Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold On America - Plot & Excerpts
“WE CANNOT, SOME PEOPLE SAY, ANY longer afford as a nation to provide the safety nets for the poor and the infirm or for the people who fall down for no fault of their own,” he declares, incensed. “But how can that be true if we are now richer than we have ever been before?”1 His audience clearly agrees with the sentiment, cheering and applauding. It is November 15, 2011, and Reich is addressing an Occupy Cal protest on the Mario Savio steps at the University of California, Berkeley. “We are losing the moral foundation stone on which this country and our democracy are built,” he continues. Applause. A key member of the Obama campaign’s policy transition team, and labor secretary in the Clinton administration, Reich is now a tenured public policy professor at UC Berkeley. He wants the Occupiers gathered in Sproul Plaza to know that he cares. In fact, he cares far more than some people. “Now, there are some people out there who say we cannot afford education any longer, we cannot afford, as a nation, to provide social services to the poor.”
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