In his book Crashing The Party, U.S. consumer advocate Ralph Nader indicated at least 20 historical reasons why most U.S. anti-war activists don’t believe the Clintons deserve a third term in the White House:
1. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration promoted legislation for welfare reform that ended the federal safety net and put many children at risk.
2. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration lobbied, with big business, NAFTA and GATT into law against labor, consumer, environmental and human-rights groups.
3. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration expanded corporate welfare programs.
4. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration approved dozens of giant mergers in the chemical, oil, drug, defense, agribusiness, media, HMO, hospital, auto, banking, and other financial industries.
5. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration encouraged larger military weapons exports by the private munitions companies using taxpayer subsidies and approved many costly, redundant weapons programs.
6. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration supported a bloated military budget, post-Soviet Union, driven more by defense industry greed than national defense needs.
7. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration failed to enforce laws against corporate crime, fraud, and abuse.
8. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration gave away to corporations massive taxpayer assets in national resources, scientific, health, space and other R & D areas.
9. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration bailed out, with taxpayer billions, reckless foreign governments and oligarchies through the IMF.
10. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration opened up large areas of Northern Alaska for oil and gas drilling and supported the destruction by coal companies of mountaintops in Appalachia.
11. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration gave the auto companies an eight-year holiday from higher fuel-efficiency and auto safety standards.
12. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration signed legislation eroding civil liberties and produced a record that commentators called “abysmal.”
13. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration under-enforced the civil rights laws while orating for them.
14. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration backed large corporate prison expansions and failed to address the discriminatory pattern of criminal justice enforcement.
15. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration supported foreign dictatorships and oligarchies that have suppressed their people.
16. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration continued the deep sleep of the regulatory agencies at the expense of health, safety, and economic assets of consumers and workers.
17. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration favored big agribusiness over the family farmer.
18. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration subsidized and gave the biotechnology industry insulation from regulation.
19. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration raised large amounts of money from almost every corporate interest and let big money continue to nullify honest elections.
20. Between 1993 and 2001, the Clintons’ first administration opposed ways and means to facilitate consumers, workers, taxpayers, and investors banding together for self-defense.
In addition, between 1993 and 2001 the husband of Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Commander-in-Chief Bill Clinton, ordered the Pentagon to bomb Yugoslavia for 78 days and nights, continued U.S. economic sanctions and rocket attacks upon the people of Iraq, and ordered the Pentagon to also illegally bomb Somalia, Bosnia, Sudan and Afghanistan.
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