2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My Endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton for President [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)of illumination.
To your points:
Wages have been stagnating since the Reagan years. This stagnation is not the fault of Clinton, but the trade agreement that he signed and promoted exacerbated this trend. (You did not comment on this point) If more than 22 million LIVING WAGE jobs had been created I would have cheered. Instead, because of NAFTA, manufacturing jobs left the country and were replaced by WalMart jobs and various other types of McJobs that do not pay a living wage.
As to your point about Pell Grants and Internet access, students are graduating to a future as WalMart workers, Uber and Lyft drivers, and various other part time, non-career forms of slave labor. Again, because NAFTA allows ( as will the TPP) for manufacturers to abandon the US for slave wage countries and bring these slave produced products back into the US.
I will acknowledge the Brady Bill and the FMLA, as well as your other points, but I did not say that the Clinton Presidency was devoid of accomplishments. I took exception to Leser's attempt to paint it as some sort of golden age of accomplishment. Clinton, like Obama, is basically a moderate Republican in an age of lunatic Republicans. Both have some liberal tendencies, but both subscribe to and follow a corporate agenda that subordinates the needs of the many for the profits of the few.
I missed your comments about Clinton's welfare "reform" as well as Clinton's promotion of the Gramm Leach Blily Act that allowed for the various Bush era bubbles, including the last one that nearly wrecked the economy.
I hope that this airbrush attack was clearer, and I await YOUR response as to my other points.