Re: Obama did not introduce the race card
by
larbabe
08/08/2008, 5:08 PM #
TickleBob:
Bill Clinton is just the most famous is all, he didn't invent anything.
It amazes me that you display such an enormous amount of ignorance regarding Bill Clinton, yet you stay friends with Hillary supporters here. Just a reminder about Clinton:
President Clinton and Vice President Gore's economic plan was enacted without a single Republican vote. Vice President Gore broke a tie on August 6, 1993 to pass the measure in the Senate and President Clinton signed the 1993 Budget Reconciliation into law four days later. Their bold, three-part strategy established fiscal discipline; invested in education, health care, science and technology; and opened foreign markets so that American workers have a fair chance to compete abroad.
Passage of the economic plan was a historic turning point, reversing 12 years of trickle-down economics and turning the largest deficit in history into the largest budget surplus in history. It also committed the country to a path of fiscal discipline that helped unleash the productive potential of the American people, contributing to the longest economic expansion in history, including the creation of over 22 million jobs, the lowest unemployment and inflation rates in a generation, rising wages and the highest homeownership rates on record. Today, working families are enjoying the benefits of this comprehensive plan and the course of fiscal discipline it established.
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Clinton's years in office will be looked upon as one of the most prosperous times in the history of this country. Not only was the inherited national debt whittled away to a fraction of what it was before he took office, but our budget was in the black. Most historians point to the 1993 tax plan as the decisive factor in the turn-around. Not one Republican voted in favor of the tax plan.
The country benefited under Clinton's leadership in many other ways as well. Teen pregnancy dropped 22 percent. Between 1993 and 1999, the crime rate dropped by roughly the same amount, and the welfare rolls declined 49 percent. Divorce, teen drinking, teen suicide, and abortion also grew more rare. As the magazine of the conservative American Enterprise Institute put it in 1999, "The alarm bells rung by cultural conservatives seem to have been heeded by many Americans, and a new pattern of recovery and even reversal has emerged."
Under Clinton’s leadership, abortion rate dropped significantly from 24% (when he took office to 16% (In 1999).
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