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colsohlibgal

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29. Why Are So Many Oblivious To This Reality?

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 11:17 AM

Jun 2016

We have a few more days to point this out I guess....why do so many still revere the Clintons? The move to neoliberalism predates Bubba, it actually started bubbling up under Carter. But Bill Clinton put it on steroids.

When enormous corporations can make 100s of billions and pay a lower effective rate than many of us something is amiss. Add to that places like WalMart who make billions and pay peanuts to everyday workers. Greed, pure greed, plain to see...for some us but I guess but not others or they don't care.

Washington runs on legalized bribery. We go to jail for it, they get rich from it.

We need more people who are doing fine to grasp that more and more are not doing fine.

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After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, IMF Admits Neoliberalism a Failure [View all] Lodestar Jun 2016 OP

Duh highprincipleswork Jun 2016 #1

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Well this thread will get ignored by the usual suspects. Rex Jun 2016 #4

Yep...because these developments are as good as an endorsement for Lodestar Jun 2016 #5

Yea, I was wondering when the Clintons and the 'democrat' elite would join them Ferd Berfel Jun 2016 #15

Isn't redistributing wealth and creating more laws authoritarian? Mosby Jun 2016 #18

Gee, IMF, tell us something we don't know Jack Rabbit Jun 2016 #6

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There is a class of idiots that believe neoliberalism is foundational to this nation. Enthusiast Jun 2016 #8

Screw the IMF. They knew this was happening and kept on keeping on AllyCat Jun 2016 #9

Chile was a testbed for Global Austerity & Austerity USA Octafish Jun 2016 #10

I knew this almost 30 years ago MrScorpio Jun 2016 #11

Because the fail has finally reached its end game. Nowhere else to hide. Lodestar Jun 2016 #20

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This story was also covered sulphurdunn Jun 2016 #13

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Unfortunately Nothing Will Change Ccarmona Jun 2016 #16

It took them awhile to bilk the multitudes and paint themselves into Lodestar Jun 2016 #22

K & R. How many years and decades before serious efforts to end it will start? appalachiablue Jun 2016 #17

Perhaps Christine Legarde's past experience as an anti-trust and labor lawyer is causing the IMF to pampango Jun 2016 #19

Why is it called Neo Liberalism when most of the conservatives support it? UCmeNdc Jun 2016 #21

Doubleplusgood newspeak. Ghost Dog Jun 2016 #26

So rapacious greed won't solve every problem? moondust Jun 2016 #23

Amazing malaise Jun 2016 #24

Economic Lysenkoism JHB Jun 2016 #25

K&R SamKnause Jun 2016 #27

Neoliberalism has not been a failure... it has done exactly what the IMF and the 1% wanted... Raster Jun 2016 #28

Why Are So Many Oblivious To This Reality? colsohlibgal Jun 2016 #29