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elleng

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Mon Jun 16, 2014, 05:51 PM Jun 2014

from Robert Reich

Still in Florida with Ed Reich, 100 and a half years young, who explained why CEOs and Wall Street moguls are now pulling in vast multiples of average worker's pay: "They don't remember the Depression and World War II. We were all in it together then. We rose or fell together. There was something called the public good. That attitude lasted for a few decades after the war and then people forgot. The generation now running big business and Wall Street don't give a damn. It's everyone for himself."

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