Excerpt: "He doesn't want to regulate where regulation is necessary - at the highest reaches of the economy, where public immorality has cost us dearly, and will cost even more unless boardroom behavior is constrained. Yet he wants to regulate where regulation is least appropriate - at the level of the individual, in bedrooms and other intimate spaces, where private morality should govern."
Portrait, Robert Reich, 08/16/09. (photo: Perian Flaherty)
Romney Has Morality Upside Down
16 May 12
itt Romney's reaction to J.P. Morgan Chase's mounting losses from reckless trades is “the market will take care of it.” His spokesman says “no taxpayer money was at risk” so we don't need more financial regulation. Romney has even promised to repeal Dodd-Frank if he's elected president.
Yet at the same time, Romney has come out strongly against same-sex marriage. He's also against abortion. He has no problem with government intruding on the most intimate of decisions a person makes.
He's got private and public morality upside down. He doesn't want to regulate where regulation is necessary - at the highest reaches of the economy, where public immorality has cost us dearly, and will cost even more unless boardroom behavior is constrained. Yet he wants to regulate where regulation is least appropriate - at the level of the individual, in bedrooms and other intimate spaces, where private morality should govern.
This is a dangerous confusion. It should be a matter of personal choice whom to marry and when to have children. But it is undoubtedly a matter of public choice whether big banks should be allowed to take the kind of risky bets that plunged the economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, and whether people with great wealth and should be able to buy our democracy with huge campaign contributions.
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Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written thirteen books, including "Locked in the Cabinet," "Reason," "Supercapitalism," "Aftershock," and his latest e-book, "Beyond Outrage." His 'Marketplace' commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes.
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If the maze Of Mormonism (coincidentally title of another book, by Walter Martin) wasn't enough to warp young Mitt's thinking processes, using Senator Frank J. Cannon's 1912 volume for a business tutorial did the job. Senator Cannon's "Under The Prophet In Utah" is a chronicle of Mormon Church forays in corporate control, sufficient unto itself to expedite national anti-trust sentiment and subsequent legislation.
Business doings of the Mormon Church hierarchy 100 years ago were so egregious we see no stretch to say America's Progressive movement was born in Salt Lake City...
The biggest test of Willard Romney's intellectual honesty shall hinge on his ability to research the writings of Mormonism in the light of original Hebrew language scripture. New Testament documents, contemporary historians and archeology present an indisputable body of historical fact showing, in context of the Old Testament Hebrew, the fact Mormonism is a cult.
Romney sooner or later must confront the REAL Jesus Christ, and the meeting will be (ETERNAL)orders of magnitude more joyful if he arrives without the Book of Mormonism in hand.
What would happen if Mitt Romney's recantation were to take place before the election?
Can you imagine Jesus Christ leading a nation into an immoral and illegal war that displaced, tortured and killed an untold number of innocent unarmed civilians?
Just what is Romney's relationship to mercenary armies such as Blackwater, Xe, or whatever?
I seem to recall the only violent act Jesus Christ committed was to upset the money changers' tables in their temple that probably led to his crucifixion.
See www.Glass-SteagallNow.com
John Miller
"There you go again"...you have to take a shot at Reich..why? Address the issues and leave the cheap shots out of it.
I think if a vote were taken of non-idealogues and non-haters regarding who the horses asses are on the national agenda, the names filled in would not be Obama or Reich.
What precisely is the Mormon issue? Romney is a Mormon. It's a fact.
While I personally view his religion as being in the mode of Scientology, I don't care what he believes so long as he is able to perform duties of office independently.
I am more concerned about his Darwinian economic positions and his insistence upon viewing those who object to them as jealous. Jealous? Hell people simply want to be standing. The only trickle down from vampire capitalism is golden rain laced with victims blood.
Nope -- let capitalism die and use resources on saving the people. As the saying goes, we can do better than capitalism.
As I remember a rich acquaintance of mine saying, poor people are happy with the littlest you can give them, after all they dont know any better. Thats where they are trying to keep us...not knowing any better. Each generation expecting less then the prior one, and being happy with whatever crumbs the 1% throws their way. Its sickening, but if Mitt gets elected its coming.
I think the most significant speech at the CPAC 2012 convention was made by Grover Norquist, who says the GOP needs a president with "enough digits to hold a pen" to sign the legislation coming to him from Congress. Romney can pontificate on and on, but the bottom line, if elected, he'll be a PUPPET for his Right-Wing masters, and he'd better not get out of line. These guys will have accomplished what they've been working on since Messiah Reagan took office. Listen to the Norquist speech (4 minutes), and draw your own conclusions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl0bmgHc9Pk
Robt, if Im looking for facts, I know reading your posts isnt going to give me any, so you can write your BS and think your right, but if you pulled your head out of Fox News and into the real world you would know nothing you say is fact based, its all propganda nonsense.
He should just go ahead an marry another 5 or 6 wives like his great grandfather, and like the Taliban.
Oh Oh I guess all those MMA fighters construction workers and bikers who have their hair long better watch out for Mitt Rommey .Yeah he even mustered up the nerve to bully a half blind school teacher .I am sure that could have made Dr Smith from "lost in space" look like Sgt Rock or Sir Robin from Monthy Python's "the Holy Grail" look like Rambo in comparison .Proof positive cruelty does not equal courage
http://ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012052015/bill-clinton-john-boehner-and-some-other-rich-white-guys-just-decided-its-all-
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508142542.htm
Washington lived and fought and turly admired the fortitude of the young men that wanted to taste freedom. Washington grew with his interaction. Risked his own life and wealth as he became more enlightened.
Romney has no sense of the common man, never has, never will...he has blinders on to reality for the littel guy.
we once enslaved Blacks. now we'll have equal opportunity slavery!
a Republican before- consider the Village
Idiot.
But I'm just wondering what the far right
Evangelicals,to whom the Catholic Church and Episcopalianism are "cults," will do when they find out that Romney's grandpa foresook the US to go south and found a polygamy commune in Mexico, where Mitt's daddy George was born in 1907.
Hey "Birthers," why can't I hear you now?
I don't know what old communist system you are thinking of but that isn't at all what real communism is like. Many very productive businesses are essentially communistic: worker run without owner/bosses. Many computer innovations have come from such companies.
Capitalism has no reason to innovate or produce anything worthwhile unless it is more profitable -- and at the same time it has every reason to be unproductive, even destructive, if THAT is more profitable. Profit is the only criteria, not production, use value, or what is good for people.
People can be problems for sure, but the core problem is the capitalist system itself.
We need political leaders who can master a body of objective facts and draw rational conclusions, without having their mental universes limited by prejudices or superstitions.
He, like other rich people understand the nature of power. You can't relax laws on one end of the scale unless you balance it with more laws on the other end.
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