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SoLeftIAmRight

(4,883 posts)
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 04:10 PM Feb 2016

The Clinton economic philosophy is rooted completely and blindly ...

in the failed trickle down Chicago school of thought.

Nothing she says or does indicates that she has any understanding or even knowledge of any other options. Two generations of economist and business men/women are infused with these destructive ideas. They heap scorn on dissenters like the church did when it was faced with the idea that the earth revolves around the sun. Forty years of declining prospects for the American people has done nothing to shake the unfailing worship of Chicago school philosophy.

One of the more insidious pillars of this philosophy is that unemployment is necessary. Let that sink in. Unemployment is necessary.

For me, supporting a system or supporting the advocates of a system that ensures many millions of people must scramble and struggle to survive is abhorrent.

Full employment, a high minimum wage and income security changes everything.

Everything.

And that is what this fight is about. Far too many of the comfortable among us fear change and they will blindly fight against the ideas that they do not understand or care about.



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The Clinton economic philosophy is rooted completely and blindly ... (Original Post) SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 OP
Totaly agree. Wellstone ruled Feb 2016 #1
Yep. Gregorian Feb 2016 #2
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