Robert Reich, nekdanji minister za delo v Clintonovi vladi, sicer pa profesor na Univerzi Berkeley in zelo znan kolumnist ter avtor knjige “Saving Capitalism”, v odprtem pismu republikanski establishment, tja, v bistvu obtožuje, da so v svojem kratkovidnem pohlepu uničili srednji razred, temeljno bazo svojih kupcev in ustvarili velik odpor proti liberalizaciji, imigraciji in globalizaciji, pa tudi proti establishmentu nasploh. Ta odpor že udarja nazaj in bo privedel do velikih družbenih sprememb. Preberite, izjemno dobro napisano.
You are the captains of American industry, the titans of Wall Street, and the billionaires who for decades have been the backbone of the Republican Party.
You’ve invested your millions in the GOP in order to get lower taxes, wider tax loopholes, bigger subsidies, more generous bailouts, less regulation, lengthier patents and copyrights and stronger market power allowing you to raise prices, weaker unions and bigger trade deals allowing you outsource abroad to reduce wages, easier bankruptcy for you but harder bankruptcy for homeowners and student debtors, and judges who will let you to engage in insider trading and who won’t prosecute you for white-collar crimes.
All of which have made you enormously wealthy. Congratulations.
But I have some disturbing news for you. You’re paying a big price – and about to pay far more. …
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