DEMOCRATS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

[clarence swinney]

No one will tell the people

-----------82 good things done by Democrats-----------------

Can anyone name ten for Republicans

Credit for this information goes my friend, a great mind, and his terrific site

Ray Dubuque—www.liberalslike Christ.org-----------------

1.civilian conservation corps
2.public works adm.--works progress adm
3.unemployment relief act
4.national industrial recovery act
5.national housing act
6.federal communications act
7.national labor relations act-wagner act of 1935
8.fair labor standards act (min wage & max hours laws)
9.GI bill of rights
10.social security act
11.Tennessee valley (power) authority
12.rural electrification act
13.full employment act
14.permanent school lunch program
15. Truman ended segregation in armed forces
16.veterans emergency housing act
17.public health service act
18.marshall plan
19.peace corps
20.aid to dependent children program
21.small business investment act
22.establishment of arms control and disarmament agency
23.consumer drug protection laws
24.equal pay act
25.manpower development and retraining act
26.clean air act
27.mental health and mental retardation act
28.college and vocational education act
29.civil rights act
30.voting rights act
31.mass transportation act
32.omnibus poverty act (office of economic opportunity, vista, job corps and public assistance programs)
33.war on poverty
34.head start (for pre-school children)
35.land conservation fund
36.permanent food stamp program
37.appalachia regional development act
38.elementary and secondary education act
39.higher education act
40.older Americans act (medicare and medicaid)
41.law enforcement assistance act
42.immigration reform act
43.freedom of information act
44.clean water restoration act
45.coal mine health and safety act
46.child protection
47.federal ethics code
48.civil service reform
49.creation of superfund (cleanup of toxic waste)
50.secretary of health joseph califano(fight tobacco health threat)
51.votings rights act extension
52.highway and mass transit funding bill
53.civil rights restoration act
54.head start expansion
55.Americans with disabilities act
56.major tax increase on the wealthy to fight deficits created by Reagan and Bush
57.family medical leave act
58.attempted to extend/or improve health insurance coverage for millions of Americans
59.restoration of democracy to haiti
60.restoration of peace to bosnia
61.promotion of peace in south Africa
62.promotion of peace in northern Ireland
63.promotion of peace in Israel and Palestine
64.increases in minimum wage
65.promotion of spending on inner-city schools
66.opposition to abolition of safety net for the poor
67.protection of social security and medicare
68.promotion of justice for victims of racism
69.protection of children from cancer inducing tobacco industry
70.constantly frustrated efforts to enact thorough campaign finance
71.appointment of many minorities and women to cabinet positions
72.resolution of long-standing black farmers discrimination issues
73.leadership role in nato’s campaign to stop ethnic cleansing in kosovo.
74.major efforts to challenge the dangerous proliferation of guns in America
75.ameri-corps
76. pay their way party—1960 to 1980—National Income grew 418%--Debt grew 210%
1980 to 1992National Income grew 102%--Debt grew 300%.
Democrats pay their way-Republicans party of spend and borrow-our kids pay
Tomorrow
77. party for strong defense—carter increased defense spending by 50%--
Nixon-Ford cut Army troops by 41% and Reagan-Bush cut by 11%
78. Party of Integrity---Reagan had more(137) charged with crimes than cumulative total for all presidents of 20th century.
79. vacation with pay
80.trade union schools—forerunner to community colleges
81.worker retirement pensions
82.veterans administration

Clarence Swinney—Political Research Historian—Burlington nc—
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Great Gop achievements—
Eisenhower initiated Interstate Highway
Reagan signed Martin Luther King holiday
Nixon signed affirmative action law
Nixon initiated EPA
Nixon initiated Osha