There’s so much that’s wrong with Robert Reich’s commentary. It’s like where to begin? Mostly, it’s the hypocrisy that’s bugging me. The guy’s hardly a money-grubbing occupy hippie. The author of numerous best-selling books, Reich has served three presidential administrations and was President Clinton’s Secretary of Labor. As a political economist his words have significance, but as a class warrior he’s pretty much fail. The fact that he’s Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy makes me wonder if he’s in his right mind. Certainly the school’s benefactors have some issues with the widespread anti-Semitism of this movement, and Reich has been speaking up and down the state at these protests. I sense some desperation in the appeals as well. I mean seriously. “Money in politics”? Boy, that’s a new one! Reich’s boss — Bill Clinton — almost single-handedly turned “soft money” into a household phrase in the 1990s. It’s so stupid, really. Attacks on “money in politics” are really attacks on Republicans, which in the end is nothing but lies, considering the trail of Wall Street cash leading right to the current occupant of the White House, to say nothing of the pay-for-play Democrat Party politics that’s been SOP for decades. In any case, Lawrence Meyers had a lot along these lines last summer, at Big Government , ” What’s Wrong With Robert Reich .”
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Robert Reich: Occupy Democracy
Asks Steve Kornacki, at Salon . And of course, the occupy movement never had Middle America in the first place. The movement’s a disaster: #OccupyFail . They keep trying, though. At Verum Serum , ” Video: Robert Reich at Occupy LA. ”
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‘Is #OWS in danger of losing Middle America?’
**Written by Doug Powers Bill Clinton’s former Labor Secretary was on Hardball railing against GOP attempts to rein in runwaway government spending. His thinking is that if you’re in a boat that springs a leak, the last thing you should do is plug the hole because you’re going to be hungry soon and it’ll get you closer to the fish faster. Transcript from RCP : “You don’t want government to hold back, you want government right now, yes, the deficit’s a long-term problem, but right now you don’t want to cut government spending, yet Eric Cantor and the Republicans are indulging, you hear it over and over and over,” Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich said. Click the pic below to watch: The video mercifully ended just before the stack of phone books on which Reich was sitting shifted and he went tumbling down. With Robert Reich and most other left-wing economic theoreticians, there’s never a good time to cut government spending, and, as usual, this is one of them. Reich, pictured above with President Obama, said that cutting government spending at a time when government spending is strangling America would be irresponsible **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Robert Reich: Right Now You Don’t Want the Government to Cut Spending
Video at The Blaze: ” Really Rich Dude Michael Moore Says Wealthy Americans’ Money is Not Theirs its ’Ours‘ ’A National Resource’ We Need To Take It From Them .” And from Peter Wehner’s essay at Commentary , ” Michael Moore vs. Abraham Lincoln “: Both Michael Moore and former labor secretary Robert Reich have done us the favor of speaking candidly about their economic views. If you listen to both men, you’ll gain a fairly good insight into the modern liberal worldview. It consists of several elements. The first, as articulated by Moore, is that money you earn is not really yours; it’s a “natural resource” that belongs to others. That is the basic starting point for those like Moore. Second, the collectivist impulse among the left is extremely powerful. Third, higher taxes have almost talisman-like powers. Regardless of our economic circumstances — whether we’re experiencing strong growth or a nasty recession — higher taxes are always called for. Fourth, liberals view higher taxes first and foremost as a matter of “fairness” rather than growth. One cannot help but conclude that many liberals would accept lower growth rates and fewer jobs in favor of more redistribution of income. And fifth, America is a nation seething with class resentments. “An angry population and an angry populace could just as easily turn their anger toward the very rich,” according to Reich. “Again, it is in the interest of the people at the top to actually call for a more equitable distribution of the gains of economic growth and a better tax system: a tax system that is fair.” As against the views of Moore and Reich are the views of Lincoln … RTWT at the link . Commie scumbags, but what’s new?
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Michael Moore: Rich People’s Money a National Resource
