Tag: Robert Reich
The Myth of Voter Fraud with Robert Reich
Robert Reich: There are only 5 ways to become a billionaire — and none of them involve being successful in free market capitalism
Billionaires are wailing that Elizabeth Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’s wealth tax proposals are attacks on free market capitalism.
Warren “vilifies successful people,” says Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase.
Rubbish. There are basically only five ways to accumulate a billion dollars, and none of them has to do with being successful in free market capitalism.
View the complete November 11 article by Robert Reich on the AlterNet website here.
‘Case closed’: Robert Reich explains why the Constitution’s framers would have found Trump impeachable
Trump has asked a foreign power to dig up dirt on a major political rival. This is an impeachable offense.
Come back in time with me. In late May 1787, when 55 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to begin debate over a new Constitution, everyone knew the first person to be president would be the man who presided over that gathering: George Washington. As Benjamin Franklin put it, “The first man put at the helm will be a good one,” but “Nobody knows what sort may come afterwards.”
Initially, some of the delegates didn’t want to include impeachment in the Constitution, arguing that if a president was bad he’d be voted out at the next election. But what if the president was so bad that the country couldn’t wait until the next election? Which is why Franklin half-joked that anyone who wished to be president should support an impeachment clause because the alternative was assassination.
View the complete November 5 article by Robert Reich on the AlterNet website here.
Robert Reich: Should the Supreme Court Be Reformed?
Robert Reich: Here’s the real lesson of Trump’s Ukraine scandal
Amid the impeachment furor, don’t lose sight of the renewed importance of protecting the integrity of the 2020 election.
The difference between Richard Nixon’s abuse of power (trying to get dirt on political opponents to help with his 1972 reelection, and then covering it up) and Donald Trump’s abuse (trying to get Ukraine’s president to get dirt on a political opponent to help with his 2020 reelection, and then covering it up) isn’t just that Nixon’s involved a botched robbery at the Watergate while Trump’s involves a foreign nation.
It’s that Nixon’s abuse of power was discovered during his second term, after he was reelected. He was still a dangerous crook, but by that time he had no reason to inflict still more damage on American democracy.
View the complete post from Mr. Reich on the AlterNet website here.
Robert Reich: The Real Political Battle in America
Robert Reich: The Secret GOP Plan to Keep Power
Robert Reich: 9 Ways to Stay Sane During the Primaries
Robert Reich reveals he bets against Larry Kudlow predictions: ‘I’ve actually made quite a bit of money’
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich revealed on MSNBC that he bets against the predictions made by Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump’s director of the National Economic Council.
Anchor Chris Hayes interviewed Reich about the growing concern that President Donald Trump’s trade wars are risking plunging the nation into a recession.
“As somebody who has been through a number of business cycles, has watched this administration and watched the sort of last administration working through recovering from Great Recession, where do you see us right now?” Hayes asked.
View the complete August 19 article by Bob Brigham on the Raw Story website here.