Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 1992 23:09:22 CDT
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Subject: ==> Dan Quayle: Bush Attack Puppy Unleashed

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                 DAN QUAYLE: ATTACK PUPPY UNLEASHED

      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 are the top 10:

                     #1 SHIPPING 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: As revealed by "60 Minutes" and "Nightline" exposes earlier
 this month, taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to
 encourage U.S. firms to move their jobs to Central America.  Under
 Bush and Reagan, U.S. AID and other agencies have provided
 low-interest loans, subsidized worker training, construction of
 office or manufacturing space, and an elimination or reduction of
 tariffs for firms that locate in "export processing zones." Some $289
 million has gone to export promotion organizations in El Salvador,
 Honduras and other countries.  [CBS "60 Minutes," 9/27/92; Los
 Angeles Times, 9/24/92]

 REALITY: The U.S. government has spent about $150 million for job
 training in the Caribbean.  During that same period, the federal
 government has spent just over $100 million for retraining American
 workers whose jobs have gone offshore.  ["Nightline," 9/29/92]

 REALITY: According to the Bush Administration itself, USAID gave $102
 million to a "trade promotion" organization in El Salvador, known as
 FUSADES, which then took out ads in U.S. journals encouraging
 American companies to relocate to Central and Latin America,
 constructed factory and office space for the relocating companies,
 and provided start up loans as additional incentives to relocate.  In
 a 1991 funding agreement with FUSADES, USAID directed it to pursue "a
 proactive direct and systematic sales effort involving direct contact
 with targeted U.S. firms to convince them to explore opportunities in
 El Salvador." [Letter to Congress from R. Ray Radlett, Assistant
 Administrator for Legislative Affairs, USAID; USAID "Project Paper,
 Industrial Stabilization  and Recovery," March 1991; Bobbin Magazine,
 August 1991].

                 #2 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.

 REALITY:  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.

 REALITY:  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]

                      #3 EARTH IN THE BALANCE

 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:  Nowhere in Senator Gore's book does he propose "$100
 billion of foreign aid for environmental projects."  In the book, he
 notes what the Marshall Plan would cost in 1992 dollars, but he made
 no specific proposals about financial commitments to the
 environment.  He clearly stated in the book that, whatever the cost,
 it should be born primarily by other industrialized countries.  He
 stated:  "Today, of course, the United States cannot conceivably be
 the principal financier for a global recovery program and cannot make
 the key decisions alone or with only one close ally.  The financial
 resources must now come from Japan and Europe and from wealthy,
 oil-producing states." [Earth in the Balance Page 303]

                        #4 THE PHILIPPINES

 RHETORIC: Quayle's role in Philippine incident -- "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]

                          #5 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 -- saying he only supports voluntary parental
 leave--not a federally mandated policy.  [Bush Statement, 9/11/88;
 Washington Post, 6/30/90; AP, 9/22/92]

 REALITY: Bush's 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]

                          #6 HEALTH CARE

 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] No reputable source believes the Clinton plan would result
 in the rationing of health care.  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]

 RHETORIC: "Bill Clinton wants to ration health care." REALITY: Bill
 Clinton's health care plan iwll not produuce rationing.  The Clinton
 approach of global pbudgets 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]

                        #7 THE CLINTON PLAN

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

 REALITY: 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]  The
 Clinton/Gore plan includes $60 billion in middle class tax cuts.  It
 will only increase taxes on the wealthiest few, those making more
 than $200,000 a year.  [Putting People First]

 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]

 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]

 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]  There is no respectable estimate that shows the Clinton
 plan will cost jobs.  Clinton has a strong record of creating jobs,
 in fact.  In 1992 Arkansas led the nation in job growth.  [Bureau of
 Labor Statistics]

                         #8 TAX AND SPEND

 RHETORIC: "Your proposal is to raise $150 billion in taxes. To raise
 $220 billion in new spending."

 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]

                          #9 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)

                       #10 ENTERPRISE ZONES

 RHETORIC: "Enterprize 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]