Reply #17: When the Europeons go on strike , they go on strike.

[camero]

They can shut down whole cities for days in certain professions.

Yes, Clinton was a Centrist, but only after the failed health care initiative. The first thing he did as pres. was to increase taxes on the wealthy and start AmeriCorps. Both ideas showing that we were all our brother's keepers.

The corporate Dems at the time did not back him on his grander initiatives because it would have been a radical change to the system.

His losses included his failure to ban companies from using replacement workers in a strike. His first budget passed 51-50 with Gore casting the tie-breaking vote.

Oh, and cut it with the intellectual uppity would ya. thanks.