what do you think of neoliberals?

Question

please I am not looking for definitions of neoliberalism. I already know what it means. What I am looking for is people's personal opinions on neoliberalism. Is it good? Is it bad?

Also, please do not confuse neoliberalism with liberalism. They are definitely not the same thing. Neoliberalism is an economic doctrine promoting market-led growth, deregulation and the privatization of state-owned enterprises.

Neoliberalism has support from both Democrats and Republicans, and opposition from both Democrats and Republicans.

Bill Clinton is a neoliberal. So is George W Bush (he is a neoliberal and a neoconservative, believe it or not they are not contradictory, they just describe different things...neoliberalism mostly describes free trade and markets, whilst neoconservativism mostly describes foreign policy...in fact, neoliberalism and neoconservatism often go hand in hand)

Answer 1

Neoliberalism has been proved to be a success. The Clinton years had a booming economy. It wasn't as good as we thought because the dot.com revolution was plastic, but overall the economy was good nonetheless. Neoliberals usually vote Democrat. I subscribe to neoliberalism because it's center-left and that promotes a mixed economy which is what america really needs. Brad Delong from Berkeley is a major neoliberal who can lecture anyone about this great philosophy. Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack who is running for president is a neoliberal and he was also successful as a gov.

Answer 2

If the current trend of so called reverse discrimination is an example of neoliberalism then it is a return to the 1940's through the 1970's. It's nothing new it's called Jim Crow revisited.

Already there are those who would like to put women back in the kitchens, barefoot and pregnant, uneducated with no careers. Minorities remind yourselves of what it was like before and during the seventies. and you need to sit your children and grand children down and give them a history lesson. After watching the chaos outside the Supreme Court today, arguing over whether or not racial balance can be achieved by segregating classrooms.. What is Clarence Thomas' problem? Does he hate himself and the vehicle he used called intergration to rise to his positon hate himself that much?

Minorities and women need to come together and realize that we are loosing strides for Civil rights and equality on every level! It is a return to the past when people of color and women cannot obtain attorneys to fight righteous causes in Civil Rights.

When clasrooms, buses and employment are once again segregated don't say I didn't tell you so. That is exactly what Right To Work States are about. Less pay and more work, few if any benefits, while they fire you for no good ethical reason.

Answer 3

I understand your version of "neoliberal" in the form of Bill Clinton. However, Bill Clinton was not really so much a neoliberal as "neoclintonian" in that he was willing to jettison or include almost any political philosophy simply on the latest poll. I would like to think that "neoliberals" exist, and that they do have commonsense beliefs about the economy(free market), our military (to be used if necessary to protect our country) and fiscally responsible (willing to allow tax cuts ala JFK) without spending like drunken sailors.
However, it seems that many of the elected democrats are possibly just stealth paleolibs with the same beliefs as they always had. The test will be if they try to strip away the taxcuts, or the Patriot act.
I must compliment you for using actual logic and reasoned thought in asking your question; Most Liberals use only emotion to form any response or query...and they rarely ask much.

Answer 4

Well, if neoliberalism goes hand in hand with neoconservatism, then it's good.

I fully support a market led economy, deregulation and privatization of state owned enterprises, a flat tax (if we must have an income tax), and PSA's attached to Social Security, and drastic reduction of the estate tax and capital gains tax.

If this is neoliberalism, then I'm all for it!!!

Answer 5

Harumph.

And here I thought that a neoliberal was a tin-foil-hat-wearing person biting their fingernails because of their theory that neocons were trying to create a theocracy. Shows you how little I know.

Answer 6

I had to look it up because I'd not heard the term before (as is obviously the case with a couple of naysayers who answered without benefit of Wikipedia). In general, it might be just what the times demand, in terms of flexibility for corporations, so long as "globalism" doesn't become an excuse for moving jobs overseas and damaging first-world economies.

Thanks for teaching me something with this question. Thumbs up to you!

Answer 7

Please outline neoliberal. i've but to discover anyone utilising a truly definition of it that truthfully fits the truly political use of it. i am not certain what fiscal mannequin you're speakme approximately, it sounds extra like probably the most versions of neoclassicalism, as an alternative than neoliberalism. Far as I take into account neoliberalism is not a "Laissez-faire angle to the economic system" it truthfully stresses decentralization of quantities even as retaining mutual improvement to every alternate associate. And If you realize, the USA being a donor state even as every person else come to be the revievers and simplest one million% of the wealthiest elitists improvement, does not sound just like a mutual improvement to me. I would be flawed, seeing that there are undoubtedly many extraordinary arguments and perceptions as to what the time period truthfully manner, however to my abilities the one ones I see utilising this time period in the best way you will have, are individuals who desire to chuck globalism and one global govt strategies as much as liberals. This has a tendency to be many anarcho-capitalist Austrian fiscal university varieties who help what's going on and believe liberalism in any type opposes their unfettered capacity to milk any assets they are able to(quite often regarding exertions assets). In political phrases, neoliberal has a tendency to consult liberals who're extra involved with a running effective approach as an alternative than their liberal ideology. In others phrases they're fiscally conservative liberals, who desire to discover methods to support the deficient however resistrict entry to social methods for individuals who abuse them. And what you look to be regarding as neoliberalism, sounds extra just like the breakdown of neorealism. An ideology that believes in entire decentralization of worldwide alternate, taking vigor clear of the state governments, and hanging law vigor into the fingers of alternate businesses. But to reply your query, sure globalist are on either side of the aisle. No one part has a monopoly on individuals who're the enemy of the running elegance in America. When are individuals going to observe this is a failure? When they stop being attentive to idealistic rants at the radio, and stop calling any and each answer socialism, seeing that the entertainers who're being paid by way of the globalists inform them to. My answer might be to hae the federal government retian manage of a technological know-how they spent untold thousands of our cash setting up and are doing so wonce once more. Nuclear vigor. the federal government would make it. promote it to the patron at a fragment of the rate and nonetheless generate adequate earnings to reduce all character earnings taxes and all small trade ncome taxes to zero%, even as chopping the taxes of the rich and gigantic companies significantly. This now not simplest might expand spending, which our economic system relies on, but it surely might additionally convey our companies again considering the diminished rate of vigor might offset the greater exertions charges and truthfully make curb taxes a truly incentive. The wealth of all Americans might expand. But what might occur to anyone who might advise anything well for America like this? They might be shouted down by way of the correct as socialists. One day the correct goes to have got to make a resolution among their ideology and their nation.

Answer 8

Not sure what to think. Would regular liberals be neosocialists?

Answer 9

Well, neolibs and neocons are the extremists!!!