Thursday, August 4, 2016, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)
In the last meeting, we covered the Republicans. Now it is the Democrats turn. We will view video clips about the 2016 Democrat National Convention in Philadelphia.
“Clinton was especially the enabler of Wall Street power, which gained enough leeway to win tens of billions of dollars per year of bonuses and cost the world tens of trillions of dollars of financial losses in the great crash of 2008. After Clinton, the United States no longer had a center-right Republican Party and a center-left Democratic Party, but rather two center-right parties whose heated differences on the surface mask a common agenda at the core.” Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs made this observation in 2011. If we accept, for the sake of discussion, that his observation is accurate and that there is little difference between the two parties on economic issues, what is the impact of the candidacy of Donald Trump on this state of affairs?
“Clinton was especially the enabler of Wall Street power, which gained enough leeway to win tens of billions of dollars per year of bonuses and cost the world tens of trillions of dollars of financial losses in the great crash of 2008. After Clinton, the United States no longer had a center-right Republican Party and a center-left Democratic Party, but rather two center-right parties whose heated differences on the surface mask a common agenda at the core.” Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs made this observation in 2011. If we accept, for the sake of discussion, that his observation is accurate and that there is little difference between the two parties on economic issues, what is the impact of the candidacy of Donald Trump on this state of affairs?
ReplyDeleteThe press has criticized the Bernie or Bust people. If you come you can give their side of the story.
DeleteI wasn't one of them, but there must be people in the group who could do them justice.
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