What did Bill Clinton do for the US?

Question

My teacher posts blogs on the 2008 elections, and one kid wrote how bill clinton did nothing

I hate the kid, and also disagree with him too

so what can I say about Bill Clinton?

Answer 1

he got rid of the deficit ,got 2 million people off welfare,he put like 100,000 more police on the streets thus cutting crime etc..

Answer 2

I'll give Clinton this, he believed an educated America is a better America and passed into law a bill that basically paid for the first two years of everyone's college.

Bill also raised taxes and ignored many threats. But all in all, he wasn't a bad President. I didn't like him. I wouldn't have voted for him if I was of voting age, and he had many, many embarrassing moments as President. But, he wasn't a bad one either. Lucky he fell into a great economey due to Bill Gates. But, nothing really special.

Answer 3

One example... In August 1993, Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which passed Congress without a single Republican vote. It raised taxes on the wealthiest 1.2% of taxpayers,[35] while cutting taxes for 15 million low-income families and making tax cuts available to 90% of small businesses.[36] Additionally, it mandated that the budget be balanced over a number of years, through the implementation of spending restraints. You can read more of the good things Clinton did here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_clinton

Answer 4

He convinced Osama Bin Laden that we were cowards and that he would be able to win, after attacking U.S. 9 times with no retaliation from Clinton. The only thing Clinton did in retaliation was to consider the islamic terrorist KLA (which Bin Laden founded) freedom fighters and helped them destroy our longtime allies the serbs. Also Clinton sold nuclear missle technology to communist china and illegally accepted campaign contributions from them.
Not to mention disgracing the office of the presidency by cheating on his wife with an employee of his and lying under oath and losing his law licence and being impeached.

Answer 5

Clinton tried to do a lot of good things.
One of the first things he tried to do was provide for health care for all Americans... even though he didn't get it, just putting it out there was great.
He did balance the budget and actually managed to produce savings... something unheard-of in the 20th century.

Where he screwed up... and I guess this was him "paying the unseen piper" was when he signed NAFTA into effect... basically dissolving our southern border with Mexico, sparking a one-time building boom of American-owned factories south of the border (maquiladores), followed by what H. Ross Perot called "that big sucking sound" as American jobs left our country... the "big suck" was kicking in just as the 2000 elections was taking effect.

Answer 6

Bill Clinton was a do nothing President.

Clinton inherited a recovering economy. He was incredibly lucky to be President during the birth of an entire industry and all the wealth created during the dot.com boom and bubble.

He left an economy that was tanking for Bush. Stocks started diving in March 2000, economic growth was going down his last 2 quarters in office, and unemployment ticked up .3% in January 2001.

You can look these facts up on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis web site.

He promised a middle class tax cut, and a few short weeks after obtaining office, said he couldn't do it and passed a tax hike instead.

With the tax revenues booming and a red hot economy, he put no important reforms into place. He didn't fix Social Security, fix Health Care (which was his main campaign issue), nor reform taxes during this golden opportunity.

His Foreign policy and national security work was do nothing also. He inherited Iraq and did NOTHING productive with it for the entire 8 years, leaving it pretty much the way he found it for W. He did nothing to respond to several terrorist attacks on the US during his term.

He couldn't keep Congress Democrat, and in 1994 suffered one of the worst political defeats when the GOP won an enormous amount of seats in the House of Senate, giving them control for the next 12 years.

His sole accomplishments were:
1. Welfare reform (against the wishes of his own party)
2. NAFTA (again against the wishes of his own party)
3. And he wisely prohibited his own party from taxing the internet, thus allowing it to grow and prosper.

All in all, a pretty sad record of accomplishment considering the outrageously good economic fortune he stumbled into. I doubt a potted plant could have done a whole lot worse.

Answer 7

he not only got our country out of debt but he left the office with a surplus...plus he got the poverty rate to drop with less people on welfare....other than the fact that he took care of the people....he was also very good with people and negotiating with other countries

Answer 8

Well I guess he did give us a sex education, he taught Monica How not to wear a blue dress they show stain ,He taught how you can commit Adultery,and be forgiven by your wife then go on and help her run for President. he taught us you can get on national T.V. and lie, But it is not a lie if he tells it.
He taught us how to smoke pot and not inhale. and that makes it all right. He was great on promises, that he kept forgetting to follow through on. Yeah I think He taught us a lot. now he wants us, to let's do it again with Hillary, I guess he wanting to finally play fair, Bless his Heart.

Answer 9

i know how you feel. Say this....
he is one of the democrats that worked effectively with a different party( Republican) Congress in an "era of divided government."
He balanced the budget, and had the longest period of surplus budget.
He exercised some of his inherent power given the Constitution and used a line-item veto cut out of the pork-barrel legislation in bills. (dont mention that line item veto was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court)
This might shut him up :)

Answer 10

I am not sure. But I got a good job that supported my family under the Clinton adminstration. My job just got shipped to China and Mexico under that Shrub administration.

Answer 11

He pushed for gun control real hard and brought the republicans to power. So he did that for the US.