The Failure Of Bill Clinton's Welfare Reform

Bill Clinton accomplished many things while he was president, even though many of his reforms failed and it was revealed to he was having an affair with his secretary. As a whole, Clinton isn’t viewed as a president who had good morals and many in the future will show the same thing. (1) In many of his Domestic affairs, like the new welfare act, that decreased the amount of people on welfare, he was successful. In other areas, like his healthcare reform and his fight for gay rights, he failed. (2) Clinton held many success in foreign affairs like NAFTA and the Dayton Accords, but failed with preventing terrorist attacks. (3) Clinton was impeached for committing the crimes of perjury and obstruction of justice, but wasn't convicted since many
One of Clinton's domestic accomplishments was the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 because it replaced the AFDC and had a large impact on those who relied on welfare. The new act changed the system by setting new restrictions and guidelines for those who were using welfare and it lowered the percentage of people who relied on welfare by 57%. Clinton’s new Healthcare plan, however, had failed due to a large negative impact from physicians, insurance and tobacco companies, and others who this would’ve affected harshly. So of the opposed changes included the new limits by how much people were able to pay physicians with Medicare, insurance caps, and higher tax rates on tobacco companies to cover costs. Another slightly failed domestic policy Clinton tried to accomplish was to end the ban of gays in the military. Conservatives and military leaders protested the change, so to try and appease both sides, they compromised and started a “Don’t ask, don’t tell”, which continued the ban on gays in the military but prevented officers from asking service members about their sexual orientation. Clinton held more success in foreign affairs rather than domestic
One way they might see him is as a president who didn’t have great morals to be president and that he lied to all of America. They might view him and represent him as one of the few presidents who had very little moral and was the reason for lack of trust in the government. They might also give him some amount of respect for his domestic and foreign accomplishments during his presidency. Even though he was a liar, his successes had an impact on the happening within America then, now and in the