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Nicholson Warns Michigan About Clinton/Gore 'Economic Armageddon'

19 April 1999

Nicholson Warns Michigan About Clinton/Gore 'Economic Armageddon'

  'Electing Al Gore Would Spell Disaster for 94,700 Michigan Workers,' Says
                                   Chairman

    WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Republican National Committee
Chairman Jim Nicholson today warned Michigan residents that Bill Clinton and
Al Gore's Kyoto Global Warming Treaty would cause energy prices to skyrocket
and put nearly 2 million Americans out of work, including 94,700 in Michigan.
    With Clinton scheduled to gobble up $500,000 in campaign cash at a
Dearborn, MI fund-raiser today, Nicholson said the Clinton-Gore "Kyoto Job-
Killer" would force 94,700 Michigan residents out of work, hike gasoline
prices 50 cents a gallon, and cause the per-household Gross Domestic Product
to plummet $2,061 in the year 2010, and $1,715 in 2015, according to an
independent study by the highly-respected Wharton Econometrics Forecasting
Associates, Inc. (WEFA).
    "The President shouldn't just mine cash from Democrat fat cats in
Dearborn, he should explain why he's scheming with Al Gore to send 94,700
Michigan workers to the unemployment line and cost every family in the state
$2,000 a year," Nicholson said.  "The hard-working people of Michigan, who
rely on the agriculture and auto industry to support their families, should
know that Gore's brand of environmental extremism spells economic Armageddon."
    Gore negotiated the treaty in Kyoto, Japan in December of 1997, and signed
the treaty in November of 1998.  The White House has refused to send the
treaty to the Senate for a vote.  Nicholson pointed out that China, India,
Mexico and dozens of other countries have refused to join the treaty.  Clinton
and Gore are insisting the U.S. abide by the restrictions anyway.  He also
noted that the American Farm Bureau projects Gore's treaty would slash U.S.
net farm income by 24 percent.
    The RNC Web Page, http://www.rnc.org, contains an entire section on Gore's Kyoto
Global Warming Treaty, including an interactive map of the United States where
users can obtain independent projections of the impact the treaty will have on
their own state.