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In reply to the discussion: Since when did Bill Clinton's Presidency become [View all]intheflow
(30,212 posts)59. Nice ageism.
Here's what I remember about Clinton: he started the bombing raids on Iraq, setting precedence for Dubya's trumped up 2003 invasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Iraq_(1998)
Also, I was a single mother during the Clinton era. I can't say it was an economic party for me. Although I wasn't on welfare at the time, I had been and I watched the social safety net get torched for the millions of families that depended on it. I had to work three jobs to stay afloat.
And I remember: it was during his reign that incarceration rates started to rise most sharply. Glass-Stegal was repealed. NAFTA was pushed through. The Clinton years sucked for a lot of people. That lead to disenfranchisement and apathy, which lead to the 2000 election clusterfuck - an election so close the Republicans were able to steal it.
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Well Bush did leave a huge deficit, and an ocean of blood in the Middle East.
Glassunion
Jun 2015
#1
It takes time for policy in the pipeline.We are living in Bill's NAFTA end of Glass Steagll world!
TheNutcracker
Jun 2015
#78
Not true. It was George Bush's tax cuts that led to "irrational exuberance" and the crash.
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#112
A tiny portion of the labor force worked in tech jobs or for internet companies
whatthehey
Jun 2015
#74
Does that suggest that it is of no moment whether a Republican or Hillary Clinton ...
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2015
#66
No. I know that Bill Clinton was preferable to Bush Pere and Bob Dole and Hillary
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2015
#68
Look at GDP, inflation, and unemployment in 1929 when Coolidge left office.
Spider Jerusalem
Jun 2015
#97
Wow. The Reagan administration did nothing at all for 7 entire years at the start of the AIDS crisis
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2015
#85