TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Lawbolisted Powerful

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

weeki3-882-641481 Yes the middle class is disappearing. I see it myself everyday. Yes the middle class needs help and without it the US cannot survive. But Reich's solutions are to raise taxes on the rich and grow unions. I've been a member of two unions during my working career. Did they help me find a job? No. Did they help my husband get a job that was about to be given to a non union employee (making the person union)? No. Did they collect our dues? Yes and yes. Unions protect those workers who have seniority with big, BIG pensions. In some cases, multiple pensions (as is the case with my neighbor). As far as working conditions, no one is being forced to work. You can choose to work somewhere else if the job doesn't meet safety standards. And the state has limits in place for number of hours you can work, etc.. So the irony of union membership is that it serves a chosen few. And according to the movie declining union membership all goes back to that damn Ronald Reagan. Really? I found it fascinating to see the cherry picking of stats shown in this movie. Much hype about which billionaires gave money to which candidates, but no mention of the hundreds of millions UNIONS give to candidates. I guess if it's a rich individual donating money it's "powerful lobbying" but if it's a union it's "having their voices heard" (even if you don't agree as a member with who your union is giving money to).And more taxes? I just can't believe it. California is now 4TH in movie production. 4TH. Why is that? Taxes. Do you know how many jobs the entertainment industry provides and we gave it away to other states with low to no taxes. Now we're about to give away the agriculture industry that is the central California valley because we don't want to give farmers money to replace, upgrade and build water storage facilities. (Sorry, I digressed).I also found it fascinating that they covered executive pay in detail but didn't mention the BILLIONS that billionaires donate. I'm not a billionaire - far from it. But the truth of the matter is this - until we stop attacking 400 billionaires for the historical phenom that is the technological revolution - we will never be able to solve this dire situation. There are other factors at work here that weren't covered at all.

jtassistro Being saturated with the term "social inequality ", makes it easy to form and opinion from the media and feel confident that you are well versed on the subject. At least I did. After watching the film I have a greater respect and admiration for Mr. Reich. I thought he was a left winged liberal trying to manipulate the labor laws and attempt to over regulate the economy.Now I see how wrong I had been and how close we were to actually changing the social fabric of our economic system to build out from the middle class. Through investing more to individual education and developing a GROWING middle class that spends more and reining in runaway corporate greed with tax reforms are a few of the ideas that were talked about in the film.I am a champion for Mr. Reich after viewing this film. With the surplus and economic boom that we experienced through the Clinton administration the Politicians failed to have the courage or "Political Will ', to make the necessary fundamental changes to the economy that would have keep the U.S.'s middle class and jobs growing and the U.S. debt down. We missed our chance in 1990's. Now lets pray it hasn't swung to far that our elected officials or still looking out for the People they represent VS. the lobbyist who are looking to make them wealthy and the corporations they represent.When Environmental regulations stymie and corrupt job growth and middle class wages our political system has been purchased by the few fat cats. Remember Richard Nixon signed The Environmental Act into law.

Arnav Goswami watched INEQUALITY FOR ALL ...last year I saw an interview on RT featuring Robert Reich..& honestly I had no idea who he is/was..BUT what made me hooked to this guy was his revolutionary views about the economy & the people who controls it...THIS documentary is about the same thing It tells us about the economy..n how filthy rich "capitalists" controls it by sucking the money out of the common worker/people & how the government helps em to rob the very people who elected it....BUT don't think of it as a communist propaganda..the makers only worry about the America & the American people..they say it again n again(Its the only lag that stops people around the world to relate from the situation..cause methods can be diff but this is what is happening to all of em) AND it tells us all this stuff in the simplest form possible..you never get bored for a second..it portrays every aspect of the situation..so you can't call it biased at all..except that he went a little generous on the Bill Clinton & his own office years(what I think)..even than the film reveals a lot of things..things you must know As an outsider I enjoyed this knowledge/stuff & think its a _MUST WATCH_ for locals(US citizens)& _WORTH A WATCH_ for everyone else

cricket crockett . . . on solutions for the "problem" of economic inequality he "proves" to his classroom at the University of California--Berkeley. With seemingly half of INEQUALITY FOR ALL filmed directly in his lecture hall, this film is more static than even Al Gore's Oscar-winning polemic against global warming. Reich's basic message is that the top 1% of earners have "gamed the system" since 1978, when the real wages of middle-class America flat-lined. He says this will be bad even for the wealthy in the long term, since consumerism now constitutes 70 percent of the U.S. economy. Evidently, he thinks rich people are as dumb as the dragon Smaug in THE HOBBIT, spending only a fraction of the money they've siphoned from the middle-class through automation and globalization, while hoarding the rest and indirectly raising living standards in the developing countries to which the American jobs of yesteryear have been outsourced. As the rich sit on their mounds of inert gold (see THE HOBBIT trailer), the middle-class now lacks the money to consume after playing the last three cards in their hands (i.e., having moms work, taking second jobs and more overtime, plus maxing out credit cards, home equity loans, and college debt). But the wealthy have hired the U.S. Supreme court, the Republican Party, and hundreds of skilled propagandists starting with Rush Limbaugh (who always pronounces Robert's surname "Reisssssssssch") to further stack the deck toward an ultimate goal of getting 99% of America's wealth into the golden mounds of the 1%. Well, let me point out the main fallacy in the Reich lecture. He never mentions guns, or Thomas Jefferson's slogan that the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots every 87 (="four score and seven") years. If Reich is so anti-Second Amendment, it is exceedingly strange that he doesn't realize the current 300 million-gun private arsenal of us citizens would be AT LEAST 600 million barrels strong today if only the middle-class had more money! Does he want more gold for the rich, or more guns for the poor? Even though Mr. Reich says his one-time childhood protector later went down South UNARMED and got tortured, shot dead, and buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi in 1964, he cannot wrap his mind around this main dilemma facing America today. (Please don't forget to support your local chapter of B.A.N.G.S.--Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps--if you want credible change!)