Bill Clinton's Post-Presidency - A Plan for World Domination:
If I was one o' them New World Order Conspiracy types then this would worry me...
"Five years after his presidency, Clinton still thinks like a world leader. In some ways, it’s more complicated: He thinks like the leader of the world. While there’s no official means to be president of the planet, other than as U.N. secretary-general—a prospect constantly floated by Clinton supporters, though it’s practically impossible—he certainly seems to be trying hard to invent one. On September 15, the former president will be hosting the grandly titled Clinton Global Initiative, a conference timed to coincide with the World Summit at the U.N. The guest list features an impressive and eccentric mix of moguls, heads of state, and problem-solvers—from Sonia Gandhi to George Soros to Rupert Murdoch—who, after three days of panel-going and furious rubber-chicken consumption, are expected to sign pledges to do something about bettering the world."
I'm actually pretty ambivalent about Clinton...
He was far from ideal but he did make a real difference for the working class.
I could actually go look up data and make the argument,
but I'm lazy,
and it's not my job...
eh...
Thursday, August 18, 2005
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I'm reading John F. Harris' recently released biography of Clinton's White House tenure, The Survivor. Clinton's most progressive economic accomplishment (at least in his first term; I'm only into 1995 right now) was the budget he eked through Congress in 1993. Not only did it cut the deficit, it dramatically expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, a refundable tax credit that helps lift millions of poor working families out of povery. It was something Treasury Secretary and budget hawk Lloyd Bentsen fought to cut to avoid levying a politically unpopular gasoline tax.
But the gas tax (and the EITC expansion) made it into the budget anyways and from the looks of it it took a load of political will to add both. Reading about it in this book and supplementing that with what else I've heard about the '93 budget, I'd agree with you Mike. It was one of the high points of Clinton's presidency.
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