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J Gulick sez:
This seems too stripped of political space-time context. Clinton I got lucky, chasing the throne just when Perot split the Repug vote, and getting in office to reap the windfall of post-Soviet collapse triumphalism -- orchestrated in part by Reagan and Bush I's hoodwinking of a credulous Gorbachev! That is, the Clinton I boom was largely underwritten by awed and cowed capitalists and savers worldwide. After eight years of Bush II tax cuts for the uber-rich and extravagant spending on a West Asia misadventure that has perturbed (if not decisively alienated) junior partners, Clinton II will be reaping a whirlwind, not a windfall.
J Gulick Tohoku territory, Japan
>D Henwood wrote:
>You could say - I might, though I'm not sure of this yet - is that
>the two parties serve as a kind of balancing act for capital. When
>things get too boomy, it's time for the Reps to come in and tighten
>the masses' belts. When the population gets restive after the round
>of austerity, it's time for a Dem to come in and throw the masses a
>few bones. We're on the verge of a bone-throwing phase, I guess.
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