***** MUST SEE: R. REICH - GOP WAR ON WORKERS - MAKING ARMIES OF COMPLIANT SERFS - TRULY

detail: ROBERT REICH: The TPP is NAFTA on steroids. Make a ruckus.

Robert Reich

STOP THE TPP. Congress is poised to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (that is, move it through both houses without opportunity for amendment). This massive trade pact with 11 Asian and Latin American nations, whose total population is almost 800 million and comprise 40 percent of the world’s GDP, is a high priority for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its corporate patrons because it would strengthen patent and copyright protections abroad, and encourage American corporations to make even more stuff overseas and ship it here. Americans benefit from cheaper goods from abroad only if Americans have the money to buy them. But this massive deal would further erode the jobs and wages of working and middle-class Americans while delivering its biggest gains to corporate executives and shareholders. Moreover, the deal’s environmental and labor safeguards are woefully inadequate, and it would give global corporations further rights to challenge American health and safety laws. I still regret not doing more to strengthen the North American Free Trade Act's labor and environmental side-agreements when I was labor secretary under Bill Clinton. The TPP is NAFTA on steroids. Make a ruckus.

Loving, here. Considered suicide, last night. 100% out of the question for me, regrettably.

[Spoiler alert: within moments it came absolutely clear to me, to my personal regret, that suicide is 100% out of the question for me].

I've been very open with you over the years. Why wouldn't I share this with you?  I think it would be very wrong of me to not, on many levels.  It is something others go through, it should be talked about, or at least, shared.

This is NOT a cry for help. 
1.  Suicide is totally out of the question for me. I saw that within minutes. Regrettably. 
2.  No one can help me through this.  Like a rescuer of children, during the Holocaust, this is something I must work through, and solve, myself, the internal psychological, spiritual war, and the external, pragmatic implementation and execution plans.

I lay awake last night for at least 6 hours before being able to sleep - 9pm until at least 3am.  This is partly due to the chemo, I think, partly sinus issues, partly permanent changes in my sleep patterns I've not yet figured out, partly the abject terror I feel for myself, for all of creation in the face of 2, not one, unfolding Armageddons - Ecocide and US/global economic Fascism; and a 3rd, personal, armageddon for me - the prospect of another 10-20 years of solitude, extreme vulnerability, etc. Ugh. Shudder.

It is that last one, to do with abject terror, that had me consider, seriously, for a few moments, whether suicide, at some future date, might be the answer for my agony of terror. 

Within recent weeks, my life has 100% imploded, in as much as, for me, 'Life' is living out one's world view, especially in terms of how to serve the neediest of Creation.  It imploded with my total and complete abandonment of any and all hope that my fellow humans would rise to the occasion to avert these two Armageddons unfolding before our eyes at terrifying speed.  I have the intellectual, experiential, let alone moral right, to abandon all hope, because more than one in a million I've been devoting my very being to averting them - ecocide by global warming for 5 years with my every breath, and for the last 6 months, Fascism (tho it is just recently that I've come to see it as Fascism replacing Democracy, in truth, tho not in name).

So, my life of the last 15 years - attempting to spark a mass salvation of human future, is no more.  My being, of the last 15 years, is no more.  That's a pretty big thing to deal with!  All of my life's decisions (economic, living on the street, isolation, tattoos, destitution...)have made sense in view of my goals, my attempts, and now, they are behind me, forever. That's kind of a pretty big shock to the system, the understatement of the millennium. 

My Soul, Heart, and mind work like this - they spin out way ahead of me crunching input that I've been cramming in, but crunching it way out of my control - and then they spit out impressions - and the one that hit me quickly last night, particularly sparked with the thought of suicide (sleeping pills or something) was recollections of the contents of one of the most awe-inspiring books I've ever read (several times), "Courage and Conscience," by psychologist Eva Fogleman, on non-Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust. Breathtaking humanity.  Unimaginable.  THEY LIVED UNIMAGINABLE TERROR (personal, and for others), I instantly recalled.  Maybe they personally considered suicide to end their personal terror (unimaginable terror).  But instantly they too would realize that this relief was out of the question for them, because there were people that needed their attempts at saving, not the masses, but the few, or the one.

It further hit me that some of them, tho this is pure speculation on my part, devoted earlier years, maniacally, trying to stop the 3rd Reich in its infancy, and like I, realized at some point, that the dream of that happening imploded before their eyes, and probably not to the eyes of others they knew.  The early fighters to prevent 3rd Reich domination, and then, to affect rescue when it was too late to stop, were in both cases, the one in a million weirdos.  Isolated.  Alone.

This is just how I feel today as I type this, and I do not expect it to change.  I don't see how I can live with this terror, hour in, hour out, for myself, for US democracy, for all but the middle-and upper classes economically, for all of creation.  Sheer terror - no jobs, throw away people to the powers that be; abandoned as soon as prudent, controlled as brutally as is desired by their police forces... masses that have become too inconvenient, by the middle class corporatocracy and their masters.  Hunger Games, here, now.  Elysium, here, now.  I see it, plain as day. Living nightmare.

And I would end it for myself; it is no life living with such terror - crushing. Crushing.  But it IS life attempting to rescue the few that realize they need to be rescued (just the smallest of fraction of Jews in Germany came out of their denial enough to see that they and their loved ones needed rescue, desperately.)

Over time, my personal, sheer, terror of a another 10 - 20 years isolation, solitude, working along, in physical destitution, more and more a vulnerable target of the Fascist police force as insane, snowballing income inequality in the US manifests its utter barbarity... will be pushed to the background as I learn to conceptualize, internalize, and again make central to my life the terror I already feel for my fellow human beings, and fellow creatures: Where can the lucky few escape to - off-empire?  How to help babies escape by helping their parent's see the abject cruelty in having babies in such a time: 'woe to the mother with child in the end times...,' Jesus was speaking of the impeding destruction of the Jewish peoples... and of today, globally.

If you've read this far, please, if you do anything further with it, ponder it deeply, not as my story, but as the story of a serious human being, a minor prophet, maybe.  Please, do not ignore me on this point. 

It is NOT important as my personal story.  In that sense, it is for me to work out. I'll work it out, tho it is the most daunting task of my lifetime.  Please, do not ignore me on this point.

If you, understandably, find you ignore my admonition on these last two points, please be understanding if any reply is not as gentle, or understanding, as you might otherwise expect.  I'm a soldier, at war. It ain't easy.  It can't be made easy. I'm at the early stages of becoming a Holocaust rescuer.  It can't be made easy.

I suspect it will shortly, (last chemo session Monday), have me living back on the ever more hostile, dangerous, fascist streets of DC, back in front of the Canadian Embassy, maintaining a vigil marking the murder of creation, and advocating for parents to not have babies; all the while studying escape routes for those looking to live off-empire, blogging, etc.

Thanks for sharing this journey with me, as much as you have.  Don't let it hurt, or overwhelm you. I don't need more folks to worry about than I already have.

Oh, if you have any question as to the source, nature, and or intensity of my terror, these will help you, if anything can. They are 95% or better in line with the current, mainstream science and economic consensus, a distillation of what I've been studying with scholarly rigor for years:

3 min:  "We've passed the 59th minute."

10 min:  THE LAST HOURS

WELL WORTH IT 2 hour plus documentary:  vid. End of Empire, Civ, Life.

Titanic is sinking. detail. Robert Reich, Especially puke-in-your-mouth terrifying: "But all the GOP has to do to win a Senate majority next fall is pick up a net six seats. Democrats have to defend many more seats than Republicans, including in seven states Obama lost in 2012. Which is why it's particularly worrisome that “Americans for Prosperity,” the political front group financed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has already spent a whopping $22 million on TV ads using Obamacare's botched roll-out to attack vulnerable Senate Democrats – and causing those Democrats’ approval ratings to plummet."

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Especially puke-in-your-mouth terrifying: "But all the GOP has to do to win a Senate majority next fall is pick up a net six seats. Democrats have to defend many more seats than Republicans, including in seven states Obama lost in 2012. Which is why it's particularly worrisome that “Americans for Prosperity,” the political front group financed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has already spent a whopping $22 million on TV ads using Obamacare's botched roll-out to attack vulnerable Senate Democrats – and causing those Democrats’ approval ratings to plummet." Titanic is sinking.

Robert Reich

CLASS WARFARE. Democrats aren’t perfect but it’s the Republicans who are mounting a war against the poor and working class – opposing extended benefits for the long-term unemployed, fighting an increase in the minimum wage, rejecting any expansion of Medicaid, opposing investments in education and job-training, rejecting any jobs program, busting unions, and seeking repeal of the Affordable Care Act. But all the GOP has to do to win a Senate majority next fall is pick up a net six seats. Democrats have to defend many more seats than Republicans, including in seven states Obama lost in 2012. Which is why it's particularly worrisome that “Americans for Prosperity,” the political front group financed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has already spent a whopping $22 million on TV ads using Obamacare's botched roll-out to attack vulnerable Senate Democrats – and causing those Democrats’ approval ratings to plummet. AFP has become the biggest outside group in the upcoming elections. Yet that $22 million is barely a rounding error for the Koch brothers, each of whom has a net worth of $36 billion, according to Forbes (they're tied for fourth on the magazine's list of the 400 richest people in America). At this rate they can buy Republican control of the Senate for chump change. This is class warfare with a vengeance. Don’t sit there. Get involved, now.

***** Loving's dialog with a dear, Wash, DC, Parent

[Note: some will have found this post from this graphic -


[Note to a dear friend, an accomplished, impactful writer, in the DC area,
who has been a dear friend these last several years - this friend and
the friend's young family.]

My gauge of you is as an extraordinarily good, loving, responsible,courageous... parent and spouse.  As such, I believe you would
have the desire, and strength, to want to see any harm coming in their
direction, sooner, rather than later.  I have so wanted, in the case
of those for whom I care.

Such a parent, and spouse, would want to
see these, links below. Based on my lifelong background of sifting through
the minds and ideas of leading edge scientists in industry... and my 5 years
dedication to understanding global warming, ALL, links below, are from the standpoint
of the leading edge, MAIN STREAM scientists, these (below) ARE the
mainstream scientific and economic projections.  Nothing the least
bit 'fringe' about them from the standpoint of the main stream
scientists, 97% of them.  (100% fringe from the standpoint of Fox News,
the right wing media, and the fossil fuel $1b per year (recent main stream
articles) misinformation machine.)

And the one direction of their views, year in, year out, year
by year, for the last 30-40 years, is that any current year's data says
that their prior year projections of horror were, uh, too, way, way, WAY too
conservative.  This never changes, year in, year out.  Even the scientists
are subject to internal denial of the facts, science, and the implications.
It is overwhelmingly bleak, and terrifying:

3 min or so.  Dr. David Suzuki, Canada's equivalent of Bill Nye the science guy, tho more scholarly -

http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/12/just-stop-watch-share-decide-david.html

10 min - very good, 2014 synopsis: 
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/12/last-hours-vid-10-min.html

2 hour more in depth, what my 1000's of hours of main-stream research
confirms (2007, but very much correct on all the main points), and 99.9999% more
than all but 1 in a million citizens understand about where we are:
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/01/life-ending-on-earth-life-at-end-of.html

Scholarly papers -

Well footnoted to main-stream science, tho the author has taken a more courageous,
honest, more forthright take on the implications of the science than most others have
to date:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/climate-scientist-environment-apocalypse-human-extinction

Gold Standard Scientific Position, 12.03.13, Nasa's James Hansen, et al:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20131202_PopularSciencePlosOneE.pdf

What these articles and videos above do not cover, is the other Armageddon unfolding,
global fascism, police state, the end of democracy in America (Bill Moyers) Here, here, here, here.

Now, hold on for just a second before you decide I'm a loon.  This below is main stream headlines
the last few days.  Now, if 85 rich owning 1/2 the world, and the top 2% owning
virtually all of it, if this is not Fascism, the rich owning everything,
the rich (their money and power) 'owning' the
government officials, then, well, hmm, it IS Global Fascism, by whatever name or guise.  These people don't
own the 50% because they have good intent; and it requires no 'conspiracy' theory; it is
only to say that 85, or 10,000 people with that much $$$,
near all the rest of us with any power (gov officials) are going
to be sure not to threaten, and to curry favor with, these people.  Not one in a million
of us would risk family, education, job, status, comfort... by not pursuing
the money and favor of such money.  Let's be real:

The World's 85 Richest Now Worth as Much as 3.5 Billion PoorestBusinessweek
85 richest people own as much as bottom half of population, report ...Opinion-Los Angeles Time

One Stat to Destroy Your Faith in Humanity: The World's 85 Richest ...TIME

World's 85 richest have as much money as 3.5billion poorest people ...Daily Mail

World's richest have same wealth as 3.5 billion poorestCNBC.com

Richest 1% own nearly half of world's wealthUSA TODAY

World's richest 85 people have as much as bottom half the population

McClatchy Washington Bureau

etc....

The point?  Armageddon, 2x, is unfolding before the eyes of every parent in
America - 
1x Armageddon: Earth may only be habitable for another few generations, convulsions
beginning immediately; and the
2x Armageddon: Demise of Democracy in America, and the unfolding of 
Global Fascism, a 4th Reich, tho unnamed, is unfolding before the
parent's eyes. It will be one life for the top 1-10% (the owners and their corpratocracy),
and another life entirely, rapidly becoming more bleak, for the rest, the expendables.

For the 'rest,' I'll spend the rest of my life sentence doing what I can to help.
More here, and unfolding here over time.

For many more years to come, most parents will not find the Loving to come out
of their comfortable denial.  But some will find the Courage, the Loving, and begin
to figure out how to help their children grow, and find Joy, and mitigation of suffering,
in this terrible, terrifying, convulsing, collapsing, violent, vicious, deadly, and soon dead, new world.  I'll do what little I can to help them.No need to reply to me. 

Your Loving brother forever, no matter what.

------- Addendum-------

Comment from a young, in college FB friend, MW (initial CRUCIAL dialog, HERE):
'Awesome. Thank you. So depressing. Seems hopeless.'

Loving:
'It is, materially, hopeless, ONLY because millions will not take the streets, unviolently, UNTIL THEY WIN A FUTURE FOR THEIR KID'S.  But some of the most joyful people ever to have walked the earth, will be the folks of your generation that carve out a loving life of mutual community and service, off grid, sustainable, outside of empire. Folks are doing it. Within weeks I'll be diving in to begin understanding, cataloging, sharing, following, and if I'm lucky, joining and helping such communities.'

-----FRIENDS, WHY DON'T YOU SHARE THIS POST. WHAT HAVE WE GOT TO LOSE?----

WV Leak, article, pic. Loving: They've won, friends. To stop them, millions of you needed to be in the streets by now (20 years ago, really - see "Inequality for All," and read between the lines. Reich doesn't even try to pretend there are is any longer any real hope), and there aren't dozens who would even seriously contemplate it. We've let them concentrate all the wealth. There is a police system - it is THEIR police system, (and yours, if you are part of the machine (solid middle class or above, white)). There is court system, it is THEIRS. There is a government, it is THEIRS. More and more those of us not solid middle class or above will just become too much trouble for them. They have more and more automated machines that are cheaper and far less trouble to manage than people are. You better get spiritually ready for it, eventually they'll be putting us in prisons (if you are not solid, middle class), and STOP THE CRUELTY of bringing more babies into this dying country, and planet. Or, tell me exactly why I'm incorrect. Thank you.

Rose Clark shared Americans Against the Tea Party's photo.

NO one or NOTHING has been harmed??? I think the residents of W.V. would beg to differ with her ..... Such a mess.

After a recent toxic chemical spill, the arrogant 1%er fiancee of the Freedom Industries CEO, whose company CAUSED it, whined in a Facebook status update about how inconvenient it has been for her before adding that "no one and no thing has been harmed due to this leakage." Oh, really?! READ HER WHOLE, RIDICULOUSLY INSENSITIVE COMMENT HERE: http://bit.ly/1dh3p4G

***** Note to one of my closest friends, Jehovah's Witness Joe. detail...

RE:  Holy sh*t, these really are the end times!

LOL, Joe, read the links I've sent yesterday and today,

 http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/01/fb-dialog-with-friend-tonight-detail.html

 http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/01/dialog-with-pc-via-email-this-moring.html

and this one:

http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/01/pic-4th-reich-who-is-responsible-for.htmlhttp://

This is unfolding fast for me now.

Please take no offense at the following, I'm just sharing what are for me,

important, recent revelations. 

You know my historically, profoundly dim view of 'church,'

opiate of the masses.  But in recent months I've had an expanding view of that -

Loving, what's wrong with opiates for the masses when the alternative is living,

material hell? (poor and destitute, in the south US, around the world, Apartheid

South Africa (in those days, and now)...; the destitute around the world, those

in wars like Syria....)  What's wrong with that, Loving? Are you

against comforting those without hope, realistically, without hope?  Would you be

horrified at meds for them to ease their pain?  I would not be!!! I'd be all for it!

Couple that with my notion of 'as if.'  You know I live 'as if' there is a Loving

Father of us all, not believing one exists outside of our imagination. 

It is a dangerous thing, what I'm saying, I think.  Up until the moment it is too late

to turn the Titanic, if there ever was such a time politically, it is Murder to drug

people, opiate of the masses, rather than mobilizing them to face Reality.

But, once the iceberg has been hit; once it is too late to turn the boat away and

avoid the Hell; AS SOON AS IT IS OBVIOUS IT IS NOT GOING TO BE TURNED
IN TIME....; once the Hell on earth is certain, Loving, what would you do?

I'D TURN MY ENERGIES TOWARD CREATING WHAT COMFORT I COULD

FOR THE DOOMED PASSENGERS! 

Joe, that's where we are.  We're on the Titanic and we are not going to turn it

away from

1.  Imminent Ecocide with all it's associated horrors, wars, famines,

plagues, deadly weather, flooding, droughts, displacements.... an earth in

death convulsions, destitution - within the next 50 years now (tho an estimate 5M per

year already dying from it); 

2.  Imminent 4th Reich, Global Police State (to deal with all the destitute and unemployed

and under-employed due to globalization, automation, and gargantuan transfer

of wealth to the uber-rich).

My point to you Joe: You believe there is a Father outside of our imaginations,

I do not.  When I believed we had a prayer of turning away from the iceberg, you

know how troubled I was at church, christianity, the 'opiate.' 

But now?  Now that I see we are NOT going to turn the Titanic, that it is

planetwide doom that we are NOT GOING TO AVOID?

I WANT ANY COMFORT THAT CAN COME TO THE PASSENGERS SOON TO

BE IN MATERIAL HELL!  "As if," like it is for me, or, "As Real," as it is for you and

the rest of the JW's!!!!

My point?  I feel a gratitude and justification for your work, that of JW's, and that

of other religions I've not felt before.

Loving u both

***** pic. The 4th Reich: Who is responsible for ecocide, and destroying of the US (and world’s) ‘People’s’ economy - Right or Left? Who is buying all the stuff that comes from earth rape, generating so much co2? NOT poor, fundamentalist christian, Righty states. Who is buying on the internet from job-killers like Amazon? NOT poor, fundamentalist christian, Righty states. Who are the computer, material engineers, scientists: * Creating unconventional fossil fuel extraction methods, chemicals, machines? Lefty‘s. * Creating automated manufacturing, distribution, retail... decimating decent jobs? Lefty’s. * Creating the massive computer and software systems used by uber-wealthy capitalists to rape, spy, and plunder? Lefty’s. Owners? Righty’s. Middle class Armies of engineers, scientists, academics, affluent consumers - LEFTY’S. Righty’s: the Police and Military controlling for the Righty and Lefty masters, and their Lefty middle class army of scientists, engineers, techs. The 4th Reich.

The 4th Reich:  Who is responsible for ecocide, and destroying of the US (and world’s) ‘People’s’ economy -  Right or Left?

Who is buying all the stuff that comes from earth rape, generating so much co2?
NOT poor, fundamentalist christian, Righty states.

Who is buying on the internet from job-killers like Amazon?
NOT poor, fundamentalist christian, Righty states.

Who are the computer, material engineers, scientists:
*  Creating unconventional fossil fuel extraction methods, chemicals, machines?  Lefty‘s.
*  Creating automated manufacturing, distribution, retail... decimating decent jobs? Lefty’s.
*  Creating the massive computer and software
systems used by uber-wealthy capitalists to rape, spy, and plunder? Lefty’s.

Owners? Righty’s. 
Middle class Armies of engineers, scientists, academics, affluent consumers - LEFTY’S.

Righty’s: the Police and Military controlling for the Righty and Lefty masters, and their Lefty middle class army of scientists, engineers, techs. The 4th Reich.

Robert Reich: We don’t know yet why a Metro-North train derailed yesterday in the Bronx, however... we do know....

Robert Reich

We don’t know yet why a Metro-North train derailed yesterday in the Bronx, killing four people and injuring more than 60. The driver may have been at fault. But it’s worth noting that last May, a Metro-North train derailed in Connecticut after being struck by another train, injuring 73. And a study released last summer by the National Society of Civil Engineers pointed out the sorry state of the nation’s rail system, where deferred maintenance and congestion are costing the U.S. economy about $200 billion a year, or 1.6% of economic output. The rest of the nation’s transportation infrastructure is not much better: 1 in 9 of the country's bridges are structurally deficient; our roads are crumbling; and of the 84,000 dams in the U.S., 14,000 are considered "high hazard.” While other nations are building transportation systems for the future, Congress won’t modernize our outmoded one – even though borrowing costs for the U.S. are near historic lows, the investment would spur growth and productivity, and millions of jobless Americans could benefit directly and indirectly from the work that would result.

article. Robert Reich - As technology and globalization take over the economy, the U.S. has no national strategy for creating more good jobs in America.

Robert Reich

The most important website this weekend and in weeks to come -- on which the hopes and fears of countless Americans are focused (and the President's poll-ratings depend) -- isn't HealthCare.gov. It's Amazon.com. Even if HealthCare.gov works perfectly, only 5 percent of Americans are in the private health-insurance market to begin with. But almost half of the 140 million Americans now shopping for holiday deals are doing so online, up 20 percent from last year.

The irony is most of what's being sold this holiday season is coming from Asia, which leaves retail jobs as the largest and fastest-growing segment of the U.S. workforce. Yet as online shopping takes over, where will Americans find jobs in the future? The biggest reason holiday deal-shopping is especially frenzied is so many Americans are already stretched to the breaking point (65 percent are now living paycheck-to-paycheck, up from 61 percent last year) that they're more desperate than ever for bargains. And the main reason the President's poll-ratings are falling isn't because of HealthCare.gov. It's because the economy remains lousy for most people. It will likely remain that way: As technology and globalization take over the economy, the U.S. has no national strategy for creating more good jobs in America.

MUST MUST READ, AND SHARE: Robert Reich on Shutdown.... They feed off of anger and cynicism.

Robert Reich

An old friend, who has been active in politics for more than thirty years, told me yesterday that he was giving up. "I can't stomach what's going on in Washington any more," he said. "The hell with all of them. I have better things to do with my life." My friend is falling exactly into the trap that the extreme right wants all of us to fall into -- such disgust and cynicism that we all give up on politics. Then they're free to take over everything.

Make no mistake: Ted Cruz and his Tea Party followers, and the Koch brothers and their other financial patrons, are relishing this shutdown. They're delighted that 95% of the Environmental Protection Agency is down, so polluters can do whatever they want; that 80% of the Labor Department is down, so unscrupulous employers can trample on their employees; that much of the Securities and Exchange Commission is down, so corporations can have a field day. And they'd like nothing more than a default on the nation's debt in two weeks, because the resulting financial chaos will cause even more of us to become angry and cynical. That's the point: They feed off of anger and cynicism.

Our response should be the opposite: We will not give in to bullies or intimidation, and nor will we give in to cynicism about what our government needs to be and who it needs to serve. We will remain engaged and active, and push every member of Congress as well as the President to remain steadfast.

By Robert Reich - The issue we are about to face as a nation has nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act or any of the other of the demands Republicans are making. It has to do with political extortion: Republicans' threats to close the government or default on the nation's debts if they don't get their way. The President and the Democrats must not negotiate. Once you start negotiating with extortionists, there is no end to it. Extortionists will hold the nation hostage again and again. Any law on the books they don't like, any tax their wealthy patrons detest, any regulation their corporate bank-rollers would like to do away with, any subsidy or bailout their Wall Street underwriters desire, will be fair game. Let Republicans carry out their threats. Let America see them do it and experience the consequences. And then let us send the Republican Party into the dust bin of history.

Status Update

By Robert Reich

The issue we are about to face as a nation has nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act or any of the other of the demands Republicans are making. It has to do with political extortion: Republicans' threats to close the government or default on the nation's debts if they don't get their way. The President and the Democrats must not negotiate. Once you start negotiating with extortionists, there is no end to it. Extortionists will hold the nation hostage again and again. Any law on the books they don't like, any tax their wealthy patrons detest, any regulation their corporate bank-rollers would like to do away with, any subsidy or bailout their Wall Street underwriters desire, will be fair game.

Let Republicans carry out their threats. Let America see them do it and experience the consequences. And then let us send the Republican Party into the dust bin of history.

vid Inequality for All - Robert Reich

How Inequality Was Created. billmoyers.com. In this animated video, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why America's top one percent now take home nearly 20 percent of the country's total income.

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How Inequality Was Created

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In this animated video, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why America's top one percent now take home nearly 20 percent of the country's total income.