If this year taught us anything, it's that: (Robert Reich)

[applegrove]

If this year taught us anything, it's that:

1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires.
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers.
3) Poverty is a policy choice.
4) Health care is a human right.
5) Strikes work.

I hope we act on these lessons in the new year.

Mastodon

[BOSSHOG]

1. Robert Reich is right on the money and may I add

As the New Year approaches, conservatives are the antithesis of his post as they have been since 1776.

[applegrove]

2. +1

[PatrickforB]

3. One of my favorite economists! He was a good Sec'y of Labor, too.

Reich gets it.

[KS Toronado]

4. Next time someone in my red town mentions Ronald Reagan

especially if they are bragging about him, I'm gonna ask them..... "What percentage of your paycheck or dollar
amount is a direct result of tax cuts for the rich trickling down into your pocket"?

[Gaugamela]

5. Shhh! (Don't call it socialism. The natives will get restless.)

[GB_RN]

6. As To Reich's Point #2...

Trickle Down, or "Piss On Ya Economics" was proven a failure 40 years ago, when Reagan first tried it. Yet for some reason, we keep running our heads into that same damned brick wall, as if we just haven't been running into it hard enough. Because they keep voting for the assclowns who push that shit, I guess a certain segment of our population is either a glutton for punishment, thinks that they are just temporarily inconvenienced billionaires...or just totally fucking stupid. Or maybe some combination of the three.

[nightwing1240]

7. What I can never undersrtand and most likely never will

is how and why people continually for decades vote against their own best interests. Benefits for the working class, equal pay for women, health care for us all, voting rights, ending racism and on and on and on. It never ceases and some working class people and women and to a small degree some minorities STILL vote republican. I don't get it, I really don't.