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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Meaning of A Decent Society" by Robert Reich
The Meaning of A Decent Societyhttp://robertreich.org/post/70492038666
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How can the economy be back on track when 95 percent of the economic gains since the recovery began in 2009 have gone to the richest 1 percent?
The underlying issue is a moral one: What do we owe one another as members of the same society?
Conservatives answer that question by saying its a matter of personal choice of charitable works, philanthropy, and individual acts of kindness joined in a thousand points of light.
But that leaves out what we could and should seek to accomplish together as a society. It neglects the organization of our economy, and its social consequences. It minimizes the potential role of democracy in determining the rules of the game, as well as the corruption of democracy by big money. It overlooks our strivings for social justice.
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"The Meaning of A Decent Society" by Robert Reich (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2013
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Skeeter Barnes
(994 posts)1. The working class needs good wages. Wages are how we survive.
What good is industry if it be so unskillfully managed as not to return a living to everyone concerned? No question is more important than that of wages most of the people of the country live on wages. The scale of their living the rate of their wages determines the prosperity of the country. -Henry Ford
Turbineguy
(37,374 posts)2. Also as Gerard Hoffnung refered to it:
"...a proper civilized society..."
indepat
(20,899 posts)3. When 95% of the economic gains since the recovery began in 2009 has gone to the richest 1%,
it means that right-wing governance, which had been running hog-wild, is now running hog-wild on 'roids and the momentum gained since the gipper first foisted his trickle-down voodoo economics upon us has so much momentum, it cannot be restrained without a complete upheaval in the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the election of a progressive president (hint Elizabeth Warren) in 2016.