Posted on 04/22/2014 6:45:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Clinton Labor secretary Robert Reich, now a prominent author and commentator, blasted Bundy on his Facebook page on Monday.
“In what world is Cliven Bundy, the 68-year-old rancher who refuses to pay his tab for grazing cattle on federal lands, a patriot?” Reich wrote. “He drapes himself in the American flag but says ‘I don’t recognize the United States government as even existing,’ while attracting a collection of thugs with assault rifles in the Nevada desert to force the Bureau of Land Management to back down from a court-ordered confiscation of his cattle.”
The comment from Reich, who now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, comes after Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, last week called Bundy’s supporters “domestic terrorists.”
Bundy had resisted efforts by Bureau of Land Management officials to seize his cattle, a move taken by federal officials as part of a long-running fight over unpaid grazing fees.
Hundreds of states’ rights protesters, some of them armed, showed up earlier this month to support Bundy. BLM officials ended up backing down, citing safety concerns....
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Prissy little leftist, got the willies when the sergeant in charge of his pre-draft physical told him he’d make a good tunnel-rat in Vietnam.
My recollection was a statement attributed to him - something to the extent that he didn’t recognize the blm’s jurisdiction where he was grazing his cattle, that he didn’t see it as federal land, not a blanket thing about not recognizing the government (although these days what passes for “government” is pretty unrecognizable).
Shut up, you mini-turd.
Go out to Nevada and tell it to Cliven’s face, you little pansy
Apparently that was never part of the curriculum in my HS German classes. ;-)
R Reich should be on BO’s staff (now THAT is a play on words OR is it?)
Would bring truth to the statement
“When they are toes to toes, the nose is in it
When they are nose to nose, the toes are in it”.
He hasn’t ‘grown up’ in more ways than one....
That’s what these anti Constitution, America, and Freedom assclowns have been doing since the 60’s. They want to rule the way of their heros, like Stalin and Hitler and Mao and Castro and the rest of the dictators they love sooo much
Reich’s basic complaint in his Higher Wages Can Save America’s Economy – and Its Democracy is that “monied interests” have forgotten the century-old “basic bargain at the heart of America” that employers pay their employees enough to buy what they are selling.
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Reich dates the “basic bargain” back to Henry Ford. Henry Ford announced in 1914 that he would pay workers on his Model T assembly line $5 a day – three times what the typical factory employee earned at the time. Ford, according to Reich, took this step because he understood that the higher wage would turn Ford’s auto workers into customers for his Model T’s.
One side question for Reich: The U.S. became the world’s richest and most powerful economy in the late nineteenth century, decades before Ford’s bargain. Reich may want to explain how that could happen without employers agreeing to pay workers enough like the enlightened Henry Ford.
The recent push for higher wages we’ve seen from the Left is right out of Reich’s 2013 book. Reich, by the way, is a communist.
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