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Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
- Robert Reich
#Children
#Community
#Great
#Middle Class
We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.
- Robert Reich
#Best
#Drones
#Leadership
#Place
#World
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
- Robert Reich
#Avoid
#Clever
#Find
#Rich
#Will
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
- Robert Reich
#America
#Day
#Every Day
#People
#Poverty
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
- Robert Reich
#Civilized
#Society
#Standing
#Up
Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.
- Robert Reich
#Anger
#Better
#Politics
#Positive
#Will
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.
- Robert Reich
#Belief
#Language
#Religion
#Rise
#World
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.
- Robert Reich
#Giving
#Interest
#Labor
#Mortgage
#Rich
Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people.
- Robert Reich
#Freedom
#Power
#Society
#Time
#Value
Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.
- Robert Reich
#Capitalism
#Grow
#More
#Resources
#Where
Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs.
- Robert Reich
#Help
#Money
#Unemployment
#Who
#Will
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.
- Robert Reich
#Change
#Grow
#Stronger
#Unions
#Way
Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
- Robert Reich
#Fast
#Job
#Knowledge
#Technology
#Why
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
- Robert Reich
#Always
#Business
#Like
#Next
#Will
#Workers
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
- Robert Reich
#Ability
#Carry
#People
#Together
#Work
Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.
- Robert Reich
#America
#Disease
#Gone
#Obesity
#Taxes
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.
- Robert Reich
#American Dream
#Faith
#Hard Work
#Work
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
- Robert Reich
#America
#Democrats
#Party
#Politics
#Way
Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.
- Robert Reich
#Because
#Every
#Incentive
#Medical
#System
#Up
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.
- Robert Reich
#Believe
#Business
#Government
#How
#Live
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
- Robert Reich
#Equality
#Everyone
#Opportunity
#Result
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
- Robert Reich
#Free
#Globalization
#Growth
#Lead
#Trade
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
- Robert Reich
#America
#Memorial Day
#Patriotism
#True
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