American - Economist | June 24, 1946 -
Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
Robert Reich
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You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.
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There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
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The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
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There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
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Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
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A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
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I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
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More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
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Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
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Public fear isn't something to be played with.
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Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
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