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What Shall We Call the Clinton Decade?
Grandpa Dave
| 4-10-02
| breakem
Posted on 04/11/2002 12:06:11 PM PDT by breakem
The 80s were called by many the "me decade." This stemmed from liberals who were jealous of the wealth created during the Reagan terms. After the many scandals and the corruption and wealth created by corrupt business practices in companies like Enron and Global X which were supported by Clinton and his operatives, it seems only fitting that we should coin a term for the "Clinton" decade. Something suitable to reflect the government and business corruption inspired by the criminal in the wh.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: clinton; corruption; economy; eighties; nineties; reagan
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To: Grampa Dave
"We need a great hummer of a descriptive term for these years under the Toon!"
The Decade that ended "the era of BIG GOVERNMENT!" As declared by the President of Depravitas... william jefferson cliton.
To: breakem
The decade of filth
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posted on
04/12/2002 12:56:06 AM PDT
by
poet
To: Alamo-Girl;breakem
I can't turn a phrase to make words like "lawlessness," "selfishness," and "pretentiousness" catchy.Guess not, but it'd sure look good in print attached to Klintoon's name.
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posted on
04/12/2002 3:10:23 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: breakem
How about "The Decade of Greedy GOvernment."
To: breakem
Rather than memorialize it by giving it a name lets just ignore it and skip straight from the Reagan/bush years to the Bush years.
I don't even include those years in the list of presidents. The list ends Reagan, Bush, Bush.
clintons legacy is irrelevance. Lets keep it that way.
God Save America (Please)
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posted on
04/12/2002 6:35:30 AM PDT
by
John O
To: breakem
Decade of Asprin Factories
To: Texaggie79
You might have some good ones...
To: MotleyGirl70
$10 million Missiles and $10 Tents.
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posted on
04/12/2002 9:19:12 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: breakem
The Decade of Decaydence sounds great!
THE DECAYDENCE DECADE!
OR
DECADE OF DECAYDENCE
Actually I like the DECADE OF DECAYDENCE!
The DECADE OF DECAYDENCE can apply to anything soiled/ruined by the Clintoons and their criminals. It works for our security, finances and the decay of morality.
To: John O
If he had Nixon's dignity, he'd go away for 10 years or so.
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posted on
04/12/2002 9:20:42 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: MotleyGirl70
I call it "Thank God it's over!"
To: Argh
Actually, the 70's were called the "me" decade, while they were still going on.
More specifically, it was Tom Wolfe who hung "The Me Decade" upon the 1970s - in an essay called "The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening," which remains in print in his collection Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter & Vine.
As for the Clinton decade, how about...it depends on what your definition of 'decade' is...
To: BluesDuke
Hi there, and thank you. My Alzheimer's needs all the help it can get...
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posted on
04/12/2002 10:06:26 AM PDT
by
Argh
To: breakem
The 1990s were great! The internet exploded into use. People were making money hand over fist. Music was good again (well, the early 90s anyways). Politically, the Republicans took control of both houses in '94 and prevented Clinton from really screwing it up.
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posted on
04/12/2002 10:13:36 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: BluesDuke
Thanx. I'm suffering from Old-timers disease.
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posted on
04/12/2002 11:04:32 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: Grampa Dave, Liz
Declare a winner and let's get out of here.
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posted on
04/12/2002 11:05:41 AM PDT
by
breakem
To: Kalashnikov_68
Politically, the Republicans took control of both houses in '94 and prevented Clinton from really screwing it up.
Reasonable minds (James Bovard, for one, in "feeling your pain": The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore years; David Schippers, in Sell Out, for another) might dispute that. Enablement (which is precisely what the Republican-controlled Congress - and that control, in case one had forgotten, shrank little by little as the Clinton era went onward - did, in the final analysis) did not prevent Clinton from really screwing it up. And it only begins with Mr. Bovard's observation that, even though the Republicans had control of Congress for six of the eight Clinton years, most Congressmen of either party had little real interest or desire to know just how the government's programs were or weren't working, or how it was really putting the screws in. To borrow a phrase, they had their chance - they did not lead. And we're still paying a severe price for it.
If Americans want good government, then dozens of government programs must be abolished and hundreds of laws that turn government into a public nuisance must be repealed. All other "reforms" will only prolong the abuse of the American people. - James Bovard.
To: BluesDuke
To borrow a phrase, they had their chance - they did not lead. Certainly it can be looked at that way. However, I shudder to think how bad things would have been had the Republicans *not* gained control of congress during the Clinton years.
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posted on
04/12/2002 11:41:05 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: breakem;grampadave
I'll anoint the "Decadent Decade."
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posted on
04/12/2002 11:41:40 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: breakem
The 'Out to Lunch' Decade or the 'Political Runaway Train' Decade or the 'Cigar' Decade
Or how about the Media Decade or Decade of the Press.
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