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WEDNESDAY EDITION!
January 20, 1999
Daniel In The Lions' Den.
The State of the Union is... partisan.
 Social Security  Transfer
62 percent of nation's expected budget surpluses over the next
15 years -- $2.7 trillion -- to the Social Security account to
keep the program solvent until 2055.Invest
25 percent of that money in the stock market in search of higher
returns.Reserve
15 percent of the surplus -- $650 billion -- to help the Medicare
system.Devote
11 percent of the surplus -- $500 billion -- to new government-subsidized
retirement accounts.Help To Families Create
a tax credit of up to $250 per child age 1 or younger for parents
who stay home to care for them.Establish
a $1,000 tax credit for Americans with long-term health-care
needs and family members who care for them.Boost
the minimum wage $1 by September 2000 so the hourly base pay
is $6.15.Take
action to ensure the privacy of medical records. Education Improve
public education by ending social promotion, helping the worst
schools in a state, giving teachers performance exams, giving
parents more information about their local school and implementing
student discipline plans.Defense and World Affairs Spend
$12 billion to improve military readiness and modernization in
fiscal 2000 -- and a total of $110 billion over six years.Push
ahead with trade liberalization to counter growing protectionist
sentiment as nations struggle to cope with the 18-month global
currency crisis.Other Items Create
a new clean air fund to help communities reduce pollution, and
tax incentives and investments to spur clean energy technologies.Ensure
the Year 2000 computer problem is fixed. |
| You can call me crazy but I bet his "approval ratings" go up even higher. It was a great speech, full of proposals that Republicans and Democrats have wanted for years. It's a crazy situation, I agree, but this is America, after all. Not England, for heaven's sake. We are what we are. Give it up, boys. Move on. He's staying put. |
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