"No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt."

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Source : "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

Robert Reich

#Class Quotes #Debt Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?”
“More men die from overeating than undernourishment.”
“The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.”
“The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.”
“We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.”
“I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.”
“The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.”
“The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.”

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