Reply #93: I disagree when you say the US

[ikojo]

would not be dismantling safety nets...Clinton championed and signed legislation to do away with welfare and called it welfare reform. This was a pet project of the pugs since I was a kid in the 1070s, I remember Chuck Findley (a pug from Peoria, Illinois) campaigning on workfare in the late 70s but it seemed too extreme then. Poor people are doing much worse after welfare reform than before.

Clinton also championed NAFTA and when the WTO came to Seattle he wasn't outside with the demonstrators (as was I and approx. 50 THOUSAND other working people), no he was INSIDE with the corporate rulers of the world.

More jobs are being sent overseas now than ever before.

To the Democratic party's defense, Clinton did have to do some serious arm twisting to get NAFTA passed but the fact that he was willing to spend so much political capital on that one issue told me who he REALLY worked for. This is the one issue that caused me to only vote for him in 1996 and not work on his campaign.