Robert Reich: Free Enterprise on Trial
NewsJReview: The financial sector is not a part of the GDP which most Americans contribute. Romney is part of the elite financial sector…He can only afford to care so much about the working class, who provide goods and services represented in the Gross Domestic Product. Time to clear out the mud in our eyes, over money makers versus, product and service providers; where, so far, no equilibrium is required. Ask Mr. Romney what product has he produced, besides “pink slips.” There is no risk for the guy firing people. He blames the manager even though he or she were given the orders, and those on the assembly line for not hitting numbers, on the risks the investers (not necessarily company/firm founders) made and sometimes orchestrated for failure; then close up shop, redistribute and carve up the spoils among their favorites, proclaim achievement and unabashedly collect profits. Free enterprise is looking a lot like unscrupulous, characterless, selfesh, spoiled, whacked behavior. I’m just saying!!!Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina says he’s supporting Romney because “we really need someone who understands how…
