On the recordJanuary 25, 1994
tonight when the President gives his State of the Union address, you can expect that he will put a positive spin on his first year in office. But let us not kid ourselves; the President's first year in office has not been all rosy, especially for the middle class. Here is a quick review: His promise to give the middle class a tax cut was quickly abandoned. His economic package is a rerun of taxes and spending. Too many of his foreign policy initiatives have been an unmitigated disaster. His welfare reform plan is nonexistent. Indeed, the whereabouts of his crime plan is a mystery which even Sherlock Holmes could not solve. His health care reform bill is the wrong prescription for the wrong diagnosis. The President is very good at adding a spoonful of sugar and making lemonade out of old lemons. But his first year in office has been full of lemons for the middle-class taxpayer--and even his lemonade--despite its sugary rhetoric--is a bitter thing for the taxpayers to swallow.
