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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (6734)	9/22/1998 8:40:00 PM
From: dd	Respond to of 13994

I am a hater? Gee, I didn't know that. I thought I was just stating a fact. dd

To: jbe who wrote (6734)	9/22/1998 9:49:00 PM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

I use the word "fanatic" here in a particular sense. It is not meant to apply to everyone who believes Clinton should resign, or be impeached. It is meant to apply to that vociferous minority whose anti-Clintonism is linked to a specific right wing political agenda. I can only speak for myself. I dislike being lied to by politicians, and in 1993 I began to hear some things from Clinton that I thought were downright deceptive, bad for our national interests, and contrary to the platform on which he had run. Things like redefining "rich" Americans as those earning $30,000 a year, lowering the estate tax exclusion from $600,000 to $60,000, raising corporate tax rates, refusal to implement the welfare reform he promised, an 85% tax rate (yes, 85%) on Social Security benefits if the recipient earned $25,000 a year, ignoring human rights violations in China, the gutting of the US armed forces, and Hillary's health care plan. I, personally, felt these policies were more likely to weaken the US domestically and internationally, and it seemed that every week I heard of some new socialistically-inspired plan that would stifle American productivity and redistribute wealth from those who earned it to those who wouldn't, all filtered through more Washington bureaucracy. Coupled with the Clintons' apparent view that the law didn't apply to them, it wasn't long before I wondered how conditions were in Arkansas while Governor Clinton was in office. The more I looked, the more corruption and mismanagement I found, and believe me, I didn't WANT to find it. The Clinton Administration was supposed to be the "most ethical ever," and yet we have scores of special prosecutors appointed by the Attorney General herself on a number of scandals, we have policy shifts that amaze me (Bosnia, Haiti, Somalia), and we have a president, who, although a Rhodes scholar at one point, seems to have a problem defining such words as "is." But as I say, I can only speak for myself. RS The exemption of all Federal employees from the Health Care program; for the rest of us, participation was compulsory.