While not strictly done to "better America" - she has done a lot to improve the lives of children and women around the world through the Clinton Foundation.
While I appreciate what she's done for the world, I asked what she's done to better America. Just one thing.
Did you somehow MISS the bulk of my post and just focus on the last sentence????
No. I read the bulk of your post. But when I reached that specific portion of your post, I knew you didn't answer the question directly. Instead you offered in summation "While not strictly done to "better America" - she has done a lot to improve the lives of children and women
around the world through the Clinton Foundation." You essentially told me she didn't do anything to better America.
All the research I did on the Adoption and Safe Families Act shows she did a lot of lobbying, and an op ed in 1995. She then helped break a stalemate to help get the bill passed. She also did the same thing with the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Foster Care Independence Act. While these helped the children of America, I am more specifically interested in what she has done to help all of America, not one particular segment of the population.
1) She also created an office of Violence Against Women under the Justice Department. 2) She pushed to have the illness' of returning Gulf War veterans investigated, 3) and also the health consequences of first responders, 4) including drafting the first bill to finally compensate and offer the health services they deserve.
1) Of course, but the violence continues. A singular office isn't going to stop the violence.
2) And the recent atrocities committed by the VA indicate this effort was an utter failure.
3) If you are referring to the 9/11 first responders, then you should know about the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, through which Democratic malfeasance and "sequestration" caused the program to go defunct in 2012. As of last year it hasn't been reinstated, leaving all of those families and volunteers out in the cold. I haven't heard one peep from Hillary Clinton on the matter.
4) That bill you are referring to, The Homeland Security Block Grant bill (S.2038) did not pass committee. She introduced it to the Senate in 2002. It included direct funding, overtime, a 10 percent match, and coverage of retroactive expenses post September 11, 2001. The bill was read twice but was referred elsewhere to an obscure part of the Senate apparatus, where it died. While a valiant effort, it is not a notable accomplishment, nor did it help better America.
Even though her attempt at Health Care reform ultimately failed - it did set the stage for health care reform today, something I largely support and I suspect she would continue to support if elected.
Her failure in healthcare reform is the reason we have Obamacare. If anything, it did more to harm America than help it. It has done more to divide Americans. All of this over healthcare insurance.
