How can Bill Clinton be put in charge of the economy he played a MAJOR role in destroying?

[Skwmom]

NAFTA, WTO, Deregulation, etc.

This is like putting Bernie Maddof in charge of the SEC.

What in the hell is wrong with this country?

[dchill]

1. That was for a specific audience.

It will be "walked back." Do try to be fair. And watch your tone!

[winter is coming]

34. If Kentucky was the audience, it was a mistake.

No love for NAFTA there, that I ever heard of.

[Cosmic Kitten]

61. Wall St is the audience

Make no mistake,
Hillary is signaling to
Wall St things won't change.

And the insult to injury is that
she's doing right in the face
of those worst hit by neo-liberalism

[Txbluedog]

2. Globalization

Are you seriously suggesting that in this day and age, someone, anyone has the power to stop it?

[Armstead]

19. Not stop but control its impact on our own economy and society

...unless the Corporate Trade Agenda continues to be rammed through unchallenged.

[pdsimdars]

3. Here's the graphic (thanks to another DUer)

.

[840high]

46. .that^

[NWCorona]

4. What's the definition of insanity again?

[sailfla]

5. Eight years of peace and prosperity

How can we handle that again

[jeff47]

16. As long as you don't look past the headline numbers, it looks great!! (nt)

[BootinUp]

6. Longest period of expansion <> destruction

[stevenleser]

7. I know, these revisionist history posts are hilarious. Thank providence their candidate is losing.

This kind of warped view of reality should never be given power.

[Starry Messenger]

8. Does the name Bush mean nothing to any of you?

It's like everyone took a nap from 2000 on.

[rbrnmw]

17. No it's President Clinton bad, President Obama bad,

Dubya who?

[JoePhilly]

18. +1

[Starry Messenger]

20. +2

I mean, let's be real here.

[Baobab]

32. The huge dip on the left is 2008- but- the seeds for that dip were sown in 1998

http://www.citizen.org/documents/That%27sAllTheyGot.pdf

https://www.citizen.org/documents/Memo%20-%20Unanswered%20questions%20memo%20for%20Geneva.pdf

https://www.citizen.org/documents/memo-gats-conflict-with-bank-size-limits-may-10-2011.pdf

[Starry Messenger]

37. Mmmmm.

Dirty socks. Time for Tide!

[Starry Messenger]

40. Awwwww.

Sorry you are so sad. Good luck with your muy successful organizing efforts, which are obviously working out great for you. Nothing like victory in defeat, where you can cry in your PBR with the rest of the hipsters.

[Starry Messenger]

43. *Yawn*

And you are? A sadsack sock.

[Starry Messenger]

45. Um, are you going to start making sense anytime soon?

The only liquidation of your brand of "leftism" is making sure there is still enough beer in the keg. Whoever you are, I doubt you've done anything except grow out a goatee to look serious.

I sleep great. Tell Romululz I said hi.

Edit: thanks MIRT. And to my new friend and now ex-stalker, no I never changed. My analysis became sharper, and I am involved as an organizer in broad movements, none of which will be served well by being destroyed by a Trump win. If you can't see that forest for the trees, you are doing leftism wrong.

http://www.narconews.com/Issue67/article4708.html

If you ever decide to make your hobby into something serious, you should read that article.

[LexVegas]

54. Now THAT was an epic smackdown.

[Starry Messenger]

59. Haha!

I know these guys, they swan around in Carhartts and tell all the women how bourgeois they are. If one ever comes up with something original, I'll perish from shock.

[forjusticethunders]

64. dammit i missed it

[840high]

47. Nice site. Bookmarked. Thanks.

[JTFrog]

63. Nice alliance.

Typical.

[obamanut2012]

49. QUIT POSTING FACTS

YOU BROCKNATION SHILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xxxxxxxxxxxx

[Starry Messenger]

50. Heck, we lived through it!

But what do we know!

[obamanut2012]

53. ikr

[bahrbearian]

67. I remember

[JaneyVee]

9. Anyone remember George W. Bush?

As for Bill Clinton: 23 million jobs, the longest stretch of peacetime in US history, the lowest Af-American unemployment rate in US history, nominated the 2 most liberal justices in US history, taxed the rich, and left a budget surplus. 

[gollygee]

10. I hate NAFTA but

I can't help but remember how easy it was to get and keep a good, high paying job with good benefits during the Clinton years.

And Reagan and the Bushes were the ones behind deregulation.

[puffy socks]

12. They were also

behind NAFTA.

[elleng]

15. To some extent but

deregulation occurred under Jimmy Carter. It had become a 'fad' for some economists.

'In order to address these growing concerns airline deregulation began in the USA in 1978. It was, and still is, a part of a sweeping experiment to ultimately reduce ticket prices and entry controls holding sway over new airline hopefuls. Airline deregulation had begun with initiatives by economist Alfred E. Kahn in the Nixon administration, carried through the Ford administration and finally, at the behest of Ted Kennedy, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_deregulation

[polly7]

24. Due only to the technology boom and the wealth and opportunity it created. imo. nt.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. A vote for Hillary is really a vote for Billary. They are a package deal.

King and Queen. American royalty.

[Skwmom]

13. The Disastrous Duo haven't done enough damage? They want to finish the job...

[SFnomad]

21. I'd take the "disastrous duo" over another Dubya any day of the week

It's funny how so many BS cheerleaders and Republicans have amnesia when it comes to Jan 2001 thru Jan 2009.

[Yurovsky]

25. W is running?

Wow, I need to pay closer attention...

[SFnomad]

26. W was the disaster ... the Clintons were not ... pay attention and keep up n/t

[winter is coming]

35. It's not an either/or choice.

[840high]

48. Maybe they're broke again?

[elleng]

14. That's why elections matter, of course.

[polly7]

22. I know, this one has got me scratching my head.

He did so much damage.

[Karma13612]

23. guess i better start studying for the Canada citizenship test.... if only. eom

[Yurovsky]

27. maybe he can head up youth outreach....

Seems like he's been doing that a lot with his pal Jeffrey Epstein...

[Tarc]

28. Yea, that massive surplus and low unemployment! HOW DARE HE???

Go to bed, Newt Gingrich, you've had too many cherry cordials tonight.

[NurseJackie]

29. It's going to be a very long eight years for you guys.

[Buzz cook]

30. Clinton saved the economy by raising taxes on the rich

And giving the poor and working class the largest tax cuts they'd ever seen.

[Recursion]

31. The longest sustained wage increases since the 1950s, the lowest unemployment ever

yeah, I honestly don't think gaslighting Americans about the 1990s are going to work; too many of us were alive then.

[Skwmom]

39. It was what was going on with the economy at the time and had nothing to do with Clinton.

[Recursion]

42. Whatever

I'm sure he's just the luckiest bastard on earth or something; the fact that he raised taxes on the rich, spent them on the poor and middle class, and encouraged business investment and development was just a coincidence, and that when W cut taxes on the rich and stopped spending on the poor and middle class and stopped encouraging business investment and development and the growth stopped, that was just a coincidence too.

Good luck selling that.

[dragonfly301]

33. I hope Bill is asking Santa for another dot.com bubble

that's why the economy boomed during his administration.

[Skwmom]

58. He takes credit for what he didn't do and refuses to take credit for the damage he did.

[dragonfly301]

62. Kind of like Hillary wanting credit for being more than a first lady

except when it comes to the crime bill and welfare reform...

[obamanut2012]

51. lolz

[LexVegas]

52. Clinton Derangement Syndrome is strong when you can forget Bush. nt

[Skwmom]

55. How can we forget Bush. He's Clinton's brother-in-law.

[obamanut2012]

57. lolz

[B Calm]

56. The guy who told congressional republicans and DINO's to pass NAFTA and he'll sign it into law will

be back in charge again, how damn comforting is that?

[Cosmic Kitten]

60. How you ask? OLIGARCHY

average people don't matter
as long as they create profit
for the overclass

[ViseGrip]

65. More lapse in judgment from Hillary, to announce Bill to be out there working.

On anything!

No more Bushs or Clintons.

Tired of them already!

[bahrbearian]

66. Next he'll want to repeal Dodd-Frank

[JudyM]

68. Because of The Myth of his economic resuscitation.