The Future President, Donald Trump

@RABEL222,

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What the hell is a neo-liberal.(?)

I'll assume by the tone of your post that you've already had a look at google on this subject.

Milton Friedman coined the terms; "free-market capitalism" and "trickle-down economics", the latter described by Bush senior as "voodoo economics", and history has proven shrub senior to be correct.

It was the deregulation of the banking industry (revocation of the Glass-Stegal law) that allowed the global fraud that was later called the Global Financial Crisis.

So, basically, a neo-liberal wants less government interference in business matters, but when the casino they created crashes to the ground, they expect the people to pick up the pieces, and fund their next round at the gambling table.

Which is exactly what has happened, post 2008, and is the reason why China (and Iran and Russia) are creating their own investment banking system, and quite soon, the petrodollar won't be acceptable as the global trade note.

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Or, you could watch this feature-length documentary on neo-liberalism, or, as this author calls it; "disaster capitalism", for an historical perspective on how the west arrived at the point (politically and socially) we are at today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxOIfrtYYY

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@Builder,

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Hahahahahahahh (etc.)

Five "likes" does not for a good argument make.

Not two pages back, you were lamenting that "how did we get to this??" I replied that the corporate takeover didn't happen just last week.

Are we here to discuss the important issues? Or to take personal potshots at people?

Ball is now in your court.

Thank you for your concern, but I don't have a clue what a neoliberal is, and so far Lash's ideas about what that means is completely foreign to me. Maybe I should talk about retro-consevatives. Sound unfamiliar? Thats because I made it up. Just because a few folks want to label a few fascists as neo liberals doesn't mean its an accurate description. Frankly its bullshit, you know its bullshit and you also know when I said "how did we get here" it was rhetorical. But I also realize we have a few humorless scolds lurking about with a misguided authoritarian tendency but I'm always flattered when someone take a few minutes out of their precious time to inform me of something I've known since Christ was a corporal. But thanks really, now you can go **** in your hat. Is that enough on target for you?

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@glitterbag,

To my knowledge, Keerist never joined the forces.

But thanks for the heads up.

And if you seriously think there's no such thing as a neo-liberal, then find the exit, stage left.

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@Builder,

Apparently you forgot to go **** in your hat. I don't recognize neoliberal, but apparently that rings true to you. More the pity, blessed are the innocent souls.

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@glitterbag,

Ignorance is bliss, and your happiness is seemingly boundless.

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@Builder,

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Ignorance is bliss, and your happiness is seemingly boundless.

It's hard not to smile when you stumble upon an uneducated ideologue. Give it up Skippy, you can't offend me, I don't care about your opinion of me or anybody else.

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@glitterbag,

Ah, the ad hominens.

Isn't life just too predictable?

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Here's what we call direct democracy. Might seem a bit scary, taking the decision-making on so personally, but this is the future, peeps.

https://avaaz.org/en/deartrump_3rb_loc/?fb

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@glitterbag,

Here's what unregulated capitalism (read neo liberal) did for the global economy.

https://vimeo.com/20853241

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@glitterbag,

And some timely advice for our misinformed friends here.

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Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it. Neoliberalism: do you know what it is?

Its anonymity is both a symptom and cause of its power. It has played a major role in a remarkable variety of crises: the financial meltdown of 2007‑8, the offshoring of wealth and power, of which the Panama Papers offer us merely a glimpse, the slow collapse of public health and education, resurgent child poverty, the epidemic of loneliness, the collapse of ecosystems, the rise of Donald Trump. But we respond to these crises as if they emerge in isolation, apparently unaware that they have all been either catalysed or exacerbated by the same coherent philosophy; a philosophy that has – or had – a name. What greater power can there be than to operate namelessly?

Article here.

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Why the **** are we talking about neoliberalism??

Does anybody give a ****?

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@maporsche,

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Does anybody give a ****?

It pays to know how your arse ended up this deep in ****, does it not?

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"Neo-liberal" is the Euro leftist coinage for the move to deregulate trade and banks as it happened under Raygun and Thatcher. It has nothing to do with tge american term "liberal".

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"Neo-liberal" is Euro-leftist coinage for the move to deregulate trade, banks and the economy, as it happened under Raygun and Thatcher. It was seen as a return to pre-new deal economics, an effort to free markets from excessive regulations. It has nothing to do with the american political term "liberal".

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@Olivier5,

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It has nothing to do with the american political term "liberal".

Which might explain the complete shunning of the term within the rank and file of Americans on this page.

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@Builder,

Exactly.

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@Olivier5,

It's quite something to see how easily the language can be manipulated by the media.

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I don't give a **** about the trendy term of the moment. These oh-so-nuanced dissections of political labels do nothing but muddy discussions about issues. I don't give a ****, and I don't give a neo-****.

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@Builder,

Or just different cultures having different uses for the same word. You know what they say about the US and the UK: that they are divided by the same language. It's one of those things.

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