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I vote Bush by a hair. The policies Clinton PASSED were very successful. However, some of the ones that were shot down in the House and Senate were extremely foolish. One good example is the Family Medical Leave Act. The version that originally passed is a good idea because it encourages women to take adequate leave from work during and after pregnancy. This leave is not paid since you aren't working. It's fair to the employee since she keeps her position and doesn't start at square one, and fair to the company because they're not paying for a three month vacation. Clinton tried to change that to make it a PAID leave at employer expense and that was shut down. Imagine what could have happened: Employers silently excluding women 21-35 just so they don't go bankrupt. Small businesses just don't have a billion dollar bank account, and the funny thing is that big businesses don't either.
(Not when 3000 women out of 20,000 employees goes on paid FMLA in one year)
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