Only
the packaging is different
By
Robert Reich
Watch
this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPtRJ8-hzdI
Marco
Rubio is being positioned as a moderate alternative to Ted Cruz or Donald
Trump. Baloney. His positions are extreme right. Consider
these 10 facts about Rubio:
1.
Rubio wants to repeal Obama’s executive order to expand background checks and
close gun sale loopholes.
2.
When asked about closing down mosques, Rubio said he wants to shutdown “any
place radicals are inspired.”
3.
He denies humans are responsible for climate change.
4.
His tax plan gives the top 1 percent over $200,000 in tax cuts every year.
That’s as bad as Donald Trump’s tax plan.
5.
He wants to cut $4.3 trillion in spending, including funds from Medicare and
other programs, essentially freeze federal spending at 2008 levels for
everything except the Pentagon.
6.
He wants a permanent U.S. presence in Iraq, and would end the nuclear deal with
Iran, putting us on a path to war.
7.
We have no way to know where he is on immigration because he’s flip-flopped —
first working on legislation to regularize citizenship for undocumented
immigrants, and now firmly anti-legalization.
8.
He wants to repeal Obamacare.
9.
He’s against a woman’s right to choose, even in cases of rape and incest.
10.
Although elected to the Senate as a Tea Party favorite, he’s now the
establishment’s favorite Republican. Among his donors are hedge-fund
billionaire Paul Singer and the executives and PACs of Goldman Sachs, Wells
Fargo, and Koch Industries.
ROBERT
B. REICH is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of
California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing
Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for
which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries
of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books, including the best
sellers “Aftershock, “The Work of Nations," and "Beyond
Outrage," and, his most recent, "Saving Capitalism." He is also
a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause,
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the
award-winning documentary, INEQUALITY FOR ALL.
