(2011/09/05) World of Class Warfare (Economics)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 September 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #525
World of Class Warfare
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Act 1: Warren Buffett vs Wealthy Conservatives - Daily Show Air Date: 8-17-11
Song 1: Class Warfare - Chris Priest
Act 2: Donald Trump Slams Oil Subsidies Because Of Warren Buffet - Young Turks Air Date: 8-17-11
Song 2: The persuaded - Faded Paper Figures
Act 3: The Poors Free Ride Is Over - Daily Show - Air Date: 08-18-11
Song 3: Karma Police - Radiohead
Act 4: What 'Jobs' Really Means - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 8-22-11
Song 4: Viva la Vida - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 5: After Cheering for Default, Fox Host Laments S&P Downgrade - Media Matters Air Date: 8-8-11
Act 6: Matt Taibbi - Is the SEC covering up Wall Street crimes - Thom Hartman Air Date: 8-19-11
Song 6: Don't look back in anger - Oasis
Act 7: Obama Admin Blocks Bank Investigations - Young Turks Air Date: 8-22-11
Song 7: Damn it feels good to be a gangsta - Geto Boys
Act 8: Michigan locals fight for democracy - Jim Hightower Air Date: 8-29-11
Song 8: Kodachrome - Paul Simon
Act 9: VP Of Making Your Job Harder Given Raise - The Onion
Song 9: Working class hero - Exit Clov
Act 10: Obama's FDR Moment - Slate Magazine
Song 10: Goodnight and go - Imogen Heap
Act 11: Who's King? - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 8-28-11
Song 11: Fade to Black - Apocalyptica
Act 12: Bill O'Reilly Think He Knows Economics Better Than Economists - Media Matters Air Date: 8-23-11
Act 13: Mad Scientist's Plot Thwarted By Budget Cuts - The Onion
Song 13: The Shag-Adelic Austin Powers Score Medley - George Clinton
Act 14: ALEC's legislative bawdy house - Jim Hightower Air Date: 8-31-11
Song 14: Curl up and die - Relient K
Act 15: Stealing Water From Children And Other Good Business Practices - Lee Camp Air Date 07-20-11
Voicemails:
Thoughts on campaign finance reform - Michael From Glenn Bernie
Personal attacks don't have a place in rational discourse - Nick from Santa Clara, CA
Thoughts on how boycotts can be effective + info on bone marrow registry - Cody from Washington
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on donateyouraccount.com and BotL memberships
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Debtmageddon - Mark Fiore Air Date: 8-10-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLough.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLough podcast with Cups Today from the Daily Show, |
| 0:13.0 | the Young Turks, Mumiyaboo Jamal, Media Matters, the Tom Harbin program, Jim Heightower, |
| 0:17.7 | The Onion Radio News, Slate Magazine, and Comedian League Camp with a bonus video clip |
| 0:22.4 | for our Apple iOS and Android app users from MarkFurray.com. |
| 0:30.0 | There is an ongoing argument in this very country about how best to close the enormous deficit |
| 0:38.8 | that we have incurred. |
| 0:40.8 | The Republicans have proposed doing it entirely through spending cuts. |
| 0:44.6 | Whereas the Democrats have bravely fought back insisting we do it almost entirely through |
| 0:51.1 | spending cuts. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, this week, bizarrely unaccentric billionaire Warren Buffett entered the fray. |
| 1:03.8 | The billionaire says, while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue |
| 1:09.5 | to get our extraordinary tax breaks. |
| 1:12.2 | My friends and I have been coddled long enough. |
| 1:14.7 | I pay lower tax rate, much of my income, than my cleaning lady does. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, to be fair, Warren Buffett's cleaning lady is also a billionaire. |
| 1:24.4 | Warren Buffett's op-ed was a thoughtful treatise on the advantages the super wealthy currently |
| 1:33.3 | enjoy at the hands of the tax code, or to put that another way. |
| 1:38.0 | Up next tonight, Warren Buffett, Class Warfare. |
| 1:41.8 | More class warfare from an affable billionaire who should stop assuming the rich or old |
| 1:47.1 | billionaires. |
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