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Reich: We Can Either Have a Few Billionaires or a Democracy, ‘But We Can’t Have Both’
Breitbart ^
| 12/17/2024
| Pam Key
Posted on 12/17/2024 1:50:45 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that democracy cannot survive if there was “great wealth in the hands of few people.”
Reich said, “I think the biggest problem with having so many billionaires at the top of government is that billionaires don’t exactly know how normal people live, but secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the way people get to the top of the Trump administration is by providing a lot of money.”
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billionaires; democracy; few; reich; robertreich; tds
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When is this POS going to start redistributing his wealth?? Put your money where your mouth is.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Brought to you by the party of DEI....
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:52:21 PM PST
by
God luvs America
(6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: ChicagoConservative27
It was fine when they were donating tens of millions to the DNC.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:52:23 PM PST
by
bray
(It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
The malignant dwarf needs to put a sock in it. He’s been wrong about literally everything.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:52:43 PM PST
by
Bayan
To: ChicagoConservative27
He can shove his democracy up his low-to-the-ground ass.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:52:52 PM PST
by
bigbob
(Yes. We ARE going back!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
What a good little Communist Bobby R is.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:53:09 PM PST
by
CarmichaelPatriot
(Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama)
To: ChicagoConservative27
When is this clueless communist runt going back to the lollipop guild and, when he gets there, STFU?
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:53:13 PM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
To: bigbob
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:53:43 PM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Robert B Reichhhhhhhhhhhh
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:54:42 PM PST
by
DFG
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
We can have a living Robert "Eighth Dwarf" Reich, or we can have a Democracy, but we can't have both.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:54:57 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Naturally, I mean that in the nicest possible way.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Well our government was not founded as a democracy ... but I’ll play.
Yes you can have a democracy and billionaires. Informed voters know that the existence of billionaires is an indicator of a healthy capitalistic country and in their best self-interest.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Nut case atheist-commie dwarf.
Fit cozily in the knee space of a desk.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:56:27 PM PST
by
ABStrauss
(I miss Rush!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Labor Secretary Robert Reich Ahhh ... The Fourth Reich is babbling again ...
He needs to learn that we never had, don't now have, and do not want, a "democracy". We have a Republic ... so we don't get over-run by jerks like him.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:57:01 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: ChicagoConservative27
This moron (and all socialists) believe the economy (and life for that matter) is a zero sum game—where if you have two pieces of pie, you must have stole one from someone else.
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:57:45 PM PST
by
volare737
(Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
he needs to be laughed at and often
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:59:17 PM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: ChicagoConservative27; All
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, DuPont…
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posted on
12/17/2024 1:59:23 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
To: DFG
Robert B ReichhhhhhhhhhhhCan't see the name without thinking of Rush Limbaugh.
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posted on
12/17/2024 2:00:24 PM PST
by
NautiNurse
(With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
To: ChicagoConservative27
It’s those people like professors and politicians who consider themselves elite that we have to worry about.
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posted on
12/17/2024 2:00:37 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Emerson (paraphrased): "If you strike at the king, don't fail." The Democrats failed. )
To: ChicagoConservative27
Between this clown and the GOT guy. When did midgets get so mouthy?
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posted on
12/17/2024 2:01:06 PM PST
by
HYPOCRACY
(Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
How much confusion can you squeeze into a simple statement?
We are republic, not a democracy.
A democracy is a system with voting by the mass of the people.
Billionaires are individuals who have accumulated wealth.
The economics of wealth, the political system of voting — these things have no correlation. It’s apples and oranges.
And, once again: we are a republic. Government of Laws, not Men.
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