Posted on 04/24/2011 8:08:57 AM PDT by MulberryDraw
Rabble rouser Robert Reich, who teaches at Berkley and who is Chairman of George Soros-funded Common Cause, sent out this tweet message:
During this cong recess, go to Rep town meetings & raise hell about Rep plan to end Medicare and give tax windfalls to rich.
(Excerpt) Read more at economicpolicyjournal.com ...
You won’t ever get a serious debate from the left. They already lost it, and that’s why they avoid one.
I thought Bob already was a minion. Minions have minions? What would you call them? Mini-Minions? Minionettes?
Didn’t he give a speech to some college crowd saying they would have to live with less health care as they age and perhaps not live as long as their parents? So then he wanted to end Medicare as we know it.
I'd put it a long way behind China. The government debt would be in perspective if we recovered all the jobs exported by trade policies and restored Reagan tax rates.
Economics not trade policies caused those jobs to move to other countries, and they're never coming back.
Asian, Indian, and others have gone through the industrial revolution the west went through earlier last century. They now can produce cheaper than we can. They sell to each other and to us. The tooth paste is out of the tube and there is no putting it back.
We've shared our innovations with the rest of the world and now we better get busy and innovate some more or else they are going to run right over us.
Which one is RR? The short one?
Sorry to disagree but our jobs were exported in government to government lobbyist produced ‘free’ trade deals. We don’t have to choose to live on 3rd world wages for our citizens. Trade means we buy from you and you buy from us. If the other side fails to buy from us, then tax their imports.
Companies that hire elsewhere when Americans are unemployed are not to be admired any more than the economics to sell American secrets to make a profit.
Robert Reich:
April 21, 2011
The Republican plan shouldn’t be considered one side of a great debate. It shouldn’t be considered at all. Americans don’t want it.
But why shouldn’t we go back to the tax rates we had thirty years ago, which required the rich to pay much higher shares of their incomes? One of the great scandals of our age is how concentrated income and wealth have become. The top 1 percent now gets twice the share of national income it took home thirty years ago.
If the super rich paid taxes at the same rates they did three decades ago, they’d contribute $350 billion more per year than they are now – amounting to trillions more over the next decade. That’s enough to ensure every young American is healthy and well-educated and that the nation’s infrastructure is up to world-class standards.
the President’s proposed budget doesn’t deal with the scandal of the nation’s schools in poor and middle-class communities – schools whose teachers are paid under $50,000 a year, whose classrooms are crammed, that can’t afford textbooks or science labs, that have abandoned after-school programs and courses like history and art. Most school budgets depend mainly on local property taxes that continue to drop in lower-income communities. The federal government should come to their rescue.
Robert Reich:
April 14, 2011
Until steps are taken to alter this fundamental imbalance – for example, exempting the first $20K of income from payroll taxes while lifting the cap on income subject to payroll taxes, raising income and capital gains taxes on millionaires and using the revenues to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit up to incomes of $50,000, strengthening labor unions, and so on – a strong recovery may not be possible.
We are not supposed to remember that a good liberal such as Reich said something contradictory to what he’s saying now.
Also, what’s with Reich saying to go to the town halls and raise hell? The liberals were aghast at the town halls in the summer of ‘09 as citizens protested the move to Obamacare. The liberals were shocked at people “raising hell” then.
But now, apparently, it is OK to raise hell in a town meeting, as long as done in support of a liberal cause.
And what’s with raising hell at all? Doesn’t Reich remember the lessons of civility we were all supposed to have learned from Tucson? Does anybody remember the lectures we all received after that event?????
Robert Reich: “Patriotic” For Rich To Pay “Fair Share”
Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Nation Hostage Again and Again
“Cutting the deficit will create fewer jobs. Less government spending reduces overall demand. “
Shortly after the Democrats’ “shellacking” last November, I phoned a friend in the White House who had served in the Clinton administration. “It’s 1994 all over again,” he said. “Now we move to the center.”
http://robertreich.org/post/3780342395
ALSO SPRACH GIFTZWERG!
Reich is chronic Agenda Uber Alles Syndrome sufferer.
Obama’s challenge in 2012 has nothing to do with Bill Clinton’s in 1996. He must fight the Republican plans to cut the budget deficit this year and next, and explain to the public why he’s doing so. And he must convince Americans that public spending during the next few years is necessary to get the economy moving, reduce the long-term debt as a portion of the total economy, and get jobs back.
It’s emerging from the heartland – from Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa — and it is spreading across the nation. It doesn’t have a formal organization or Washington lobbyists beyond it, but it’s gaining strength nonetheless. Like the Tea Party did with Republicans in 2010, the People’s Party will pressure Democrats in primaries and general elections leading up to 2012 and beyond to have the courage of the party’s core convictions. But unlike the Tea Party, which has been coopted by the super-rich, the People’s Party represents the needs and aspirations of America’s vast working middle class, along with the less fortunate.
The People’s Party is dedicated to the truth that America is a rich nation – richer by far than any other, richer than it’s ever been. The People’s Party rejects the claims of plutocrats who want us to believe we can no longer afford to live decently – who are cutting the wages and benefits of most people, attacking unions, and squeezing public budgets. The People’s Party will not allow them to turn us against one another – unionized against non-unionized, public employee against private employee, immigrant against native born. Nor will the People’s Party allow the privileged and powerful to distract us from the explosive concentration of income and wealth at the top, the decline in taxes paid by the top, and their increasing and untrammeled political power.
http://robertreich.org/post/3752615196
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009
George Soros and Robert Reich: How To Reform The Financial System
Two very smart financial minds, legendary currency trader George Soros and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, share how they would reform the financial system. The people in charge of this momentous task would be wise to listen to what Soros and Reich propose.
June 1, 2010
Robert Reich says goverment should take over BP
s time for the federal government to put BP under temporary receivership, which gives the government authority to take over BP’s operations in the Gulf of Mexico until the gusher is stopped. This is the only way the public know what’s going on, be confident enough resources are being put to stopping the gusher, ensure BP’s strategy is correct, know the government has enough clout to force BP to use a different one if necessary, and be sure the President is ultimately in charge.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 2011
Common Cause Communists Van Jones & Robert Reich Plan Protest of Koch Brothers’ Confab
The liberal activist group Common Cause is rallying its supporters to protest David and Charles Koch’s convocation of conservative heavy hitters in California this weekend. The billionaire Koch brothers, whose family business is one of the largest private companies in the world, are longtime funders of many conservative causes, including Tea Party groups, and initiatives to defeat Obamacare and global warming legislation.
Common Cause and its allies see a more sinister agenda. They’ll be shouting outside — and in at least one case, from above. Greenpeace has chartered a blimp emblazoned with the words “dirty money” to fly over the conference.
Prior to the rally, the liberal group plans to host an opposition panel discussion called, “Uncloaking the Kochs: The Billionaires’ Caucus and its Threat to our Democracy.” The featured speakers include Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary and now chairman of Common Case’s National Governing Board; Van Jones, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress and former “Green Jobs Czar”; Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California-Irvine; Lee Fang, an journalist at the Center for American Progress; and DeAnn McEwen, co-President of the California Nurses Association.
Despite the hyperbole, the Koch conference doesn’t sound so different from many off-the-record political conferences, including those held by the professional left. Shortly after the 2010 elections, for example, liberal groups converged on Washington D.C.’s Oriental Mandarin hotel, The meeting, hosted by Democracy Alliance featured liberal leaders such as Van Jones, hedge fund manager Donald Sussman, and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka. Michael Vachon, a George Soros representative, Peter Lewis, CEO of Progressive Insurance; and Fred Baron, the former president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America also attended.
In a November 11, 2003 interview with Laura Blumenfeld of the Washington Post, Soros described how he had jump-started the Shadow Party during the summer of 2002 by summoning a team of political strategists, activists, and Democrat donors to his Southampton beach house in Long Island.
The attendees included: Morton H. Halperin (Director of Soros’ Open Society Institute); John Podesta (Democrat strategist and former Bill Clinton chief
of staff); Jeremy Rosner (Democrat strategist and pollster, and
ex-foreign policy speechwriter for Bill Clinton); Robert Boorstin
(Democrat strategist and pollster); Carl Pope (America Coming Together co-founder, Democrat strategist, and Sierra Club Executive Director); Steve Rosenthal (Labor leader, CEO of America Coming Together, and former advisor to Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich); Peter Lewis (major Democrat donor and insurance entrepreneur); Rob Glaser (major Democrat donor and Silicon Valley pioneer); Ellen Malcolm (co-founder and President of America Coming Together and founder of Emily’s List); Rob McKay (major Democrat donor); and Lewis and Dorothy Cullman (major Democrat donors).
At that meeting, Soros laid out his plan to unseat incumbent President George W. Bush.
Profoundly contemptuous of Bush, Soros blamed the President not only for
many of the ills that plagued the United States, but for a host of
problems afflicting other nations as well. Speaking at a conference of
the Jewish Funders Network in November 2003, for example, Soros said:
“There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the
Bush administration and the [Israeli prime minister Ariel] Sharon
administration contribute to that.... I’m critical of those policies....
If we change that direction, then anti-Semitism also will diminish.”
Asserting that America needed “a regime change” to oust Bush, Soros
declared that derailing the President’s reelection bid in 2004 “is the
central focus of my life ... a matter of life and death.” “America under
Bush,” he said, “is a danger to the world, and I’m willing to put my
money where my mouth is.”
Soros had previously experienced considerable success in effecting “regime change” elsewhere in the world. For instance, he helped fund the 1989 “Velvet Revolution” that brought Vaclav Havel to power in the Czech Republic. And by his own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, Georgia, and Yugoslavia.
When Soros targets a country for “regime change,” he begins by creating a
shadow government — a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to
assume power when the opportunity arises. The Shadow Party he has built
in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries
prior to instigating a coup.
Claiming that “the Republican party has been captured by a bunch of
extremists,” Soros accused the Bush administration of following a
“supremacist ideology”
Robert Reich tells us the rich don’t deserve to keep their cash because they won’t spend it the way we want to.
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