#1338 Budgets are Moral Documents, Trump Budgets are Immoral
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 February 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/22/2020
Today we take a look at Trump's recently-proposed budget and rule changes targeting the most vulnerable recipients of Social Security benefits. The budget has no chance of passing as it is because, thankfully, a Democratically-controlled House of Representatives will now allow it. However, it is still very valuable to understand why kind of budget and rules Trump and the GOP would pass if they were in complete power.
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SHOW NOTES
Trump promised he would not touch Social Security and Medicare. He lied. Now we have deficit spending with no social benefits, and Democrats fooled into a compromise that allowed the military budget to soar.
Ch. 2: Doctor Responds After Trump Said He’d Make More Cuts to Medicare - NowThis News - Air Date 1-27-20
This doctor is speaking out about the high cost and inaccessibility of health care in the U.S. after Trump said he’d make even more cuts to Medicare.
Ch. 3: The #TrumpBudget is cooking the books - Off-Kilter - Air Date 2-13-20
Bobby Kogan, chief mathematician of the Senate Budget Committee, explains how the Trump budget is cooking the books to make it look not as terrible as it really is.
Ch. 4: The politics of work and hunger - This Is Hell! - Air Date 1-7-20
Anthropologist Maggie Dickinson on food assistance, poverty and her book Feeding the Crisis Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net
Janine Jackson interviewed Social Security Works’ Alex Lawson about Social Security and disability
Ch. 6: How To Clean Up The Welfare State - The Majority Report - Air Date 2-3-20
Meagan Day on "How To Clean Up The Welfare State" by building social programs that inspire support through their universality
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Ch. 7: Jay didn’t go far enough - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 8: Emerging theme on our collective emergency, recommending After Capitalism - V from Central New York
Ch. 9: Why Clinton didn't win - James from Sacramento, CA
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on passion in the primaries, early interest in Bernie and why reluctant leaders are the best
Bonus: Something is happening - Jim Hightower - Air Date 2-2-16
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- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.4 | learn about Trump's recently proposed budget and rule changes targeting the most vulnerable |
| 0:13.3 | recipients of Social Security and Medicaid benefits. |
| 0:17.2 | The budget isn't likely to pass a democratically controlled house as it is, but it's still |
| 0:21.4 | very valuable to understand what kind of budget and rules Trump and the GOP would pass if |
| 0:27.3 | they were in complete power. |
| 0:29.3 | The U.S. today come from the real news. |
| 0:31.8 | Now this news off-kilter. |
| 0:34.6 | This is hell, counter-spin and the majority report. |
| 0:38.3 | Let's listen to your friend Donald Trump for just a moment and talk about deficits and |
| 0:48.2 | debt to what they really need. |
| 0:49.6 | You know, I'm the king of debt. |
| 0:50.6 | I understand debt better than probably anybody. |
| 0:52.9 | It's literally first grade business. |
| 0:55.5 | It's so simple. |
| 0:56.5 | But hundreds of billions of dollars of money, and let's call it tax money, could come |
| 1:01.0 | from other countries when we stop them from ripping us off. |
| 1:04.8 | So you wouldn't have to play around with Medicaid and Medicare and things that really |
| 1:09.0 | are dear to people's heart. |
| 1:10.6 | If you look at some of these agencies, how big and fat they are, you can cut and have |
| 1:15.4 | them run better than they're running right now. |
| 1:17.6 | When I heard we were going to Iraq, somebody said, oh, we're going for the oil. |
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