Exchange between Bill Clinton and New Mexico Resident Illustrates Deceptive Framing of Key Issues

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11. Under Clinton at least within the Federal government, Affirmative Action and Equal Employment

laws were enforced and the POC employed by the federal garment fared much better than under the GOP.
In the private sector the employment gained by POC under Bill Clinton was much better and those gains were not lost because of Clinton but under the economic crash and total dismantling of EEO enforcement under Bush/Cheney.

"Putting people first" was the motto of the Clinton/Gore administration and Federal employee benefits set the tone for the private sector with Family Leave, Leave banks and donations, re-vamping of Social Security Administration with services brought closer to clients,increased consumer protections, and a total and beneficial overhaul of FEMA. Crime did go down, more police were put out of cars and into the neighborhoods and, at the time, POC in many neighborhoods around country were grateful. Despite what many allege, many women were able to get decent childcare and a path into the workforce especially within the Federal and state governments. Only the private sector reneged on helping those women once on welfare to get meaningful employment.

The main problem with the crime bill was that it was not enforced equitably and blacks and Latinos were dispropor tionately arrested and imprisoned. Had whites been arrested at the rates they committed the same drug crimes that law would have been changed within 6 months.

Of course we would rather recall the Lewinsky affair than what actually happened.