Robert Reich: The Real Reason Trump Wants to Reopen the Economy

[Stellar]

[sandensea]

1. Plus, the 3rd quarter GDP report - which comes out just DAYS before the election

Cheeto wants "beautiful" numbers.

[Warpy]

4. Between increased morbidity and mortality

keeping a significant number of workers home, some permanently, he is not going to get them.

About the only things that can rescue this economy are higher wages at the bottom, significantly higher taxes at the top. No Republican has ever thought a worker was worth a wage or a rich man should pay taxes.

[sandensea]

5. Well said.

We couldn't have worse people leading us through this calamity.

But there's light at the end of the tunnel.

[Bayard]

2. That about sums it up.

If you don't report the numbers of infected and dead, they don't exist. He's going to say he won the war, saved the economy, and put the country back to work.

As Rachel says--Watch what they do, not what they say.

[ancianita]

3. Excellent video. Thank you!

And I'm not a Reich fan. But he's getting tighter in his talks.