CAMPAIGN 2000 The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 7, 2000 - 9A-I U Gore pledges to create jobs, boost income CLEVELAND (AP)-- Al Gore'offered up a volumi- nous and detailed spending plan for the nation yesterday, promising to create 10 million high-tech jobs, send poverty to historical lows and boost family income by a third if his policies are put in place. "Let us build together a new prosperity and let us be the generation that makes it possible for all Americans to open the door fo the American dream" Gore said as he laid out his economic goals yesterday at Cleveland UState University. Gore also said he would eliminate the national debt and strengthen the finances of Social Security and Medicare. Senior aides said by focusing on paying down the nation- al debt, Gore's plan, titled "Prosperity for America's Fami- lies," cast the Democratic presidential candidate as the fiscal conservative in his fight with Republican George W. Bush. Taking aim at his opponent, Gore said "My plan wasn't built on cross-your-fiigers economics that says we can give more to the people who already havs the most and then just ope the benefits trickle down to the middle class." Gore was headed to Pennsylvania after completing his economic speech, stopping for a fund-raiser in Detroit on the way. Already in Pennsylvania, Bush also focused on their competing economic visions. "My plan has been endorsed by Nobel prize winners. His plan has been endorsed by Bill Clinton," Bush told a crowd of a few hundred gathered at the Wilkes-Barre airport. lIe repeated his charge that Gore would allow the government to dictate who gets a slice of extra federal money. "'He spends the entire surplus on bigger government," Bush said. "lie won't admit it." Bush's running mate, Dick Cheney, met briefly with a Wilmington, Del., family --- John Lierenz and his wife Sherry, who stays home with their baby daughter - and told them the Bush tax plan would shave Sl,200 per year from their federal taxes, while Gore would cut only S100. Nader criticizes auto industry at Firestone hearing WASHINGTON (AP) - Ralph tire company can knowingly and Nader, who wrote the 1965 book willingly sell tires and motor vehi- "Unsafe at Any Speed" that criti- cles that they know to be defective, cized automakers for putting profits that they know to have caused ahead of safety, showed up yester- deaths and injuries and the only day at a congressional hearing on penalty is a civil fine," he said. defective Firestone tires but didn't "And in the case of the tire industry address the lawmakers. and Firestone, the maximum fine is Instead, the S925,000 - Green Party's The Green Party's chump change. presidential "When they nominee spoke nominee said not are expo ed to to reporters in criminal penalty the hallway out- much has changed possibilities, they side, saying not , tend to be much much has in the last 35 years. more rigorous in changed in the making sure that last 35 years. their products are safely designed Nader said he is convinced that and constructed.' Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and Ford The National Highway Traffic Motor Co., which uses the recalled Safety Administration has received tires as standard equipment on its more than 1,400 complaints, includ- vehicles, covered up defects that led ing reports of 88 deaths and at least to deaths and injuries. He called for 250 injuries that may be linked to a change in the law so company the Firestone tires. executives can be criminally Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone charged for withholding such infor- have insisted that they did not know nation. until this year that the tires were "Under current law, an auto or defective. At'P0HO0 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Al Gore pitches against the Detroit Tigers during batting practice at Comerica Park in Detroit yesterday. VP endure.s Tigers practice DETROIT (AP) - Al Gore thought about hiding behind his Secret Service agents, but was soon enough strutting his stuff in a charmed outing yesterday with the Detroit Tigers. "A lot better than a lot of broken-down for- mer pitchers that I've seen," Anaheim Angels pitcher Tim Belcher said as Gore threw batting practice for the Tigers an hour before the two teams met. "Pretty consistent," nodded Detroit first baseman Shane Halter. Even hitter Robert Fick, after getting whacked in the hip by Gore's lone wild pitch, was impressed. "He's definitely not making (a fool) out of himself" Gore hadn't, at first, seemed sure it would go well. After hitting coach Bill Madlock reminded the Democratic presidential candidate that only hitters are allowed on the mat behind the bat- ting cage - and that he'd either have to step to the plate or step off - Gore joked, "]'i gonna have the Secret Service tackle him." Instead, he shed his suit coat and stepped to the mound. Behind home plate, lead agent Bill Pickle didn't flinch as one of Fick's hits nearly beaned the candidate. Gore bellowed laughing- ly, "Where's the Secret Service'?" 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