5meoz t1_ivla6yg wrote
This rebranding of The Democrats from The People's party to the servants of elites and the dark government is the biggest reason America is in the major shit fight it is today. Clinton removed the 1930's depression safeguards, which allowed the finance industry to have free reign, which created the 2008 financial crisis and the soon to be much bigger one. Clinton removed trade restrictions first with NAFTA and then the Free World Trade agreements. Which gutted Lower/Middle class America by obliterating American Industry and making China what it is today, a bigger threat than the U.S.S.R. was. Whole American factories had all their machinery placed in shipping crates to send to China, leaving thousands of empty warehouses and armies of unemployed. The funny/sad thing is that Ross Perot, the Billionaire third candidate who ran against Clinton and Bush, had his bean counters do the maths and said that America would have prosperity under free trade agreements for 2-3 decades and then basically become a basket case in massive debt, that would have to import the majority of its goods because it couldn't make them any longer. The U.S. now holds 31 Trillion in debt and here we are. Thankyou Mr & Mrs Clinton.
plummbob t1_ivlkywy wrote
I don't remember the unemployment rate being particularly high in the 90s.
5meoz t1_ivlru6t wrote
That is the thing Ross Perot said, you will have a seemingly amazing prosperity for a few decades, with amazingly cheap consumer goods, but then the bubble will burst. He said that eventually all the people that do your manufacturing will become as wealthy as you and then you will become their slaves. Clinton deregulated the financial sector and basically gave them the keys to do what they wanted in America. And the financial sector being what it is, went insane with that power, gutting the American dream in the process and making the Elites of the country superwealthy. The People that created the 2008 crash, were never punished but ended up being rewarded for the trillions of dollars they lost in financial sectors around the world. Millions lost their homes, savings, pension funds, while the elite's in finance gave themselves huge cash bonuses. The American people were the ones that ended up footing the bill for the financial sector's greed. Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to basically hand over the keys to this powerful elite, forgetting the people he was supposed to represent in the process. This destroyed the yin/yang balance that had existed in the past between democrats and republicans, to tilt the scales permanently in one direction.
plummbob t1_ivlvmma wrote
>He said that eventually all the people that do your manufacturing will become as wealthy as you and then you will become their slaves
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But then they loose their comparative advantage, the reason people traded with them at all, and those low-cost manufacturing firms will move elsewhere, and you'll just import/export intermediate white-collar goods. Like, there isn't a bubble to burst.
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Really -- you should ignore the veiled fear of the "foreigner" and just think of trade as a technological black box -- that there its a whole different country is irrelevant. You put in good x, and it spits out good y. And the greater the difference in prices x and y are, the more it will spit out. That the box is actually a country across the ocean is irrelevant.
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>And the financial sector being what it is, went insane with that power, gutting the American dream in the process and making the Elites of the country superwealthy.
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power to do what? make loans? People want to limit the supply of housing and are surprised that prices balloon. Its baffling.
PuraVida3 t1_ivltnr0 wrote
Amazing how this all was from one 8 year period. Where did you get your bachelor's?
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