The Labor Day holiday should be abolished. The socialist unions have so perverted “labor” in the US that it has become a disgrace to those responsible people who work hard for a living.

For anybody that wants to better understand “unions” consider the following:

From the dictionary of REAL Americans: union = 1. a collection of goons and thugs organized to extort the maximum possible wages, benefits and pensions for doing the minimum possible amount of actual work. 2. a subsidiary of the lunatic-left d-crat socialist party that provides hundreds of millions of dollars in mandatory union dues as campaign contributions in payback for the billions of dollars of taxpayer money the d-crat socialists funnel to the unions. 3. an entity designed to make any company non-competitive and any state, city or local municipality bankrupt. 4. a collection of goons and thugs focused on voter intimidation, unless the voter votes for the d-crat socialist party. 5. a tool of the d-crat socialist party to implement its anti-democracy ideology by preventing workers from having a secret ballot as to whether they want to join a union, and instead subjecting them to what is called “card check” that allows union goons and thugs to harass, intimidate and threaten workers to join their union.

He’s also a historical illiterate.

I wrote “The Real Meaning of Veteran’s Day” and it was infinitely more compelling (though it was full of split infinitives and ‘historical examples’) than this long-debunked-economics drivel. Reich &c. are writing for a rapidly shrinking Leftist-elitist demographic.

This is my take on How WWII Ended the Great Depression:

http://www.practicalstate.com/2009/04/12/share-the-meat/

Cheers

for having Reich on his program all the time. He is so easily defeated in debate by any and all of the other guests.

Kudlow just likes to let the liberals be their own worst enemy.

Reich famously quotes that the income of the “middle class” has not grown across the Reagan and Bush years. Here is a curve which says that a little bit, but it much more says that the economic policies that he promulgates will make it even worse.
http://www.house.gov/jec/middle/crunch3/fig-2a.gif
Considering that this is done by a JOINT committee, and not by one party or another, you’d think he could acquaint himself with the facts, wouldn’t you?

The idea that someone this stupid was serving as secretary of commerce (IIRC) is frightening.

Does he really think that the middle class were seeing any of that 90% marginal tax that the rich were paying when Kennedy came into office? And just exactly how was the government funding the civil rights movement (which didn’t really come into its own until after the Kennedy tax cuts)?

Oh, and by the way, the reason that they cap the social security “insurance” payment at 12% of your first 106,000 in income is that they also cap your benefits at that level; anything over 106,000 in a year isn’t counted towards your retirement allotment.

There are very few people over the age of 40 years who have any confidence that Social Security will be around when we hit retirement age. We can’t depend on Medicare either. It’s dumber than dirt to expect us to pin our hopes on the naive belief that the wealthy will fall into line lock-stock-and-barrel with progressive redistribution of wealth policies. Wealthy people can very easily transfer their citizenship to other countries. They don’t have to stay here.

So, those of us over 40 are reevaluating our lifestyles and how we spend the money we earn. We’re focusing more on finding ways to save money and paying off the debts we currently have. We aren’t contributing back into the economy, particularly in the form of consumer goods, in the same manner that we were a year ago. If we own businesses, any plans that we might have had for growth and expansion are being put on hold.

What it comes down to is that if we don’t want to find ourselves in our golden years at the mercy of a government who sees the elderly as a burden to society, we have to accept the responsibility for this on our own. It’s our own choice to make, not yours.

The sad thing is…Reich is the best that Obama and his socialist crowd have. No wonder none of them have a clue .
He is the one that said, in the glory days right after the election, that they didnt want good jobs going to white, male, professional, union construction workers. lol
THIS white male, professional , union construction worker hopes to meet this very small man someday!!

He’s probably a nice guy, but I’ve never seen him be correct on a single prognostication. He seems to want the USA to be more like Europe. But European polices seem to bring about unemployment rates that never dip below 10%…

It was George Santayana who said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

The Life of Reason (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense,
From which we also have “Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

Some of Obama’s economists are pretty smart, but I can’t think of anything that Reich has done or said that qualifies him as an “expert” on anything, much less economics.

This country boy figures that Robert Reich can’t be blamed for his beliefs.
After all he is just another IVY LEAGUE educated socialist( my opinion)0.
I sure hope that those “famous” PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS are not recieving any txpayer monies!!!!!!
THAT IVY LEAGUE LIST JUST GETS BIGGER AND BIGGER!!!

Crazy Horse was right

Transocean personnel as of July 20 were the only ones to be named ‘persons of interest.’ Even though the key BP officer Robert Kaluza had pled the 5th once or twice.

Really???

I almost bet most WWII vets would love to meet up with this guy in a dark alley.
What’s he yapping about anyways? His and Roosevelt’s partner (Stalin) made out like a bandit!

“If you can’t support our troops feel free to get out in front of them.”

Instead of viewing taxes as just a means to fund appropriate expenditures, Democrats (and some Republicans) look upon taxes as a tool to both redistribute (someone else’s) wealth and push the culture and society in the direction they want it to go. A particularly bad example:

“Early childhood education should be more widely available, paid for by a small 0.5 percent fee on all financial transactions.”

There is no connection between financial transactions and “early childhood education,” yet Reich picks this tax out of thin air just because he thinks he CAN. But as all Democrats do, he has his cart before his horse.

First, is the goal (early childhood education) worthy? The jury is still out on that. It seems to depend on what that education consists of and who is receiving it. To simplify, we shouldn’t be doing anything like this unless it is prioritized on merit above a lot of other stuff.

Second, taxes should be assessed only at a level that will support necessary and appropriate government services. There should be no “targeted taxes.”
The idea that “we want to fund a new program, so let’s assess a new tax and tie the two together” is ethically repulsive. It also fragments something that should be unified–the budget. Reich suggests that if we think up some new program, it’s A-OK to just add a tax on some poor shmuck to pay for it, disregarding all else.

Finally, nobody seems to want to think about what level of taxation is morally justifiable, nor do they want to consider the circumstances that make a deficit budget acceptable.

It boggles my mind every time some government has a budget crisis and they announce they are going to be restricted to “essential government services”. Well DUH?!!! Isn’t that what government is supposed to do in the first place?

This would make a great campaign commercial or message for any conservative group.

The current administration is making the same mistakes that the administration of FDR. In an atmosphere of poor economic conditions, government imposed costs on business which only succeeded in making the American workers more expensive and thereby setting the stage for the exodus of jobs from our economy. Although, that succeeding period was one where the U.S. economy could adapt and create and expand other areas of commerce. I am not so certain our economy can endure this latest eruption of progressive policies. It seems the liberals have been bent for 76 years on just how much stress and load they can put on our system of commerce in order to break it.