UPDATED: Robert Reich - (10) TWELVE Ideas to Save the Economy

[demwing]

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Idea #1: Fight for $15

Idea #2: Help Working Families

Idea #3: Expand Social Security

Idea #4: Tame Wall Street

Idea #5: Reinvent Education

Idea #6: End Corporate Welfare

Idea #7: Strengthen Unions

Idea #8: Raise the Estate Tax

Idea #9: Make Polluters Pay

Idea #10: End Mass Incarceration

Idea #11: The Medicare Solution

Idea #12: Get Big Money Out of Politics

[JDPriestly]

1. K&R.

[merrily]

2. Thanks. To underscore, don't overlook fighting locally.

Your neighborhood association, city or town or state can do a lot and your voice is louder in each of those than it is in Washington, D.C., where, candidly, I think it does little to nothing.

[robertpaulsen]

5. I wish Clinton had kept Reich for his second term.

Perhaps he might have been influential enough to persuade Clinton to veto the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealing Glass-Steagall.

[njd2025]

6. Saving capitalism

I like Robert Reich. I saw this video on Netflix: