JOHN LINDER: “President Clinton is fighting, threatening a Government shutdown, for $7 million more to send to foreign countries to…”

“President Clinton is fighting, threatening a Government shutdown, for $7 million more to send to foreign countries to educate their students on the environment and rainfall measurement techniques. He wants to give $10 million more to the National Endowment for the Arts. He wants more money to establish a new Federal program to help guide people through the 160 Federal job training programs. Only the Clinton administration would want to create a new program to make the maze of 160 overlapping programs understandable. Further, Clinton wants $2 million for the Ounce of Prevention Council which in a year and a half has produced one glossy magazine and administered zero grants. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta's wife works for this program and is paid $300 per day. It is simply hypocritical to say you are for a balanced budget and then demand $8 billion for more spending. In January, the President said, "The era of Big Government is over." He also vowed to never shut down the Government again. Unfortunately, he has abandoned these pledges already to return to the traditional liberal tax and spend philosophy. That the President would support paying Mrs. Leon Panetta $300-a-day to produce one magazine but is not willing to give Americans families a $500-tax cut is the height of arrogance.”