Clinton's Promise Breaking Checklist


     Once Bill Clinton is in office, he will (according to himself) provide health care for everyone. He will see to it that good high-paying jobs are widely available and that no working family falls below the poverty line. He will wipe out adult illiteracy in five years. He will guarantee all Americans a college education or two years' vocational training. He will protect the environment and workers' right without costing business growth. He will cut the federal deficit in half in four years - without raising taxes on the middle class. It's a beautiful thing. Thanks to the research arm of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, you can now keep all the inspiring Clinton Pledges at your fingertips.

Date Broken
Promise
1. "Vote for me and we'll produce more natural gas in Texas."
- Dallas Morning News, January 11, 1992
2. "The West should establish a $6 billion fund to help stabilize the Russian ruble."
- New York City, April 1, 1992
3. "I will streamline the federal government and change the way it works; cut 100,000 bureaucrats and put 100,000 new police officers on your streets of American cities."
- New York City, July 16, 1992
4. "I promise you I will never bash public employees."
- Dallas Morning News, June 18, 1992
5. "I would want the first judge I appointed to believe in the right to privacy and the right to choose."
- PBS, July 7, 1992
6. "[What] would work is to raise the top tax rate on people with gross incomes above $200,000 to 35 percent or 36 percent and put a surtax on people with incomes of a million dollars or more a year."
- Time, July 20, 1992
7. "We should pay up - and pay now - the past dues we owe the U. N."
- New York City, April 1, 1992
8. "If I become president, we will keep a glatt kosher kitchen in the White House."
- New York City, April 1, 1992
9. "Under our health care system, all Americans will have access to quality and affordable health care through coverage from their employer, or if they're unemployed, through their government."
- Jersey City, October 29, 1992
10. "I want a leaner bureaucracy and more investment."
- Time, July 20, 1992
11. "A national apprenticeship program for non-college-bound young people so they can get good jobs, fully fund Head Start - those things are not terribly expensive."
- "Face the Nation" (CBS), October 6, 1991
12. "To the fathers who have chosen to abandon their children by neglecting their child support: Take responsibility for your children, or we will force you to do so."
- New York City, July 16, 1992
13. "U. S. [NATO] troop levels can be safely reduced to a force in the range of 75,000 to 100,000."
- Europe, October 1992
14. "As soon as the Pentagon issued a study which said there was no basis in national security for discriminating based on the sexual orientation of Americans who wished to serve in the military, I said I would act on the study."
- Los Angeles, May 18, 1992
15. "I am going to send Al Gore to Capitol Hill to take the lead in passing our program in the first 100 days of the new administration."
- Little Rock, July 10, 1992
16. "I would bring in all the players within the first 60 days and tell them to develop a national health care plan."
- Dallas Morning News, October 8, 1991
17. "The Clinton-Gore administration will view the support of generic industrial technologies as a priority mission."
- Clinton's "Technology: The Engine of Economic Growth," issued September 21, 1992
18. "My first priority would be to pass a jobs program, to introduce it on the first day I was inaugurated."
- St. Louis, MO, October 11, 1992
19. "My plan offers $50 billion in new investments over the next four years - new incentives for the private sector, an investment tax credit, urban enterprize zones, new business tax incentives, research and development incentives and others."
- Arizona Republic, June 28, 1992
20. "At the very least, 10 percent of the $76 billion that the government now spends each year on research should be redirected from the Pentagon's research budget to civil efforts."
- Clinton's "Technology: The Engine of Economic
Growth," issued September 21, 1992
21. "We can give you a country again where we are pro-growth and pro-environment; where we are pro-business and pro-labor; where we are pro-civil rights and pro-civil-order; where we are pro-family and pro-choice."
- Portland Oregonian, July 26, 1992
22. "When it comes to AIDS, there should be a Manhattan project."
- Los Angeles, May 18, 1992
23. "We can pledge right now that for every dollar we reduce the defense budget on research and development, we'll increase the civilian research and development budget by the same amount."
- Georgetown University, November 20, 1991
24. "I want to increase federal funding for research, prevention and treatment [for AIDS]."
- Jersey City, October 29, 1992
25. "I support a strong American role in the U. N. and with the European Community to end Serbian aggression. I have supported the use of multilateral military force, if necessary."
- Europe, October 1992
26. "My administration will stand up for democracy and buttress democratic forces in Haiti, Peru and throughout the Western Hemisphere."
- (AP) August 14, 1992
27. "We need not just a new generation of leadership, but a new gender of leadership. This is a minority I enjoy being in."
- Phoenix Gazette, July 15, 1992
28. "Those who can [after two years on welfare] will have to go to work, wither by taking a job in the private sector or through community service."
- "Putting People First"
29. "The United States should lead the fight to slow global warming, instead of dragging our feet and ignoring important scientific data."
- New York City, April 1, 1992
30. "I want to appoint one person, one man or woman, to oversee and coordinate all federal efforts related to this issue [AIDS]."
- Jersey City, October 29, 1992
31. "A Clinton-Gore administration will not permit American firms again to sell key technologies to outlaw stats like Iraq."
- (AP) August 14, 1992
32. "I certainly will give every consideration to Hispanic candidates for the Supreme Court."
- Dallas Morning News, July 2, 1992
33. "The old adage mi case, su casa will be true when my house is the White House."
- Dallas Morning News, July 2, 1992
34. "All the money by which we reduce defense research and development I would put immediately into domestic, commercial research and development."
- Dallas Morning News, August 16, 1992
35. "I will elevate economics; create an Economic Security Council similar to the National Security Council."
- Los Angeles, August 13, 1992
36. "My administration will reduce our forces, but maintain a credible presence in Europe and Asia."
- Portland Oregonian, September 1, 1992
37. "I want people like some of you in this audience to be part of a Clinton Administration, not because of or in spite of your sexual orientation, but because America needs you."
- Los Angeles, May 18, 1992
38. "You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values."
- Portland Oregonian, July 26, 1992
39. "If I become president, I will have a cabinet that looks like America."
- Portland Oregonian, July 26, 1992
40. "My strategy puts people first by investing more than $50 billion each year over the next four years to put America back to work _ the most dramatic economic growth program since World War II."
- (AP) June 22, 1992
41. "After this election is over, I will continue to reach out to the American people. I'll get back on a bus when I'm president. I'll go back and have town meetings and let ordinary people ask me questions. I will not hide behind the walls of the White House."
- (AP) September 25, 1992
42. "With the dwindling Soviet threat, we can cut defense spending by over a third by 1997."
- Georgetown University, November 20, 1991
43. "I propose that the U.S. must take the lead in putting together a bridge loan to help Russia make the transition from its old system to its new economy."
- New York City, April 1, 1992
44. "Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate."
- "Putting People First"
45. "Vote for me and we'll conserve more energy all over America."
- Dallas Morning News, January 11, 1992
46. "We'll restore the dignity of blue collar work by guaranteeing an apprenticeship program to every non-college bound student in the United States of America."
- San Diego, June 15, 1992
47. "We will link China's trading privileges to its human rights record and its conduct on trade and weapons sales."
- Los Angeles, August 13, 1992
48. "We'll seek to raise the average goal for auto makers to 45 miles per gallon."
- Philadelphia, April 22, 1992
49. "We'll pass a national bottle bill to encourage recycling by creating small deposits on all glass and plastic bottles."
- Philadelphia, April 22, 1992
50. "I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs."
- East Lansing, MI, October 19, 1992