that
 participates in the program."

 REALITY: The Clinton plan has no payroll tax.  Quayle backs up this
 charge by claiming it is the conclusion of studies by the Urban
 Institute and CBO.  [Bush/Quayle Talking Points, 10/1/92] Both
 institutions sharply deny Quayle's claim, saying that neither has
 analyzed Clinton's plan.  [CNN, 10/2/92]

                     FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE

 RHETORIC: "Pass our Family Leave Act, because it goes to small
 businesses where the major problem is.  Your proposal excluded small
 business.  That's the problem."

 REALITY: This is a bizarre charge coming from an Administration that
 waited 1,355 days to introduce a family and medical leave proposal
 that will not mandate family and medical leave anywhere.

                            PAY OR PLAY

 RHETORIC: "Bill Clinton, one day he's for pay or play, the next day
 he's against pay or play."

 REALITY: Bill Clinton has never supported a "pay-or-play" health care
 reform plan.  The Clinton plan would require employers to cover their
 employees, but there is not "pay," that is, no payroll tax option in
 his plan.  [Speech and release, 9/24/92]

                            TERM LIMITS

 RHETORIC: "Here goes Bill Clinton again: he says, well, term limits,
 that's an interesting idea, I think I might be in favor of that.
 Then his Democratic friends in Congress say, no, Bill, you can't be
 for that."

 REALITY: Bill Clinton has stated that he would consider term limits,
 but believes that we should first implement comprehensive campaign
 finance reform -- including limiting PAC contributions, eliminating
 "soft money," placing voluntary spending caps on House and Senate
 races, reducing the cost of television air time, and requiring
 lobbyists who appear before Congressional committees to disclose the
 campaign contributions they've made to members of their committees.
 George Bush vetoed campaign finance reform legislation this year.

                       CLINTON CHOICE RECORD

 RHETORIC: "And Bill Clinton, when he was governor of Arkansas, also
 worked with the Right to Life people and supported Right to Life
 positions and now he has changed."

 REALITY: Bill Clinton has always supported Roe v. Wade, even as a law
 professor at the University of Arkansas 20 years ago.  Bill Clinton
 opposes further restrictions on abortion at the state level and
 supports enacting the Freedom of Choice Act to write the protections
 of Roe v. Wade into federal law.  Bill Clinton signed into law a
 state requirement that doctors and clinics notify the parents of
 minors seeking abortions or obtain a judicial consent for the
 abortion.  He is opposed to any new federal restrictions on abortion.

                        GORE CHOICE RECORD

 RHETORIC: Dan Quayle said, "At one time and most of the time in the
 House of Representatives, you [Al Gore] had a pro life position."

 REALITY:  Al Gore has consistently and persistently supported a
 woman's right to choose.  A co-sponsor of the Freedom of Choice Act
 to protect the rights established in Roe v. Wade, Al Gore is
 pro-choice -- not pro-abortion.  He is committed to reducing the
 number of unwanted pregnancies in American while preserving a woman's
 right to choose.

                "RAISING TAXES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS"

 RHETORIC: "Everyone knows that you simply can't get $150 billion in
 new taxes by raising the marginal tax rate to a top rate of 36
 percent and only tax those making $200,000 a year.... Everybody
 making more than $36,000 a year will have their taxes increased if
 Bill Clinton is President of the United States."

 REALITY:  The Clinton/Gore plans includes a middle-class tax cut to
 give families $300 per child.  Bill Clinton has never claimed that he
 can raise $150 billion from raising the tax rate on individuals.  He
 will raise that amount through a comprehensive tax package -- that
 closes corporate tax loopholes to raise $58 billion, for example.
 The commercial which made the Quayle charge was branded "misleading"
 by the Washington Post (10/2/92).  The Wall Street Journal says,
 "Clinton has proposed to cut taxes for the sort of people featured in
 Bush's ad." (10/2/92)

                           URBAN AMERICA

 RHETORIC: "I don't know how you're going to go to urban America and
 say, well, the best thing that we can offer is simply to raise taxes
 again."

 REALITY: Bill Clinton has a comprehensive plan for America's cities:
 putting 100,000 more police officers on our streets; 75-125
 enterprise zones; 100 community development banks and 1000
 microenterprise programs; new investment in infrastructure; and
 school reform, including increased Chapter One funding for
 disadvantaged schools.

                    BUSH/QUAYLE WILL NOT RAISE TAXES

 RHETORIC: "President Bush wants to hold the line on taxes."

 REALITY: Read my lips.  Despite his 1988 "no new taxes" pledge, Bush
 signed the second largest tax hike in history.  [Acceptance Speech,
 GOP Convention, 8/18/88; NYT, 8/7/92; CBO, 1/30/91]

 REALITY: Bush and Quayle have cut taxes for the rich and soaked the
 middle class.  While middle class Americans pay $186 more in taxes
 today than they did in 1980 -- the richest 1% of Americans got a
 $12,626 tax cut from Republican administrations over the same period.
 [DSG, 10/18/91]

             BUSH QUAYLE WANTS TO REFORM HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

 RHETORIC: "We want to reform the health care system."

 REALITY: "He [Bush] sees no need for fundamental changes in the
 system."  A bipartisan panel of three Republican and two Democratic
 health experts says that the Clinton health care plan will save the
 average family $1,179 more every year than Bush's plan; insure all
 Americans, while the Bush plan would leave 27 million people
 uninsured; save $746 billion, even after covering every American,
 while the Bush plan would save only $157 billion.  [WP editorial,
 8/9/92; Washington Post, 10/2/92]

                           BUSH HAS INTEGRITY

 RHETORIC: "The president has the integrity and the character [to lead
 internationally.]"

 REALITY: President Bush has never told the truth about his role in
 the Iran-Contra scandal.  He claimed he was "out of the loop," but
 documents place him in meetings where President Reagan signed orders
 for direct arms-for-hostages trades with Iran.

 Bush claimed he didn't know Shultz and Weinberger opposed
 arms-for-hostages, but when Weinberger saw the Bush quote in the
 Washington Post, he called Shultz personally to say "[T]hat's
 terrible.  He was on the other side.  Its on the record.  Why did he
 [Bush] say that." .  In addition, George Bush sat through the January
 7, 1986 meeting on arms for hostages in which Shultz and Weinberger
 expressed their strong opposition.

 In 1988, Bush said, "I sensed that we were sending arms.  And I
 sensed that we were trying to get hostages out.  But not arms for
 hostages."  But today, when Katie Couric asked, "You knew about the
 arms for hostages?" Bush replied, "Yes, and I've said so all along."
 [WP, 1/7/88, 6/10/90 9/24/92; AP, 1-8-88; Charles Hill notes, 8-7-87,
 in court filing, August 1992; Today Show, 10-13-92]

 RHETORIC: "[Bush has] got the integrity to be our President for the
 next four years."

 REALITY: George Bush has not come clean with the American people
 about his strong support for Saddam Hussein before the Persian Gulf
 War.  While Bush says the U.S. "did not enhance Saddam Hussein's
 nuclear, biological or chemical weapons capability," Bush sent
 billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer-subsidized loan guarantees
 Saddam used to build up his military machine, buying advanced
 American technology -- including technologies with potential nuclear
 applications.  The Bush Administration has covered-up the scandal
 involving the loans to Iraq through the Atlanta branch of BNL.
 Marvin Shoob, the judge in the BNL case concluded that, "either the
 CIA or the Justice Department or both have misled me." [GAO 11/90;
 WP, 7/22/92; LAT, 2/4/92, 2/13/92, 10/13/92].

                QUAYLE'S ROLE IN THE PHILIPPINE INCIDENT

 RHETORIC: "I was tested under fire and in a crisis... I talked to
 President Aquino.  I made the recommendation to the president.  The
 president made the decision, the coup was suppressed, democracy
 continued in the Philippines, the situation was ended."

 REALITY: Dan Quayle's memory of his role is clouded.  According to
 The Commanders, "White House Counsel Boyden Gray, who'd been called
 to the Situation Room to handle the legal implications of any
 decision to intervene, thought [Philippine President Corazon] Aquino
 sounded more in charge than Quayle.  But to Gray, the most important
 performance during those early morning hours was Powell's.  Not only
 was the Chairman back-stopping Quayle, but his had been the only
 voice to challenge the growing consensus that Mrs. Aquino's initial
 request for bombing should be approved." [The Commanders, p. 151]

                    BUSH/QUAYLE WILL CREATE NEW JOBS

 RHETORIC: "We have a plan to create new jobs."

 REALITY: Bush and Quayle have no plan.   All they have to offer is
 warmed-over trickle-down economics, the same policies that have led
 to the loss of 1.4 million manufacturing jobs and 35,000 private
 sector jobs since Bush took office.  [BLS.]  As the Washington Post
 reported on the President's plan, "Some Republicans complained
 privately that the speech was months too late to be credible and
 represented mainly a repackaging of old ideas." [Washington Post,
 9/11/92]

 REALITY: Bush has no vision for America's economic future:  As John
 Sculley, CEO of Apple Computer put it, "I'm tired of sitting on the
 sidelines and watching America lose its competitiveness ... President
 Bush has lost the ability to govern this country in terms of its
 economic leadership.  People just don't believe him anymore."  [CNN
 "Moneyline" 9/22/92]

                         EXPORTING JOBS OVERSEAS

 RHETORIC: "We have never subsidized any country--or any company to
 move from the United States to Latin America... We do not have any
 program that encourages companies to close down here and to go and
 invest on foreign soil.  That is absolutely outrageous."

 REALITY:  "60 Minutes" and "Nightline" recently revealed that
 taxpayers have paid over $289 million for the United States Agency
 for International Development and other agencies to encourage U.S.
 firms to move to Central America, with low-interest loans, subsidized
 worker training, construction of offices or factories, and
 elimination or reduction of tariffs.  Over the past two years, the
 U.S. government has spent about $150 million for job creation in the
 Caribbean, while only spending $100 million for retraining American
 workers.  ["Nightline", 9/29/92; CBS, "60 Minutes" 9/27/92; LAT,
 9/24/92]

 REALITY: U.S. AID gave $102 million to an El Salvadorian "trade
 promotion" organization, called FUSADES, which took out ads in U.S.
 trade journals touting incentives for relocation to Central America
 -- an effort specifically steered by a U.S. AID directive.  [Letter
 to Congress from R. Ray Radlett, Asst. Admin. for Legis. Affairs,
 U.S. AID; U.S. AID Project Paper, 3/91; Bobbin Magazine, 8/91]

        BUSH'S PLAN MAKES HEALTH CARE AVAILABLE/AFFORDABLE TO ALL

 RHETORIC: "[Bush] wants to go out and to reform the health care
 system so that every American will have available to them affordable
 health insurance."

 REALITY: A bipartisan panel of three Republican and two Democratic
 health experts says that the Clinton health care plan will save the
 average family $1179 more every year than Bush's plan; insure all
 Americans, while the Bush plan would leave 27 million people
 uninsured; save $746 billion, even after covering every American,
 while the Bush plan would save only $157 billion.  [Washington Post,
 10/2/92]

                          WINNING THE COLD WAR

 RHETORIC: "We won the Cold War."

 REALITY:  Who won the Cold War is not a partisan issue.  To portray
 it as one is an insult to all Americans--Republicans and
 Democrats--who sacrificed so much during the Cold War.  It is an
 insult to the bipartisan tradition in American foreign policy of
 supporting freedom and democracy around the world.  Harry Truman,
 Arthur Vandenberg, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Henry "Scoop"
 Jackson, and Ronald Reagan all played bipartisan roles in winning the
 Cold War.  It is also an insult to the brave people of the Baltics,
 Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union who suffered behind the Iron
 Curtain and then threw off the yoke of communism.

             BUSH/QUAYLE HAVE A "GOOD" ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD

 RHETORIC: "Look at the president's record:  clean air legislation
 passed the Democratic Congress because of the leadership of George
 Bush... We are firmly behind preserving our environment, and we have
 a good record with which to stand."

 REALITY: Although Quayle brags about the Clean Air Act and Bush has
 praised it as "the most ambitious pollution legislation anywhere on
 earth", the Sierra Club recently accused the Bush administration of
 "gut[ting] Clean Air rules".  Bush is being sued by Rep. Waxman --
 whose subcommittee initiated the Clean Air Act -- for violations of
 Clean Air Act statutes.  And Dan Quayle's Competitiveness Council has
 proposed more than 100 weakening changes in Clean Air Act
 regulations.  [AP, 6/5/92; NYT, 8/4/92; Sierra Club, 9/4/92; Bush
 speech, 6/1/92]

               CONGRESS HAS HAD BUSH PROPOSAL FOR 8 MONTHS

 RHETORIC: "President Bush has had his health care reform proposal on
 Capitol Hill for eight months."

 REALITY: Bush had been in office 1,112 days before he introduced his
 health care proposal.  And now, 249 days later, he has still not sent
 legislation for his tax credit and voucher system -- the core of his
 program -- to Congress.  [Secretary of Health and Human Services
 Louis Sullivan, news conference, 9/9/92]

            BUSH DIDN'T WAIT 3 1/2 YEARS FOR HEALTH CARE PLAN

 RHETORIC: "He didn't wait three and a half years [to propose his
 health care plan]"

 REALITY:  Although Bush charged Secretary Sullivan to develop
 recommendations on health care reform by the end of 1990, it was not
 until February, 1992, right before the New Hampshire primary - -
 three years after taking office and two years after his 1990 State of
 the Union -- that Bush finally announced his health care plan.  He
 has yet to propose a funding mechanism.  [USA Today, 2/7/92; L.A.
 Times, 2/7/92]

                       QUAYLE CONSISTENT ON CHOICE

 RHETORIC: [On choice] "one thing I don't think it's wise to do, and
 that is to change your position."

 REALITY:  During the 1988 campaign, when was asked by a 12 year-old
 girl if she should have a baby after being impregnated by her father,
 Quayle responded: "Yes."  Yet when asked during the 1992 campaign if
 he believed "that there is a case for abortion, especially in the
 case of... incest?", Quayle responded, "Yeah.  That goes without
 saying." [Reuters, 10/25/88; David Frost Interview, 9/24/92]

                  BUSH HAS PUSHED FOR ENTERPRISE ZONES

 RHETORIC: "Enterprise zones are very important and it's an idea that
 the President has been pushing."

 REALITY: Bush vetoed the Tax Fairness and Economic Growth
 Acceleration Act, including its enterprise zone provisions, because
 it raised taxes on the richest 1% of Americans.  Bush dropped
 enterprise zones, which are designed to spur investment in poor
 inner-city areas from his economic recovery package to make room for
 a repeal of the luxury tax on yachts.  [LAT, 5/13/92; Business Week,
 5/25/92]

                       BUSH SUPPORTS FAMILY LEAVE

 RHETORIC: "Under President Bush's health care reform package that
 woman won't have to make a choice about going back to work or health
 care for her children, because she'll have both."

 REALITY: Despite a campaign pledge to "assure that women don't have
 to worry about getting their jobs back after having a child or caring
 for a child during a serious illness," Bush vetoed the Family and
 Medical Leave Act twice.  [Bush Statement, 9/11/88; Washington Post,
 6/30/90; AP, 9/22/92]

 REALITY: Bush's new tax credit family leave proposal seeks to provide
 incentives for companies to voluntarily provide leave.  It does not
 guarantee that employers will grant leave nor does it ensure that
 employees will be able to return to their job after the leave -- the
 very job security that Bush originally promised in 1988.  [LAT,
 9/17/92]

                                LITHUANIA

 RHETORIC:  "I was in Vilnius, Lithuania speaking to 10,000 people in
 the middle of winter.  Hundreds of people came up to me and said 'God
 bless America.'"

 REALITY:  For over forty years, the United States refused to
 recognize Soviet claims to the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia,
 and Estonia.  But when the moment of Baltic independence arrived,
 George Bush refused to grant recognition of the Baltics.  He said:
 "I don't want to be a part of making a mistake that might contribute
 to anarchy in the Soviet Union."  [Washington Post, August 27, 1991]
 The United States was 37th among the world's nations to extend
 diplomatic recognition to these countries.  We should have been
 first.

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