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Will Robert Reich Please Shut Up
Reason Magazine ^ | 09/05/07 | Ronald Bailey

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonista
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1 posted on 09/06/2007 6:39:59 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

I swear Rich has brain rot or something - the thermostat is set higher than his IQ lately.


2 posted on 09/06/2007 6:42:08 PM PDT by xcamel (FDT/2008 -- talk about it >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Could Robert Reich Please Stand Up?


3 posted on 09/06/2007 6:42:26 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: Kid Shelleen; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; Allosaurs_r_us; ..
(reason.com)




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4 posted on 09/06/2007 6:43:20 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Take his booster seat away!


5 posted on 09/06/2007 6:48:05 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I'm so anti-pc, I use a Mac)
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To: SampleMan
Could Robert Reich Please Stand Up?

He made me laugh until I cried once. A couple of years ago he was on the Conan O'Brien show and they did a skit in which they were a pair of detectives.

There was the lumbering Conan and the itty bitty Reich running around the streets trying to catch a bad guy.

It was hilarious.
6 posted on 09/06/2007 6:57:10 PM PDT by elizabetty (Ron Paul - Because Moonbats Need Choices Too!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I can’t believe anyone listens to that runt anymore.


7 posted on 09/06/2007 6:58:17 PM PDT by caisson71
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To: SampleMan

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/93882/Conan_O_Brien_Former_secretary_of_labor_Robert_Reich.html?rh=165300

Here it is


8 posted on 09/06/2007 6:58:18 PM PDT by elizabetty (Ron Paul - Because Moonbats Need Choices Too!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“...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.


9 posted on 09/06/2007 7:07:25 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Kid Shelleen

robert reich: a disciple of the paul krugman school of economics.


10 posted on 09/06/2007 7:10:03 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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>"arguing that capitalism is undermining democracy"

Undermining his version of "democracy" aka socialism!

11 posted on 09/06/2007 7:14:24 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Did you know that everyday mexican gays sneak into this country and unplug our brain dead ladies HJS)
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To: elizabetty

That was hilarious, thanks.


12 posted on 09/06/2007 7:19:25 PM PDT by amchugh (large and largely disgruntled)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Wasn’t right before the doggy door, not right since.


13 posted on 09/06/2007 7:22:05 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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To: Kid Shelleen

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.


14 posted on 09/06/2007 7:25:09 PM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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To: Kid Shelleen

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.


15 posted on 09/06/2007 7:28:27 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Kid Shelleen
Whatever he predicts, the exact opposite occurs.

Can I get his picks for this Sundays NFL games for my football pool. I'll pick the exact opposite.

16 posted on 09/06/2007 7:28:47 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: amchugh
You are welcome! Glad to share the funny.
17 posted on 09/06/2007 7:30:17 PM PDT by elizabetty (Ron Paul - Because Moonbats Need Choices Too!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

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.


18 posted on 09/06/2007 7:35:45 PM PDT by ladyjane
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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.


19 posted on 09/06/2007 7:37:57 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Kid Shelleen
Hey! I like the little gnome!
20 posted on 09/06/2007 7:40:20 PM PDT by RichInOC ("We represent the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild...")
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