
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 27, 1993                   TAG: 9303290410
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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WHERE WAS THE NEEDED VETO?

HAS PRESIDENT Clinton broken "gridlock" and ended the "tax-and-spend" policies of the past? Is he leading us into a bright new future of high economic growth and lower federal deficits?

The vote March 4 in the Senate to extend unemployment benefits until Oct. 2 added $5.7 billion to our deficit. The Republican minority offered an amendment to pay for these benefits by freezing all federal pay, as Clinton requested in his economic plan. This "pay-as-you-go" amendment was rejected by Clinton's own party in a straight party-line vote. He did not veto and return this outrage to the Congress.

If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, it must be a duck. This is the same old tired "tax-and-spend" policies that have given us a $4.2 trillion debt. Please, enough already! FRANK F. ELLIS III ROANOKE

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