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Bluesman posted this in another post,I thought it was worth posting here also.
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Blame Bush, blame Clinton until you are blue in the face. Some of it might have been their fault. But we the American people are the ones who buys the products from other nations, some of us are the ones that bought the gas guzzing vehicles. Don't beleive me get up and look around your house at the products made from other countries, look under the hood of your American made vehicle and see if is all American. Go to Wally world and look at the toy section and find out that 95% of the toys are made from other countries, and who buys them me and you. So, who really is to blame. Also in this site look at "Trade Deficit Decreases in September" and look around it, some good news but it is not enough, http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/ and the falling house problems, it was not Bush nor Clinton, who told some people that they were out spending themselves, it was the choice of some of the American people.
The policy of Corporate Globalization and shipping our jobs overseas began with Reagan and each president since has been a part of it, including Clinton. Now that the dollar is falling we will see these cheap products rise in price and we have lost our manufacturing base.

When Reagan took office we were the number one producer in the world and when we left we had the highest debt.

This is only the beginning and the American people will be in for some very hard times to come. Of course the rich don't care and like it this way, the "Reagan Revolution."

The problem is the leading presidential candidates, from Clinton, Obama, Guiliani, and all support these polices. They are all corporate candidates, except for Kucinich and Gravel. Even Ron Paul supports what he calls, "free trade but is really just corporate globalization. Paul is liberatarine.

We have been sold out by our leaders and our corporate media. People need to turn off the corporate media and read and listen to the alternative progressive media and support candidates that represent us and present real solutions. Not more of the same.
Yes, companies began to locate off shore before Reagan but it was Reagan who announced and pushed for the lowering of tariffs and global trade. He called it something like "Global initiative trade". (I can't remember exactly)

He and Bush Sr gave tax breaks and incentives for companies to move to Central America in the 1980s and it was when we saw the beginning of decline of manufacturing jobs. her also turned his back o the family farmers.

But neither could push through NAFTA, opposition from workers and the American people was still to strong. It took a corporate democrat, Bill Clinton, to do it. He lied and told us he would oppose it until it was amended to protect workers but he didn't. It was one of the first things he pushed through congress.

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