ROANOKE TIMES 

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

DATE: TUESDAY, May 25, 1993                   TAG: 9305250631
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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BLAME IT ON ARKANSAS

IT'S BEEN a long time since I've commented about Slick Willie, the 43 percenter. I think it's a sad, disappointing, miserable performance so far, and I see nothing to change it.

Clinton, like most Democrats, is simply a tax-and-spend politician. And coupled with this, of course, is inflation, and inflation with higher taxes will kill us all financially. Not even John D. Rockefeller could survive this, nor can many businesses. The death knell would be the adoption of socialized medicine.

Most voters knew that Arkansas had the lowest income of any state, and yet Clinton got 43 percent of the vote. Just recently I learned that Arkansas also had the lowest academic achievement of any state, so you have someone with the worst financial situation and the worst in brains trying to lead a country that is more than $4 trillion in debt.

Ugh! Woe are we. R. KEITH WHITLEY BEDFORD 


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