(2011/05/13) Laden with problems, hungry for solutions (Economics)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 May 2011
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Edition #486
Laden with problems, hungry for solutions
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Act 1: US Credit-worthiness future outlook downgraded - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Disappointment - The Cranberries
Act 2: Myth of the fiscal conservative - Young Turks
Song 2: Wise up - Aimee Mann
Act 3: Regan raised taxes - Majority Report
Song 3: PTF2012 - VNV Nation
Act 4: How Goldman Sachs gambled on starvation and won - Johann Hari
Song 4: Never again - Enter the Worship Circle
Act 5: Taxes are too low - Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Mother We Just Can't Get Enough - New Radicals
Act 6: Tax, tax, tax the rich - The Progressive
Song 6: Time to Take Out the Trash - Brad Sucks
Act 7: Matt Taibbi on a Gov shadow budget - MSNBC
Song 7: Banks of marble - Pete Seeger
Act 8: Really really big government in Michigan - Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Hey Ya - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 9: Obama's spending cuts only make sense in Kenya - Media Matters
Act 10: Method of their madness - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 10: Stop the madness - Marty Dread
Act 11: GOP house chooses big oil over granny - Jim Hightower
Song 11: What is love? - Haddaway
Act 12: Progressive budget vs. conservative budget - Young Turks
Voicemails:
Supports my feelings on Bin Laden killing - Gordon from New Mexico
Thanks for my comments on Bin Laden - Connie from Olympia, WA
Look at ourselves before Bin Laden - Scott from Boulder
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Final comments on thanks for the NLC fundraiser donors and Matt Rothchild's Bin Laden/US presidents comparison
Bonus Voicemails:
Reaction to criticisms of the show - Valentina from Miami
Completely agrees with me on Bin Laden's death - Scott from Arroyo Grande, CA
Bin Laden's death not to be celebrated - Carlos From Chicagoland
Disappointed in progressives response to Bin Laden's death - Alt(?) from NY
We missed an opportunity to prove that we believe in our system - Nick from Santa Clara, CA
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obama Befriends Rich Elderly Widow In Hopes She'll Put Nation In Her Will - The Onion
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors to the show for details visit the |
| 0:06.2 | membership tab at BestOfALeft.com and welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast |
| 0:11.2 | with clips today from Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, The Young Turks, The Majority Report, |
| 0:15.0 | The Johan Hari Podcast, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Progressive, Media Matters, MuMia |
| 0:20.1 | Abu Jamal, and Jim Hightower with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users |
| 0:25.2 | from The Onion. |
| 0:29.2 | Here is your first quote. |
| 0:32.2 | Bust, flat broke, insolvent, belly up, ruined, potless. |
| 0:38.4 | That was Frank Kane writing for the website of The National. |
| 0:41.8 | After the company's standard and pours decided that who might not be as credit worthy as |
| 0:46.6 | they used to be. |
| 0:48.3 | Who's almost belly up ruined and potless? |
| 0:51.3 | I think that might be the United States of America. |
| 0:53.7 | Indeed it is. |
| 0:54.7 | Congratulations. |
| 1:00.7 | Standard and pours didn't actually say the US was a bad investment. |
| 1:03.4 | They said it might be soon they moved the country's future outlook from, quote, stable |
| 1:08.6 | to negative. |
| 1:10.4 | We went from being the world's sole remaining superpower to the country that asked to crash |
| 1:14.5 | in Canada's basement until we could get it together. |
| 1:19.5 | And now Canada wants its futon back. |
| 1:22.8 | Wow, I thought we were friends, man. |
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