Bill Clinton in Crashing the Party, by Ralph Nader

On Corporations: OpEd: Pushed corporate-inspired bills on telecomm & trade

In 1992, Clinton defined what a "new Democrat" was like. Over the next 4 years, he so favorably astonished the business lobbies that the head of the National Association of Manufacturers told me after a cable television taping that we shared, "We like Clinton more and more."

And why not? The boy wonder from Arkansas pushed through the greatest surrender of local, state, and national sovereignty in US history to those corporate-inspired systems of autocratic governance called NAFTA and the WTO. Clinton signed the megacorporate legislations involving the telecommunications and agribusiness industries, ballyhooed phony welfare reform for the poor while creating new models of corporate welfare, and undermined civil liberties in signing 3 criminal bills, all while losing a health insurance package in a Democrat-controlled Congress in 1994.

Source: Crashing the Party, by Ralph Nader, p. 44 Oct 14, 2002

The above quotations are from Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President Taking on Corporate Governance in an Age of Surrender, by Ralph Nader. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Bill Clinton. Click here for Bill Clinton on all issues.
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