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+2 # Guest 2010-09-23 22:13
Perhaps a book amplifying these thoughts should be required reading for most Americans. Most of the time I live in Egypt, but I'll still read it with interest.
 
 
+8 # Guest 2010-09-24 05:40
Mr. Reich is very impressive and persuasive. Mr. Obama should pay close attention to him.
 
 
+5 # Guest 2010-09-24 05:48
He needs to call Obama and apply for a job.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-09-24 06:40
Folksinger: "Aftershock" is in fact a book by Robert Reich.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-09-24 12:11
These are wonderful words, spoken by a dreamer. We're going to do it again and again! Do what? With corporations owning the Supreme Court as well as our congresspeople, nothing short of a revolutionary war will change our country. And we can't afford that, because all the weapons are owned by the same people who own our government.
 
 
+1 # Guest 2010-09-24 13:45
Nice to hear some optimism, but he doesn't really name the root of the structural problem. They were very clever when a cartel of European and US bankers came up with the word "Federal" for the central banking scheme (Federal Reserve Act) they pushed through congress back in 1913. Take it all the way back to the root.... Follow the money trail back to the source and you'll find out the Fed is not Federal and it doesn't have any reserves. It is a privately owned central bank created FOR profit. Not saying don't read "Aftershock", I'm sure there's good info in it, but the book that every American should read is one by G. Edward Griffin called "The Creature From Jekyll Island". Fair warning though, don't read it unless you're ready for your entire belief system to collapse. To read it is to swallow the red pill (ala "The Matrix") Other informative videos along the same lines on the web.... "The Money Masters", "Zeitgeist"
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-09-25 07:40
great analysis but not to the point - we went through the housing bubble - as Allan Greenspan guided our economy - not noticing that Japan did experience the same 20 years ago (one of the Allan's quote - "market does not like uncertainty" when we were deciding to bomb Iraq. Sure the war was good for Wall Street.
Now we are bankrupt because of the military spending and nobody studies collapse of the last empire - Soviet Union. And this waste and wars continue. Obama surge of 30,000 soldiers at one million per head/year to kill more Pashtuns in Afghanistan is absurd and criminal. It is military stupid - the rest is putting lipstick on the pig. Can not wait for another fake 911 to unite the nation under the Neocons rule.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-09-25 11:19
Thank Goodness for his optimism...Most of us find things gloomy.....He is right about one thing though...In the past we had Watergate....Teapot Dome--The biggest Oil scandal ever, and we rose above them, and generated more prosperity for a lot more people...Our problem really is the demise of the moderates in the Republican party has left us without much rational decision making in government...Judy pugsley
 
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