Wednesday, October 4, 2000

According to the National Taxpayer's Union, Al Gore's 50-minute speech at the Democratic Party Convention proposed an estimated $2.3 trillion in new spending. That's an additional financial burden on the back of U.S. citizens who now work almost six months out of the year just to pay their taxes.

In the process, Gore would spend the "surplus" and collect more in taxes from "America's working families" to pay for his socialist agenda.

Gore considers a tax cut is "squandering the surplus." He tells us he will give us a "middle income tax cut." Is this the same tax cut that Bill Clinton promised us, and then raised taxes instead?

He railed against vouchers for parents whose children are in failing public schools, but Gore is a private school graduate himself, and he sent his four children to exclusive schools in Washington. Obviously, he's not "pro-choice" when it comes to education.

Gore criticized big corporations, but is beholden to them. He owns about $500,000 in Occidental Petroleum stock which was given to his family by Armand Hammer, the industrialist who bankrolled his father in Congress. Gore also used Hammer's personal jet as his own. Hammer was a friend of Lenin and Stalin, and sat in on Soviet Central Committee meetings during his frequent visits to Moscow. He was believed by some to be a courier for the Communist Party U.S.A.

Gore has never repudiated his benefactor, and maintains his Oxy stock to this day. It will probably soon rise in value. The $1.5 billion in aid just voted for Colombia will help secure Oxy deals with the Colombian government.

Environmentalists might ask why Oxy can explore and extract in rain forests and offshore sites in Colombia. Aren't the risks to nature the same as in the vast oil reserves areas of Alaska, which Clinton-Gore have put off limits to please the eco-extremists? In the meantime, the price of gas is at an all-time high.

According to Democrat fund raiser and Chinese Communist contact Johnny Chung, Gore illegally solicited campaign contributions from inside the White House. An assistant attorney general, a task force investigator, the director and assistant director of the FBI, and FBI general counsel, all recommended a special prosecutor to examine Gore's involvement with illegal funds. The attorney general, appointed by the president, refused.

This is the tip of the iceberg. Much more can be learned by reading "Al Gore: America in the Balance." Send $3.95 to ACU, P.O. Box 738, Ottawa, IL 61350, or call 1-800-426-1357.

William H. Fielder

Peachtree City

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