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Robert Reich: America's Economy will never recover
Creating Orwellian Worldview ^ | 4/15/10 | alaphiah

Posted on 04/15/2010 8:21:00 AM PDT by Alaphiah123

Robert Reich is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former secretary of labor under President Clinton.

In his article, The Jobs Picture Still Looks Bleak, he shows how corporate greed for low wages, low overhead and maximum profits led to decades of outsourcing of good paying middle class jobs to Asia, India and Latin America. (see article)

With fidelity to only the bottom line American Corporations left millions of Americans unemployed, underemployed or faced with working the same job while conceding benefits and wages just to stay employed.

As Corporations eye world markets that were once off limit Communist regimes, like China for instance, and as these regimes open to the idea of capitalism the two resources that corporations needed to survive are no longer exclusive to the United States of America. Those two things are consumers and workers.

(Excerpt) Read more at creatingorwellianworld-view-alaphiah.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: economy; jobs; recovery
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1 posted on 04/15/2010 8:21:00 AM PDT by Alaphiah123
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It won’t recover under Obama and a dem controlled Congress, no.

But it can come back...TAX CUTS and cut regulatory bs.


2 posted on 04/15/2010 8:23:26 AM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: Alaphiah123

Reich is a hack lawyer without economics credentials. Why shouldn’t he see evil capitalism as the source of our troubles instead of the true culprit, evil government?

He’s prolly shopping his Super Saver ticket to Stockholm to accept his Nobel prize in economics this fall.


3 posted on 04/15/2010 8:23:49 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon
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Small man, closed mind.

Start the drilling, lower taxes, in his mind those would not work.


4 posted on 04/15/2010 8:24:02 AM PDT by pennboricua
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To: Alaphiah123

When we are all waiters, waitresses, AC techs and doctors/dental assistants things will look brighter.


5 posted on 04/15/2010 8:24:23 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Dallas59

We’ll all just sue each other into prosperity.


6 posted on 04/15/2010 8:25:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Alaphiah123
In his article, The Jobs Picture Still Looks Bleak, he shows how corporate greed for low wages, low overhead and maximum profits led to decades of outsourcing of good paying middle class jobs to Asia, India and Latin America.

THAT'S the problem.

Not socialism and tyranny.

Not confiscatory taxation and hyperregulation.

No no no.

It's the EVIL BUSINESSES.

7 posted on 04/15/2010 8:25:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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He didn’t get the memo.. GOVERNMENT GREED is the new CORPORATE GREED!


8 posted on 04/15/2010 8:25:40 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts (Give me Liberty.. or I'll get up and get it for myself!)
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I feel so relieved.

Robert Reiiccchhhhhh is ALWAYS wrong.

9 posted on 04/15/2010 8:25:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (FYBO: Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: dfwgator

Funny...I have a frivolous law suit against my wife and I that I must defend tomorrow.

Slime Lawyers.


10 posted on 04/15/2010 8:27:28 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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I have the feeling that Mr. Reich is sourcing the back-story here, you know, the one that is meant to confuse and discombobulate the official party line for no other reason than him being able to contradict his own words later, in a subsequent article. Arsonist putting out his own fire, as it were. Is this good Reich or bad Reich? No idea. Personally, I believe the US will find itself in a very, very sticky spot for a long time to come.

But I also believe that Reich should embrace his troll status more tightly and crawl back under the pictoresque New England bridge where he belongs.


11 posted on 04/15/2010 8:28:51 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon
Reich is a hack lawyer without economics credentials.

What do you mean no economics credentials? He probably has Das Kapital committed to memory. < /sarcasm >

12 posted on 04/15/2010 8:30:38 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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“...he shows how corporate greed for low wages...”

Of course, worker greed for high wages had NOTHING to do with it. Only one side is the problem. Yeah.


13 posted on 04/15/2010 8:31:49 AM PDT by Darth Reardon (Im running for the US Senate for a simple reason, I want to win a Nobel Peace Prize - Rubio)
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This guy is a complete moron. A simple minded “blame big business greed” argument that is actually only a symptom of the problems that shackle our economy. And wouldn't you know he's a "professor". Idiots like him are part of the problem.

However, he is more than likely right that our economy will never fully recover, but not for the reasons he states.

Too many Americans now depend upon the government and vote accordingly.

14 posted on 04/15/2010 8:32:17 AM PDT by Pox
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To: Alaphiah123
The economy is not supposed to recover!...It's by design!
15 posted on 04/15/2010 8:32:47 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Vigilanteman

But he has just written a Principles of Economics textbook!


16 posted on 04/15/2010 8:41:04 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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Funny that he didn’t mention the effects of Democrats’ high taxes and regulation mentioned in his little rant.
17 posted on 04/15/2010 8:54:05 AM PDT by RJL
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Reich is a dwarf..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkJGxfgU6Pw


18 posted on 04/15/2010 9:09:40 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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Just more of the Administatration’s anti-Wall Street, anti-capitalist demonization propaganda. This guy’s a hateful little Marxist puppet whose arms, legs and mouth move when Soros pulls the strings.


19 posted on 04/15/2010 9:41:20 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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Those evil, greedy, capitalist corporations want to make a profit! There ought to be a law against that! /s


20 posted on 04/15/2010 10:46:35 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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