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it has been a tough 30 years for many of us. Thanks you for work then ... and now.

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Dr. Reich, I'm torn! On the one hand, I agree with "rawgod" that you should run for president. I think you would make an excellent, if frustrated, one. On the other hand, we desperately need young adults, future professors and teachers, politicians, corporate critters, et al, who have learned from you to analyze the economic situation and offer clear explanations and actions needed to those who won't have the good fortune to have studied with you.

Daydreaming...

One of my three wishes from the genie of the lamp would be your Wealth and Poverty class, age adjusted, to be taught in all schools, colleges, and universities. Make them all question, think, and analyze.

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Did he heed your advice?

Raising the minimum wage, by a wide margin, is most important.

It’s interesting how things that were true back then are still true now.

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No one listened to you then, though you made a lot of sense. If you sent this Memo to Pres. Biden today, would he listen?

You have great ideas, Bob, but no one else is going to put them into place for you. The best way to get things done is doing them yourself. It is time for you to run for President of the United States of Ametica -- especially while they are still legally united. You have experience, you have knowledge, an ability to see correctly into the future, snd you have a charisma lacking in current Dem leadership personnel. Please do everyone a favour. Run! (for office, that is!)

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Jul 29, 2022Liked by Robert Reich

Thank you for your thoughtful, intelligence and pragmatic leadership with regards to macroeconomic and microeconomic policies that influence everyone of us in this nation. You have never swayed from your passion and your voice, caring more for the immigrants, the working poor, the most vulnerable and displaced fringes, working while trying to parent. Never lose that fighting spirit, Professor Reich. Thank you.

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Jul 29, 2022Liked by Robert Reich

'The more things change the more they remain the same'. It was nice to see a little positive news, even if it could be better. I will not believe Manchin until any deal is written and signed.

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Jul 29, 2022Liked by Robert Reich

Prescient, sir. And since all of the factors you delineate are still there, and worse for at least half of our population, and the masses want change, Democrats need to not only take note, but act like they get it,

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Yes, but Clinton never bought into Keynseian economics, he seemed satisfied Friedman. Maybe all Presidental candidates should take Econ 1A and 1B

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Jul 29, 2022·edited Jul 29, 2022

Now, the trick is tryin' to get >at least< 218 representatives and >at least< 60 senators elected, all of whom agree with Dr Reich, to support a president, who also agrees with Dr Reich. (Not excluding Dr Reich as a possible president. After all, Dr Reich agrees with Dr Reich, right?) Just sayin'.

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Once again, I wanted to press the "like" button many times in a row! Such clarity you had & have. I continue to think that Biden needs to especially follow your final thought: acknowledge where we are and talk about where we need to go - his own Fireside Chats. Our world hurtles along so busily, people really do need to pull up a chair & stop to listen or they risk missing out on important ideas. As always, thank you for all your work!

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Nice ideas, Robert, but Biden is severely crippled enacting most of these proposals by a severely polarized Congress, dissenters in his own party like Joe Manchin, a mainstream media that seems dead set on blaming Biden for everything, an obtuse Federal Reserve who doesn't know beans about how to fight inflation, and a U.S, population with a seemingly large contingent of ignorant, selfish, anti-government Americans who still unbelievably support Trump, the very worst, most corrupt president in American history.

Meanwhile, what has Biden done? He's successfully fought a national pandemic, spearheaded the biggest economic recovery in many years, significantly reduced the national deficit, got us out of a never-ending war in Afghanistan, and aided Ukraine greatly in its unprovoked war against international pariah Russia. In other words, under incredible pressure, Biden has had the best mid-term record of any president in my lifetime in his first two years before the mid-term elections

All the animus against him, including your denigrating statement that he should never run against, is very disrespectful of a man who has actually done quite well with quite a lot on his plate.

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We must all vote only for Democrats in November and all of us must get out and vote and help get others out to vote.

Democrats have done what they can do with only 48 real democrats in our US Senate. We must not lose faith, the vision is there, though it has many branches to water and nurture together. We must promise to deliver better, deliver more quickly, and deliver enough of the key nutrients to keep Democrats United.

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It’s really cool to read history like this and also look at the parallels to what’s happening now and just how extreme corporate greed has become.

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Bernie Sanders basically ran his campaign on that letter, twice, and the Democratic Party united to stop him both times. Why do you think Robert Reich would do any better? We need to give other political parties a voice and break the stranglehold that the Democratic party maintains over the resistance and activism in this country. Rank choice voting is a solution, where you rank a short list of candidates rather than vote for a single candidate. If your top choice is not going to win, then your vote goes to your second choice. For example, if Jill Stein were not going to win, then my vote would be transferred to Hillary Clinton. Then people are not always faced with the lesser of two evils and would feel free to vote their conscience. For obvious reasons, the Democratic Party hates ranked choice voting and has always worked to kill it. But ranked choice voting has been implemented in a few cases and it works.

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"I feel your pain." BillyC squandered a lot of the political capital he was granted ....

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A blasts from the past that's as on-point now as it was back in the Clinton years. Perhaps it's true that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

By the way, you've got my vote. I think you'd be dynamite in candidate debates for 2024.

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