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Sure you can. Bill Clinton did it. There is no real conflict between generous social programs and being pro-business.

However, when you cross the line into seeing business as the enemy somehow, and want to pass new regulations that would somehow restrict their activities(or worse, restrict foreign trade), then you are getting into really bad territory.

It's the difference between being a Clinton Democrat and a Naderite. If you find yourself always talking about "corporations" this and "corporations" that, then there's a problem. Because business is the engine of the economy. tony Blair knows it. The Swedes and Finns and Swiss have known it forever, which is why their socialism has worked. They don't unduly interfere with business, nor do they see business as some kind of enemy of progress.