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Supercapitalism

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Robert Reich readies his webcam sex show.

You may remember Robert Reich from when he was labor secretary under Bill Clinton. If not, you’ve probably seen him on the teevee or heard him on NPR, or maybe you’ve even taken one of his libtard classes at Berkeley! Has a new book out, a systematic study of some very depressing things, not including how he may have done it with Hillary in college.

The book, Supercapitalism was reviewed in the Times on Sunday, and that’s almost like reading it because that paper’s just so literary. According to reviewer Robert Frank (and we’ll take his word on this one) Reich makes this point: businesses are as greedy as they’ve ever been, politics just as corrupt. The actual problem is lax regulation has created an overly competitive marketplace, fueling a social and economic race to the bottom. Government has to mediate in the market, but it too has become too competitive an environment to do business. Hilarious!

We know it sounds like your typical Berkeley-Communo-Islamist propaganda but Frank, some kind of “professor of economics” and “Cornell,” says it’s not. He takes some issue with some of Reich’s historical references (go figure) but agrees with the thesis. We gotta say though, when you outline a grand indictment of our economic and political system, and then close with a call for campaign finance reform, that’s just seems, well, a little bit retarded and we think Congress will find it the same.