Blackhatjack
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Wed Jun-25-08 11:23 AM
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| 3. First, You reach inside the wallets of Big Business and take back the taxpayer $ they stole.... |
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... You cannot let corruption of this scale go unpunished... unless you are ready to see it all happen again.
There has never been such looting of the public treasury for the benefit of a few wealthy families and Big Business.
Want to make an impression? Pass a law that immediately releases all first time prisoners serving mandatory minimum prison sentences for possession of illicit drugs which did not involve violence. Now you have opened up a huge number of prison cells which will be readily available for those 'white collar' criminals. And don't send them to a minimum security prison .... put them in with the regular prison population.
Do you think those considering stealing and cheating the AMerican Taxpayers might reconsider?
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| -Robert Reich: The Great Pendulum of Economic Outrage Is About to Swing Again |
marmar |
Jun-25-08 11:04 AM |
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Reich is one of my absolute favorites. |
Richardo |
Jun-25-08 11:09 AM |
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I don't think you'd have that opinion if you had a case up before NLRB |
greyhound1966 |
Jun-25-08 05:34 PM |
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His 6/25/08 MarketPlace audio commentary echos this ... |
SomeGuyInEagan |
Jun-25-08 11:20 AM |
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First, You reach inside the wallets of Big Business and take back the taxpayer $ they stole.... |
Blackhatjack |
Jun-25-08 11:23 AM |
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did Big Government really stifle the economy in the 1970s? |
hfojvt |
Jun-25-08 11:31 AM |
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I don't believe that for one moment |
Winterblues |
Jun-25-08 11:37 AM |
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That part struck me as BS |
Hydra |
Jun-25-08 11:41 AM |
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Didn't we have horrible inflation from 1970-1980? |
SergeyDovlatov |
Jun-25-08 12:37 PM |
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Yes, but good luck explaining it to some people |
anigbrowl |
Jun-25-08 12:57 PM |
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It is a breach of fiduciary duty for a b-o-d to consider ANYTHING other than profitability |
Romulox |
Jun-25-08 03:36 PM |
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the inflation wasn't really that horrible |
hfojvt |
Jun-25-08 03:23 PM |
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Sure. Deficit spending of the supply side variety is no better. n/t |
SergeyDovlatov |
Jun-25-08 04:48 PM |
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Didn't the price of oil go up by 4x in the 70s? Might that have had something to do with... |
arendt |
Jun-25-08 03:30 PM |
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Most likely it was the result of Nixon closing the gold window |
SergeyDovlatov |
Jun-25-08 04:47 PM |
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Its nice that you can blithely make such assertions. You must be an economist. n/t |
arendt |
Jun-25-08 05:10 PM |
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He Is Something But It Isn't An Economist |
Binka |
Jun-25-08 05:21 PM |
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I did a search. A Soviet man by that name died in 1990. Doesn't tell me about this guy. n/t |
arendt |
Jun-26-08 09:38 AM |
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Okay. One of the reasons. |
SergeyDovlatov |
Jun-25-08 06:07 PM |
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Here is another paper from federalreserve.gov |
SergeyDovlatov |
Jun-25-08 06:17 PM |
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They are everywhere - we have generations, now, raised on the idea that the "Free" Market |
kenzee13 |
Jun-25-08 08:17 PM |
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Due to increases in oil prices n/t |
eridani |
Jun-25-08 10:43 PM |
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More to do with charging the Vietnam War than Keynesian Economics. |
glitch |
Jun-26-08 12:01 PM |
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no, but the free marketeers like to pretend it did, |
leftofthedial |
Jun-25-08 03:27 PM |
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thank you, |
G_j |
Jun-25-08 05:14 PM |
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"Began with Enron" huh? How short your memory, Mr Reich |
bean fidhleir |
Jun-25-08 05:28 PM |
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It's sad, really.. Corporatists fear equlibrium more than anything |
SoCalDem |
Jun-25-08 05:34 PM |
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And, it happened without Ralph Nader. n/t |
ColbertWatcher |
Jun-25-08 06:19 PM |
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From now on I'll write off anything Robert Reich has to say. |
Raksha |
Jun-25-08 07:20 PM |
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"The first 20 years were good" For whom, might I ask? n/t |
eridani |
Jun-25-08 10:42 PM |
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