Robert Reich

Robert Reich Speaks a Basic Truth - Federal Aid should help firstly U.S. workers

At last someone states the obvious. ex-Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich wrote on his blog:

Whether it’s stimulus or bailout, policy makers must remember that American companies aren’t the same as American workers – and our first responsibility is to the latter.

I have felt like a lone drummer, pounding, over and over again that any government expenditures should be tied to U.S. citizens, U.S. workers. That's the whole point, to generate income, to stimulate through Keynesian economics. In Buy American, I pointed out how, due to global labor arbitrage and multinational corporations, very easily the United States could be stimulating it's trade deficit, other nation's GDP and not U.S. domestic income.