election promise Quotes
His predecessors had lied about the status of the Greek Economy and then squandered the money with waste, fraud, and corruption. To avoid total national bankruptcy, Greece needed a large bailout which was given subject to a set of required conditions of reform and transparency. This “austerity” package created a great hardship for many of the average Greek citizens while the wealthy who had benefitted from the previous incompetence and corruption took their money out of the country. The Greek voters elected a new government without much experience but who were committed to lifting the burden of the austerity package. The problem was that the major nations of the Eurozone, whose taxpayers would have to pay for the bailout, had been burned before by Greek government lies and incompetence and did not trust the Greeks, insisting on the austerity measures if any bailout money would be forthcoming. The new Greek government was caught in a great dilemma. Agree to the same kind of Austerity package and continue the great hardships on the people or go into Bankruptcy and leave the Eurozone the consequences of which would probably be worse. The finance minister was hoping for a compromise.
Term limits were one of the items on the Contract with America which most Republicans soon repudiated—especially when their term limits were impending.
The Navy developed a program to disperse the home bases of the U. S. based fleet. They called it "home porting" which became "home porking" to detractors who accused the navy of spreading out the money in order to curry favor with congress rather than making cost effective military decisions. One opponent of the program was Barry Goldwater, the senior senator from Arizona—a landlocked state:
