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" Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal. "
Robert Reich
Connections
Personal
World
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" Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms. "
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" Public fear isn't something to be played with. "
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" Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages. "
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" Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship. "
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" I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better. "
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" America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations. "
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" A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. "
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" The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. "
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" The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes. "
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Sometimes
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" Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. "
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" We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work. "
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" Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases. "
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" In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business. "
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Good
Truth
Government
" No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident. "
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Company
Circumstances
Small
" Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt. "
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People
Capacity
" 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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Wealth
Democracy
Concentration
" True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going. "
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America
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" Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another. "
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" In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble. "
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America
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" The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. "
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Cause
Poor
" One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower. "
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Dodge
Squirrel
" Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people. "
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" Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them. "
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" As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care. "
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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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" Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future. "
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America
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" Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government. "
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" Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans. "
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" During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced. "
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