Anyone here heard of Bob Reich

[Mass_Liberal]

Secretery of Labor during the Clinton Admin. He ran for governer of Massachusetts, and unfortunetly got beaten out by Shannon O'Brien who was beaten by our current governer *sigh* Mitt Romney. I'm pretty young and the first political fieldwork I ever did was during Reich's campaign doing visibility. He was a wonderful guy and I was and still am heartbroken that he lost.


p.s I suppose he is pretty well known, I apologize if I insult your intelligence/knowledge

[BootinUp]

1. Of course

Seen him on the tube anyways. And respect him a great deal.

[papau]

2. Ran for gov of Mass. and lost in primary. Working as

Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University

http://www.robertreich.org/reich/biography.asp

[benddem]

3. His writing is always great and

his commentary on Marketplace on NPR is always great:P

[MUAD_DIB]

4. I drove him to a fundraiser one evening.

A very smart and classy guy.


Do you remember that guy Joel from the campaigne?

[a_lil_wall_fly]

5. Reich..is a good and fair person

I would like to see him get elected or another cabinet/senior post in the next Democratic term.

[blm]

6. He just might. He endorsed Kerry a few months back.

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[AP]

7. Forget Dean. Reich vs Clinton is the real division in the Dem party.

What's Reich's magazine? The American Prospect?

You can usually tell who's in the Clinton camp and who's in (believe it or not) the more conservative wing of the party, Reich's wing, by seeing which Democrats that magazine rips on.

[fujiyama]

8. How is Reich's wing...

more conservative? I always got the impression he was dissapointed with Clinton over welfare reform?

[whirlygigspin]

9. didn't Reich propose a guaranteed annual income

at one time? I seem to remember it vaguely.

[AP]

10. Here are his columns.

Reading group anyone?

http://www.prospect.org/columns/reich/

Just kidding.

I vaguely remember getting the impression that, on economics, he seemed OK, but on everything else he was a little too conservative.

I think he was one of the voices saying that Gore should concede to Bush very early.

[AP]

11. Some amusing predictions from late 2000:

In the end, the moderates probably will cut the budget surplus into three approximately equal slices--one intended for a modest tax cut, the second dedicated to small spending increases for prescription drugs and health care and the third to pay down the nation's debt. This isn't the result that Bush or Gore campaigned for, but it's a balance that most Americans will be content with.

Foreign policy will be guided by the same moderate coalition in Congress. This means that the U.S. will continue to use its military muscle with great reluctance but feel no qualms about using its economic muscle unilaterally when the nation's economic interests are at stake. The White House and Congress will continue to back free trade while imposing duties on specific imports that undercut the prices of domestic producers. The Treasury, carefully overseen by Congress, will continue to tell the International Monetary Fund what to do. There will be scant support for foreign aid or debt relief for poor nations.

Meanwhile, economic policy will shift entirely to the Federal Reserve Board. Years ago, the economy's speed was regulated by two levers--one fiscal, run largely by the White House, and the other monetary, run by the Federal Reserve. But fiscal policy all but vanished when the Clinton administration resolved to reduce the nation's deficit. The government that takes control next January won't even remember where the fiscal lever can be found. Thus will Alan Greenspan, the Fed's powerful chairman, be in complete charge of the nation's economy and, indirectly, of the global economy.

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2000/11/reich-r-11-16.html