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SOME THOUGHTS REGARDING A VICE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON
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DOMESTIC POLICY
Pundits, pols and pusillanimous Democrats all carp that a
victorious George Bush remains vulnerable on the "vision thing"
ie. domestic policy. They claim that after Desert Storm,
Republicans will wave the bloody shirt while they will turn the
nation's attention slowly to res domestica
they can't wait.
But among the policies tested, and proven in the Persian
Gulf are several that have direct bearing on the domestic agenda,
and we should neither hesitate nor wait to make the point.
First, is the policy of an All Volunteer Force initiated
by the Nixon administration. It's salient features are:
-choice
-merit based opportunity
-market based compensation
-strictly enforced color blindness
-competitive strategy (invest/ utilize people and
technology on the basis of marginal payoffs)
-tough training where teachers and students are
rewarded and penalized on the basis of performance on
standardized measures of knowledge.
They Sell us short.
S
Democrats have consistently criticized this approach as
unfair and unsuccessful. They claimed AVF forces would be
substandard. They protested that the poorest would be impressed
to protect the richest. Racial tensions would undermine
readiness. The forces would be mercenaries who wouldn't/couldn't
fight.
They preferred a draft (many are on the record)
some
want to nationalize our youth through a national service program
that would encompass both military and civilian conscription.
They prefer quotas to merit based opportunity.
They reject choice in education and job opportunity.
The Democrats were wrong on gulf policy and they are wrong
on domestic policy.
We learned alot in Desert Storm
we learned that an All
volunteer force works, works very well indeed
and we learned
that the principles that underwrite that policy work as well.
THESE ARE THE SAME PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDE OUR DOMESTIC POLICY
INITIATIVES
-EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL CHOICE
-MARKET DRIVEN INCENTIVES
-EQUAL OPPORTUNITY NOT QUOTAS
-INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND EMPOWERMENT
THEY WILL WORK AS WELL FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, BLACK AND
WHITE, AS THEY DID FOR OUR FORCES IN THE GULF.
DEMOCRATS OFFER THE DOMESTIC VERSION OF A DRAFT
LACK Faith-
use compulsory methods.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
ON SOCIAL POLICY
This memorandum lists several ways in which the Republican approach to social policy
differs from the Democratic approach. In each area, we can frame the debate so as to
get the majority of voters on our side.
In general, we should identify the Republican Party with what Jim Pinkerton calls "The
New Paradigm," a model of thought that stresses innovation and empowerment. We
should identify the Democrats with "The Old Paradigm," which emphasizes
paternalistic government control.
There are a number of exceptions to the picture drawn below: on any given point,
there are Democrats who embrace the New Paradigm. For instance, Democratic
Governor Rudy Perpich of Minnesota support school choice. By and large, however,
these distinctions do mark the overall differences between us and them.
1. Market Forces.
The New Deal generation grew up with the Depression and thus came to think that
society's biggest problem is market failure. The post-New Deal generations grew up
with the disaster of the Great Society. Although they are hardly blind fans of business
-- witness Nader's popularity - they distrust big government's ability to manage the
?
economy. For voters in their 30s, the failure of big government became personal and
tangible with Carter's double digit inflation.
(then or now?
The Democrats believe in administering prices and terms of trade. Republicans believe
in market forces. This does not mean retreating to laissez-faire, but instead devising
market-oriented, non bureaucratic solutions to public problems.
Democratic Way
Republican Way
Rigid command & control
Market-based environmental
environmental regulations
policies (e.g., emissions trading)
Urban renewal: gutting
Enterprise zones: building
neighborhoods and warehousing
neighborhoods and providing
the poor
opportunity
Protectionism
Free trade
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2. Individual options and empowerment
The New Deal generation grew up worrying about economic survival. They did not
have the luxury of choosing among a wide array of foods, garments, etc. The post-
New Deal generations grew up expecting more than "one-size-fits-all.
The Democrats believe in government monopolies, in which bureaucrats decide what
goods and services to provide the people. Republicans believe in giving people a wider
range of options, and in helping them get the means to exercise those options.
Democratic Way
Republican Way
Mandatory school assignments
School choice
Child care bureaucracies
Family and religious-based child care
Traditional public housing
Tenant management and ownership;
housing vouchers
3. Decentralization
From the 1930s to the 1960s, Washington, DC was the hometown of positive change.
The state capitals were dominated by backward-thinking hacks. Today, innovations
are coming from Sacramaneto and Springfield. Washington is the home office of
reaction, not action.
Democrats believe in running things from Washington. Republicans believe in
dispersing authority to the level closest to the course of authority.
Democratic Way
Republican Way
Centralized control of schools
Control of schools by parents and
localities
Transportation plans micro-
Encourage state and local experiments
managed from Washington
in toll roads and telecommuting
4. What Works: Quality, Not Quantity
In 1986, Lee Atwater told a Cato Institute conference: "Bigger is not better anymore --
better is better. That's one of the things that the [1984] Hart campaign understood very
clearly [T]here is a new drive for true excellence in this country that's very
important." Both as consumers and voters, Americans of the 1990s are seeking value.
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Democrats emphasize input: they judge how well we do by how much we spend.
Republicans emphasize outcomes, judging by the quality of results instead of the
quantity of dollars. Democrats see paperwork as an end in itself. Republicans see it as
an obstacle to progress.
Democratic Way
Republican Way
Appraising education by
Appraising education by performance
dollars spent
testing
Automatic promotion of
Competence testing
bureaucrats
Credentialism
Alternative certification of teachers
5. Accountability
The logical consequence of big government paternalism is that no one is accountable
for his own behavior. All problems are the fault are a vague "society." The logical
consequence of individual opportunity is that rewards and punishments should go to
those who deserve them.
Democratic Way
Republican Way
Drug abuse is an illness:
Drug abuse is a crime: while not
emphasis on treatment
neglecting treatment, emphasis on user
accountability
Crime is society's problem:
Crime is caused by criminals:
rehabilitation and furloughs
the answer is tough punishment,
are the answer.
including the death penalty.
indu nerponsibility
This is not censorship, this is choice. Deliberate moral choice. And people who are concerned about what Michael
Novak called "the ecology of symbols and imagery in our own home" ought not to be intimidated by the ridicule of
sophisticates from speaking about their concern in public ways. That goes for private citizens and public officials.
BULLETIN: How would you respond to the criticism that what you have just said is not "politically correct."
HORNER: No, it's not. I am not politically correct. I can react on two levels to that. One would be to say again
why it is necessary to speak out. Another is to say that we are experiencing moral confusion and want of courage
on a large scale that will come home to roost, that what we are seeing in our poor children and in our elites that
is SO bad for our future that anyone who does not become radically politically incorrect on this subject - and soon -
- will be held accountable a decade from now by their own children for the world we have created.
LAST LAUGHS:
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David Letterman: Ladies and gentiemen, you think you've got problems? Listen to this. President
Reagan calls up the state of California, and he asks if he can get permission to be buried on the grounds
of the Ronald Reagan Library in the Simi Valley. Now to me, boy, this is really a sign that maybe your
memory is on the blink, if you think you're dead. (NBC Late Night With David Letterman, 2/22/91)
o
David Letterman: Top Ten Things That Will Get You Kicked Out Of the Republican Guard
10)
Giggling during story time.
9)
Asking commander during inspection, "Are those Bugle Boy jeans?"
8)
Forging letter of recommendation from Steinbrenner.
7)
Whenever enemy aircraft appears, dropping your gun and screaming like a woman.
6)
Wearing "Home of the Scud Missile" boxer shorts.
5)
Comments like, "Wow! That Hussein guy is nuts!"
4)
Holding membership in B'nai Brith.
3)
Showering.
2)
Double dating with Arthur Kent.
1)
Laughing hysterically as you point to the sky and say, "Hey, look everybody! More B-52s!" (NBC
Late Night With David Letterman, 2/22/91)
Copyright © 1991 by the Bulletin Broadfaxing Network. Reproduction without permission prohibited.
The White House Bullotin is published business days by the Bullotin Broadfaxing Network, Alexandria, Virginia.
-- END OF FAX --
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the beltway - who can get together and hammer out a compromise. One Administration official had
criticized the timing of such a summit because, unlike the education summit, which involved governors
who had been working on a consensus on educational issues for nearly a decade, no such consensus
exists in the health care field. Kasich emphasized that "all the issues are already on the table, and it's
a matter of making hard choices. It won't be easy to do things like tell lawyers they can't sue as much
anymore." Kasich is concerned that health care reform has been put off too long, and that the price tag
for delay warrants the immediate attention of the Congress. "We've got a $124-billion Medicare budget
that is going up 12 percent every year," Kasich said, "and yet we've got hospitals closing and doctors
leaving the profession and people not getting care. Inaction is what is beginning to destroy the system."
INSIDE LOOKING OUT:
The second of a two-part interview with Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Constance Horner.
Horner, who served as Director of the Office of Personnel Management from 1985 to 1989, discusses ways in which
the government and the private culture can help children and families.
BULLETIN: How can a federal dollar be spent or managed to foster a better environment for infant vitality and child
health?
HORNER: Much of the money needs to be directed to simple medical problems. However, | think most people
recognize that the problems children are experiencing now are not the result of simple medical difficulties, but of
social and behavior choices of their parents. Therefore, federal money that is designed to enhance the health of
children needs to be targeted to create an opportunity for change in the lives of adults.
For example, if a parent smokes, and that smoking exacerbates a child's allergy to the point of injuring the child's
hearing, we cannot simply direct money to the child's encounter with the ear doctor. We have to devote money to
the woman's encounter with her addiction. However, that money will do very little good if it is simply put out there
in the form of available programs. It must be accompanied by a strong moral injunction to mothers and fathers and
neighbors and local officials to bring to bear a loving judgement and a call to correction upon the person who is,
by his or her own behavior, bringing injury to the child. This is true whether the illness is physical or emotional.
We need to tell truth here. To use Vaclav Havel's wonderful talismanic saying from his years in the Czech
underground: "We must name good and evil." We must not worry anymore about being politically correct when
to do so would contribute to the destruction of children.
BULLETIN: What would you say to the criticism that these sorts of problems are largely due to poverty?
HORNER: It is culture more than money that provides the kind of life-giving, community-supporting behavior that
produces healthy children. We know that children with two loving parents who stick with them; love, discipline, and
challenge them; work hard; and go to church are better off. We know from social science that these traditional
things work. It is not just poor children who are suffering the lack of an ordered, wholesome culture. It is middle
class and rich children also. We need to tell our children and all television producers that violence is not going to
be their daily entertainment fare anymore. We are creating some children for whom sadism is associated with sex
because that's what they've seen on MTV; children for whom murder is easy because that's what they've seen on
TV. The adult world, in exploring for its own pleasure the outer limits of acceptable behavior, has been indifferent
to the impact of that exploration on vastly more vulnerable children. I believe that adults must engage in sacrifice
and self discipline - to forego what are after all base and tawdry forms of entertainment - for the sake of children.
5
TX HISTORY: TX has a "no excuse needed" absentee voting
period. In those 17 days any voter can vote absentee at a local
location. For example, there can be five different local
locations in a county -- town hall, court house, post office,
super market, donut shop. The No Excuse Absentee voting period
lasted from Oct. 17 to today. In the 1988 general election in
Texas, about 25% of all the votes cast were cast prior to
Election Day. In the March '90 gubernatorial primary, the
Williams campaign used the system to its benefit.
TEXAS TODAY: Through 10/30, the TX Secretary of State's
office reported that 500,000 voters had already voted; Sec. of
State George Bayoud has predicted that fully half of the state's
voters will vote absentee (DALLAS TIMES HERALD 11/1). Zack Dawes
of the Williams campaign for Gov reports that Victory '90
(subsidized by the state GOP) has placed 500,000 calls to likely
absentee voters, and sent mailings to 1.2M likely absentee voters
(compared to a reported 800,000 Richards mailing on the Dem
side). The GOP list was made up of GOP primary voters and
absentees identified by phone banks. HOTLINE sources say that
Unity '90, coordinating the Dem effort with mail, field activity
and phone banks; the GOTV effort is concentrated in counties with
over 65% Dem registration.
*18 SIMPSONS: 2 CARS IN EVERY GARAGE AND 3 EYES ON EVERY FISH
Last night's "Simpsons" on FOX-TV featured Homer Simpson's
boss at the nuclear plant, Montgomery Burns, deciding to run for
governor when safety violations (discovered when Bart Simpson
catches a three-eyed fish in the ol' Fishin' Hole) risk shutting
down the plant. There were some classic lines: When Homer
suggests Burns runs, Burns yells, "Get off your soapbox, Simpson!
Do you realize how much it costs to run for office?" Homer:
"More than any honest man could afford. I bet you could afford
it
I mean, if you were governor, you could decide what's
safe and what isn't." So Burns gets himself a campaign manager,
who says, "Here's the problem as I see it: While Governor Bailey
is beloved by all, ninety-eight percent of the voters rate you as
despicable or worse.
That's why we've assembled the finest
campaign team money can buy. This is your speech writer, your
joke writer, your spin doctor, your make-up man and your personal
trainer
[and] the team of investigators: your muckraker,
your character assassin, your mudslinger, your garbologist."
Task one is the PR problem of the headline-making three-eyed
fish, so Burns hits the airwaves with "an actor portraying
Charles Darwin," allowing Burns to point out, "If our anti-
nuclear naysayers and choose-up-siders were to come upon an
elephant frolicking in the waters next to our nuclear power plant
they'd probably blame his ridiculous nose on the nuclear
bogeyman.
The truth is, this fish is a miracle of nature with
a taste that can't be beat." Governor Bailey holds out, saying,
"My worthy opponent seems to think that the voters of this state
are gullible fools. I, however, prefer to rely on their
intelligence and good judgment" (reporter response: "Interesting
strategy") -- but after scenes of Burns railing against taxes,
wearing a sombrero, at a construction site and even riding a tank
while wearing a helmet, it's a 50-50% race. Burns' manager: "The
voters now see you as. imperial and God-like
But there's a
downside to it. The latest polls indicate you're in danger of
losing touch with the common man." Thus, an election-eve live
television dinner with the Simpsons is planned (Bart: "Cool man
-- a media circus"), and impromptu questions are even planted.
For Lisa Simpson: "Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the
momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?"
But when Marge Simpson -- always a Governor Bailey supporter --
surprises Burns and the camera crews by serving a dinner of the
three-eyed fish, a trembling Burns is caught on live television
spitting out a bite of this "miracle of nature," destroying his
candidacy with headlines like, "Burns Can't Swallow Own Story.' "
But Burns wryly sums up his reaction, to his aide Smithers:
"Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed
troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have
them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy
for you" ("Simpsons" script release; FOX-TV, 11/1).
*19 ROLLING ROLLINS: NRCC "BLOOD BATH" COMING WEDNESDAY?
"In order to assure that [NRCC co-chair Ed] Rollins would be
axed, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu [has] persuaded Rep.
Don Sundquist [R-TN] to challenge" Rep. Guy Vander Jagt (R-MI),
the current NRCC chair (Ralph Hallow, WASH. TIMES, 11/2).
ANTI-ROLLINS: "Ousting Mr. Vander Jagt -- and discrediting
Mr. Rollins -- is seen by some of the House members supporting
Mr. Sundquist as a way to stop Mr. Gingrich from gaining even
more power in the House, a goal with which the White House is not
unsympathetic, Bush aides said" (Hosler, 11/2). "Vander Jagt
said that he and Bush have been friends
but that now Bush was
'ticked off' at him.
Sundquist and Sununu got in touch with
each other, GOP sources said.
Sundquist then announced that
he would challenge Vander Jagt for the chairmanship" (Lawrence
O'Rourke, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 11/2). HOUSTON CHRONICLE's
Cragg Hines calls it GOP "civil war": "Sununu and his deputy, Ed
Rogers, are seen as Rollins' chief antagonists in the White
House" (11/2).
PRO-ROLLINS: Vander Jagt "said yesterday that
Rollins
'will definitely stay on after the election and for 1992.
"NRCC officials said
Rollins has told Vander Jagt that he
intends to fulfill his four-year contract" through '92 (Kim
Mattingly, ROLL CALL, 11/1). GOP consultant Eddie Mahe wants
Rollins to stay (Hallow, 11/2). Rollins "is considered to be
allied closely with Newt Gingrich" (Karen Hosler, Baltimore SUN,
11/2).
BUSH'S CLOUT: "Vander Jagt said he politely told Bush that
he would not fire Rollins." Vander Jagt: "Absolutely, Ed Rollins
will stay.
He told it like it was
The president is not
forcing him out" 'Rourke, 11/2).
KICKOFF: Senior Bush official: "There is clearly going to
be a blood bath, starting Wednesday morning" (Hallow, 11/2).
POLL UPDATE
*21 HOTLINE/KRC: CHRONOLOGY OF SEVEN WEEK BUSH SLIDE
1,004 registered voters were interviewed 10/28-30, margin of
error is +/- 3% (S.F. EXAMINER, BOSTON GLOBE, WBZ, 11/1)
QUESTION: Favorability of President Bush.
10/30
10/23
10/16
10/9
10/2
9/25
9/18
Favorable
65%
70%
70%
72%
76%
82%
81%
Unfavorable
26%
24%
26%
20%
17%
13%
13%
QUESTION: President Bush's job rating on
...
OVERALL
10/30
10/23
10/16
10/9
10/2
9/25
9/18
Bush positive
44%
52%
50%
58%
61%
64%
66%
Bush negative
36%
31%
30%
25%
23%
19%
18%
DEFICIT
Bush positive
19%
19%
18%
24%
18%
15%
16%
Bush negative
66%
63%
67%
62%
60%
65%
61%
ECONOMY
Bush positive
19%
22%
25%
26%
29%
25%
Bush negative
61%
57%
55%
49%
49%
52%
FOR. POLICY
Bush positive
48%
54%
53%
58%
63%
67%
61%
Bush negative
29%
30%
29%
23%
18%
18%
20%
*22 WALL STREET JOURNAL/NBC: BUSH JOB RATING "BOTTOMED OUT"
507 registered voters were interviewed 10/30-31 by the
organizations of Reobert Teeter and Peter Hart. No margin of
error given; HOTLINE estimate +\- 4.35% (WSJ, 11/2, NBC, 11/1).
NOW 10/26 "EARLY" 1990
-- Bush job approval
56%
59%
75%
disaproval
32
32
15
-- Most important reason for U.S. presence in Persian Gulf:
NOW 9/90
Forcing Iraq out of Kuwait
46%
39%
Protecting oil supplies
35
50
--
46% "say they would bè more likely to support a
candiate who objects to current Gulf policies."
-- Who got more of what they wanted in the budget deal?
Democrats 39%
Bush
28
-- "Voters by 45% to 39% accept the [Dem] interpretation
that the Republicans protected teh rich over the GOP
contention that the Democrats forced higher taxes."
-- "Voters by 47% to 38% are more likely to support a
cnadidate becuase he voted for teh final deal."
--
"The GOP by a 36% to 31% is still seen as better able
to get the country out of a recession
--
"53% to 37% say they are more likely to support an
abortion rights candidate."
*10 RHODE ISLAND: PELL AIDE ALERTS CHENEY TO HIDDEN MESSAGES
Pell aide C.B. Scott Jones "has been reprimanded for
writing" Sec. of Defense Dick Cheney -- on Senate stationery --
"to raise the question of whether President Bush and other top
officials have used a 'code word' in speeches on the Persian Gulf
situation" (John Mulligan, PROVIDENCE JOURNAL). Jones wrote
Cheney on 10/3 "to report that the word 'Simone' has 'appeared'
when tapes of separate speeches of [Bush, Cheney and Sec/State
Baker] are played backwards." The 62-year-old Jones, who "is
assigned, among other duties, to look into paranormal phenomena,
such as ESP, " referred to the procedure as "reverse speech
therapy. Pell said he had never heard of reverse speech therapy
nor did he know of the letter. "Nevertheless, the matter focused
fresh attention on Pell's longtime interest in extrasensory
perception, the possibility of an afterlife and other such
matters of 'human potential. Pell believed the letter "was
motivated by patriotic reasons, " but added that "Jones shouldn't
have penned the letter under Senate auspices 'without checking
with me. Pell CoS Thomas Hughes "reprimanded" Jones and said,
"as a political matter, 'it certainly isn't helpful. Pell
"said he still values Jones' services,' and went on to describe
"Jones' work with Princeton scientists on the possibility that
people can cause objects to move by the power of thought."
Pell's opponent, Rep. Claudine Schneider (R), said "it sounds
bizarre,' adding that she knows nothing about it. "Jones said
that, based on a number of conversations he has had with Miss
Schneider over the years, her interest in human-potential-style
phenomena 'very much parallels the senator's" (10/19).
Seemone
nomes
President Bush's Vetoes
1989
Bill
Bill Description
Date
Outcome*
HR 2
Minimum Wage Increase
June 13
House sustained, 247-178
S J Res 113
FS-X Plane Codevelopment
July 31
Senate sustained, 66-34
H J Res 390
Thrift-bailout bill
Aug. 16
No override attempt
enrollment requirements
(pocket-vetoed)
HR 2990
Labor, HHS, Education
FY 1990 Appropriations
Oct. 21
House sustained, 231-191
HR 3028
District of Columbia
FY 1990 Appropriations
Oct. 27
No override attempt
HR 2939
Foreign Aid
FY 1990 Appropriations
Nov. 19
No override attempt
HR 3610
District of Columbia
FY 1990 Appropriations
Nov. 20
No override attempt
HR 1231
Eastern Airlines Strike
Resolution
Nov. 21
House austained, 261-160
HR 1487
State Department
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Authorization
Nov. 21
No override attempt
HR 2712
Chinese Immigrant Status
Nov. 30
Senate sustained, 62-37
1990
Bill
Bill Description
Date
Outcome*
HR 2364
Amtrak Authorization
May 24
Senate sustained, 64-36
HR 20
Hatch Act Amendments
June 15
House overrode, 327-93
Senate action pending
"Yeto overrides require & two-thirds majority vote of both houses.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 6, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
ED ROGERS
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
AND EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF
FROM:
DAVID CARNEY
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS
SUBJECT:
RESULTS OF JUNE 5TH PRIMARY RACES
General John Van de Camp to win the Democrat nomination for
In California, Former Mayor Dianne Feinstein defeated Attorney
Governor. Feinstein will face Senator Pete Wilson in the
gubernatorial general election in November. Feinstein has now
proven she is in this race to win and will be a tough opponent
for Wilson.
Several Ballot Initiatives also appeared on the primary ballot.
Both were soundly defeated. This only increases the importance
Proposition #118 and #119 dealt with the Reapportionment process.
of Pete Wilson's victory in November. Proposition #115 (Wilson's
Crime initiative) were victorious as was Proposition #108 and
#111 (Gas Tax Initiatives). This will double the current increase
in gasoline from 9 to 18 cents per gallon. Out of 23 initiatives
on the ballot, 21 were victorious. Only the Reapportionment
initiatives were defeated.
Republican State Treasurer Thomas Hayes defeated former U.S.
Treasurer Bay Buchanan for the GOP nomination. Hayes will face
November. Kathleen Brown, Democratic Chairman Jerry Brown's sister in
In Montana, Lt. Governor Allen Kolstad defeated 3 other
candidates to win the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate
seat currently held by Democrat Max Baucus.
In New Mexico, Frank Bond defeated Les Houston and 2 other
Governor Bruce King easily won the Democrat nomination.
candidates to win the Republican nomination for Governor. Former
In Alabama, Education Association President Paul Hubbert will
face Attorney General Don Siegelman in a June 26th run-off
election, to determine a Democrat opponent for Governor Guy Hunt.
Hubbert will have the backing of liberal teachers organizations,
should he win the run-off. Hunt currently appears to be in good
vulnerable. shape, although a well-run democrat campaign could render him
In what is seen as somewhat of a surprise win, Harvey Gannt
defeated Mike Easley in the North Carolina democrat run-off
election for the U.S. Senate nomination. Gantt, a black former
mayor of Charlotte, is more liberal than his opponent, and will
be an easy target for incumbent Jesse Helms due to his opposition
to the death penalty and support of the NEA.
There was a surprise in New Jersey's 12th congressional district
primary. In the Republican primary, State Senator Dick Zimmer
came from behind to defeat the early leader, Assemblyman Rod
Frelinghuysen, and won the GOP nomination. Ex-football player
Phil McConkey, the only pro-life candidate, also came from an
expected third place finish to beat Frelinghuysen. Zimmer will
now face pro-life advocate and businesswoman Marguerite Chandler.
In other New Jersey races, Bill Bradley easily defeated "peace
and freedom" candidate Peter Seyler and Christy Whitman won the
Republican nomination running unopposed. Daniel Mangini, the
Republican congressional candidate in the open 1st seat, won the
November. nomination unopposed. He will face Democrat Robert Andrews in
The Iowa primary election produced some interesting results for
both Republicans and Democrats. Speaker of the House, Don
Avenson, won the Democratic nomination for Governor defeating
Attorney General, Tom Miller, and businessman John Chrystal.
Avenson was the favored front runner over the last couple of
weeks and is the most liberal of the three candidates. He is
well-known statewide and will give Governor Terry Branstad a
tough race.
Avenson will go into the fall campaign with little money due to
an expensive primary. Whereas, Branstad, who spent no money
date. during the primary has approximately 3 million dollars raised to
Avenson, who is pro-choice, is expected to make abortion a key
issue in his campaign and will likely attack Governor Branstad's
pro-life position.
Due to the high profile and closeness of the Democratic
which Governor's race, Democratic turnout was larger than expected,
outregister the Republicans in Iowa.
could be a source of concern for Branstad because Democrats
NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) will make both
Governor Branstad and Congressman Tom Tauke two of their top
targets this year due to their strong pro-life stances.
Election returns are attached for your use and information.
ALABAMA:
GOVERNOR:
Republican Primary
Democrat Primary
(77% of the votes counted) (83% of the votes counted)
Governor Guy Hunt 114,336/96% Paul Hubbert
Jim Watley
201,055/32%
3,075/3%
Don Siegelman
150,798/24%
Fob James
137,984/22%
Ronnie Flippo
111,386/18%
Charles Bishop
27,682/4%
CONGRESS:
AL-2 (66% of the votes counted)
Congressman Bill Dickinson
Democrat Primary
Faye Baggiano
44,230
George Balmer
14,921
AL-5
Open Seat (Flippo)
Republican Primary
(65% of the votes counted)
Democrat Primary
(50% of the votes counted)
Albert McDonald
2,496
Bud Cramer
Jim Asquith
20,538
568
Eddie Frost
Annie B. Wells
8,891
529
Evelyn Pratt
7,443
Lynn Greer
10,777
Garland Terry
2,969
Bill Spears
505
David Wood
364
* Greer and Cramer will have a run-off on June 26th.
CALIFORNIA:
GOVERNOR:
(63% precincts reporting)
Democrat Primary
Dianne Feinstein
808,679
52%
John Van de Kamp
645,883
41%
LT. GOVERNOR:
(63% precincts reporting)
Republican Primary
John Seymour
507,727
45%
Marian Bergesen
621,124
55%
(Bergesen is pro-life while Seymour is pro-choice)
TREASURER:
(63% precincts reporting)
Republican Primary
Tom Hayes
601,257
54%
Bay Buchanan
512,496
46%
BALLOT INTIATIVES:
118 (Reapportionment)
No
66.9%
Yes 33.1%
119 (Reapportionment)
No
64%
Yes 36%
CONGRESS:
Republican Primary
CA-19
Robert Lagomarsino
41,334
89%
Alan Winterbone
5,260
11%
CA-21:
Elton Gallegly
56,484
70%
Sang Korman
19,398
30%
CA-44
Republican Primary
Democrat Primary
Randy "Duke" Cunningham 45%
Bates
62.6%
Joe Ghougassian
30%
Georgiou 37.4%
IOWA:
GOVERNOR:
Democrat Primary (90% of the votes counted)
Don Avenson
39%
Tom Miller
31%
John Chrystal
26%
TREASURER:
(63% precincts reporting)
Republican Primary
Tom Hayes
601,257
54%
Bay Buchanan
512,496
46%
BALLOT INTIATIVES:
118 (Reapportionment)
No
66.9%
Yes 33.1%
119 (Reapportionment)
No 64%
Yes 36%
CONGRESS:
Republican Primary
CA-19
Robert Lagomarsino
41,334
89%
Alan Winterbone
5,260
11%
CA-21:
Elton Gallegly
56,484
70%
Sang Korman
19,398
30%
CA-44
Republican Primary
Democrat Primary
Randy "Duke" Cunningham 45%
Bates
62.6%
Joe Ghougassian
30%
Georgiou
37.4%
IOWA:
GOVERNOR:
Democrat Primary (90% of the votes counted)
Don Avenson
39%
Tom Miller
31%
John Chrystal
26%
ATTORNEY GENERAL:
Republican Primary (90% of the votes counted)
Kelly
59%
Schmett
41%
CONGRESS:
Republican Primary
Democrat Primary
(94% of the votes counted)
(90% of the votes)
CD-2
Open Seat (Tauke)
Jim Nussle
39%
Eric Tabor
54%
Joe Ertle
36%
Steve Soverign
46%
Wayne Moldenhauer
25%
MONTANA:
U.S. SENATE:
(88% precincts reporting)
Republican Primary
Allen Kolstad
36,373
43%
Bruce Vohauer
23,029
36%
Bill Ferrall
9,365
13%
John Dominech
5,346
8%
NEW JERSEY:
CONGRESS:
NJ-1
Open Seat (Florio)
Daniel Mangini won the Republican nomination unopposed.
Democrat Robert Andrews won his party's nomination with
52% of the vote.
NJ- 12
Open Seat (Courter)
(99% of the vote counted)
Zimmer
15,395
McConkey
12,614
Frelinghuysen
11,951
Shanahan
928
NEW MEXICO:
GOVERNOR:
Republican primary
Democrat primary
(99% of the votes counted)
(50% of the votes)
Les Houston
33%
Bruce King
51%
Harry Kinney
6%
Paul Bardacke
41%
Frank Bond
55%
Tony Scarborough 4%
James Caudell 5%
Bob Gold
4%
NORTH CAROLINA:
U.S. SENATE: (democrat run-off)
(94% of the vote counted)
Harvey Gannt
290,248
60%
Mike Easley
193,742
40%
These figures are based on information derived until 7:00am.
OFFICE am PRESIDENT STATES UNITED
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
JUN 8 1989
MEMORANDUM TO DAVID F. DEMAREST, JR.
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR COMMUNICATIONS
FROM:
Robert E. Grady BOb
SUBJECT:
Recreational Land Acquisition Projects
Included in the FY 1990 President's Budget
Attached for your information are lists of FY 1990 proposed
recreational land acquisitions by the Departments of the
Interior (National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service,
Bureau of Land Management) and Agriculture (Forest Service).
These projects will be funded under the President's initia-
tive, announced in his February 9th budget address, to seek
over $200 million in appropriations annually from FY 1990
to FY 1993 for Interior and Agriculture land acquisition.
This compares to a request of $23 million in the previous
Administration's budget, consistent with its desire to
eliminate funding for land acquisition.
The Departments recently submitted these lists to Congress.
Funding of these projects will promote a variety of
Administration objectives, such as providing recreation to
urban area populations ("parks for people"), preserving
valuable wetlands, and protecting threatened and endangered
species habitats. The projects are a clear demonstration of
the President's commitment to environmental protection and
enhancement, and should be used in his upcoming trips and
speeches across the country to help bring this message home
to the electorate.
Follow-up questions regarding the listed projects should be
directed to me or Dave Gibbons of OMB (x4586).
Attachments
CC:
e.g. - wight be useful in a speed
Speechwriters:
Ms. Chriss Winston
in a local over to say
Mr. Edward McNalley
Mr. Dan McGroarty
Mr. Mark Davis
"my budget contains X million in
Mr. Mark Lange
Mr. Curt Smith
to expand X park."
Hope this is helpful! lob
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FY 1990 Land Acquisition
(In thousands of dollars)
BLM
FWS
NPS
TOTAL
Acquisition management
1,100
1,874
6,317
9,291
NPS State assistance management
n/a
n/a
3,383
3,383
Emergency and hardship
0
1,500
6,079
7,579
Projects
19,785
48,041
53,680
121,506
Bureau totals
20,885
51,415
69,459
141,759
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FY 1990 Land Acquisition - Bureau Listing
(dollars in thousands)
No. of
FY 90 Cumulative
Bureau
Parcel
Acres
($000)
Cost
BLM
Big Hole River, MT
393
180
BLM
Bizz Johnston Trail, CA
150
300
BLM
Bruneau River, ID
160
40
BLM
Carrizo Plains, CA
35,000
6,000
BLM
Chuckwalla Banch, CA
2,500
500
BLM
Colo R/Blk Ridge Canyon, CO
1,200
300
BLM
Desert Tortoise Nat Area, CA
600
1,200
BLM
E1 Malpais, NM
50,000
1,250
BLM
Fig Springs, AZ
640
210
BLM
Kings Range NCA, CA
600
500
BLM
Lomas/Santa Fe, MT
142
590
BLM
Lower Salmon River, ID
1,568
1,200
BLM
McCain Valley RCA, CA
400
250
BLM
New River ACEC, OR
120
500
BLM
N. Fork American River, CA
240
250
BLM
Oregon Nat'l Trail, ID
1,600
405
BLM
Overflow Wetlands HMP, NM
804
240
BLM
Owyhee River, OR & ID
1,500
1,320
BLM
Pariette Wetlands, UT
503
210
BLM
Rio Chama, NM
1,020
350
BLM
Rio Grande, CO
280
70
BLM
S Fork Merced River, CA
160
250
BLM
S. Fork Snake River, ID
1,700
1,750
BLM
Upper Missouri W/S River, MT
419
200
BLM
Upper Sacramento River, CA
1,300
1,720
19,785
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FY 1990 Land Acquisition - Bureau Listing
(dollars in thousands)
No. of
FY 90 Cumulative
Bureau
Parcel
Acros
($000)
Cost
FWS
Ace Rivers Basin, SC
1,200
1,000
FWS
Blunt-nosed Lizard, CA
150
160
FWS
Bogue Chitto, LA
2,505
1,200
FWS
Cape May, NJ
500
1,000
FWS
Crystal River, FL
10
900
FWS
Eastern Shore, VA
220
200
FWS
Grest Swamp, NJ
200
2,000
FWS
James River, VA
3,500
2,000
FWS
J.N. "Ding" Darling, FL
43
300
FWS
Lake Thompson, SD
5,000
1,000
FWS
Lower Rio Grande, TX
8,000
10,000
FWS
Minnesota Valley, MN
1,130
4,516
FWS
Pelican Island, FL
249
1,900
FWS
Pettaquamscutt, RI
150
1,400
FWS
Sacramento River, CA
4,065
4,643
FWS
San Francisco Bay, CA
1,400
4,000
FWS
San Joaquin River, CA
2,500
5,000
FWS
San Pablo Bay, CA
1,493
3,500
FVS
Steigerwald Lake, WA
190
722
FWS
Tinicum Nat'l Envir Ctr, PA
100
1,000
FWS
Trempealesu, WI
500
500
FWS
Trustom Pond, RI
70
1,100
48,041
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FY 1990 Land Acquisition - Bureau Listing
(dollars in thousands)
No. of
FY 90 Cumulative
Bureau
Parcel
Acres
($000)
Cost
NPS
Acadia NP, ME
233
1,000
NPS
Antistam NBP, MD
62
500
NPS
Appalachian Trail, Multi
2,387
7,000
NPS
Big Cypress N Pres, FL
5,894
4,000
NPS
Chattahoochee River NRA, GA
225
5,000
NPS
Congaree Swamp, SC
733
1,000
NPS
Cuyahoga Valley NRA, OH
175
3,500
NPS
Delaware Water Gap NRA, NJ/PA
96
750
NPS
El Malpais, NM
3,500
3,500
NPS
Jean Lafitte NHP & Pres, LA
1,000
1,000
NPS
New River Gorge NR, WV
2,812
2,500
NPS
NP of American Samoa, Saipan
9,000
400
NPS
Santa Monica Mts. NRA, CA
3,059
21,530
NPS
Timucuan E & H Res, FL
100
1,500
NPS
War in the Pacific, Guam
1
500
53,680
U.S. FOREST SERVICE
FY 1990
L&WCF PROGRAM
NO. OF
COST
PROJECT/STATE
ACRES
($000)
Caribbean NF, Puerto Rico
300
430
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie NF, WA
160
2,000
Pacific Crest Trail
1,000
1,000
Pere Marquette W&SR, MI
500
500
Appalachian Trail
6,000
3,000
Chattooga W&SR, GA
1,000
1,000
Hells Canyon, NRA, OR/ID
500
500
Sawtooth, NRA, ID
400
2,000
Oregon Dunes, NRA, OR
300
500
Cascade Head, SRA, OR
200
1,000
Ocala NF, FL
532
4,000
Humboldt NF, NV
5,950
1,400
Monongahela NF, WV
7,000
2,800
Flaming Gorge NRA, WY
6
12
Hiawatha NF, MI
13,000
3,500
Toiyabe NF, CA/NV
4,000
4,000
Spruce Knobs-Seneca Rock NRA, WV
700
500
Flathead W&SR, MT
800
1,500
Inyo NF, CA
248
1,000
Green Mountain NF, VT
3,500
1,750
Desoto NF, MS
800
700
Quachita NF, AR
8,000
5,000
Ozark NF, AR
3,500
2,000
San Bernardino NF, CA
450
2,000
Roosevelt NF, CO
320
960
Siuslaw NF, OR
568
2,500
Wenatchee NF, WA
15
700
Columbia River Gorge, NSA, WA/OR
3,000
5,000
Carson NF, NM
525
375
Osceola NF, FL
6,000
1,750
Gallatin NF, MT
1,000
1,000
Lake Tahoe Basin, CA/NV
250
3,500
Inyo NF, CA
317
400
BWCA Wilderness, MN
10
500
Project Total
58,777
Acquisition Management
6,054
TOTAL
64,831
November 2, 1990
FOR:
ALL SPEECHWRITERS
FROM:
D. MC GROARTY
RE:
BREAKFAST BRIEFING IN THE MESS
The coffee was weak, the camaraderie strong and the guest
Ben Wattenberg -- author, think tanker, philosopher-in-residence
at AEI (and former speechwriter) who is publishing his 4th book
analyzing demographic trends, The First Universal Nation.
Wattenberg's thesis is that upward trends in birth rate and
immigration will fuel economic growth, and have an ameliorating
affect on the deficit and on shortages in the social security
trust fund. His reasoning: Many immigrants have been
trained/educated outside the U.S. at other nations' expense, then
come here to work their productive years. They "pay into the
system" for decades before they begin to make claims on it.
Accordingly, Wattenberg:
Praised the 1990 Immigration Bill ("a great and positive
surprise"), which will allow a 40% increase in immigration.
**
Stands against anything that makes it tougher to raise a
family. Noted that our tax code was once much more "pro-family":
in the late 40's, the personal exemption was $600. It would have
to be $6000 dollars in today's dollars -- not the current $2050.
In other words, had the exemption kept place with inflation, a
two-child household would today receive an additional $8000
dollars in federal tax deductions.
** Had high praise for the Child Care tax credit. Sound social
policy, through tax code. No new bureaucracy -- just "good green
dollars." It helps working families -- and is not a gravy train
for welfare parents. It is flexible: lets families decide
whether to use the credit for child care -- or take added time
off to stay home with child. Wattenberg would like to see it
expanded to provide relief for more families of moderate means.
Wattenberg on matters of current interest:
He doesn't worry about the deficit -- which he sees at lower
level of GNP than in 1985-1986. "The apocalyptic case wasn't
made then when it could have been --- and it's less persuasive
now."
Interestingly, he doesn't view the current situation as
proof of political paralysis. What some see as governmental
gridlock (ahem), he sees as simple difference of opinion. He
described the recent budget endgame this way: the Executive-
Legislative elite decided to remedy the deficit problem, produced
a bipartisan package. Then, "the people's House" told them to
"stuff it. "Go back and do it again." The result: a new
package that is more palatable. Wattenberg: "If that's not the
way the system is supposed to work, then somebody show me the new
Constitution."
** He made a sharp attack on quotas -- and strongly supports
the Bush veto of the so-called Civil Rights Act of 1990. He
suggests more a more sustained public defense of the Bush
position, in light of any renewed attempt to pass a 1991 Quota
Bill. For Wattenberg, quotas cut at the heart of the American
idea: a society based on opportunity and merit. He sees quotas
not as a remedy, but as a recipe for disaster: a question of
extending quotas from Blacks, Asian-Americans, hispanics and
women to new Eastern European immigrants, African and Caribbean
Blacks, Russian Jews, Polish Catholics. Ultimately, he fears a
society splintered by ethnic origin, gender and race.
** Wattenberg is very much an internationalist -- a devotee of
what Tocqueville called "American exceptionalism.' He sees the
U.S. engaged world-wide in a contest for culture, which we can
and should fight to win. Talks about the Apocalyptic Bean
Counters of the America in Decline" school -- and reminds that
Rome prevailed by culture, not by the balance of trade in chariot
wheels.
The key post Cold-war question now, he says, is which type
of democracy will prevail. America retains a powerful
attraction: 9 in 10 foreign-born cabbies, asked to describe
what they think about America, will use the word opportunity in
the first paragraph --if not their first sentence.
# # #
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THE HRSI
UNIVERSAL NATION
Leading Indicators and Ideas
about the Surge of America
in the 1990s
Indicators: Demographics
Since the baby boom. American
fertility has fallen sharply, plateaued.
and now may be rising somewhat.
The number of new immigrants to
Total Fertility Rates (Expressed as
the United States has been steadily
Children Born Per Woman
rising since World War II
Year
Fertility Rate
1. Number of Immigrants
1950
3.0 children
Period
Immigrants un Millions
1955
3.5
1901-10
8.8
1960
3.6
1911-20
5.7
1965
2.9
1921-30
4.1
1970
2.5
1931-40
0.5
Counting
1975
1.8
1941-50
1.0
Estimated
1980
1.8
1951-60
2.5
Illegals
1986
1.8
1961-70
3.3
3.8
1987
1.9
1971-80
4.5
6.0
1988
1.9 (est.)
1981-90
5.8
7.8
1989
2.00 (est.)
Mar. 1989-Mar. 1990
2.00 (est.)
1991-2000
7.0
9.0
(est.)
1990 (Jan June)
2.10
(est.)
E. According to the previous "most likely" population projection, the U.S.
population begins to level off by about the middle of the 2020s. and subsequently
Gils. An increase in fertility or immigration substantially changes that projection.
U.S. Population Projections (in Millions)
Previous
Previous
Previous
Current
Increase due
"Most Likely"
Immigration.
TFR. 800,000
Estimated
Expected
Current
to Higher
Aggres
Year
Projection
2.0 TFR
Previous
Immigration
"Most Likely"
Expected
Immigration
Extre
Growth
Growth
1990
251
& Fertility
251
Growth
251
251
--
--
2000
268
272
272
276
17
25
8
2010
8
283
292
291
300
15
24
,
17
2020
294
312
307
325
11
25
14
31
2030
301
328
318
346
7
21
14
45
2040
302
340
324
364
1
18
17
62
2050
300
350
327
379
-2
15
17
79
2080
292
356
333
402
-8
23
31
110
# See note.
The U.S. will grow substantially.
target of toming
Its competiton will not.
Population Projections
are all ready-
(in Millions of People)
Nation/Region
1990
2000
2025
Camer U's overseas -EE.
conterl billecture
United States'
251
276
336
Canada
27
1
foreign here.
29
32
USCanada*
278
305
368
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Mexico
in bectariment cultural Superpor Japan
89
107
150
124
129
128
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West Europe
361
360
350
East Europe
140
148
160
Unified Europe
501
509
510
FP
ABC's.
World
5.321
6.259
8,491
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BUILDING A BETTER AMERICA
APRIL 24, 1989
SUMMARY
Since President Bush took office, he has addressed a series
of tough issues, meeting both urgent short-term priorities and
working toward solutions to the long-term challenges facing the
nation. Relying on basic American principles -- traditional
family values, choice, accountability, fairness, excellence,
peace through strength -- the President is building a better
America by:
1. Keeping the economy strong -- with no new taxes
2. Seizing international opportunities for peace
3. Investing in our future
4. Working for a kinder, gentler America
Keeping the Economy Strong -- with No New Taxes
Record economic growth -- 76 months of economic expansion.
Nearly 20 million new jobs have been created, and the
unemployment rate is now at its lowest since December, 1973.
Real median family income set a new record in 1987 and
continues to grow.
A comprehensive budget proposal sent to the Congress and an
unprecedented bipartisan agreement with the Congress reached
on the budget reducing the Federal budget deficit, meeting
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction targets with no new
taxes
A comprehensive plan to rescue the Savings and Loan industry
which has cleared the Senate
An initiative for cutting the capital gains tax rate sent to
the Congress to encourage investment and create jobs and
opportunity
In the Uruguay Round of GATT trade negotiations, substantial
progress has been made by the Administration toward reducing
trade barriers to U.S. exports
A plan for raising the minimum wage to $4.25 coupled with a
six month training wage
Seizing International Opportunities for Peace
The signing of a bipartisan accord with the Congress on
Central America
The initiation of a dialogue with the Soviet Union.
Secretary Baker met with Foreign Minister Shevardnadze in
March, and these talks will continue when the two meet next
in Moscow
An eight-step program to support Polish political and
economic reforms
Intensive Presidential consultations with the leaders of 34
nations, including 18 bilateral meetings held during the
Asia trip
A plan to strengthen the international response to Third
World debt
Comprehensive foreign policy and defense strategy reviews
initiated
Investing in Our Future
Improving Education
A comprehensive legislative package for educational
excellence sent to the Congress
Protecting our Environment
A multi-agency commitment to oversee the Alaskan oil spill
cleanup effort
The development of Clean Air Act revisions, with provisions
for control of acid rain and other problems
An announcement of an effort to seek legislative authority
to ban hazardous waste exports, where agreements do not
exist for their safe disposal
A call for the worldwide phaseout of CFCs by the year 2000
A plan of action to identify and prioritize clean up of
defense and civilian radioactive waste
A legislative proposal, already enacted by the House, to
deregulate natural gas by January 1, 1993
Fighting Drugs and Crime
A major $6 billion anti-drug abuse initiative focusing on
education, rehabilitation, interdiction and enforcement
Action in response to the drug emergency in the District of
Columbia, including enforcement support, more prison space,
and stepped-up efforts in prevention and rehabilitation
A temporary suspension of imports of certain types of semi-
automatic weapons
Action to modify lease and grievance procedures to
facilitate eviction of those involved in drug related
criminal activity from public housing
New aviation security initiatives announced by the Secretary
of Transportation, to counteract terrorism in the skies
Working for a Kinder, Gentler America
Child Care
A child care initiative to give low and moderate income
working families greater choice and flexibility in meeting
their child care needs
Legislation to increase the FY 1990 authorization for Head
Start by $250 million to help up to 95,000 more 4-year olds
National Service
The creation of the Office of National Service in the White
House, and leadership in the Administration's initiative on
volunteerism
Welfare Reform and Medicaid
Quick action to implement major welfare reform legislation
that will help reduce long-term welfare dependency
Expansion of the Medicaid program to serve more pregnant
women, infants, and children
Homelessness
An initiative to provide over $1 billion in federal
resources to help end homelessness and pave the way to jobs,
permanent housing and health care
Ethics and Civil Rights
A comprehensive ethics proposal to make uniform the
standards among all three branches of government
Whistleblower protection legislation, now law, to strengthen
the rights of those who report misdeeds and mismanagement
Enforcement of the new Fair Housing Laws, to fully prosecute
those discriminating in housing opportunities on the basis
of religion, race, age, ethnicity, handicap or family status
Support by the Department of Justice for the objectives of
the Hate Crimes Bill, which provides for the collection of
data about crimes motivated by race, religion, ethnicity or
sexual orientation
President Bush has set an agenda for the country. He is
orienting us as a nation toward the future -- building a better
America -- keeping America strong and at peace. Leadership is
the ability to see the shape of things to come, to address
tomorrow's challenges today. George Bush is preparing the nation
for the 21st Century.
BUILDING A BETTER AMERICA
APRIL 24, 1989
KEEPING THE ECONOMY STRONG -- WITH NO NEW TAXES
Keeping our nation's economy strong is the key to managing
change successfully. The news is good:
Record expansion: We are now in the 76th month of the
current economic expansion.
Job creation: Nearly 20 million new jobs have been created,
and the unemployment rate has declined to 4.9 percent, a 15
year low. During this decade, America has created more new
jobs than Japan and the nations of Western Europe combined.
Record income: Per capita personal income, after taxes and
inflation, has risen 17 percent during the expansion; real
income of the median family -- the family exactly in the
middle of the income distribution -- set a new record in
1987 and continues to grow.
Industrial output: During this expansion, American
industrial output has grown 33 percent compared with overall
economic growth of 26 percent. This is double Europe's
growth rate in industrial output and even slightly more than
Japan's rate of increase during the same period.
Inflation under control: We have had seven straight years
of consumer price inflation under 5 percent. The
Administration supports the Federal Reserve's efforts to
restrain inflation while maintaining real economic growth.
The Administration and the Fed share the goal of ultimately
achieving price stability -- zero inflation.
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION:
Presenting a budget: The President put forth a budget which
addresses our fundamental obligations for protection of
national security and support of the needy, while providing
sufficient funds to advance high-priority initiatives. The
President's budget restrains overall growth of spending and
meets the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings targets -- with no new
taxes.
Reaching a budget agreement with Congress: The President
and Congress announced on April 14 a budget plan to reduce
the estimated FY 1990 deficit by about $64 billion below FY
1989. The deficit will be reduced to $99.4 billion, as
required by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law. This is the
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first budget agreement reached before the start of the
budget year and not framed in the context of crisis.
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Savings and Loan reform: The Administration has transmitted
the "Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement
Act of 1989". to Congress, which has already cleared the
Senate. The proposal includes provisions to:
-- Assure financial integrity of deposit insurance by
raising the annual premium rate for both commercial
banks and S&Ls.
-- Resolve the status of existing insolvent banks in an
orderly fashion.
-- Improve supervisory control by bringing S&Ls up to the
same standards applied to commercial banks.
-- Enhance enforcement of bank fraud provisions.
Capital gains tax rate cut: The re-establishment of a
capital gains differential will encourage capital formation,
and investment and stimulate job creation. The President
has sent to the Congress a proposal which includes:
-- A 45 percent capital gains exclusion for qualified
capital gains, making the maximum capital gains tax
rate 15 percent.
-- A phased-in increase in the qualifying holding period
from one year to three years.
-- Families earning under $20,000 would be exempted from
the tax.
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Minimum wage proposal: The President is seeking to minimize
the adverse economic impact of an across-the-board increase
in the minimum wage, and to keep job opportunities available
for youth and those seeking to enter the economic
mainstream. His proposal is:
-- A 27 percent increase in the minimum wage over three
years to $4.25 for most workers.
-- Maintaining the current $3.35 minimum for all new
employees of a firm on the job for less than six
months, regardless of age or previous employment.
-- An increase in the small business exemption to include
all firms, not just retail and service establishments,
with gross sales under $500,000.
-- An increase in the tip credit from 40 percent to 50
percent.
The President's pledge to veto an excessive increase in the
minimum wage has gained strong support in both Houses of
Congress.
International Trade: The Administration broke a logjam in
international trade talks which had existed since late 1988.
In breaking the stalemate, the United States advanced its
proposal to correct and prevent trade distortions in
agriculture. This clears the way for negotiations that -- if
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successful over the next 20 months -- will greatly expand
rules governing free and open trade.
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Agricultural initiatives:
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The announcement of additional advance deficiency
payments of 10 percent available to producers of wheat,
feed grains, rice and upland cotton.
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The establishment of a top-level Working Group on Rural
Development to focus on an action-oriented agenda.
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SEIZING INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEACE
The Administration's policy of peace through strength is
working. As he prepares for both the 40th Anniversary of NATO in
Brussels and the economic summit in Paris, President Bush has
undertaken a number of foreign policy initiatives to maintain
America's position of world leadership.
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION:
Bipartisan accord: On March 24, the President signed the
Bipartisan Accord on Central America with top leaders of the
Congress. The agreement sets out the broad outlines of a
strong and effective U.S. policy in the region:
Humanitarian aid: Congress has agreed to support the
Administration's request for continued humanitarian
assistance for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance at
current levels through the elections in Nicaragua
scheduled for February, 1990.
Democracy and Regional Peace: The burden of proof is on
the Sandinista government to do something it has
steadfastly refused to do from 1979 to 1989: keep its
promises to its people and its neighbors. If those
pledges of democracy and peace continue to be violated,
we hope and expect that other nations will find ways to
join us to condemn those actions. But if those
promises are kept, we have an opportunity to start a
new day in Central America.
Support for reform in Poland: The Polish people are now
taking concrete steps which deserve our active support.
Those reforms include the legalization of Poland's heroic
trade union movement, Solidarity, and were recognized by
President Bush's initiative, which contained eight steps to
support Polish political and economic reforms:
The President is asking the Congress to join him in
providing Poland access to our Generalized System of
Preferences, which offers selective tariff relief to
beneficiary countries.
We are working with our allies and friends in the Paris
Club to develop sustainable new schedules for Poland to
repay its debt, easing a heavy burden so that a free
market can grow.
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The President is also asking Congress to join him in
authorizing the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
to operate in Poland.
The President is proposing negotiations for a private
business agreement with Poland to encourage cooperation
between U.S. firms and Poland's private businesses.
The U.S. will continue to consider supporting, on their
merits, viable loans to the private sector by the
International Finance Corporation.
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The President supports the Roundtable agreements that
clear the way for Poland to be able to work with the
International Monetary Fund on programs that encourage
sound, new, market-oriented economic policies.
The Administration is also encouraging business and
non-profit groups to develop innovative programs to
swap Polish debt for equity in Polish enterprises; and
for charitable, humanitarian and environmental
projects.
The President will support imaginative educational,
cultural and training programs to help liberate the
creative energies of the Polish people.
Bilateral meetings: The President has met with a total of 34
foreign leaders while in office, including a series of 18
bilateral meetings during the trip to Emperor Hirohito's
funeral. President Bush has met with leaders from the
Middle East, including Prime Minister Shamir of Israel,
President Mubarak of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan.
A dialogue has begun with the Soviet Union. Secretary Baker
met with Foreign Minister Shevardnadze in March, and these
talks will continue when the two meet next in Moscow
Inter-American Development Bank: The Bush Administration
successfully concluded negotiations which will lead to a
substantial increase in the Bank's resources. The resulting
$22.5 billion in lending over the 1990-93 period will
support development efforts in major Latin American debtor
countries as well as the smaller countries of Central
America and the Caribbean.
Initiative on Third World Debt: The President's initiative
to strengthen the international strategy on Third World debt
has already received broad international support from both
industrialized and developing countries. The approach is
designed to promote sustained growth in developing countries
by:
Emphasizing sound market-oriented economic policies in
debtor countries, particularly measures to promote
investment and repatriation of flight capital;
Increasing the focus on debt and debt service reduction
to complement new lending by commercial banks;
Using resources from the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund to catalyze voluntary debt and debt
service reduction by the commercial banks.
GATT: In the Uruguay Round of GATT trade negotiations, the
Administration has made substantial progress toward reducing
trade barriers to U.S. exports.
Policy reviews: President Bush has ordered a comprehensive
review of foreign policy and defense strategies, soon to be
completed.
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eradication programs, such as Operation Polar Cap, a
federally led effort which broke up a $1.2 billion drug
money-laundering operation. The President strongly supports
the death penalty for drug kingpins who commit drug-related
murders, and will appoint judges who will strongly enforce
the drug penalty laws.
The Administration imposed a temporary suspension of imports
of certain types of semi-automatic weapons, and has
undertaken an emergency study to identify the best means of
reducing drug-related killings and other violent crime.
Public housing: The Bush Administration is working to make
public housing drug free, to protect the rights of the vast
majority of decent, law-abiding public housing residents.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has acted:
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To modify its lease and grievance procedures to
facilitate eviction of those involved in drug related
criminal activity;
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To make drug use and trafficking a lease violation
subject to eviction proceedings;
To target federal assistance to anti-drug security
measures;
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To revoke federal housing subsidies from those dealing
in drugs;
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To involve the private and voluntary sectors in efforts
to rid public housing of drugs and give residents,
especially young people, a stake in their communities
and their futures.
In addition, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has
responded to the drug emergency in the District of Columbia:
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A Metropolitan Area Task Force will be expanded, with
57 additional representatives from federal agencies,
and state and local police from D.C., Maryland and
Virginia.
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More prisons: The federal Bureau of Prisons will take
custody of 250 inmates from the D.C. jail, and work to
locate land for construction of a new prison.
Enforcement: The FBI will provide support to D.C.
police in investigations of drug-related murders.
Rehabilitation: The National Institute on Drug Abuse
will provide assistance in local treatment efforts and
will be authorized to establish three new outpatient
clinics by 1990.
Prevention: The Department of Education will provide
the District with 50 percent more funds for drug
prevention programs in city schools. The Department of
Labor will work with the business community to increase
job training for youth, and will provide a $100,000
grant to establish employee assistance programs for
drug abuse.
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WORKING FOR A KINDER, GENTLER AMERICA
CHILD CARE
The changing nature of American society heightens the need
for quality, affordable, accessible child care. President Bush
wants to put choice in the hands of parents so that they -- not
government -- have the power to select the best and safest
environment for their children.
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION:
Child care: The President has proposed a child care package,
the "Working Family Child Care Assistance Act of 1989"
which:
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Provides a new refundable child care tax credit of up
to $1000 per child under four, for low and moderate
income working families.
-- Makes the existing Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit
refundable.
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Does not discriminate against religious- and family-
based child care.
The President has directed Secretary of Labor Dole to study
the market for liability insurance to determine if liability
issues impair child care.
Head Start: The President has also transmitted legislation
to the Congress which would increase the FY 1990
authorization for Head Start by $250 million; this will pay
for enrollment of up to 95,000 more four-year-olds in the
program.
NATIONAL SERVICE
President Bush has said that "From now on in America, any
definition of a successful life must include serving others."
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION:
Office of National Service: The President established in the
White House the Office of National Service to lead the
Administration's national service movement. This Office
will identify effective community service models and
encourage others to duplicate them across the country. It
will challenge individuals, schools, businesses, civic and
service groups, religious institutions and other entities to
expand existing community service programs and to create new
ones. The goal of this Office is to make service to others
a central part of every American's life, and in so doing, to
help to ameliorate the urgent ills which fray the fabric of
American society. The Office will recommend changes in
national social and economic policy to promote and encourage
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service, including tort law reform, welfare law reform and
housing, to name a few.
Presidential Proclamation: In signing the proclamation
commemorating National Volunteer Week, April 9-15, the
President challenged every American who cares about the
future of this country to engage in some meaningful form of
community service. He awarded 18 Presidential Awards to
those chosen from nearly 2000 applications -- to winners who
embody the ideals of goodness, compassion and concern for
others.
WELFARE REFORM
The Administration has developed a major new education and
job training program to help recipients of Aid to Families with
Dependent Children move off welfare and become economically self-
sufficient.
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION:
Welfare reform: The Administration issued proposed rules on
April 18 to implement the major provisions of the Family
Support Act of 1988. The proposed rules are designed to:
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Target job training assistance to those who are most
likely to benefit and who are most at risk for long-
term welfare dependency.
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Provide maximum level of flexibility to AFDC parents in
obtaining the type of child care that best suits their
needs, consistent with the Administration's legislative
proposals on child care.
JOBS Program: The Administration is proposing to spend $3.3
billion over the next five years implementing the JOBS
program. The changes will pay benefits in the future by
reducing the number of individuals on welfare. It is
estimated that 138,000 families will be able to leave
welfare rolls over the next five years as a result of this
program.
EXPANSION OF MEDICAID
The Administration is committed to health care for the
disadvantaged, calling for full funding of Medicaid, $37.6
billion for FY 1990, an increase of $3.3 billion, or 9.6 percent
over the FY 1989 level.
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION:
Expanding Medicaid: On April 18, the Administration
forwarded to Congress proposed legislation to make federal
programs better serve pregnant women, infants and children.
The legislation would expand significantly the population
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Medicaid serves, making Medicaid available to 1.9 million
more women when they became pregnant. The legislation
would:
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Increase by 374,000 the number of pregnant women and
children eligible for Medicaid.
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Foster greater participation in Medicaid by eligible
pregnant women by providing services to pregnant women
who are presumed eligible for Medicaid before a formal
eligibility determination is made; and by requiring
States to operate outreach programs in areas of high
infant mortality.
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Entitle all children under age 6 who are receiving Food
Stamps to Medicaid coverage for immunizations.
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Make the Federal match rate for State administration
expenses a uniform 50 percent by gradually reducing
special administrative match rates ranging from 75 to
100 percent. The savings that would result would allow
the legislative eligibility changes proposed by the
President to be implemented within the current
program's spending level.
HOUSING/HOMELESSNESS
President Bush has taken a number of steps to create an
"opportunity society" of jobs, growth, housing and hope for
Americans in need of a helping hand.
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION:
Homelessness: A proposal to provide over $1 billion in
federal resources to help end homelessness and pave the way
to jobs, permanent housing, health care and human dignity.
President Bush's proposal calls for fully funding the
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act and for a new $50 million
matching grant program to promote public/private
partnerships to assist homeless families and the mentally
ill.
Enterprise zones: A call for enactment of enterprise zone
legislation, to give urban and rural areas the opportunity
for jobs and hope for the future. President Bush asked
Congress to enact labor and capital-based incentives to
create jobs and entrepreneurial activity in our most
distressed communities.
Affordable housing: A commitment to making housing more
affordable for low-income families, and to provide
homeownership opportunities to the poor and young families
just starting out. President Bush proposes to assist
109,000 new families in need of low-income housing, and has
pledged to maintain assistance to those families already
being helped. President Bush has also signalled his
commitment to empowering poor residents of public housing to
become homeowners through resident management and ownership
of public housing.
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ETHICS AND CIVIL RIGHTS
High ethical standards and civil rights for all Americans
are central to this Administration, and we will enforce them --
strictly, comprehensively, fairly, and to the letter and spirit
of the law.
ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATION:
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Ethics: The President issued an Executive Order creating
the President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform. On
March 9, the Commission filed its report and its
recommendations to the President. Legislation was sent
April 12th to the Congress, and the President issued an
Executive Order announcing ethical principles for the
conduct of executive branch employees. The President's
proposals include:
-- A ban on outside earned income for non-career
Presidential appointees in the executive branch,
including all employees in the immediate White House
Office.
-- Expanded financial disclosure for all three branches of
government.
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Prohibition of the conversion of political
contributions for personal or office use.
-- A comprehensive review of federal campaign finance
laws, including an assessment of the impact of PACs on
parties, competition and political debate. The
President believes that PAC contributions to candidates
should be eliminated, and he will be consulting with
the Congress on this issue. President Bush is also
opposed to federal funding of congressional campaigns.
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Deferral of tax liability when an individual is
required by his or her agency to divest assets in order
to avoid conflicts of interest.
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Strengthened rules against abusing the revolving door
for private gain at the expense of the public trust.
These rules also apply to the legislative branch.
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A 25 percent pay raise for federal judges was proposed
in separate legislation submitted April 12, while the
ethics reform legislation restricts their acceptance of
honoraria. President Bush believes that honoraria for
Members of Congress should be banned; however, the
President will not formalize that proposal until after
he consults with Congress on that issue and their pay
raise. He will include in that discussion the question
of a pay increase for certain executive branch
positions.
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The extension of the Independent Counsel statute to
cover the Congress.
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The extension of the federal statute that prohibits
employees from taking actions that enhance their own
financial interest to cover legislative and judicial
branch employees.
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The establishment of an independent ethics office for
the Congress, to be headed by a clearly nonpartisan
official, confirmed by both houses.
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The application of the existing one-year post-
employment "cooling-off" period for senior executive-
branch employees to the legislative and judicial
branches.
Whistleblower protection: The President supports public
servants who revere the trust placed in them by the American
people. On April 10, the President signed S. 20, the
"Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989. " This law will
strengthen the protections and procedural rights available
to those federal employees who report misdeeds and
mismanagement.
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This new law will enhance the authority of the Office
of Special Counsel, and whistleblowers will also now be
allowed to take their cases to the Merit Systems
Protection Board.
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The statute alters the legal burdens of proof, making
it easier for employees to be vindicated when they are
wrongfully penalized by their supervisors for
whistleblowing activities.
Civil rights: The Administration has taken a number of
actions to protect the civil rights of all Americans,
including several court actions in key civil rights cases.
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On March 8, the Department of Justice endorsed the
objectives of the Hate Crimes Bill and voiced no
opposition to the bill's enactment. The Hate Crimes
Bill provides for the collection of data about crimes
motivated by race, religion, ethnicity or sexual
orientation.
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On March 13, Attorney General Thornburgh announced the
filing of Federal housing discrimination lawsuits
seeking monetary damages and civil penalties under the
expanded enforcement authority of the Fair Housing
Amendments Act of 1988.
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housing projects, and, with the D.C. police, will
tighten security and maintenance at projects.
Rehabilitation: The National Institute on Drug
Abuse will provide assistance in local treatment
efforts and will be authorized to establish three
new outpatient clinics by 1990.
Prevention: The Department of Education will
provide the District with 50 percent more funds
for drug prevention programs in city schools. The
Department of Labor will work with the business
community to increase job training for youth, and
will provide a $100,000 grant to establish
employee assistance programs for drug abuse.
Strengthened rules against abusing the revolving door for
private gain at the expense of the public trust. These
rules also apply to the legislative branch.
A 25 percent pay raise for federal judges, while restricting
their acceptance of honoraria. President Bush believes that
honoraria for Members of Congress should be banned.
However, the President will not make that formal proposal
until after he consults with Congress on the question of a
congressional pay raise. He will include in that discussion
the question of a pay increase for certain Executive Branch
positions.
The extension of the Independent Counsel statute to cover
the Congress.
The extension of the federal statute that prohibits
employees from taking actions that enhance their own
financial interest to cover legislative and judicial branch
employees.
The establishment of an independent ethics office for the
Congress, to be headed by a clearly nonpartisan official,
confirmed by both houses.
The application of the existing one-year post-employment
"cooling-off" period for senior executive-branch employees
to the legislative and judicial branches.
Community Service
A Thousand Points of Light
In his inaugural address, President Bush
said: "I have spoken of a thousand points of
light - of all the community organizations that
are spread like stars throughout the nation,
doing good. The old ideas are new again
because they are not old, they are timeless:
duty, sacrifice, commitment, and a patriotism
that finds its expression in taking part and
pitching in."
The President aims to build a better America
not just through government programs but
through a nationwide community service
program. The President's program has three
elements:
- Call on all individuals and institutions to
take steps to address society's problems.
- Identify, enlarge and multiply effective
volunteer efforts.
- Discover and encourage new leaders.
In 1989, President Bush announced the
formation of a foundation called the Points of
Light Initiative. Each day the foundation
recognizes individuals and group efforts that
are improving America's communities.
- Through a foundation project called ServNet,
groups will be asked to donate the services
of some of their most talented people for a
period of time.
- Another foundation project, ServLink, will
improve existing methods of matching
volunteers with service opportunities.
Says House Republican Whip Newt Gingrich:
"No government bureaucracy will win the war
on drugs, or nurture a generation of educated,
hard-working citizens in the inner city. Only an
outpouring of civic energy and commitment can
bring about that level of change in individuals,
families, and communities."
Between 1980 and 1988, private philanthropy
funds increased from $48.7 billion to $104.4
billion - a 53 percent increase after inflation.
(1990 Statistical Abstract, p. 372)
Agriculture
Strengthening America's farmers
By pursuing sound fiscal and monetary
policies, the administration wants to provide a
stable business environment in which farmers
can borrow at affordable interest rates.
The administration supports a 1990 Farm
Bill that increases the competitiveness of
American farmers and ranchers and maintains
a safety net.
The President's proposed cut in the capital
gains tax rate would apply to the sale of farm-
land. This tax cut can keep American agricul-
ture dynamic and prosperous.
The President encourages alternative uses of
farm products like éthanol and other new fuels.
The President knows that productive agricul-
ture can be compatible with a sound environ-
ment. In 1990, the federal government will
spend nearly a third of a billion dollars on
research and technical support for farmers that
will help stop the contamination of land and
water and make farming practices consistent
with environmental protection.
The President's "America the Beautiful"
initiative will establish a new reforestation
program to plant more than a billion trees a
year.
Many countries subsidize production and
export of agricultural commodities or curb
imports. The administration has submitted a
comprehensive proposal for reforming world
agricultural trade. The proposal calls for a
worldwide phase-out of export subsidies in five
years and other trade-distorting subsidies in
ten years.
Health Care
Toward a healthier America
"The future health of our citizens is heavily
dependent upon our success in four major
areas: We must develop an appropriate and
effective health policy; we must contain medical
costs; we must continue to make advances in
biomedical research and biotechnology; and we
must encourage increased personal responsibil-
ity for health and disease prevention." - Dr.
Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human
Services. (Roll Call, 3-26-90, p. 15)
The United States spends more of its gross
domestic product (GDP) on health care than
any other industrialized country (FY91 Budget,
p. 185). We spend 11.2 percent, compared with
8.6 percent in Canada, and 6.8 percent in
Japan.
In 1970, spending on mandatory health
programs took up about 5 percent of federal
budget outlays. In 1995, that figure is projected
to reach 15 percent.
Accelerating the pace
of health research
The President supports an expanded program
of basic research in the Department of Health
and Human Services.
The President's budget proposes an 18
percent increase for all federal HIV/AIDS
programs.
Health care reform
The President proposes to restructure physi-
cian payment in the Medicare program and
extend use of "prudent purchasing" principles
to secure the best value for Medicare beneficiar-
ies and taxpayers alike.
The President's policy encourages "managed
care," the coordinated delivery of medical
services through an organization (such as an
HMO or a preferred-provider organization) that
assures quality care.
The President supports a new program to
evaluate medical technologies and strengthen
existing quality assurance programs.
Environment
A conservationist tradition
The Republican Party has a long tradition of
protecting our nation's environment. Teddy
Roosevelt, a great Republican president, was
the father of the conservation movement in
America. Roosevelt said we should "use [our
natural resources], but use them so that as far
as possible our children will be richer, and not
poorer, because we have lived." Today, we again
have a Republican president who is committed
to preserving the environment.
President Bush's environmental
policy: five principles
1) Sound ecology and a strong economy can
coexist and, indeed, help one another. We must
harness the power of the marketplace in the
service of the environment.
2) Protecting the environment will take more
than just federal action. We must expand
creative state, local and private environmental
initiatives.
3) Preventing pollution is far more efficient
than cleaning it up once it's occurred. We must
focus on technologies that reduce or prevent
pollution.
4) Protecting the environment is a global
concern. Because pollution respects no borders,
international cooperation is essential.
5) Environmental laws must be vigorously
enforced. Polluters will pay.
The Environmental President:
President Bush's proud record
President Bush has already made great strides
in fulfilling his pledge to be the environmental
president. His administration has:
Proposed the first major rewrite of the Clean
Air Act in 13 years. The new Clean Air Bill will
reduce emissions that cause acid rain, smog
and air pollution.
Launched a $1 billion a year research pro-
gram on global climate change.
Proposed to elevate the Environmental
Protection Agency to cabinet-level status while
expanding its programs by 12 percent.
Added three quarters of a billion dollars this
year alone to clean up hazardous waste at
federal facilities.
Promoted the use of cleaner alternative fuels,
which has already prompted several major oil
companies to begin marketing reformulated
gasoline.
Proposed a worldwide phase-out of chlo-
roflourocarbons (CFCs) by the year 2000 to
protect the ozone layer.
Launched the "America the Beautiful"
initiative to plant a billion new trees a year in
America.
Banned all U.S.-African ivory imports to help
protect the elephant population.
Set a goal of "no net loss" of wetlands for our
country.
Crime
President Bush has said: "My vision for the '90s
is an America where punishment is at least as
tough as the crime." (Address to conservative
leaders, 4-26-90)
The President has called upon Congress to
pass his four-part crime program, which:
I. Strengthens current laws by:
- Restoring an enforceable death penalty.
- Curbing plea bargaining.
- Toughening penalties for those who
commit crimes with firearms.
II. Strengthens law enforcement by:
- Hiring additional law enforcement
officers.
- Reforming the "exclusionary rule" to
allow evidence to be admitted if the
searching officers acted in good faith.
III. Strengthens criminal prosecution by:
- Hiring additional prosecutors.
- Reforming habeas corpus procedures to
reduce the strain on federal courts.
IV. Strengthens the prison system by:
- Expanding prison construction.
- Converting unused federal property for
use as federal prisons or jails.
Republican leadership gets tough
on criminals
Between 1960 and 1980, liberal policies
eroded the justice system. In 1960, there were
299 prison commitments for every 1,000 adult
arrests for serious crimes. By 1980, that figure
had plunged to 196 (Bureau of Justice Statis-
tics, Prisoners in 1988, April 1989, p. 6). Not
coincidentally, crime and victimization soared
during these two decades.
Starting in 1980, the GOP's "get-tough-on-
crime" philosophy started to take hold: Result:
By 1987, the state prison commitment rate was
up to 301 per 1,000 arrests. And the victimiza-
tion rate had fallen.
The American people want to get
tougher on crime
Seventy-two percent support the death
penalty for murder, up from 54 percent in 1980.
(CBS poll concluded 4-2-90)
Seventy-nine percent think that criminals
currently get off too easily in court. (Gallup poll
6-21-89)
Defense
The Republican Record
The triumph of democracy and the collapse of
communism are a result of a decade-long Re-
publican policy of peace through strength. Re-
publican policies of the '80s rebuilt our defenses
and made the world a safer place for our
children. Accomplishments include:
The INF treaty. For the first time in history,
an entire class of nuclear missiles was elimi-
nated.
A U.S.-Soviet agreement, in principle, to
reduce their respective strategic nuclear
arsenals.
A continuing commitment to the Strategic
Defense Initiative (SDI) to protect against a
missile attack.
Negotiations on conventional armed forces
(CFE) with the Soviet Union. President Bush
has proposed lowering the number of troops in
the CFE treaty to 195,000.
President Bush's Open Skies initiative, which
savings of over $35 billion and will guarantee
will allow frequent aerial observation of partici-
protection of America and her allies.
pating nations, is being negotiated. This is an
old policy with a renewed importance, repre-
senting unprecedented access to and trust of
Germany and NATO
the Soviet Union.
The United States supports the reunification
President Bush and Soviet President Gor-
of East and West Germany and its continued
bachev have signed an agreement to destroy
membership in NATO. The alliance must
most of the U.S. and Soviet chemical weapons
remain as a cornerstone of free nations of the
West.
by 2002. Production of such weapons will cease.
The future
The fundamental U.S. security goal is to
preserve our freedom. As recent events have
reduced the threat of a Soviet/Warsaw Pact
attack in Europe, both President Bush and
Defense Sec. Dick Cheney are carefully plan-
ning a transition to peacetime defense. Sec.
Cheney has cautioned, "Intentions can change
overnight - defense capabilities last a long
time."
A strong America is essential to global
stability. The Bush administration will work to
continue successful arms control negotiations.
A six-year program will realign the defense
budget. This year's defense plan will produce
Housing And Homeless
President Bush's housing policy:
providing HOPE
The President's forward-looking plan for
housing is called HOPE - Home ownership
and Opportunity for People Everywhere. HOPE
encompasses four principles:
1. Empowering poor families to achieve self-
sufficiency and have a stake in their communi-
ties.
President Bush is proposing HOPE grants to
provide funds for resident management and
home ownership in public housing, government-
held vacant and foreclosed properties and
financially distressed properties.
President Bush seeks to increase funding for
the Urban Homesteading program, which turns
over government-held properties to cities that
then provide them at nominal cost to moderate-
income families.
2. Expanding housing opportunities for moder-
ate-to-low income families and young families
just starting out.
The HOPE initiative would allow first-time
home buyers to withdraw funds from their
IRAs without penalty.
HOPE includes Housing Opportunity Zones,
Fiction: There are as many as 5 million home-
a program to target federal incentives to those
less people.
distressed communities that best remove tax
Fact: One homeless person is one too many. In
and regulatory barriers to affordable housing.
1980, the National Academy of Sciences esti-
3. Helping end the tragedy of homelessness.
mated the number at 650,000, the Urban
Institute found 570,000, and the General
The President supports full funding of the
McKinney Act, which provides for a wide
Accounting Office - an arm of Congress - put
the number between 300,000 to 600,000.
variety of programs of aid to the homeless.
(Warren Brookes column, The Washington
The President proposes a new "Shelter Plus
Times, 10-3-89)
Care" program to help the homeless mentally ill
or recovering substance abusers.
4. Creating jobs and economic opportunities in
distressed inner cities and rural areas.
HOPE would create 50 enterprise zones to
encourage job creation and attract seed capital
for business development. It will provide for a
zero capital gains tax rate on tangible invest-
ments in enterprise zones.
Liberal fictions about
housing and homelessness
Fiction: Housing assistance was cut during the
1980s.
Fact: Between 1980 and 1990, outlays for
housing assistance increased from $5.6 billion
to $16.3 billion - more than an 80 percent
increase after inflation. (FY90 Historical
Tables, p. 70; FY91 Budget, p. A-296)
Child Care
President Bush on child care:
"My philosophy with respect to child care is to
put choice in the hands of parents not in the
hands of the state. I will build a policy
around parental choice. Particularly we must
find a way to put a greater range of choices in
the hands of low-income parents - because
they face the greatest difficulty in meeting the
demands of work and family." ("Building a
Better America," 2-9-89)
The President's proposal
A new refundable Child Care Tax Credit for
low-income working families of up to $1,000 for
each child younger than age four.
Refundability of the current Child Care and
Dependent Care tax credit.
Principles of the President's
proposal
Parents know best
Parents are best able to make decisions about
their children's care and should have the
discretion to make these decisions. New federal
support for child care should go directly to
parents.
Federal policy should not discriminate
against parents who work at home.
Federal policy now neglects the contributions
and sacrifices made by two-parent families in
fight against that. [The House Democrats' bill]
which one parent stays at home to care for the
would cost nearly $30 billion, three times our
children.
original proposal, and force, compel many
Parental choice must increase.
states to change their rules. So let's expand
the horizons of our kids, not the budget of the
Federal policy should increase, not decrease,
bureaucracy, and through tax incentives give
the range of child-care choices available to
families the help that they need to solve their
parents. Parents should be free to select care
child care problems themselves." (Address to
from relatives, neighbors, churches, schools,
conservative leaders, 4-26-90)
employers or other sources.
We must target families most in need.
Poor families should receive benefits commen-
surate with their needs.
Most child care is family care. (FY91
Budget, P. 194)
In families with an employed parent, 43
percent of children younger than six are cared
for by mothers who do not work outside the
home.
Of under-five children whose mothers do
work outside the home, 48 percent are cared for
by relatives. "Family day care homes" account
for 24 percent. Child care centers, including
preschools, enroll only 22 percent of these
children.
President Bush scores
Democratic "alternatives"
"I will not see the option of religious-based child
care restricted or eliminated. We're going to
Science And Space
Investing In Competitiveness
Keeping America's scientific lead
In 1988, American government and industry
spent a total of $132 billion on research and
development - more than the combined R&D
spending of France, West Germany, Britain and
Japan. In relation to their overall economies,
however, these countries and the U.S. each
spent about the same, roughly 2 1/2 percent of
their GNP.
Industry accounted for half of America's R&D
spending in the 1980s. R&D had a direct rate of
return of 30 percent - three times higher than
for physical capital.
Encouraging private research
and development
President Bush believes that research yields
new knowledge, products and processes that
make America more competitive in interna-
tional markets, foster economic growth, and
improve the quality of life for all Americans.
The President is taking the lead on three
fronts:
Proposing to make permanent the 20 percent
tax credit targeted to encourage research and
experimentation.
Pursuing better international protection of
intellectual property.
Endorsing changes in product liability laws to
help restore balance to the tort system, increase
competitiveness, reduce uncertainty and
- proceeding with technology development for
provide incentives to produce safe products.
the National Aerospace Plane.
Increasing federal research
Industrial policy: another
and development
misguided liberal dream
The President is committed to doubling the
Some liberal Democrats have called for an
budget of the National Science Foundation by
"industrial policy" in which the federal govern-
1993.
ment picks specific technologies for special tax
treatment or subsidy.
The President is working to continue Ameri-
can leadership in space exploration, including:
The Bush administration believes the best
- Funding of further Space Shuttle flights;
way to support the development of civilian
technology is by improving private incentives,
- Development of Space Station Freedom; and
not by trying the impossible job of second-
- Planning exploration of the Moon and Mars.
guessing consumer decisions.
Strengthening federal science
and technology policy
On April 20, 1989, the President established
the National Space Council, chaired by Vice
President Quayle.
The President established the Council on
Competitiveness, also chaired by Vice President
Quayle, to oversee regulatory and other com-
petitiveness issues.
Manned mission to Mars
The President has lifted the sights of the
space program with his call for a manned
mission to Mars. He is:
- supporting greater efforts for launching
robotic science missions;
- accelerating the technology and advanced
launch systems to support planetary exp-
loration; and
Civil Rights
The President's commitment
to a better America
"And our challenge today is to take this demo-
cratic system of ours - a system second to none
- and make it better. A better America
where every one of us enjoys the same opportu-
nities to live, to work, and to contribute to
society. And where, for the first time, the
American mainstream includes all of our
disabled citizens. (President's 1990 State of the
Union Address)
Protecting the civil rights
of all Americans
The President called upon Congress to
reauthorize the Commission on Civil Rights.
Following congressional action, the President
signed legislation reauthorizing the Commis-
sion through FY 91.
The President endorsed and signed the Hate
Crimes Bill, which provides for the collection of
data about crimes based on prejudice.
Attorney General Thornburgh filed federal
housing discrimination lawsuits seeking
monetary damages and civil penalties under
the Fair Housing Amendments of 1988.
The President is committed to policies that
would extend civil rights protection to disabled
Americans.
Because of President Bush's policies, two-
thirds of black Americans approve of the way
he is doing his job. (NBC poll, April 1990)
Opportunity and progress
the 1968 fair housing law in the Senate.
Between 1986 and 1988, black enrollment in
As Vice President, George Bush supported
independent colleges and universities increased
the Fair Housing Amendments of 1988, which
by 7.1 percent (U.S. Department of Education
strengthened anti-discrimination housing laws.
figures, reported by The New York Times,
(3-30-90).
Economic progress
Since the beginning of the economic recovery,
black employment has grown by more than two
Since the beginning of the economic expan-
million. (Economic Report of the President 1990,
sion in 1982, the median income of black
p. 333)
households has increased 11.8 percent after
inflation. The median income of Latino house-
President Bush, has appointed more Asian
holds has increased 9.4 percent. (1990 Statisti-
Americans to senior administration jobs - at
cal Abstract, p. 444)
least 30 - than any previous administration.
- Between 1980 and 1988, according to the
Since 1982, the percentage of black house-
Census Bureau, the Asian population of the
holds making more than $50,000 a year (1988
constant dollars) has doubled - from 4.9
United States grew by 70 percent. Asian-
Americans numbered about 6.5 million in
percent to 9.9 percent. (U.S. Census, Monday
1988, up from 3.8 million eight years earlier.
Income, p.24)
(The New York Times, 3-2-90)
In 1989, the first Cuban-American was
elected to Congress: Republican Ileana Ros-
Lehtinen of Florida.
The Republican Record
Without the support of key Republicans in
the '60s such as Senate Minority Leader Ever-
ett Dirksen, crucial civil rights legislation
would not have become law.
As a Texas congressman, George Bush was
one of a handful of Southern lawmakers to vote
for the fair housing law of 1968.
Republican Senator Edward Brooke of
Massachusetts, the only black member of the
U.S. Senate during the 20th century, sponsored
Savings and Loans
President Bush acts
To protect the savings of millions of Ameri-
cans, President Bush led the effort to pass the
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and
Enforcement Act of 1989. The law sets tough
standards to ensure that such a crisis never
happens again.
President Bush has reaffirmed his commit-
ment to tough action against S&L fraud: "We
will not rest until the cheats and the chiselers
and the charlatans spend a large chunk of their
lives behind the bars of a federal prison."
(Washington Post, June 23, 1990)
The Department of Justice has achieved
results in its war on financial institution fraud,
including 791 major fraud convictions in 1989.
President Bush supports legislation to
provide additional enforcement tools that will
allow the government to step up the attack on
financial institution fraud. A total of 220 agents
are being added to the battle, and the President
has asked Congress for an additional $25
million for the IRS and Justice Department for
investigators and prosecutors.
Congress had the responsibility
Before 1989, Congress had provided that
every major regulator, except the Comptroller
of the Currency, be independent of the presi-
dent and accountable primarily to Congress.
Asleep at the wheel:
The Democratic Congress
William Proxmire, former chairman of the
Senate Banking Committee, said that members
of Congress "were just plain lulled to sleep"
The result: The Democratic Speaker helped
while the problem was growing. The S&Ls
cause one of the greatest financial problems in
"went down fast, and Congress didn't react soon
our history.
enough." (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 23,
1989)
Republicans called for action
In 1984, the Bush Task Group on Regulation
of Financial Services recommended comprehen-
sive reform of the regulatory system.
In 1986, the administration asked Congress
to replenish the funds of the Federal Savings
and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC),
which protected savings accounts and which
was facing insolvency.
Democrats stalled
The Reagan administration proposed legisla-
tion to carry out the Bush Task Force reforms,
but the Democratic Congress refused to move
the legislation.
It took Congress two years to enact legisla-
tion to protect small savers by shoring up
FSLIC.
Democratic Leadership: making
things worse
As House Majority Leader, Jim Wright, once
took the FSLIC bill off the House calendar to
pressure the regulators to change their stand
on a matter affecting a big Dallas real estate
syndicator. Democrat Wright also:
- Sought to have at least two federal regula-
tors removed from office.
- Intervened on behalf of a Democratic Party
official who had been banned from the thrift
industry for regulatory violations.
Education
Administration leads
education reform
President Bush has said that "our progress
won't be measured by bureaucracies built and
dollars spent. It will be measured by results,
and by what our children learn and accom-
plish." (Remarks on Teacher of the Year Award,
4-4-90)
President's education summit
sets national goals
For the first time in U.S. history, a president
convened the nation's governors to address
education. In February, President Bush and the
nation's governors agreed that by the year
2000:
Every child must start school ready to learn.
The high school graduation rate must top 90
percent.
Students must show competency in English,
math, science, history and geography.
American students will lead the world in
math and science achievement.
Every adult will know how to read, possess
the skills necessary in a competitive global
economy, and have the knowledge necessary to
exercise the rights and responsibilities of
citizenship.
Every school will be free of drugs and vio-
lence and instead offer a disciplined setting for
learning.
President Bush has said: "I believe that excel-
lence comes from higher standards, a greater
accountability, and more freedom to move
90). Most people agree that we need to make
within a school system" (Address to conserva-
further progress, but that score represents an
tive leaders, 4-26-90). President Bush's Educa-
improvement from the 1980 level of 890.
tional Excellence Act calls for a restructuring of
High School graduation up: In 1988, 76
the educational system by providing:
percent of the population aged 25 and over had
Presidential Merit Schools: Awards to schools
completed high school, compared with 69
that make progress in raising achievement,
percent in 1980. (Digest, p. 4)
fighting drugs and reducing dropout rates.
Teacher salaries improve: Between 1980 and
Presidential Awards to excellent teachers.
1988, the average salary (constant 1987-88
Short-term aid to districts establishing
dollars) of elementary and secondary teachers
magnet schools.
increased from $24,000 to $28,000. (Digest, p.
Alternative teacher certification programs.
77)
A National Science Scholars program to
encourage top high school students to under-
School choice is the wave
take college work in science, math or engineer-
of the future
ing.
Sustaining black colleges: Matching funds to
Educational excellence comes from higher
historically black college and university endow-
standards, greater accountability and more
ment fundraising.
freedom to move within a school system.
- By a 2-to-1 margin, Americans support
letting parents choose which public school their
Spending alone will not
children will attend. (Gallup poll, The Washing-
solve our problems
ton Post, 8-25-89)
Between 1963 and 1980, federal spending for
elementary and secondary education increased
by 328 percent after inflation. (Historical
Tables, FY90 Budget, pp. 63-65)
During this time of increasing federal spend-
ing, average combined SATs fell from 976 to
890. (Digest of Education Statistics 1989, p.
120)
The increased federal effort failed because
American education had strayed from the
basics: reading, writing and respect.
Recovering from the mistakes of
the '60s: Republican leadership
points the way
SAT scores improve: In 1989, combined SAT
scores averaged 903 (The Washington Post, 5-3-
Peace and Freedom
The triumph of democracy
Will any of us ever forget the stirring sights of
1989? First, we witnessed peaceful revolutions
in Poland and Hungary. Then, the tremors set
off by the falling of the Berlin Wall upended
communism in East Germany and Czechoslova-
kia. Now change has come to the Americas - to
Panama, to Nicaragua, perhaps to Cuba. These
events, which President Bush calls the "Revolu-
tion of '89," are miraculous, but not accidental.
They are, in part, due to steady leadership. It is
no accident that under Republican leadership,
one billion people of the earth found freedom.
Contrast this to the almost daily humiliations
of the era when liberal Democrats were in
power - the steady encroachment of Marxist-
Leninism in the Americas, the growing tension
within the Western alliances.
The Republican Record: a safer
and more peaceful world
Successive Republican administrations have
promoted peace and freedom around the globe.
In 1990, after a decade of Republican leader-
ship, about 3.2 billion (about 66 percent) of the
world's population are free. In January 1979,
only about 2.2 billion (about 55 percent) of the
world's population lived free of communist
tyranny and military dictatorship.
Republican presidents have also cultivated a
new, more peaceful relationship with the Soviet
Union. The historic INF agreement has elimi-
nated an entire class of nuclear weapons and
has paved the way for further arms-reductions
agreements.
By January 1990, 17 countries in Latin
America could be considered democratic. In the
1970s, only seven Latin American and Carib-
bean nations could boast of open or democratic
societies.
Panama
Camp David Summit
Then there is the restoration of democracy in
President Bush's June 1990 summit meeting
Panama. On Dec. 20, 1989, President Bush sent
with Soviet President Gorbachev was a success-
U.S. forces to protect American lives, restore
ful step toward relaxing tensions and establish-
the democratic process, preserve the integrity
ing closer relations between the Soviet and
of the Panama Canal Treaties and decapitate
American peoples.
the outlaw regime of Manuel Noriega.
The Bush administration signed a landmark
U.S. Forces were withdrawn less than two
agreement that will eventually eliminate both
weeks after the operation began and Manuel
nations' chemical weapons stockpiles.
Noriega turned himself over to U.S. forces on
- Other accords between the two nations
Jan. 3, 1990.
include agreements on cultural exchange,
environmental issues, civil aviation and mari-
Nicaragua
time transportation accords, customs accords
Democracy also triumphed in Marxist Nicara-
and trade agreements, including an accord
gua. Presidents Reagan and Bush lent their
bolstering U.S. grain sales.
unfailing support to the Nicaraguan freedom
fighters, helping to bring about free elections in
German reunification
Nicaragua and a stunning end to the Sandin-
President Bush is standing firm for support of a
ista regime.
united Germany as a member of NATO.
Grenada
The People's Republic of China
With the support of other nations in the region,
President Bush is working to preserve
the United States liberated the island nation of
America's important relationship with the
Grenada from communist dictatorship.
people of China. Reform will be encouraged
through open lines of communication and trade.
Libya
President Bush condemns the repression of
Action was taken against state-sponsored
the Chinese people and therefore suspended
terrorism by raiding Libyan bases in 1986.
governmental sales and commercial export of
weapons.
Eastern Europe
The "Revolution of 1989," the overthrow of
communism in Eastern Europe, was a funda-
mental victory for Republican foreign policy.
Both the Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact
came tumbling down. In Poland, Czechoslova-
kia, East Germany, Bulgaria and Romania,
people clamored for political and economic
freedom.
The survival of fledgling democracies is a
priority of the Bush Administration. In Novem-
ber 1989, the United States enacted a $938
million aid package to Poland and Hungary.
Drugs
President Bush has said. "Congress needs to
provide tough laws to deal with a tough prob-
lem. Working together, we can - we will defeat
this scourge. America has earned her victories
through determination and desire." (Santa Ana,
Calif., 3-2-90)
President Bush's national
drug control strategy
1. Attack the drug market at the source and on
the street.
Extend the death penalty to:
- Major drug kingpins;
- Drug kingpins who attempt to kill to
obstruct justice; and
- Federal drug felons whose crimes
result in death.
Hire additional prosecutors, law enforcement
officers and court personnel.
Help the Andean countries fight drug produc-
tion.
Step up efforts to eradicate domestic mari-
juana.
Improve interdiction at our borders.
2. Treat the drug user.
Increase drug treatment grants to the states.
Triple assistance to "crack babies."
3. Prevent drug use through efforts in schools,
workplaces and communities.
Strengthen drug-free workplace require-
ments for federal contractors and grant
recipients.
Increase outlays for prevention efforts.
Strong public support
dropped to 35.4 percent - still far too high, but
the lowest figure since the National Institute on
Sixty-nine percent of Americans approve of
Drug Abuse (NIDA) surveys started in 1975.
the way President Bush is handling the drug
(L.A. Times, 2-14-90)
problem. (Gallup poll, 1-17-90)
After a continuous increase since 1986, the
Sixty-three percent say President Bush has
number of cocaine overdoses reported by
made "some" or "a lot of" progress in dealing
hospital emergency rooms in major cities held
with the drug problem. (Gallup poll, 1-17-90)
steady from late 1988 through the third quarter
of 1989. (Baltimore Sun, 2-8-90)
Republican leadership points the
way to better law enforcement
According to the NIDA, 37 million Americans
used illicit drugs during 1985. By 1988, that
Responding to presidential leadership, federal,
number had fallen to 28 million. (NIDA release,
state and local authorities have started crack-
August 1989)
ing down:
The proportion of adults aged 18 to 25 who
In 1989, federal agents seized 181,000
used marijuana at least five times a month
pounds of cocaine - three times the amount
dropped from 18.7 percent in 1977 to 6.9
they seized in 1986. (The New York Times,
percent in 1988. (Morbidity and Mortality
4-22-90)
Weekly Report, 4-20-90)
In 1988, state and local authorities made
Between 1979 and 1988 the proportion of
289,000 arrests for sale or manufacture of
high school seniors aware of the risks of regular
drugs - more than twice the number of arrests
marijuana use increased from 42 percent to 77
they made in 1984. (Bureau of Justice
percent. (MMWR, 4-20-90)
Statistics, Drug and Crime Facts 1989, p. 8)
In 1987, 78 percent of suspects in drug cases
were prosecuted, up from 73 percent in 1980.
This was a higher rate than for any other crime
category. (BJS, Drug and Crime, p. 9)
The number of suspects prosecuted for drug
offenses increased from 7,000 in 1980 to 18,000
in 1987 - an increase of 153 percent. (BJS,
Drug and Crime, p. 9)
Progress: drug abuse reduced
The War on Drugs is not yet won. Any level of
drug use is too high. And the crack problem is
still causing havoc. But thanks to tougher
Republican policies, signs of progress are
appearing:
In 1989, the proportion of high school seniors
who reported using drugs within the last year
Trade
President Bush has extended the fight
against drugs to Latin American trade policy.
In November 1989, President Bush proposed
Opening world markets
the Andean Trade Initiative to orient regional
nations away from the drug trade by expanding
President Bush's trade policy has a clear
legitimate trade opportunities.
goal: to create a world where open markets are
based on free and fair trade practices.
Mexico
- Republicans believe that trade wars kill jobs,
President Bush is committed to creating new
and free trade creates jobs. With the walls of
jobs and opening new markets between the
isolation being torn down around the world,
United States and Mexico by negotiating a free-
now is not the time to build a protectionist wall
trade pact.
around the United States - as many liberal
President Bush and Mexican President
Democrats would.
Carlos Salinas will conduct formal talks in
:
- America needs free trade, fair trade and
December 1990, in Monterey, Mexico. Conclu-
more trade. Protectionism is a problem, not a
sion of a free-trade pact would coincide with an
solution.
invitation to Canada to join in the arrange-
ment, creating a North American free-trade
zone stretching from the Arctic Circle to Cen-
Highlights: the Republican Record
tral America.
Aggressive Republican leadership has im-
proved our international trade position. With
Eastern Europe
U.S. exports steadily increasing, the trade
President Bush has promoted the transfor-
deficit was cut by 28 percent between 1987 and
mation of centrally planned economies to
1989. (exports minus imports-customs value).
market-oriented economies.
(Economic Indicators, p. 35 April 1990)
President Bush's $938 million economic aid
The Bush administration has been a leader in
package to Poland and Hungary is a success. In
tariff negotiations, promoting open markets
Poland, the switch to a market economy is
around the world.
working. Inflation has dropped from 80 percent
in January 1990 to 5 percent in March.
President Bush has created an interagency
Future economic agreements will continue to
group to assure that U.S. trade interests are
stimulate and protect new opportunities for
represented in the 1992 European Community.
U.S. business. The Bush administration has
The Bush administration has encouraged
proposed a complete overhaul of the system for
commercial banks to reduce the debts of devel-
controlling high-tech exports to allow access to
oping countries. Mexico, the Philippines and
Western technology.
Costa Rica have reached debt-reduction agree-
ments with U.S. banks under President Bush's
debt plan.
The administration will enforce and use U.S.
trade laws to best advance the goals of open
markets and fair trade.
American competitiveness in the global
market place is being promoted by Vice Presi-
dent Dan Quayle as chairman of the Council on
Competitiveness.
Soviet Union
Japan
Both the Malta and Washington summits
President Bush is ensuring that Japan, the
have improved economic ties between the two
world's second largest market, opens to U.S.
superpowers. President Bush will continue to
business and operates competitively. The Bush
link trade with progress in political and eco-
administration's successful identification of
nomic reforms.
market opening priorities under the 1988 Trade
- The Malta Summit began negotiation of a
Act has won trade concessions from the Japa-
new trade agreement, including GATT observer
nese. President Bush has ensured open mar-
status for the Soviet Union. New accords signed
kets for satellites, supercomputers and forest
at the June 1990 Washington Summit will
products. Under President Bush's administra-
triple airline capacity between the two nations
tion, Japan has been removed from the list of
and increase Soviet purchases of U.S. grain
countries with unacceptable trade barriers.
from 9 million tons to 10 million tons annually.
China
President Bush supports genuine efforts to
bring fundamental, free-market reforms to the
America's outrage at the tragedy of Tian-
anmen Square was expressed by Congress and
Soviet economy.
by sanctions promptly enacted by the Bush
- President Bush offered Soviet President
Administration. These sanctions remain
Mikhail Gorbachev the opportunity to achieve
unchanged. Notwithstanding, the President has
"Most Favored Nation" status, providing the
repeatedly made it clear that these actions
Soviet government passes liberalized emigra-
were never designed to hurt the Chinese
tion reform laws. The President said:
people.
"I want to see Lithuania have its freedom. We
The President extended "Most Favored
are committed to self-determination for the
Nation" trade status with China because it was
Baltic states. And although I take great pleas-
in the best interest of the U.S. and the Chinese
ure and joy and am pleased that the emigration
people. Discontinuing MFN could cost the U.S.
of Soviet Jews is at an all-time high, I want to
$6 billion a year in trade as well as inadver-
see unfettered emigration." (The Washington
tently damage the Hong Kong economy, which
Times, 6/8/90)
stood to lose 20,000 jobs and $10 billion in
Trade with the Soviet Union has rebounded
trade. Many of our trading partners - includ-
in the last two years. Bilateral trade soared to
ing the United Kingdom, Japan, and even
over $4 billion in October 1989, compared with
Taiwan - urged that MFN be retained.
$2.6 billion during the same period in 1988.
The people of China who trade with the
Agricultural exports alone tripled during the
United States are the engine of reform, the
same period.
opening to the outside world. The President
believes: "Our responsibility is best met not by
Canada
isolating those forces from contact but by
An historic tariff-free zone has been created by
keeping open the channels of commerce and
U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that
communications."
has stimulated growth, boosted incomes and
increased the competitiveness of firms in both
Latin America
nations. During 1989, the first year of the
President Bush has expanded and developed
agreement, goods and services trade exceeded
open markets in the Caribbean and Latin
$200 billion.
America. Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and
Venezuela have liberalized their trade policies.
The Economy
Investing in America
Investment is soaring. Between 1980 and
Sustaining record growth:
1989, real net private domestic investment rose
longest peacetime expansion
from $153 billion to $216 billion (1982 dollars)
- a 41 percent increase. (Economic Report of
Thanks to Republican economic policy,
the President 1990, p. 313)
America is enjoying the longest peacetime
expansion in history. Unless congressional
Between 1980 and 1989, real business expen-
Democrats scuttle the recovery with their big-
ditures for new plant and equipment increased
spending policies, each month this year will set
from $333 billion to $450 billion (1982 dollars)
a new record for the length of peacetime eco-
- a 35 percent increase. (Statistical Abstract
nomic growth: July represents the 92nd month
1990, p. 538)
of consecutive growth.
Between 1980 and 1989, the economy grew
Capital gains
by almost a third. Real gross national product
President Bush proposes to cut the tax rates
(1982 dollars) rose from $3.187 trillion to
on capital gains for long-term investments.
$4.144 trillion - an increase of nearly one
trillion dollars. (Economic Indicators, April
A cut in the capital gains rate would foster
1990, p. 2)
growth and increase competitiveness of Ameri-
can businesses. The tax rate on capital gains in
- The real growth in gross national product
the United States now tops that of any other
has amounted to $3,800 for every man,
industrial country except Australia and Great
woman and child in the United States.
Britain. Both Australia and Great Britain,
however, index capital gains for inflation, thus
The great American job machine
effectively reducing their tax rate.
Since the expansion started in late 1982, the
economy has created more than 21 million new
Protecting Social Security
jobs. (Economic Report of the President 1984, p.
President Bush is determined to protect the
263; Economic Indicators, April 1990, p. 14)
steadily accruing Social Security trust fund
- The economic expansion produced five new
from raids on its reserves.
jobs every minute.
Seniors have made progress against poverty.
- Inflation hit a 16-year low.
Since 1970, the poverty rate among people age
65 and over has been cut in half. (Census,
In 1989, the civilian unemployment rate was
Money Income, p. 60):
5.3 percent - the lowest annual average since
1973. In 1980, the last year the Democrats
1970
24.6%
controlled the White House, the unemployment
1980
15.7%
rate was 7.1 percent and rising. (Economic
1988
12.0%
Report of the President 1990, p. 339)
- If the Democrats' 1980 unemployment rate
had prevailed in 1989, an additional 2.27
million Americans would have been out of
work.
Checking inflation
half the level of 1983. (CBO, Economic and
Budget Outlook, January 1990, pp. 33, 123)
The most common measure of inflation, the
consumer price index, rose by a modest 4.8
Article I of the Constitution gives the power
percent in 1989. In 1980, when Democratic
of the purse to the House of Representatives,
policies were choking the economy, the inflation
which has been ruled by the Democrats for
rate rose to 13.5 percent, nearly three times as
nearly 36 years.
large. (Economic Indicators, April 1990, p. 24)
- Inflation increased each year the Democrats
Helping families and individuals
were last in the White House.
President Bush endorses Family Savings Ac-
- If the Democratic inflation rate had lasted
counts. He has proposed that withdrawals
throughout the 1980s, prices today would be
made after 7 years should be tax-free.
108 percent higher.
President Bush is helping home buyers. The
Republican
Democratic
administration has proposed a waiver of the 10
price
price
percent excise tax penalty for early withdrawal
of up to $10,000 from Individual Retirement
Loaf of Bread
$0.93
$ 1.93
Accounts. The withdrawn funds would have to
Toothbrush
$1.09
$ 2.27
be used for first-time home purchases.
Sport Shirt
$22.00
$45.76
Color TV
$300.00
$624.00
Democratic policies devastated American
New Car
$13,000.00
$27,040.00
families. Between 1978 and 1982, real median
family income (1988 dollars) fell from $32,006
to $28,727. Republican policies have restored
Lower interest rates
prosperity to the family. Between 1983 and
1988, real median family income increased from
As Jimmy Carter was cleaning out his desk
$29,307 to $32,191. (U.S. Census, Money
in December 1980, the prime interest rate hit
Income and Poverty Status in the United States
21.5 percent. In 1989, the prime averaged 10.87
percent, about half the Democratic level.
1988, p. 11)
(Economic Report of the President, 1984, p. 299;
Between 1980 and 1988, the share of Ameri-
Economic Indicators, April 1990, p. 30)
can households with incomes under $15,000
(1988 dollars) fell from 29.4 percent to 27.3
percent. Meanwhile, more and more Americans
Controlling the budget
climbed into higher income levels. The share of
President Bush is facing the budget issue
households with incomes over $50,000 rose
squarely. In May, he began a budget summit
from 15.8 percent to 20.8 percent. (U.S. Census,
with congressional leaders of both parties, with
Money Income, p. 23)
the primary goal of maintaining peace and
Between 1980 and 1989, real per capita dis-
increasing prosperity.
posable personal income (1982 dollars) rose 20
President Bush supports a line-item veto and
percent. (Economic Indicators, April 1990, p. 6)
a balanced-budget amendment.
Although the poverty rate rose in three of the
In fiscal 1989, the budget deficit stood at 2.9
four Carter years, it fell in six of the first eight
percent of GNP - still too high, but less than
Republican years.