143 - Beyond The New Deal: Challenge A Right-Winger With FDR's Second Bill Of Rights / Hannity Truth Patrol: Do Tax Cuts Increase Government Revenue?

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 19 February 2009

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The right's anti-New Deal offensive is aimed at besmirching Obama's stimulus plan.You know the old saying, the best defense is a good offense? Well, instead of just playing defense and defending the New Deal against Republican attacks, let's go on the offensive. I've got something for you to throw at them that will induce cardiac arrest -- figuratively speaking of course (especially since

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0:00.0	Greetings, you're listening to podcast number 143 of Blast the Right.
0:23.8	I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.
0:26.9	Today you'll start off by hearing about something sure to make the head of your friendly local
0:31.6	right-winger explode.
0:33.7	Franklin Delano Roosevelt's proposed second bill of rights, and continuing our crusade
0:39.0	to expose all right-wing talking points for the lies they are, you'll get the truth
0:43.1	about whether tax cuts really produce greater government revenue.
0:47.3	Let's get right into it.
0:49.1	Your sources for this segment include The Boston Globe, the University of Virginia's
0:53.7	Miller Center, Americanrederick.com, the Los Angeles Times, Brainy Quote.com, and The New
1:00.1	York Times.
1:01.8	Two podcasts ago you heard me debunk the rights claim that the New Deal failed and even
1:06.6	made things worse.
1:08.1	The facts of course are that the New Deal reduced unemployment every year, except when Roosevelt
1:13.0	started implementing more conservative policies.
1:16.0	New Deal financial regulations provided the foundation of a recovery and a stable economic
1:20.9	system, and millions upon millions of Americans were helped by New Deal jobs and other programs
1:26.7	allowing them to survive the Republican Great Depression.
1:30.6	Many economists feel that the problem with the New Deal is that it didn't go far enough
1:34.9	in terms of spending or else it would have been even more successful in the short term.
1:39.8	The rights anti-New Deal offensive is aimed at besmirching Obama's stimulus plan.
1:45.2	You know the old saying the best defense is a good offense?
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