No Hands Clapping

clipped from pajamasmedia.com Robert Reich has been widely quoted in the news and blogs lately, citing a 2007 speech he delivered at UC Berkeley in which he is supposed to have said of health care reform that: Younger people should pay more Healthier people should pay more Older people should just die- they’re “too expensive” There should be “less innovation” in medical technology You should not expect to live longer than your parents. A minimum wage doesn’t help as much as an earned income tax credit. Helping people at the bottom earn more is going to cost higher income people more money. Medicare will bankrupt the nation unless something is done and will impoverish the youth. The best way to ameliorate global poverty is to do away with farm subsidies. The student audience, which at first clapped enthusiastically as Reich started to tell his unspeakable “truths”  stopped clapping by the end.