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In reply to the discussion: ROBERT REICH: The American Dream Has Fallen Apart [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)20. "The politicians were just going along with the highest bidder."
Nothing to blame politicians for there?
The capitalists did not get where they are without laws and changes in laws. It's a partnership. And both groups got rich and powerful that way.
I blame them both, but I blame the politicians more. Why? The job of a capitalist is to get rich. The job of an elected representative is to serve the best interests of all the voters--and if that is impossible, then a majority of them.
Also, blaming only the capitalists--and it's a mystery to me why you want to do that--disempowers most of us. Those of us who don't hold enough shares in a corporation to fire the board or the officers cannot do much about the behavior of corporatists. However, I do have a vote as to politicians.
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America - An Empire Built On Illusion - That Empire And Illusion Is Crumbling
cantbeserious
Mar 2014
#5
"Mobs in the street, calling for someone's head? I've never seen anything like that."
bemildred
Mar 2014
#37
+1. Plutocrats, really, it's the money, it drives them nuts when they have too much.
bemildred
Mar 2014
#15
It is our economic system that sucks, but it's our political system that sets the rules.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#17
All these years shilling for NAFTA, "free trade"...Reich is a hypocrite or an idiot. Which is it?
Romulox
Mar 2014
#14
One major theme should be that we don't need more jobs, we need better paying ones.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#19
"It can also be understood as the greatest propaganda victory radical conservatism ever won"
n2doc
Mar 2014
#22
You mean the present day treadmill goal of trying to achieve the unachievable goal?
Javaman
Mar 2014
#23
He should know. He was economic advisor to the Prez during repeal of Glass Steagall,
merrily
Mar 2014
#31
I call Oscar Mayer. This thread refers to things like NAFTA, repeal of Glass Steagall
merrily
Mar 2014
#53
"Why didn’t we share the gains from globalization and technological advances more broadly?"
gulliver
Mar 2014
#45