Disaster capitalism

[orangecrush]

The 1990's.

8 years of Bill Clinton.

I felt fully alive.

I was working overtime.

Economy was booming.

Future looked bright.

In and out of love the whole damn decade.

No fucking 911.

No FUCKING COVID

This country was too stupid for it to last.

That is all.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. I was thinking today

How much I missed the 80's-90's

[orangecrush]

4. The 90's for me

Were a repudiation of the Reagan years.

The music was unbelievable.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. I'm an elder goth.

Loved the gothic culture and everything about it.
Miss my old hangout Orpheus. And yeah the music of the 90's was incredible.

[orangecrush]

13. Thanks, Panther!

I am a TRUE elder Goth!

I watched the original "Dark Shadows" in black and white, on an independenr UHF t.v. station in Pittsburgh, because the networks wouldn't air it!

[bedazzled]

27. Oooh i never realized I was an elder goth!

too cool for words!

Just finishing rewatching the series and can say honestly it was better in black and white!

[orangecrush]

28. I was 13 years old

Watching this in broad daylight in my bedroom, and it scared the living crap out of me!!!

[bedazzled]

30. Started watching it in 1967. I was eight

used to hide behind chairs i was so scared.

No wonder I turned out this way

[orangecrush]

32. LOL

It was like the supernatural came oozing out of the b&w 13 inch t.v.!

[bedazzled]

33. it's amazing what they got away with

devil worship.voodoo. bloody werewolf attacks. Doesn't get any better than that.

Can't believe i have watched 1160 episodes. Only about 60 to go and I will start again! There is a lot to say for being retired. Rather watch that than the news...

[orangecrush]

34. Great stuff!

Also, RIP Anne Rice

[bedazzled]

35. Between her and Mike nesmith, it has been a depressing week

lestat rocks!

[Hoyt]

2. Enjoyed Clinton years too. Of course, I was almost 30 years younger.

[orangecrush]

3. I went from 30 to 40

Or so.

What great times.

Thanks, Bill!

[Hoyt]

5. Another 10 for me, but good years for sure in most ways.

[orangecrush]

6. I made more money in that 10 years

Than the rest of my adult life put together.

[Hoyt]

7. Pretty much same for me, plus lots of things were coming together.

Wish I had saved a little more, but I’m good enough. Some folks aren’t . . . . .

[brush]

17. Everybody, I mean everybody was working. I lived in NYC then...

and would take the subway home from work. I'd see young people of every color riding home in their UPS and FEDEX uniforms...making money.

I didn't see that before the Clinton years. And then Bush happened.

[orangecrush]

29. Exactly

And destroyed everything Clinton built.

[Celerity]

9. A lot of the terrible deregulation that went down in the 1990's helped lay the groundwork for the

global 2007-2009 global financial crash and the resultant explosion in wealth inequality, plus the rise of corporate media consolation. Also the rise of free (not fair) trade agreements helped hollow out (granted along with other factors to be sure) the American industrial base and the further rending apart of the Union movement (Reagan REALLY started the anti-union ball rolling to be sure).

1994 North American Free Trade Agreement
1996 Telecommunications Act (allowed the true rise of corporate media holding the whip hand)
1999 Graham-Leach-Bliley Act (repeal of Glass-Steagall)
2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act (massive bank de-regulation and the relegalisation of many types of the financial weapons of mass destruction known as derivatives)

Also, it was not as great of a time (compared to white, straight Americans) for LGBTQ and PoC (for the latter, the 1994 Crime Bill for instance) compared to the mid 2010's (but then the election of Trump and the continuing rise and empowerment of the fundie christofascists started really rolling this back). In the 1990's my marriage would be totally illegal (and/or unrecognised) for instance, and misogyny and homophobia was still far more widely accepted.

[betsuni]

10. No.

[Celerity]

11. Yes.

[betsuni]

18. No.

Wrong.

[Celerity]

22. sorry, I am right, you are wrong, as usual

[betsuni]

24. LOL

[orangecrush]

14. Good points

But a couple of those things happened under a repub administration, not on Bill's watch.

[Celerity]

16. All were signed into law by Clinton, all in the 1990's, from 1994 to 2000.

2000 was the last year of the 1990's, the last year of the 20th century, and the last year of the 2nd Millennium (there as no Year Zero).

[betsuni]

19. Republicans controlled Congress then. Duh.

[Celerity]

21. veto, Duh (if he didn't want them) and Clinton & his own Executive branch pushed for them anyway

Duh

[betsuni]

23. No. Wrong.

[Celerity]

25. Yes.

[betsuni]

26. Nope.

No matter how people try to blame Democrats, it's not true. Like Micheal Moore's "How Democrats Paved the Way to Trump." Bullshit.

[Ziggysmom]

12. Clinton gave us FMLA the Family Medical Leave Act. Myself and many I know would have lost

jobs without it.

President Clinton lifted the moratorium on federal funding for research involving fetal tissue, opening up research into treatments for Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes and leukemia.

He also signed legislation requiring a background check before the purchase of a handgun in 1993.

With Clinton and Gore leading the way, 160 nations agreed a strategy was needed to combat global warming on December 12, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan

[orangecrush]

15. No war

Great economy

No preventable catastrophes.

[betsuni]

20. Extreme optimism. Economy booming for everyone.

Anyone who says otherwise is wrong and has an anti-Democratic agenda. Like Michael Moore's "How Democrats Paved the Way to Trump." Total bullshit.

[orangecrush]

31. Agree 100%