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  • qoob5

    Serious question was Bill Clinton really so bad?

    Why are people so afraid of Hillary, making it sound like the world win end, when the last Clinton administration was actually pretty moderate, socially liberal, pro-business, even balanced the budget?

    • bill and hillary are very different people, if people payed more attention to hillary's politics instead of her as an alternative to donny they would be more al
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    • -armed probably
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    • Cause Obama2002
    • balanced budget because of NAFTA. Slowly working poor got poorer.teh
    • NAFTA made poor poorer? I didn't realize. Reputable study on this?2002
    • Also, a lot of men feel threatened by a woman in power. I'm not sure why, but it's quite common.
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    • what are you basing that statement on nb? and yes, nafta screwed a lot of people
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    • Terry what are you basing that on?2002
    • short answer, it added to our trade deficit with our neighbors, the long answer is complicated and involves talking about monocultures and mexican politics
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    • One thing NAFTA did which conservatives should like is that it improved the Mexican economy with rising living standard.qoob
    • The better Mexico do, the fewer of them will want to come here. And immigration has slowed down in recent years.qoob
    • 'republicans' don't dislike mexicans, they dislike criminals. as far as nafta's effect on the mexican economy. . .
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    • http://fordhampoliti…
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    • Article written by college student?qoob
    • So it hurt the U.S. or hurt Mexico? Can't both be true.qoob
    • http://www.theatlant…qoob
    • of course it can be true. that article talks about the crushing poverty in mexico as well. the only people who benefitted from nafta are the multinationals who
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    • The future first lady: http://i.onionstatic…
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    • Here is what actual economists think of NAFTA http://www.igmchicag…qoob
    • Tell that to the hordes of Mexican farmers and American industrial workers that lost thier livelihoods. Economists are not worries about those guys though if th
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    • -e multinationals can still keep raking it in and propping up the economy for years to come. My point is that the price of NAFTA was very high
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    • Also, I might note that I was disappointed that your link on economists turned out to be an opinion poll. Not very illuminating
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    • It's a survey of some of the country's best economists. Liberals, conservatives, libertarians. Not a single one thought NAFTA was bad.qoob
    • ^ payme lobby cash n it wont be bad. look up manufacturing jobs decline afteryurimon
    • you okay yuri? Your writing is particularly bad today so maybe you're having a bad one?monospaced

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