By Mark | September 3, 2011
Economist and Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich showed up on Reddit today… I believe at the behest of his son, who works for CollegeHumor.com. I’d encourage you to read the whole thing, but here are some highlights: evasilev: What is the top priority policy change you would like to see outlined in Obama’s upcoming […]
Posted in Economics, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andrew Mellon, CCC, College Humor, education reform, GDP, infrastructure, Michele Bachmann, pot, public education, Sam Reich, school vouchers, unemployment, WPA |
I don’t have a lot of time, as I’ve got a hot date planned, but I wanted to add a few things to the very fruitful discussion we started last night on the subject of the debt ceiling “compromise”. Following are a few of the more insightful quotes that I found on the subject this […]
I’m a sucker for a new Robert Reich video. I can’t help but post them. Tonight’s comes by way of a letter that I just received from Van Jones, announcing the launch of his Contract for the American Dream initiative. (This, as you’ll recall from our last discussion on Van Jones, is part of the […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged budget cuts, Contract for the American Dream, education spending, federal budget, infrastructure, invest in America, investing in the future, priorities, Rebuilding the Dream, Van Jones |
This brilliant explanation by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, as to what’s really been going on in America, economically speaking, has been going around the internet for the past few days. I suspect that most of you have already seen it, but I thought that I should put it up here on the front page, […]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged American aristocracy, capital gains, class size, class warfare, infrastructure, MoveOn, national debt, patriotism, progressive taxation, tax the rich, taxes, the growing gap between rich and poor, The Truth About the Economy, threats to the middle class, treason |
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has a great column about Maine Governor Paul LePage up on the Christian Science Monitor website this evening. LePage, as you’ll recall from our conversation a few days ago, is the man who recently made headlines for ordering murals depicting the advances of organized labor to be painted […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, History, Politics | Also tagged 1936, 40 hour work week, collective bargaining, Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, deregulation, FDR, Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, GE, Jeffrey Immelt, labor, labor history, minimum wage, monopoly, New Deal, Obama, open for business, Paul LePage, privatization, rolling back the New Deal, unions, Wall Street |
