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Armstead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 06:36 PM
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23. The Clintons were neo-liberals -- another word for GOP style free marketers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

William Greider in the interview linked above explains it in much more detail and much more artiulatly than I can.

Short answer though is that they supported the same agenda of privatization, defacto deregulation and other policies that have hollowed out the American economy, weakened the middle class and poor and enabled the frightening monopolization of corporations. They are acolytes of Alan Greenspan, who was an acolyte of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman and the "Chicago School" of ultra free market economics.

It was a disaster that came to full fruition after Bush took over.
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  -Why does H. Clinton receive such high marks on the economy? Skwmom  Feb-03-08 06:07 PM   #0 
  - Her economic stimulus package is bullshit  JFKgirl   Feb-03-08 06:09 PM   #1 
  - Have you always been this bitter sounding??  rodeodance   Feb-03-08 06:26 PM   #16 
  - "Top economists" said the same thing about Bill Clinton's economic plan  niceypoo   Feb-04-08 09:42 AM   #39 
  - While you at it, why don't you throw in 9/11 & Darfur just for the hell of it.  The_Casual_Observer   Feb-03-08 06:09 PM   #2 
  - So are you saying that the Clintons pushing "free trade" did not  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:16 PM   #4 
     - They weren't around to manage it for the last 8 years. However, in  The_Casual_Observer   Feb-03-08 06:23 PM   #12 
     - The point is that I am STUNNED that people think the Clintons have  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:25 PM   #14 
        - They were good for the economy while they could do something about the  The_Casual_Observer   Feb-03-08 06:53 PM   #33 
     - I have heard Hillary say she doesn't agree with NAFTA  bellasgrams   Feb-03-08 06:35 PM   #22 
        - That's just her superficial reply  Armstead   Feb-03-08 06:37 PM   #24 
        - Newsflash - just because Bill or Hillary Clinton says  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:46 PM   #28 
  - Oh, 22 million new jobs  Pigwidgeon   Feb-03-08 06:12 PM   #3 
  - Aggressively supporting an economic system that is destructive  Armstead   Feb-03-08 06:21 PM   #9 
  - Like, what?  Pigwidgeon   Feb-03-08 06:31 PM   #20 
     - The Clintons were neo-liberals -- another word for GOP style free marketers  Armstead   Feb-03-08 06:36 PM   #23 
  - But how many of those NEW jobs were due to the phony  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:21 PM   #10 
     - Dot-Com jobs: about a million  Pigwidgeon   Feb-03-08 06:26 PM   #15 
        - But I believe that is was more than just internet based companies  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:29 PM   #17 
           - That number was for all IT -- info technology  Pigwidgeon   Feb-03-08 06:45 PM   #27 
  - People think just because Bill had a good economy during his tenure  NJSecularist   Feb-03-08 06:17 PM   #5 
  - I think her policies are sound and progressive  Jim4Wes   Feb-03-08 06:20 PM   #8 
  - What is progressive about supporting trade agreements that  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:31 PM   #19 
     - Skwmom-Listen to her, you'll learn of her ideas on correcting  bellasgrams   Feb-03-08 06:49 PM   #29 
     - Whos platform are you talking about?  Jim4Wes   Feb-03-08 06:50 PM   #30 
     - Hillary on Inequality  Jim4Wes   Feb-03-08 06:52 PM   #32 
  - Well its more of a proven track record than Obama  Seeker30   Feb-03-08 07:10 PM   #35 
  - It has been reported ad nauseam Hilary did not agree  OHdem10   Feb-03-08 06:18 PM   #6 
  - It has been reported ad nausem that she did agree with NAFTA  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:22 PM   #11 
  - you are trying to reason with the blind-faith folks. good luck  rodeodance   Feb-03-08 06:39 PM   #26 
  - It baffles me too -- Clintonomics ws a fundamental restructuring for the worse  Armstead   Feb-03-08 06:20 PM   #7 
  - I think they need to put it in straightforward terms to the American  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:23 PM   #13 
  - And that's why the hard-core left hates Clinton  Pigwidgeon   Feb-03-08 07:02 PM   #34 
     - It's not abstract theory -- and it's not "hate"  Armstead   Feb-04-08 08:08 AM   #36 
  - Have you seen her new Job-creating Green Economy plan?--I heard  rodeodance   Feb-03-08 06:30 PM   #18 
  - I've been reading about the green economy for a while. Wow, I never  Skwmom   Feb-03-08 06:33 PM   #21 
  - She does not claim to have invented it. But you knew that didn't you!  rodeodance   Feb-03-08 06:37 PM   #25 
  - Guess that's why Hillary got Bobby Kennedy JR's nod /nt  Iceburg   Feb-04-08 09:35 AM   #38 
  - You only have to listen to her.  lamprey   Feb-03-08 06:52 PM   #31 
  - Got me by the sackolios.  HughBeaumont   Feb-04-08 08:39 AM   #37 
  - Obviously because she was physically in the white house in the 90's. LMFAO!  jeffrey_X   Feb-04-08 10:02 AM   #40 
 

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