From: jlinder@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeffrey S Linder)
Subject: Re: Clinton Gore position on women
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:17:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.150249.27832@das.harvard.edu> stewart@geophysics.harvard.
edu writes:
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Just some comments

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>*  Support efforts to ensure fair wages for all
>   workers, regardless of gender; and to ban
>   gender-based discrimination in federal hiring,
>   promotion and contracts.
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>*  Hire and appoint more women at all levels of
>   government so that a Clinton/Gore Administration
>   better reflects this country's population.
>
Does the hiring of more women include the firing of men or an increase
in the size of the gov?
Does the hiring of more women mean that qualified men will be bypassed?

>   full-time is forced to live in poverty.
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>*  Sign into law the Family and Medical Leave Act,
>   which George Bush vetoed in 1990, so that no
>   worker is forced to choose between maintaining
>   his or her job and caring for a newborn child or
>   sick family member.

I guess that all workers work in companies that employ more that 50 people.
And if your a women, don't advance too far because the top 10% wage earners
are not covered either.


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>*  Create a child care network as complete as the
>   public school network, tailored to the needs of
>   working families; give parents choices between
>   competing public and private institutions.

Just what we need, more gov. agencies and beauracracy.
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>*  Establish more rigorous standards for licensing
>   child care facilities and implement improved
>   methods for enforcing them.

Just what we need, more gov regulations.


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>*  Crack down on deadbeat parents by reporting them
>   to credit agencies, so they can't borrow money
>   for themselves when they're not taking care of
>   their children.  Use the Internal Revenue Service
>   to collect child support, start a national
>   deadbeat databank, and make it a felony to cross
>   state lines to avoid paying support.

Can you say "Big Brother?"

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>Ensure affordable, quality health care for all
>Americans
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>*  Provide health coverage for all Americans with a
>   core benefits package that includes ambulatory
>   physician care, in-patient hospital care,
>   prescription drugs, basic mental health services,
>   and important preventive programs like pre-natal
>   care and annual mammograms.

Why is this classified as a "women's issue?"
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>*  Develop a comprehensive maternal and child health
>   network to reduce both the infant mortality rate
>   and the number of low birth-weight babies.

Free prenatal health care is already available.
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>*  Sign the Violence Against Women Act, which would
>   provide tougher enforcement and stiffer penalties
>   to deter domestic violence.

Laws that punish violence are already on the books, use them.
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>*  Governor Clinton required every state agency to
>   develop and implement a sexual harassment policy.
Why doesn't Arkansas have civil rights legislation?

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>*  Hired women to manage his gubernatorial
>   campaigns; his longest-tenured chief-of-staff was
>   a woman.
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Some of my best friends are women.   :)

>*  Advocated passage of the Equal Rights Amendment
>   from the beginning; urged Congress to pass a
>   strong Civil Rights bill to prohibit job
>   discrimination in 1991, and appointed an Arkansas
>   task force to develop complementary state
>   legislation.

Where is it?
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>*  Bill Clinton has consistently supported
>   legislation to overturn Supreme Court decisions
>   which limit the rights of women, cosponsoring the
>   Equal Remedies Act to provide women greater
>   opportunity to gain compensation for employment
>   discrimination.

What employment rights for women have been limited by the Courts?
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>*  Cosponsored the Equal Remedies Act, which will
>   remove limitations on dollar amounts of
>   compensatory and punitive damage awards in cases
>   of intentional employment discrimination against
>   women.

A lawyer's dream come true.  Who proves intent or is the employer
guilty until proved innocent?

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>Families and children
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>*  Al Gore cosponsored the Family and Medical Leave
>   Act which President Bush vetoed.
>
Does that make Gore a hero?

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Jeff.  (I hope this post's correctly 'cause I probably wont' repost the quoted 
tect)
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