What If Everyone Saw This Clip Of Robert Reich Exposing 7 GOP Lies?

I guess you can't handle the truth!

"1. Robert Reich is democrat working for democrats. As such, It is like a wolf telling us the 6 biggest lies of sheep management. "

That really does not qualify as a lie since he did not claim that he was not a Democrat.

"2. Robert Reich makes money by polarizing the political field. The more you hate republicans, the more money he makes. "

Going to need some sources on that one turbo.

"3. All of his statistics have other viewpoints. Really, the country grew more after WW2 than now? Duh? It wasn't due to high taxes, idiot."

Yeah, it wasn't due to the high taxes. On a completely different note, the tanking of the economy had absolutely nothing to do with trickle down economics, Reagan's tax cuts, and/or tax cuts there after. Oh, wait, they did. Crap bad example...

The United States economy was picking up out of the depression before the United States entered the second world war. A large part of that was due to the government taxing the rich for upwards of 70% and using that money to fund government jobs like the Hoover Dam. When the United States entered into the second world war shit loads of jobs were created. A lot of those jobs, soldiers, military engineers, builders for war machines, etc., were funded by the government which was funded by the high tax rates on the top 1%.

But we're actually getting away from the real problem at hand with your #3. The problem is that you are either deaf or an idiot. Robert Reich did not claim that high taxes on the rich were the cause of economic growth. He claimed that high taxes on the rich do not hurt the economy. If high taxes on the rich hurt the economy, then our economy would not have grown as it did between WW2 and the 1980s but would have tanked instead.

You just made a pointless Comment with complete gibberish. Not one thing you tried to convey made a bit of sense or had any evidence to back up whatever it is you actually meant to explain. I don't even think you know what you meant.

That was reel intelligent!

Yep. There are just people who lack that brain fold that helps one tell fact from fiction.

It's a pity and a shame.

you want government in the hands of the people, yet you support more government jobs?

i support OWS, by the way.

34 million people need jobs. You want to throw more people out of work simply because they are government jobs? Counter productive I'd say. How do you think we get the money to support the programs and services we all need and require? Without the income government jobs provide we would be in even worse shape than we are now. It's simple economics. Tell all those people who are unemployed that we're going to cut more jobs and limit their opportunities even further and they would have every right to stick your head in a guillotine.

"Without the income government jobs provide"? Government jobs only provide an income for one person. No income is created beyond the job income itself. Give the infrastructure jobs to private companies, they will hire employees.

Government jobs and the income they provide and the revenue they contribute to tax revenues and Social Security and other government programs,which all of us take advantage of on a daily basis, are part of the backbone of our economic system . The federal government is the largest employer in the US. The more jobs that are cut the less money will be contributed to our system. If you don't understand that, then I seriously doubt yopu understand economics at all.

What income do government jobs provide? Government jobs cost tax dollars to employ.

I dont see the reason for the name calling here. Anyway, They pay taxes that do not equal the amount that the job cost taxpayers. Government jobs do not create income for the government.

Good reply Joe. I don't think of these as government jobs. The jobs are for the people that badly need them. It'not just giving them jobs, our infrastructure is in bad need of repair or replaced.

They also spend their wages which means $$ for businesses, who then can hire more people, who pay taxes and spend THEIR wages, and that all ripples.

Hoarder Class has done some job creation with their tax cuts, but it's all been overseas.

I am done with this conversation. Go ahead fire all government workers ,federal sate and local and add 6 million to the unemployed and see what happens . Have fun. Bye.

I don't think of the jobs bill jobs as government jobs either. I was just trying to get that guy to see that cutting government jobs was no way to help the economy in any way. I obviously failed.

I fail most of the time. Some will never listen or believe. I just keep repeating myself.

Ditto.

I just want to say that my estimate may be a little bit lower than your total of how many people need jobs, but you could very well be correct. I will say this, at least your number is in the ballpark, that's more than I can say about the numbers I hear from the media and our elected officials. I don't believe they or any of the economist know the true number since they keep shuffling the deck and trading cards. I know this though, it's an election year and it will be all roses and sunshine until the president is re-elected or Europe fails. . . Whichever comes first. Except in the impossibility that a Republican were to get elected, then we're surely doomed as a nation.

Why do the words " republican " and "doomed" seem to go together so well?

My sympathies and prayers go out to you.

O.K., I'll try.

It sure does!

Agree, one way or another! :)

We can hope now that they are waking up!

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." ~Euripides

That quote totally applies here, Wake!

FOX needs to be burned down!

Agreed, kenny! Have a good day, I'm off to work. :)

Have a great day yourself! :)

Maybe we should tape their eye lids open and tie them to a chair! Followed by 24 hours of Gilligan Island reruns!

Worth a try. But I think 'Gilligan's Island' would only undo any progress because they would admire the Howell's 'success' and complain about how ungrateful everyone else on the island was.

But they may also understand we are all in the same boat!

We've got to change that if we ever get control again!

I couldn't agree more kennymotown.

It will be article one of the new edition of the constitution!

Agree!

Don't give up yet, it's going to be a long class war!

Me too!

Probably so!

You do have a point! :)

Yes, a huge GOP lie!

Yes indeed!

I hope everyone watches this Kenny. Robert Reich is a smart man. He was part of the Clinton administration. Clinton had a good economy and didn't leave a debt. Then GW took office and we know what he did.

Years ago I read his book about his tenure as Labor Secretary, he would have done more for the working people but he had to battle budget cuts back then. He knows what he speaks of.