Tag: Robert Reich

Found on Facebook, courtesy of Robert Reich. “I would dispel the rumor that is going around that you hear on every newscast, that if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, we will default on our debt,” says Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. “We won’t. We’ll continue to pay our interest.” This…

Robert Reich on what’s wrong with our economy. Point 5 has long been one of my biggest issues.  I characterize it as the Jay Gould phenomenon. I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Robert Reich brings a gun to a knife fight.

And destroys them! While he took on 7 talking points here are a couple highlights! 3. Shrinking government generates more jobs. Wrong again. It means fewer government workers – everyone from teachers, fire fighters, police officers, and social workers at the state and local levels to safety inspectors and military…

Watch as Robert Reich, Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, explains why our government needs to make an investment in human capital by investing in public schools.

First let’s start with a quote from Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton: Anyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics. The deal does not raise taxes on America’s…

Watch as Robert Reich, the Commerce Secretary during the Clinton administration, explains the truth about our economy in just under two minutes.

But don’t tell Paul Ryan (R-Wall St.). This little gem from Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich: He should be Treasury Secretary!

Having been at the Capitol almost non-stop since last Wednesday, here are some great links into what has been going on down there and elsewhere. Lots of pics soon and forgive me if these links have been posted! Scott Walker owes the Koch Brothers! Did I mention that Walker owes…

…despite what some on the right would have us believe. While folks on the far-right fringe like Peter DiGaudio are bucking for an Academy Award for his dramatic assertion that our nation’s death certificate was signed on March 21, 2010, here we still are. Then again, Peter’s the same guy…