one of them, named arizona mildman, says "okay, what does rob reich think our direction should be? e what we might call the reich financial recovery plan that would heal and recover this economy?" >> the core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. we want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. we want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy. now how do we achieve that? there is not a magic bullet. but we've got to understand that the economy is a system of rules. and we can change the rules if we are organized and mobilized in order to change the rules in ways that make the economy work for us. why shouldn't we have a minimum wage that is at least as high as, adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage was in 1968? i mean, that would be $10.40 today. but the society is so much more productive. if we figured productivity into that, it would be at least $15 an hour. we ought to have glass -- you know, the glass-steagall act ought to be resurrected, so that there is that wall between commerc