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In reply to the discussion: Bill Clinton, STFU [View all]markiv
(1,489 posts)YES, Clinton's presidency was the best economic period of my adult lifetime
BUT, I also know how to connect the dots
I voted for Perot in 1992, because of NAFTA, I voted for Clinton in 1996 is spite of NAFTA, because things were finally getting better
but my vote was repaid with 2 massive increases in H-1b visa increases in 1998 and 2000, that more than took back what the clinton years 'gave' me, makiing indentured servitude the biggest factor in tech labor
and the MFN-China finished off manufacturing, along with all the white collor jobs that support it. it created our reality of american workers trying to 'compete' with chinese slaves, and steve job's Apple factories with suicide nets, and having to borrow from china to make up for the holes in our economy that massive permanent trade deficits with competition from chinese slaves gave us
i'm not copying 'talking points, i'm writing from memory and experience, in answer to your lame partison accusation
yes, the architect of globalism was bush sr. and yes, it was continued by w bush AND obama. but the largest most damaging bulk of it, came in under clinton
i still remember the clinton period as 'the good years' - but i also know that the bad years that came after (and are still continuing) came from the stuff he signed. he destryed what little leverage the middle and working classes had, and sentenced them to serfdom