scuffmark The economics seem sound and provides explanation why the middle class financial health is the key to a successful economy and solid democracy.Former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, explains this argument in understandable terms. Using testimony from the really rich Americans, including Warren Buffet, to everyday middle class Americans struggling to maintain their quality of life.The loss of one star is due to the web site promoting a clearly liberal agenda. The documentary itself has no political message which motivated me to go to the web site to take action. But, alas, when the web site had nothing but political elements, it turned me off.

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

Olasupo Orimogunje While the focus is on America, this applies to all countries in the world. Just straight with the facts, with no unnecessary ideological shenanigans. Many moments are there for laughter and crying. Reich is a true teacher, and you feel his passion throughout the film. Do not dismiss this film if you do not come from America, the same thing is happening in every country in the world. Jobs are down in every country in the world. We have so many automated check-out points run by computers. Companies are making much more money than they have ever done, while the middle and lower classes continue to struggle more and more. Banks and many companies collapsed, but the owners are still as rich as they have ever been, its only those that lost their jobs that have suffered. The economic crunch has not affected the rich significantly, they got richer. They make money whether the economy is going down or going up. They make money with shares going up or going down.Consider a scenario : You buy 10,000 shares in a company at £1.00 per share, just like the rich guys do; let's say the shares appreciate by 20 pence, and you decide to sell. You make some money(£2000), but because you are not that rich, the money you make cannot change your life. If you were rich, you could have used £10 million to buy, to make £2 million. Nothing wrong with that, but this is what has been happening over several decades that have given the rich many more ways to make more money while the poor guys cannot. Hence the need for government to assist the bottom half of the economy with things like health care, education, etc

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!)