Holy bananas these are great.

Good thing to be outraged about. I'm continually disappointed by how filthy elections have gotten in terms of money. The only thing "regular people" are used for these days are to get riled up closer to elections about relatively insignificant issues like flag burning or gay marriage so that they can be convinced to vote against their own best interests.

I really liked the following show about money in politics from PBS: pbs.org/now/shows/242/index.html

I was intrigued by the "Just $6" effort: just6dollars.org/

and the public finance effort: publicampaign.org/

Hey, wasn't "Blow-up" an Antonioni film?

Definitely loving me some Robert Reich.

god I love these

Newt Gingrich? Newt Gingrich? I agree with you completely, Mr. Reich.

I like imagining you laying this down at a Cabinet meeting...thank you, again, for sharing it with us!

"Blow up...a movie"
brilliant

Hey Robert,
Thanks for staying with it on Vimeo. Thanks for speaking truth about Newt. I think he should fill out his ticket with Tom DeLay.
For my money the real "enemy combatants" can be found at The Project for the New American Century and The American Enterprise Institute. Let's round them all up and give them tickets to Gitmo. A little splash in the water tank might do them some good.

I really like that you have going here, and I'm very interested to hear more.

Thank you!

I am loving these!

Mi tnk yo rstrk ov plcy wud coz da "BlwUp", afta al, u wuz da 1 dat suj u go2 da flm!

U wud tnkr wit da kon-me an brk it!

Jus anoda pplst lbrl sok da rch skm.


Aleria the Unconvinced

Keep it up... thanks for making sure vblog #1 was not vblog # last

Great, is this the next lonelygirl15? Jk, but at first I kinda felt like this guy might be fake....

Thanks for your time Mr. Reich. Your vids are appreciated.

Thank you, Mr. Reich.

Bravo Mr. Reich you definitely found your venue...
a natural "video killed the TV stars."
Perhaps you should organize a League Of Vimeo Voters...invite the Newt (blowup vs. blowhard) and debate here so all political donations can go to prevent global warming, world starvation, etc. I'm looking forward to RR-vblog #3

Hey Robert ! These are great ,,, Precious="Blowup!" by Fellini
(thanks for that annuciation!)
Great stuff thanks for continuiing
to vblog.

Keep 'em coming Robert! The people need to hear these. Thank you so much for speaking out!

thank you, mr. reich

Mr. Reich-

From a European perspective the unemployment rate of ~338,000 in the U.S. looks "fantastic." What I mean is, it seems like the job market is saturated. Innovation is the source of U.S. economic leadership and if you e.g. compare Toyota with Ford or GM we begin to understand that there is no innovation in the American automobile industry. For decades people in the states believed that economic growth is an interplay between capital and labor. My understanding is, the U.S. needs to further liberalize the job market to create innovation (foreign workers coming to the U.S.) which will lead to new jobs in the long-run.

What is your view-point on this topic?

Subsidizing the less productive in society cannot be the only long-term solution.

Increasing the efficiency of government investment seems like the best solution - reduce the overall budget, increase privatization and impose a "Sarbanes-Oxley" type set of controls on Government spend.

Progressive income tax seems like a cop-out. If someone like Michael Dell were running this country the way he runs his computer company (rather than George Bush who has an abysmal track record in business), we wouldnt have the same need for subsidization.

The Airline industry has been kept on life support by government subsidies for decades - that doesnt mean the correct solution is to impose a progressive tax on JetBlue and Southwest.

And talking about bankruptcy. What is wrong with this country? Is Newt Gingrich really amongst the top leaders in the United States. The entire political process is systematically bankrupt.