Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: What Did I Tell You?
From: Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com>
Organization: ViperNews - www.vipernews.com
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:21:00 +0000
pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
news:vt1lqp$rtpj$1@dont-email.me:
> On 2025-04-07, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Robert Reich
>> @RBReich
>>
>> The richest 0.1% own 17% of stocks
>>
>> The richest 1% own 50% of stocks
>>
>> The bottom 50% own 0.7% of stocks
>>
>> Repeat after me: "The stock market is not the economy."
>>
>> WE will be fine.
>>
>> Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24,1946) is an American professor,
>> author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the
>> administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and
>> served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of
>> President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of President Barack
>> Obama's economic transition advisory board.
>>
>> Reich has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the
>> Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. He
>> was formerly a lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy
>> School of Government and a professor of social and economic policy at
>> the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis
>> University. In 2008, Time magazine named him one of the Ten Best
>> Cabinet Members of the century, and in the same year The Wall Street
>> Journal placed him sixth on its list of Most Influential Business
>> Thinkers.
>>
>> Reich has published numerous books, including the best-sellers The
>> Work of Nations (1991), Reason (2004), Supercapitalism (2007),
>> Aftershock (2010), Beyond Outrage (2012), and Saving Capitalism
>> (2015). The Robert Reich-Jacob Kornbluth film Saving Capitalism
>> debuted on Netflix in November 2017, and their film Inequality for
>> All won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in
>> Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He is board chair
>> emeritus of Common Cause and blogs at Robertreich.org.
>
> As I have always maintained, follow the money.
> Additionally look at the reaction to some event by both the left and
> the right. Words mean nothing but reactions mean everything.
>
> So looking at current events, why would ANYONE be opposed to cutting
> government waste and spending?
Government waste:
Park Rangers
Air Traffic Controllers
VA doctors
Government watchdogs
Firefighters
Nuclear safety engineers
Vital Government Spending:
Trump golf trips
Vance Greenland trips
A military birthday parade for Trump
Space Contracts for Musk
Plans for invading Gaza