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In the discussion thread: "What's At Stake in This Election?" - Robert Reich [View all]

Sat Oct 6, 2012, 03:48 PM

pipoman (10,397 posts)

9. Need More?

Despite his reputation as a liberal and a friend of working men and women, Reich knows how to walk both sides of the street. I recall that he rarely, if ever, mentioned unions during his four years as Secretary of Labor. He has no problem backing proposals that cheer business more than labor, like ending the corporate income tax. If you read his recent book, Supercapitalism, you would think Steve Forbes was the writer. But no, it's the former Secretary of Labor calling for eliminating a tax that helps keep down the tax burden on working men and women across this nation. Does Senator Obama support that Reich idea? Is eliminating the corporate income tax going to be part of the "change we can believe in"?

Reich says that corporate responsibility is counterproductive. He thinks it's a distraction. That's beautiful. Here we have a former Secretary of Labor, someone who should know better, taking the GOP line that corporations need to focus on making money and forget about everything else. The movement for social responsibility has promoted ethical decision-making in business, community development programs, day-care centers, HIV-AIDS training, family-friendly workplaces, and more. To suggest that those developments are a distraction from the responsibility of corporations to amass profits for shareholders, as Secretary Reich does in his book, is shameful.

So is his support for NAFTA. Reich says unfair trade pacts bear no responsibility for the decline in manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Two months ago, Reich wrote that "it's a shame the Democratic candidates for president feel they have to make trade - specifically NAFTA - the enemy of blue-collar workers and the putative cause of their difficulties. NAFTA is not to blame." He's wrong on NAFTA, just as Obama's chief economic advisor Professor Goolsbee was wrong on NAFTA.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-mcentee/robert-reichs-endorsement_b_97450.html

A traitor he is.

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"What's At Stake in This Election?" - Robert Reich [View all]	pathansen	Oct 2012	OP
I really am tired of seeing	pipoman	Oct 2012	#1
Love Robert Reich	handmade34	Oct 2012	#2
Has he ever explained	pipoman	Oct 2012	#3
You are mistaken on that	pathansen	Oct 2012	#4
Not mistaken at all..	pipoman	Oct 2012	#5
No link means no proof	pathansen	Oct 2012	#7
Need More?	pipoman	Oct 2012	#9
Excellent ad. Don't know what all the naysayers are	1monster	Oct 2012	#6
Shout it out...........	SILVER__FOX52	Oct 2012	#8
kick	Go Vols	Oct 2012	#10
+1	freshwest	Oct 2012	#12
i'm really worried!!!!!!	djnicadress	Oct 2012	#11
Welcome to DU, dj.	cbayer	Oct 2012	#13

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