{"id":12159,"date":"2014-02-09T00:13:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T08:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12159"},"modified":"2014-02-09T00:13:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T08:13:22","slug":"robert-reich-on-republican-class-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/09\/robert-reich-on-republican-class-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Reich on Republican Class Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Because it is an election year, Republicans are trying to sell the lie that they really care about America\u2019s poor and middle classes.&#160; At the same time they are doing everything they can to eliminate the safety net for the poor and force the middle class into poverty.&#160; The more they deny class warfare, the more they practice it.&#160; Few people are better at explaining this than Robert Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOPVoters\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"GOPVoters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/GOPVoters.jpg\" width=\"521\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age Americans are in jobs than at any time in the last three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Only 113,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in January, on top of a paltry 75,000 in December.<\/p>\n<p>We need a new WPA to rebuild the nation\u2019s crumbling infrastructure, a higher minimum wage, strong unions, investments in education, and extended unemployment benefits for those who still can\u2019t find a job. When 95% of the economic gains go to the top 1%, the middle class and poor don\u2019t have the purchasing power to keep it going\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/75905276863\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The included video could not be embedded, nut I pound a version that can.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Npj2U1PdIhI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans are working to form a permanent Republican Reich, made up od 1% masters and 99% slaves. Listen to Robert Reich, not the Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it is an election year, Republicans are trying to sell the lie that they really care about America\u2019s poor and middle classes.&#160; At the same time they are doing everything they can to eliminate the safety net for the poor and force the middle class into poverty.&#160; The more they deny class warfare, the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/09\/robert-reich-on-republican-class-warfare\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}