No not just when Clinton was president. Going at least back to the end of the recession in the early 80s.
I am afraid you're mistaken. With the exception of the last
three years of the decade, the unemployment rate ranged between 7-10% in the 80's
That may be true but it isn't really relevant to what I posted.
I didn't say anything about the unemployment rate in the US at this time except that it was normally lower then the unemployment rate in Europe.
It hadn't been normally lower.....in fact, since the 60's until the 90s, it was the German unemployment rate that was the lower of the two. However, that changed in the 90s when it went thru a very painful merger with the GDR, and Bill Clinton began to reduce unemployment in this country.
In 1983, the German unemployment rate was 7.7% vs the US's 9.5%. The German rate continued to be less up til 1992 when it was 4.6% and the US's was 7.5%. After that, the German rate overtook the US rate and surpassed it while the US rate began to make a gradual decline.
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Concidently, there was a Rep. Congress......so what. He's the one that pulled it off.....not Bush Sr. or Reagan.
Hardly a coincidence it was a main theme of the Republicans in congress who had been pushing for it for years without having the power to enact it. If there was no Republican majority there never would have been serious welfare reform.
Tim, there is no way you know that.....Clinton would have had some control over a Dem. controlled Congress and most likely, would have gotten the legislation passed. And no matter who thought up the reform......to the victor go the spoils.
Sweden is very close to being predominately socialist
I'm not so sure that is true. They have high tax rates but most of their industry is in private hands not owned by the government.
That's true.......but we are talking socialism, not communism. Socialism can be a hybrid of capitalism and communism.
The kibbutzim in Israel are socialistic almost completely, and to my knowledge, none are in danger of collapsing.
I think they are subsidized, and they are not as socialistic as they used to be, also they are small not a whole national economy.
Most of what you say is not true. They are sometimes subsidized in their initial development but very quickly become self supporting, they are actually communistic and not socialistic......I misspoke, and while they do play a major role in the Israeli economy, they are not the whole economy. Many of the kibbutzim have invented products such as irrigation systems, manufacture them and sell them to the world. One of my friends grew up on one that had invented a plastic pipe.....pbc maybe, or something similar. Consequently, the kibbutz has become very wealthy and its members are well taken care of until their death.
The real practice of socialism is not some decadent system on the verge of collapse but rather one with different goals and standards than ours. I am not sure that its preferable but its not horrible either.
Basically reverse every part of that statement other then the fact that it has different goals and standards and you have my opinion.
And your opinion would be fine if you had the facts but you seem to have learned everything about socialism/communism from 1950's cold war propaganda.
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