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Posted on 09/06/2007 6:39:57 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Former Clinton labor secretary and perennial industrial policy hustler, Robert Reich, is a leading negative indicator. Whatever he predicts, the exact opposite occurs. In the 1980s, Reich declared that the U.S. economic growth rates were in a permanent slump and that we needed to adopt the economic model represented by the once famed Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry. ---snip--- Now comes the insufferable Reich with an idiotic article in the current Foreign Policy (sub required) arguing that capitalism is undermining democracy around the globe.
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I swear Rich has brain rot or something - the thermostat is set higher than his IQ lately.
Could Robert Reich Please Stand Up?
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Take his booster seat away!
I can’t believe anyone listens to that runt anymore.
“...arguing that capitalism is undermining democracy around the globe.”
That’s an easy one.
1. Capitalism produces unimaginable wealth.
2. Capitalists have children and leave them lots of money.
3. These children go to university and become insufferable leftists, undermining democracy.
But this is probably not Reich’s argument.
robert reich: a disciple of the paul krugman school of economics.
Undermining his version of "democracy" aka socialism!
That was hilarious, thanks.
Wasn’t right before the doggy door, not right since.
He’s exactly right, assuming you accept his definition of democracy.
Capitalism brings the greatest wealth to the greatest number of people. But Reich and his fellow travelers aren’t interested in that. They want everyone to be equally miserable. Except, of course, for the elites (of which Reich assumes himself to be) who get to live in luxury without ever producing anything of value.
If you read this and notice a strange resemblance to international communism, don’t be surprised - that’s exactly the goal of this type of intellectual. And all of them assume they’ll be in the elite.
Was an Econ major in college, and I remember even a liberal professor making fun of Reich in the late 1980s—because, as he said, Reich had never had a single theory of his own prove true.
Can I get his picks for this Sundays NFL games for my football pool. I'll pick the exact opposite.
On a positive note: his subscription seats were right in front of mine one year at the Boston Symphony. He was in the last row of his price range, I was in the first row of the lower price. He was paying more than $100 than I was and I got to see the stage. He was very nice, he didn’t cough, make noise, or hum along with the orchestra.
I remember a show where Reisssccch was talking about how Europe had it right with Airbust and was going to completely defeat Boeing. They should do a show on how many times this idiot has been wrong. And they still put him on, because he is a leftist..Berkley..idiot.
It’s interesting how the Clinton extras are now coming out of the woodwork again.
Oh yea, that’s funny.
Except for Harold Ickes. He is always scurrying around in the edge of the darkness. If you see him, it is only because someone flicked on the light too quickly.
Isn’t he the one that Rush used to really have fun with his name, something like drawing it out for several seconds, saying something like Robert B Rrreiiissshhhhh?
Well, guess I'll just have... 
to shoot the commie sumbitch...
With... 
my paintball gun.
Large scan of above at my FR Homepage
“Capitalism undermines democracy” is a basic tenet of the far left, the left, and the “moderates”.
Could you even tell if he did??
Reich still comes up short.
While I do not like or respect him, I do understand him based on what his writings in the past have stated.
Long story short, his views have NOT changed, he has always felt the free market is democracy uncontrolled, and unlimited, and that by itself is a bad thing. His writings, over the years, tend to look at capitalism and the free market (actually the entire free enterprise system, but since he is dishonest about his leftism, I'll pretend to show him the benefit of the doubt) as unrestricted democracy and mob rule which shows humans (or consumers and investors) to be amoral and thus underminig legitimate, controlled, regulated and marketed democracy.
I.E. Government by the people needs to control the people, lest they "vote" (with their wallets) for an opnion that would (on the surface) contradict that he (and those like him) believe the people in polls want.
Think of it this way, a democrat is elected on a platform,then he says he wants to ban SUV's, however SUV's are selling like hotcakes, in his view, since the SUV's are selling well, and people are buying them, when they should not, it is undermining democracy since that politician, if they banned them, would be voted out of office, i.e. democracy at the ballot box for one day a year is trumped by voting with the wallet every day of the year, thus in his mind (and he has written so much, that if you go to his writings, you will understand why I am saying this) democracy is undermined by capitalism.
And you didn’t have any problems seeing over his head, did you?
Note to self: Learn how to photoshop so you can color Robert Reich blue and put a little white hat on his head.
Not at all. I could see the entire stage. He is really very short. His wife is taller than I am though. I got lucky, his seat was in front of me, not hers.
Robert Reich looking for a clue? Was it a documentary?
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