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To: bain_sidhe
*) I supported Clinton because I supported incremental change, not wholesale restructuring. I wanted to move *toward* more (what I view as) fairness in our society, with a bit more power for "the little guy" and a bit less power for "the big (money) guy" and corporations.

You think Clinton and the Clintonistas stand for "the little guy" against big money and big corporations? You sure are naive. I wonder how you'll react when the scales fall from your eyes.

76 posted on 11/09/2002 12:34:40 PM PST by aristeides
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To: aristeides
You think Clinton and the Clintonistas stand for "the little guy" against big money and big corporations? You sure are naive.

LOL! I may or may not be naive, but I'm not an idiot. Like I said, I expected incrementalism from Clinton, and that's exactly what we got. The "little guy" saw their lives get a little better, but that's not to say the corporations' lives got a lot worse. A small increase on taxes of the upper brackets. A small decrease on taxes for the lower brackets (mostly through expansion of the earned income tax credit). A little more breathing room for lower-echelon workers when they have a baby or have to care for a sick parent. Stuff like that. But I knew it would be incremental all along. You only had to look at his record in Arkansas to understand that. He worked with both big money and liberal groups to make small changes that weren't TOO offensive to business or big money, but helped make the lives of people in lower-economic strata a bit easier.

But the concentration of wealth at the top only slowed under Clinton - it didn't stop. The profits of companies increased, they didn't decrease. The middle class was a little wealthier, not because their wages went up appreciably, but because the stock market in which many of them were invested did well. No, Clinton was in NO way anti-business. He was just pro-worker TOO.

81 posted on 11/09/2002 2:40:12 PM PST by bain_sidhe
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