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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo does Jeb Bush think we've all forgotten the information age boom of the 1990s?
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/jeb-bush-hillary-clintons-good-intentions-arent-124288105561.htmlSo apparently Jeb! rode Uber to silicon valley to remind America that,
You wanna turn this on and get our next car before its illegal? Bush said to Henriquez, a wry smirk on his face. It was a crack meant to argue a larger point: that Hillary Clinton if elected president would be bad for Silicon Valley and the new tech-based economy.
Of course Hillary will be bad, bad, bad for Silicon Valley just like Clinton was because we the people here on planet Earth and not in the musical called Jeb! certainly remember how bad the Clinton years were to Silicon Valley. The 90s were certainly not a decade of massive technology innovation and acceleration of the information age. Only they were, so WTF is his point on this. Does he think people don't remember the 90s Dotcom boom when every single Super Bowl Commercial that wasn't for a bad tasting light beer was sponsored by an Internet company in Silicon Valley. Sure, not every company survived the era, but it is hard to say the Clintons destroyed innovation, capitalism, and Silicon Valley. The whole idea is laughable. You know who destroyed innovation: the guy who spent the US economy on two land wars in Asia instead of investing on the 21s century that's who. I guess the brother of that guy wouldn't know that.
Look, the best of intentions arent going to be enough here. Its OK to say we want to fill the gaps, but every time you propose another rule, another requirement, another way to protect people, you make it harder and harder for people to rise up, you make it harder for the first rung of the ladder to be reached, he said.
You know the best way to get to the top of that ladder. Be born on the top of the ladder looking down at you just like Jeb and his brother.
Yeah, one more thing on that.
The government of the future needs to look more like Thumbtack, to be honest with you: lower cost, higher quality, focused on outcomes, really committed to the citizens in your case the customers, Bush said.
You see Jeb! I'm not your customer. If you're the president then I'm your boss! I'm not someone you're trying to sell an extra-cheap used car to by maneuvering around the lemon laws. I'm the person counting on you for to up hold life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I'm the guy you're protecting from the scumbag selling me the extra-cheap used car. You don't get it and you never will. This CEO president mentality has to go.
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So does Jeb Bush think we've all forgotten the information age boom of the 1990s? (Original Post)
Johonny
Jul 2015
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tymorial
(3,433 posts)1. I miss the 90s.
I had such a great time being a teenager then.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)2. I'm confused: Sometimes it's OK to connect Hillary to Bill's presidency, sometimes it's not.
Is it only OK when the outcome was positive?