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Monday, January 23, 2012

Robert Reich (The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money)

Robert Reich (The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money):

The State of Our Disunion: A Globalized Private Sector, A Corporate-dominated Public Sector

Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama will make the case that government has a vital role. His Republican rivals disagree. Mitt Romney charges the President is putting “free enterprise on trial,” while Newt Gingrich merely fulminates about “liberal elites.”

American business won’t and can’t lead the way to more and better jobs in the United States. First, the private