From: aschaffe@holodeck.csd.sgi.com (Allan Schaffer)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections
Subject: Re: Page 304?  (VP Debate, Quayle response)
Date: 14 Oct 1992 23:53:42 GMT
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mwasserm@diana.cair.du.edu (MARC Y. WASSERMAN) said..
>During the vice-presidential debates last night,
>Quayle said that Gore had indeed made a pledge
>to raise taxes to help one part of the enviromnet
>in the United States.  Gore insisted that wasn't
>true and Quayle said it was, that it was on Page
>304 in Gore's book "Earth in the Balance".
>Not having this book, could somebody please tell
>me what is on page 304?  Is Quayle correct on
>this?

No -- I'm amazed he made the mistake.  On the other hand, once he's
corrected in the papers & news he'll just whine, "Liberal media bias!"

QUAYLE: "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."

On page 304 of the book, Gore is discussing the Marshall Plan and
how difficult it would be to get countries to collaborate, like they
did to rebuild Europe after WW2.

Here is the sentence Quayle is referring to:

	Charles Maier points out that the annual U.S. expenditures for 
	the Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951 were close to 2 percent 
	of our GNP.  A similar percentage today would be almost $100 
	billion a year.

Here is the above in context:

	As a result, the responsibility for taking the initiative, 
	for innovating, catalyzing, and leading such an effort, 
	falls disproportionately on the United States.  Yet in the 
	early 1990s our instinct for world leadership often seems 
	not nearly so bold as it was in the late 1940s.  The bitter 
	experience of the Vietnam War is partly responsible, and 
	the sheer weariness of carrying the burden of world leadership 
	has taken a toll.  Furthermore, we are not nearly as dominant 
	in the world economy as we were then, and that necessarily 
	has implications for our willingness to shoulder large burdens.  
	And our budget deficits are now so largeas to stifle our 
	willingness to consider even the most urgent of tasks.  Charles
	Maier points out that the annual U.S. expenditures for the 
	Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951 were close to 2 percent of
	our GNP.  A similar percentage today would be almost $100 billion
	a year (compared to our total nomilitary foreign aid budget of
	about $15 billion a year)

Here's what Brooks Jackson of CNN said:

	"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."

Allan
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