How Democrats Clean Up the Messes Left by Republicans | Robert Reich 

Just read an article that stated that half of America is close to or is in poverty. I technically am as I can not afford my own place but I do live with a room mate.

@@m.j.kaederproduction2479 I live in a 3 family household.... maybe that counts as one house hold cause it takes everyone pitching in to keep it afloat.

Kill the rich. All of them.

@@nevadataylor even during the French Revolution that solution failed to solve the problem. Taxation and dissolving of multinational corporations via legislation is a better fix but it takes a lot longer. Less blood as well.

@@nickrich56 Yes, you are right, this time around we need to get rid of capitalism, after killing and eating them. Good point.

Now why don't these fuckin maggots watch this

Reich lies by withholding information

It will. It can be a peaceful political revolution with the likes of a Bernie Sanders taking the presidency and Alexandria-types taking the House and Senate. The revolution that comes should a political revolution fail or not come about is not so peaceful and not political. Change will come eventually, but I would prefer the first and fixing our Republic to represent and be ruled by "The People" again.

@@theextraordinarypants4909 Some people can't be told, they have to learn the hard way.

Bread and Circuses keep the crowds happy, blissfull, and ignorant!

Why do you think that a lot of Reps and the wealthy want to destroy education. “Keep ‘em ignorant and poor”!

Bernie Sanders says his brand of socialism is like Swedens in Sweden they have a twenty five percent sales tax except on food which is twelve and public transportation which is six do you support that level of taxes or do you simply want something for nothing at our childrens expense who will have to pay for the terrifying horrific debt Democrat programs that Democrats won't pay enough taxes for has brought us vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it

A lot of republicans want to destroy the US and revive the Confederacy.

Which was a short lived failed state. But they revere the CSA. Makes me want to throw up!

No, the great tragedy in our country, IS THAT 30%-40% OF THE COUNTRY IS TOO STUPID TO FIGURE IT OUT!!!

@@rollothecat2010 the CSA were the original traitors to the United States of America!!! They see it differently, but TRAITORS always do!!!

@@billpool1217 True. As someone said, the villain is the hero of his own story.

Ya'll got that straight!

See it, I'm going to share it with them! Give them some education!

California pays more in to the Federal Government than any other State, but they take in more Federal Government benefits than they pay in: another Failed Democratic Controlled State. Illinois is another failed Democratic Controlled State with a Billionaire Democrate Governor who continues to raise taxes on the Middle Class. St. Louis, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, San Francisco and many more failed cities controlled by Democrats. The Democratic Party has done very little for the Middle Class.

@@timmarshall7292 You're missing the point. What middle-class?

@@tomasinacovell4293 You know, the ones that have jobs; lots of them and they are buying houses, cars/trucks, microwaves, t.v.s, phones/technology, going to movies, eating out, vacations, etc etc etc.

@Jack R actually I thought it was the Federal Reserve policy. But I think destruction of Union jobs most likely is the culprit.

That's what happens when you put celebrities that are Republicans into office Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump

The anti trust laws he demolished screwed us also.,, too bad we don't have a time machine

Same with Thatcher in the UK Capitalism is a curse

@Homer Holler: HA-HA-HA! Bullshit.

Welcome to the world of political tribalism. Facts no longer matter when followers of the GOP abandoned all critical thinking for blind devotion to their party. The political tribe does the thinking for them.

They chose to be ignorant.

They're good little mushrooms, and the Republican politicos are the mushroom farmers. And how does one grow mushrooms best? By keeping them in the dark and feeding them bullsh.

g3rch It's one of the greatest misteries in the universe. They convince the hungry that they don't need food, the sick that they don't need health care, the poor that they don't need money. What a mind job!

Well, let's not forget that W.J.C. balanced the budget on the backs of poor and all the programs, and then didn't load any burden upon the wealthy or restore any of the programs Reagan cut. The Clinton's are right-wing guys.

I agree - now that everyone is home, the government money will be starting to flow in; all sorts of groups are giving away free food. schools are closed bu serving as meal distribution centers. let's all keep this life style going. Jobs aren't needed anymore. Suck on the government tit until all the money runs out.

I'm not too sure that's what I was getting at or that I'm totally on board with going that far, but there's gotta be some kind of healthy medium, something that the US has struggled with for some time.

I assume what Mitch McConnell meant was that Republicans expect to do what they please, trashing the US economy for the benefit of the top 1%, and couldn't care less about the effect on all other Americans, and if people want the mess cleaned up, don't look to them to do it. It is incredibly difficult to understand why the voters keep re-electing these demented Republican crackpots.

Well maybe the economy overall did better under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. But the fact is both parties are bought by the same people. Both of them have signed bad trade deals, increased our debt, and we still have something that every other country including our northern neighbor has - universal healthcare. Libertarian 2020

Keep talking.

I couldn't agree more. Democrats should be talking about how Trump/Republicans , and unnecessarily ran up the deficit to cut taxes for the wealthy during an economic expansion, and now look what a mess we're in!

Because they aren’t facts🤣🙄

@@shannonholliday412 What did Reich say that is false?

North Korea has 100% literacy but North Koreans have nothing to read. Americans can read anything in the world but with only 86% literacy a good chunk of them simply can't. The self-described 'best education system in the world' is a lot like the self-described 'best healthcare system in the world'. You get what you pay for because only commies have public systems of anything. The less money spent on a public education system, the less informed the average American voter can be, and the more likely they are to elect someone based solely on how much they can make lib's cry. 'Murica! Fuck yeah!

@@sokar_rostau so you would get rid of the education system? How about the publicly funded police, fire and public works departments that you can call in an emergency or maintain your streets? Is that also 'communist' ? Part of being intelligent is common sense.

@@Tommy_Mac Reading comprehension is part of being literate and your American edumacayshun just shines on through this post. Well done, Mr 14%.

That might just be the biggest challenge.

@@Alex_Mitchell can you ever remember a u.s. president being laughed at by other foreign leaders we have sunk so low

@@jssomewhere6740 I've been kicking around on this planet for over 6 decades and have never seen anything like this in the US. (And I remember G.B. Jr. rather well.)

Over five decade under my belt and I've never seen anything like it either it's embarrassing it's also dangerous what happens when we go to war with no allies or we lose all our trading partners

@@Alex_Mitchell I love to hear from people around your age with respect to Trump and his administration. A lot of times I find myself wondering if what I feel is the normal political alarmism that we see every cycle of presidents, but as I've asked those much older than me that have seen many more presidencies, it has been confirmed to me over and over again that what is happening currently isn't just alarmism - it's actually unprecedented and frightening.

Please try anyways. Share, share, share.

I watched it and democrats raised the ratio during the last term.

Don't forget he gives away his presidential salary...while at the same time cashing in on everything else. All the kickbacks is quite disgusting. I hear it all the time from his supporters..."but but but he gives his salary to charity." while at same time defrauding charities. I just understand these ppl.

@@taniabrodin3407 it's a tax write-off.

poor folks cant give jobs genius. you will always have some poor people

@@gf4353 I know...but his supporters love to say that he gives his salary to charity and I tell them what you just said. They do not care about facts or the rule of law for that matter. Ffs these ppl continuously vote against their own interests.

@Bruce Wade Are you a stupid Republican? I'm sure thinking so.

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It's sad. Good Luck!

A T cut them out

equality in the eyes of the law?😂 is that why biden passed financial help directly prioritizing people of color and not white people? and you have a very stupid opinion. what you make it sound like is, your brother isn’t a democrat so why should he be entitled to social benefits? you sound so stupid, maybe your brothers are all take and no give but that’s the democrat playbook. do you not see how AOC wants to pass benefits for people who are “unwilling to work”. oh that’s right, you live with don lemon up your ass.

I have a brother who has needed, and accepted, every financial social benefit in existence. Who has worked most of his life "under the table", therefore having paid precious little in taxes in support of those benefits. Who supports Trump. "They know how to take but not how to give." There's a word for people like that. Pigs. Societal pigs.

There are millions of stories just like yours!

If your debt is growing faster than income, it's thanks to your economic policies.

@@bartdoo5757 If the cost of all goods increases faster than the wages paid to the workers, what do you expect will happen?

@@sethbritton6970 You're changing the subject. I don't know what year or decade you're referring to. Today's "average" family has larger homes, more appliances, smart phones, and many other luxuries they can live without.

@@bartdoo5757 I don't see where I changed the subject, nor did I give time periods. Just stating basic facts and conditions. If wages stagnate while costs of living increase, then inevitably people will fail, even if they're playing the game of fiscal responsibility perfectly. But I see you'd much rather blame the victims of bad economic management from those in power.

@@sethbritton6970 I responded to Tubmaster 5000 that if his debt was growing, it was due to his economic policies. The fact that plenty of people are fiscally responsible proves you're wrong. . What are you referring to when you say, "But I see you'd much rather blame the victims of bad economic management from those in power?"

Instead, we got Biden, who has continued to destroy the financial health of the nation at an unprecedented breakneck speed. And this says nothing about all the many other monumental disasters created by Biden for America and its place on the world stage. Total and complete disaster to continue Obama's hapless and destructive path.

Your prediction was pretty spot on

What was brilliant? The fact that it jumped nearly 30% under Obama and they just skipped right over that

I just hope you're not as blinded by Bernie as the trumptards are by tRump. I don't trust anybody

But... sadly... it won’t happen. People’s nature won’t allow it!

same

California pays more in to the Federal Government than any other State, but they take in more Federal Government benefits than they pay in: another Failed Democratic Controlled State. Illinois is another failed Democratic Controlled State with a Billionaire Democrate Governor who continues to raise taxes on the Middle Class. St. Louis, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, San Francisco and many more failed cities controlled by Democrats. The Democratic Party has done very little for the Middle Class.

I used to be a libertarian. I even went out with a libertarian friend and tried to recruit people, like Mormon missionaries do. The people wanted data to back up our claims though. So I looked up the data. The data didn't say what I wanted it to say. It said the opposite of what I wanted. I tried to share what I learned with my libertarian friends. It was important stuff that they needed to know. But they didn't want to hear it. They just kept repeating the same false generalizations as always -- stuff I had believed too, before I looked for evidence. And they got quite mad at me for trying to give them data. So I'm not a libertarian any more. And I can't support pretty much anything from the conservative half of the US's political spectrum any more... or even what passes for "centrism" these days. Almost none of it matches up with the data. Ideally, the center of the political spectrum would line up nicely with reality. But in the US, it doesn't. It's not even close. The only policies which actually align with reality now are considered "extreme left". :(

@@ToyKeeper The data that the melting pot of 350,000,000 much less the 7.5 billion of the world would align under the control of one government is not available. We are a Nation of every race, religion and culture and your Utopian Federal Government is a dream in the hands of mankind. I am not apposed to government, but want to keep it close; family, church/civic organization, community and State: this will allow the citizens to keep their treasures close and hold their Representatives more accountable. Let's have Liberty to voluntarily join and fund the organizations that best represent the causes that are important to each of us. The Federal Government needs to again be limited to its original responsibility of defending Liberty.

Align 7.5 billion people under One Utopian Federal Government? Lol. Someone brought up empirical data and how useful it is for making informed decisions, so Tim changed the topic to scary imaginary things nobody proposed. Surely, that's a logical way to debate and learn. Speaking of fanciful scary things nobody was talking about... it might be time to lay off the Fox News / Breitbart / RT, or wherever you learned to Gish gallop with all those conservative talking points. Unless you like being lied to. That's okay too, I guess. I don't understand it, but it's not my place to judge what people do in private. Try to keep it in your pants though, instead of blowing your load all over the internet. You've pasted the same comment in at least 4 different threads here, and aside from being totally off-topic, it's full of claims which are, um, what's the word... false.

Reich spreads lies and misinformation. No wonder scams and corruption are so rampant.

Michael RCH watch mark blyth here RU-vid for an interesting analysis on the rise of populist economics. He argues that Obama’s fiscal policy was necessary, but went too far. The austerity measures taken by Europe was the wrong approach, so in that sense , Obama did well

If only it was that easy. If he didn't do it, and quickly, then you would be counting your three rupees now. The banks and U.S. economy would have crashed and the super wealthy would be flying to their private islands.

Andrew I didn't say that the government shouldn't have prevented the collapse of the economy. What I am suggesting is that the government shouldn't have done it in such a way as to enrich the bankers and make them even bigger than before. The government could have taken controlling stakes in the failing banks and thrown the crooks who wrecked the economy in jail for their fraud.

At the end of the day, both of you are right. That’s why Blyth’s argument is interesting because it accounts for that nuance.

America as a capitalist nation would never tolerate nationalization of the banks. The lobbyist and Republicans would have torn Obama apart. This is why the US also does not have universal healthcare.

TheIcedFin I always liked it when my preschool teacher doodled, too.

@@bradchristy8429 that must have been a very elite and expensive pre school!

Christina Cope Considering my single mother made about $4/hr in the early ‘70s, I’m kinda doubting it.

The doodles are there to distract you from Roberts's lack of evidence, economists who are considered about the debt look at the debt to GDP ration from 1776 to today, focusing on 1940 as that is were the increasing ratio trend started. However, Robert starts at Reagon because he wants you to know who the scarry boogieman under your bed is.

You are keeping me sane. At age 53 I have seen this happening and always thought the country would crumble apart if we had too man republican presidents in a row. They just can't keep their hand out of the till.

Trent gay nah let’s do it by half!

@@chidorirasenganz gotta start somewhere no one would go with half at first

The question is WHERE do you cut the Mil budget. You certainly shouldn't cut the people and training. Our manpower (even in the face of surges and deployments) is at historic lows we haven't seen since the post-Desert Storm drawdown, albeit servicemembers are better paid than they have been in the past. Previously we lived at poverty levels. Now it's...OK-ish. The problem is big ticket items being sold on contract by BAE, Raytheon, Boeing, etc., and even more pricey: the repair parts & FSR services from sweetheart deal contracts. These are easier to hide and sneak into the budget than the sticker price of a whole F-35. We simply made better buys with our cash and got more for less before 9-11.

@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing that's a question 4 the military after they get cut not for civilians to ponder

@@trentgay3437 You must be completely unfamiliar with the Congressional Military Appropriations process if you think that

What do facts mean when most believe in fantasy and fiction?

@@ricktoffer01 - I can't say most, its like electoral college vs popular vote. The electoral college doesn't believe in facts and I don't think the minority will continue fukig the country.

Indeed. It's always hilarious to hear Republicans refer to Democrats as "leftists" and "socialists", when they would be considered well right of centre in just about any other democracy.

Ha ha, good one. I'll be quoting you, although I will probably modify it to "right of center vs. far right of center hypocritical cartoon villains."

Ronnie Reagan: 'President Dumb'

Peter Tholen Dumb number 1; Trump is dumber number 2.

Juliet...Ever considered the cozy relationship the fundamental christians and republicans have had since Reagan as you ask that question?

Alexander Lenssen I’m confused about that as well. I think it’s because the recession literally happened at the end of the Bush administration (fall 2007). Also when compared to the other increases/decreases, it is not that much and could be considered”stabilized” (regan to bush 1; bush 1to Clinton; Clinton to bush 2: bush 2 to Obama first; Obama first to Obama second). That being said, by that logic, trump should also be considered a stabilizer, which is not his message. I’d suggest you watch mark blyth here on RU-vid for an interesting analysis on the rise of populist economics and politicians like trump and sanders. Very informative and shows the deception and how both parties left behind the working class

The problem is candidates run on campaign promises that will have to be voted on in Congress before passing. They might just have to settle for a compromise. At the beginning of a new term no one is sure, to what extent, a policy will be enacted into law.

Brian Custers Hey Brian good morning how are you doing😊

You are so right!

I don't think that we're going to be able to convince anyone of that, honestly.

@@likeguiltdoes Outside of electing his polar opposite, as well as sweeping the Senate, no. Even then, the international community will be cautious since all it will take to revert to "America First" is another Trumpian term.

You are correct, excellent statement.

He's a left wing hack.

Robert Reich, Bernie, and Katie Porter are the voices in the wilderness. Never will be allowed power, of course.

@@kitsiewr And, have complete confidence that there are plenty of us who actually do listen and hear those voices, Kitsie! ✨👏🥴✨

@@dennisreed3382 Yo Dennis - speaking of hacks!

None, since he controls the Department of Justice. However, every person in the military has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution.

Wow

And be sure to wear a proper shirt and jacket when you vote. The content of the message you wish to send lawmakers and executives is irrelevant. The configuration of the woven fibers covering your body when you vote, however, is of the utmost importance.

@@economicist2011 Yes, you get it, content is totally irrelevant. If the non believes need proof, just look at Ronald Reagan, George W Bush and Donald Trump. Nothing they said or did made any sense, but they all dressed well with Reagan easily the best of the bunch. Its not what you say, its how you are perceived.

We do. Pillheads are just like alkies, too. Doctors are discovering that the chemicals (including fluoride) in our drinking water are nerve toxins. Amerikkka, the land of Krispy Kritters.

PRIVILEDGED alcoholics...

I've never heard that one before " try being the neck that turns the head." that's cool. Thx!

He pretty well has. Him and Warren. But really, ifnits Bloomberg v trump I'm going bloomberg. I'm going dems across the board, and if things dont get righted, I'm outta here.

This what you call a great economy is great for 1% bad for the 99%, Obama left Trump a 500 billion deficit now it is over a trillion by 2023 it will be 2.5 trillion.

I support this WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!

Okay but what about the supreme court.

@@lking1540 also term limits.

And the Senate.

@@karsten69 good luck, I would say it could be done but the media makes a big deal about it so much that it takes forever. Which slows down progress.

joy shaver You're right Joy have a nice day😊

Lol 😂

Exactly! I've always said I was a conservative Democrat and people didn't bat an eye, but now? The hate I get now...ffs people are weird.

Michael Crumpton Hey Michael good morning how are you doing😊

Michael, our roommate is more like someone who never flushes the toilet.

Did you mean it in opposite