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Robert B. Reich Quote: “The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn’t consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you’ve gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can’t separate what’s genuine from what is necessary.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “It is no great feat for an economy to create a large number of very-low-wage jobs. Slavery, after all, was a full employment system.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “The problem is that the choice we make in the market don’t fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if we understood the social consequences of our purchases or investments and if we knew all other consumers and investors would join us in forbearing from certain great deals whose social consequence were abhorrent to us.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “Without voluntary adherence to a set of common notions about right and wrong, daily life would be insufferable. We would be living in a jungle where only the strongest, cleverest, and most wary could hope to survive. This would not be a society. It wouldn’t even be a civilization, because there would be no civility at its core.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “But in modern America we often shame the wrong people. Instead of deterring behavior that undermines the common good, shame is too often deployed against people who don’t fit in – to ostracize them even further.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “It’s no mere coincidence that over the last century the top earners’ share of the nation’s total income peaked in 1928 and 2007 – the two years just preceding the biggest downturns.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “Martin Luther King, Jr., applied the same logic to the struggle for civil rights in America. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “If consumers don’t have the wherewithal to spend because all the money’s going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “Both Madison and Thomas Jefferson were influenced by the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu, who defined a “republic” as a self-regulating political society whose mainspring was civic virtue.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “At the same time, most of what government does that helps them is now so deeply woven into the thread of daily life that it’s no longer recognizable as government.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “In all, 62 percent of the budget cuts would come from low-income programs. Yet at the same time, the Republican budget would provide a substantial tax cut to the rich – who are already taking home an almost unprecedented share of the nation’s total income.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “Don’t assume that we’re locked in a battle between capitalism and socialism. We already have socialism – for the very rich. Most Americans are subject to harsh capitalism.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “An economy should exist for the people who inhabit it, not the other way around. The purpose of an economy is to provide everyone with opportunities to live full, happy, and productive lives. Yet when most people come to view the economic game as rigged, this most basic purpose cannot be achieved. It is impossible to live happily in a society that seems fundamentally unfair or to live well in a nation rife with anger and cynicism.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “Don’t believe the system is a meritocracy in which ability and hard work are necessarily rewarded. Today the most important predictor of someone’s future income and wealth is the income and wealth of the family they’re born into.”
Robert B. Reich Quote: “Fewer and fewer large and medium-sized companies offer their workers full health-care coverage – 74 percent did in 1980, under 10 percent do today. As a result, health insurance premiums, co-payments, and deductibles are soaring.”
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