1) decrease the number of families on welfare by 60%
2) decrease unemployment by 50%
3) lower the poverty rate by 30%
4) lower teen pregnancies by 20% and decrease the number of abortions
5) stop the growth of out of wedlock births
6) increase support of children by dead-beat dads by 80%
What kind of president could possibly be this Republican dream?
2007-11-26 08:35:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Those are actual stats of Bill Clinton's Presidency.
2007-11-26 09:10:02 · update #1
Fact remains most republicans dont actually care about those things. Most Republicans are for
-nutty religion rammed down our throats
-holding war as a viture
-big business drowning out the working class
-Increased social spending when it suits their agenda.
Good list you got there. Sounds great, but who really cares?
Democrats maybe.
2007-11-26 08:43:38 · answer #1 · answered by Zinger! 3 · 3⤊ 9⤋
1.) Absolutely necessary, and completely achievable, so long as greater oversight on welfare is used.
2.) Unemployment is fairly low right now. But the market is strong.
3.) Not overly difficult.
4.) not a concern, nor should the government have anything to do with this, except for REAL sex-ed.
5.) reread #4
6.) again, just a matter of better enforcement.
I could do it. but you'll have to wait 12 years for the first election after I turn 35.
2007-11-26 17:04:16 · answer #2 · answered by Darkwolf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) Why only 60, why not 100%. Get rid of welfare entirely.
2) This is not the president's job.
3) Again, not the president's job. You can never get rid of poverty, it's not possible.
4) The president can not affect how many teenagers have sex. Why just decrease abortions, get rid of them.
5) The president can not affect this.
6) The only thing the president could do would be to enforce the laws, and maybe push for stiffer penalties.
Most of the things you listed are beyond the president's control according to the Constitution.
2007-11-26 16:56:03 · answer #3 · answered by Aegis of Freedom 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Really that would be God. There is no man capable of doing that but naturally there are plenty who'd like to claim they were responsible for it.
Credit given to a president for those things would definitely be misguided-but it would be par for a politician to say it and the public to buy it.
2007-11-26 16:41:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Would he also put our nation and the world at risk by not participating in international policing? By not confronting threats to the nation and the world? Allowing genocide and other crimes against humanity occur without assisting the victims ...because it's not our business?
2007-11-26 16:45:46 · answer #5 · answered by gcbtrading 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
And, any President has control over this how?
This question is symbolic of why our Nation may officially be done. This idea that the President, our national daddy as that long-haired idiot in the one 1996 debate so pathetically put it, has this kind of power. Simply pathetic.
2007-11-26 16:41:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like campaign promises. It does sound like a dream.
2007-11-26 16:44:38 · answer #7 · answered by Just my opinion 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(said with a southern draw) captain, if only a man with such drive and desire to make the world a better place would come along, he could truly change the world. my hero!!!
2007-11-26 16:49:26 · answer #8 · answered by BRYAN H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, isnt it great Bush has done these things
2007-11-26 16:46:50 · answer #9 · answered by NEO PIRATE 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Republican presidents never accomplish their 'aims', so it must be the great Republican Bill Clinton. lol
2007-11-26 16:42:16 · answer #10 · answered by CaesarLives 5 · 5⤊ 4⤋