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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2834)	10/17/2000 10:18:36 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

CNN reports........When it comes to helping families without health insurance in Texas, critics also say Bush has failed to do enough for his state. "We spend $4.7 billion a year on the uninsured in the state of Texas," Bush said in the second presidential debate. But the state comptroller reports three-fourths of that is from charity care provided by doctors and hospitals and paid for by local governments and charitable institutions -- not the state. On the environment, Bush maintains that Texas has seen an 11 percent reduction in industrial emissions and cleaned up more industrial sites "than any other administration in my state's history." But Environmental Protection Agency data shows toxic releases in Texas went up between 1995 -- the first year Bush was in office -- and 1998, the last year for which figures were available. "Mr. Bush likes to point to the fact that Texas is an industrial state and that's why it's so polluted," said Richard Wiles of the lobbying group Environmental Watch. "That's not the case. In fact for the industries we look at, California has far more of these big industrial smog polluters. But California enforces the law. Texas doesn't." Messing with Texas might have a familiar ring to Bush, whose father leveled similar attacks on then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton in 1992. How successful Gore and Lieberman will be remains to be seen.