Robert Reich Gives Jeb A "Thumbs Down"

[kpete]

Robert Reich

Jeb Bush gives his first presidential campaign-like speech today in Detroit, focusing on improving the economic standing of the majority of Americans who have been left behind in the recovery, arguing the economic recovery has bypassed the middle class and is holding back those stuck in poverty. Last month he said Americans are "frustrated to see a small portion of the population on the economy’s up escalator. Portfolios are strong, but paychecks are weak.”

He's right. But will he call for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy to finance better schools for everyone else’s kids? Higher taxes on corporations to pay for upgrading the nation’s infrastructure? Eliminating payroll taxes on the first $15,000 of income, and raising the cap on income subjected to Social Security? Clamping down on Wall Street by resurrecting Glass-Steagall and busting up the big banks? Making it easier for workers to form trade unions? Raising taxes on corporations with high ratios of CEO pay to average worker pay (and lowering them on corporations with low ratios)?

We'll see. But don’t hold your breath.

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[jwirr]

1. Good point. He has the talk right but does he have any action to back it up? Did he do anything as

governor to make us think he can act on this?

[TheNutcracker]

2. The bigger problems with Jeb new voters need to know about, right here:

So here comes Jeb. His wife can never be a first lady. She lied to the feds about 20K in purchases she was bringing back into the U.S. from Paris. Jeb's been a big philanderer. Two of his children have been in the news in the past years for arrests linked to drug problems, public intoxication, and sex in public. (don't confuse the W's kids).

Then there is the family issue of robbing banks. One, the Silverado Savings and Loan, several ways into which many in the Bush family were involved, and also many politicians still in office today. Jeb, George Sr., and his son Neil Bush have all been implicated in the Savings and Loan Scandal, which cost American tax payers over $1.4 TRILLION dollars, one quarter of our national debt. One also thinks it's polite to take up the Asian hookers when presented.

Their grandfather worked for Hilter, and HW lied about working for the CIA. We were to believe this when he was chosen to head the CIA agency?
The entire family has been an "AMERICAN DISASTER'.

Then there is Jeb's Nigerian water pump bribery scandal back in the courts, just last year! Illegal immigration is an "act of love".

Let us not forget that Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million dollar loan from the Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, FL. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at $500,000.00, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars, as in the past. This family robs banks and created a drug war to run drugs. Just read Barry and the Boys. Barry Seal flew planes for the CIA and ran drugs for HW and a few others.

So spare me if I'm a little sad to even THINK ABOUT ANOTHER BUSH RUNNING! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? US?

Must we put ourselves through this again? Or will the voting machines Jeb ushered in do it for us?

Oh, and while Gov of Fla, he opened up Area 181 closer to the shores for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

[tech3149]

3. My favorite line ever and we should heed it

"STAY OUT THE BUSHES!"
If you ever accepted anything on its face without a knowledge of history or a critical view of policies and their effect, that would be the one old saw I would tell to every kid that thought I knew what I was talking about.