Ch. 24 Notes

• Clinton barely won both of his elections with not even half of the elegible voters turning out.
• If any of the people in his administration became too bold or outspoken he would ask them to resign.
• Clinton's "Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act" quickly elevated the number of prisons and prisoners as well as the deportation of immigrants.
• Anger was often diverted from what Clinton was doing to the minorities and other groups that didn't have the resources to defend themselves from political attacks.
• The cutting off of funds to the poor families of America were diverted to fund the ever growing military budget.
• The United States quickly picked up the title of world arms dealer Sikorski attack-copters were sold primarily in the Balkan region to the governments to suppress kurdish and other rebelious people.
• Despite the constant massacres that were caused by American made weapons we turned a blind eye and kept on selling.
• The United States also seemed to have racial discimination between nations. When tribal conflict appeared in Rwanda the United States pulled back and left a skeleton force to deal with any problems. A year later almost 1 million people would be dead by genocide.
• However when small conflicts appeared in the Balkans the US went in full force.
• In the last year or so in his second term Clinton's affaor with an intern, Monica Lewinsky, was exposed and he was impeached.
• Congress however chose not to remove him from office since there were only a few months left in his term.
• Clinton did little to change the taxation policy on big business and the rich.
• He raised the "rich tax" from 31% to 37% and the tax on big business from 34% to 35%, not even enough to help rid ourselves of the 4 trillion dollar deficetmthat Reagen and Bush had built up.