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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Clinton's Out of Touch Economically -- and That's a Big Deal
http://www.alternet.org/economy/bill-clintons-out-touch-economically-and-thats-big-dealHe's eloquent, he's popular ... and he's out of touch with the daily lives of most Americans. Bill Clinton's economic worldview spells trouble, both for a party that's still reeling from defeat and for a nation where millions of people struggle just to make ends meet.
Hillary Clinton, the heavily-favored contender for the Democratic nomination, has made Bill's presidency and her role in it an essential part of her resume. But "Clintonism," the Wall Street-friendly economic ideology of a bygone era, has passed its sell-by date. The former president's latest remarks confirm that.
The 1990s are over. This is a different country now, both economically and politically. But the presumptive nominee's partner and most important colleague still holds views which are sharply at odds with both economic reality and the nation's mood. That's a big deal. His opinions could have a profound impact on our political and economic future.
If Hillary Clinton disagrees with the former president's views, she hasn't said so.
Positive vibrations.
When Bill Clinton speaks on economic issues, he reveals a deep wellspring of neoliberal belief and a profound detachment from the lived experience of most Americans. His latest slip took place in a speech he gave this week at the University of Southern California. After some bland bromides ("The Internet has done a lot of good" and self-helpish sounding political advice ("what you gotta have is an agenda and get things done" , the former president said this:
"We are in the best shape of any big country in the world in the next 20 years. No big country that is running this well is as young as we are, as diverse as we are or as technological as we are. In the next 20 years, there will be bad days, there will be bad headlines, but you can keep the trend lines positive."
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Bill Clinton's Out of Touch Economically -- and That's a Big Deal (Original Post)
xchrom
Nov 2014
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BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)1. We're number 10
in Internet speed:
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/04/23/u-s-10th-in-average-internet-speed-rankings-s-korea-still-no-1/
First in profits, though, I'm sure.
Bill's bromides do need updating.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)2. Seems he's right in
line with how he's always believed?
Reaganomics Lite?
sendero
(28,552 posts)3. Bill Clinton....
.. is the CHIEF, even bigger than Reagan, enabler of the disaster of an economy we have right now. Look no further than NAFTA, free unreciprocated trade with China, the repeal of Glass-Stegall, the signing of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, and on and on.
Clinton is a rich man because he gave the corporatists and banskters everything they needed to rob the citizens blind.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)4. Out of touch? (burp!)