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NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: what is especially important, I think of the single moms in the Sixth District of Arizona, and imagine if they had for…

On the recordMay 22, 1996
what is especially important, I think of the single moms in the Sixth District of Arizona, and imagine if they had for their 3 children $1,500 to save, spend, and invest as they see fit for those children, to spend that money on those children, to save that money for those children, instead of surrendering that money to Washington. It is especially galling that we have had a President who campaigned, and people talk about political strategies, and, oh, members of that reelection team looking at the Ronald Reagan strategy of 1984. Nonsense. This is the same strategy utilized by the President in 1992. It is, simply stated, this: Talk like Ronald Reagan, govern like Michael Dukakis. Always talk right, govern left. This same President who said that the middle class deserved tax relief gave itself the largest tax increase in American history. This same President who said end welfare as we know it, has vetoed, not once but twice, the very welfare reform he purports in a general sense to champion. This same President who said as a candidate in 1992 that he would balance the budget in 5 years, even when given a grace period of an extra 2 years, if you will, still uses curious mathematics and said, as pointed out by the gentleman from California, even in the same breath with yet another Reaganesque utterance: The era of big government is over, but here are three more programs. Here is more and more spending in Washington, DC.…
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