Robert Reich
"Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we're all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. Progressives worry when the rich and privileged become powerful enough to undermine democracy.
Regressives take the opposite positions.
Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the other tribunes of today's Republican right aren't really conservatives. Their goal isn't to conserve what we have. It's to take us backwards.
They'd like to return to the 1920s -- before Social Security, unemployment insurance, labor laws, the minimum wage, Medicare and Medicaid, worker safety laws, the Environmental Protection Act, the Glass-Steagall Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, and the Voting Rights Act.
In the 1920s Wall Street was unfettered, the rich grew far richer and everyone else went deep into debt, and the nation closed its doors to immigrants."
Rightardia: Sound familiar? But the people during the depression understood the politics of the day. Many Americans today seem willfully ignorant today about the real causes of American problems.
Mitt Romney wants the evil empire back with a large overseas military presence. Herman Cain is pushing a regressive tax plan. John McCain wants to protect the 40 per cent increase in defense spending since 911 which is pushing the nation into insolvency.
Many economists suggest that more than 90 per cent of the deficit was caused by an assortment of nearly 60 wars and contingencies the US started since World War 2.
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