(2011/09/29) The Jobs Plan (Economics)
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🗓️ 29 September 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #533
The Jobs Plan
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Act 1: Barack Obamas Jobs Speech - Colbert Report
Song 1: That's what's wrong - Good Old War
Act 2: New Jobs Plan = Unpaid Workers (Georgia Work$) - Young Turks Air Date: 9-06-11
Song 2: Out of my mind - James Blunt
Act 3: GOP Doesn't Care About Jobs, Jim DeMint Doesn't Like Speeches - David Pakman Air Date: 9-06-11
Song 3: So long - Lodger
Act 4: Jimmy Reefercake on the jobs plan - Majority Report
Song 4: Dance with me - Orleans
Act 5: Cantor Pans Obama Jobs Plan- Young Turks Air Date: 9-12-11
Song 5: The contract - Robin Roberts
Act 6: Clipgate - Colbert Report
Song 6: Breakaway - The Clips
Act 7: Obama Jobs Speech Confirms Political System is Totally Useless - David Pakman Air Date: 9-13-11
Song 7: Back to one - O.A.R.
Act 8: Who's Weighing Tax On Rich? Congress' Millionaires - NPR Air Date: 9-21-11
Song 8: The thought gives me the creeps - Hellogoodbye
Act 9: GOP Screw Jobs To Hurt Obama In 2012- Young Turks Air Date: 9-12-11
Song 9: Julie-O - Michael G. Ronstadt
Act 10: Bill O'Reilly Threatens to Quit - Media Matters Air Date: 9-20-11
Act 11: Money Brawl - Daily Show
Act 12: Money Brawl - The Extinction Of Subway, Bill O'Reilly, & The Super Rich - Daily Show
Song 12: Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Act 13: Why Jobs Bill Ain't Enough - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 9-18-11
Song 13: Broken (feat. Amy Lee) - Seether
Act 14: Obama Admin Steps To Pay For Jobs Plan - Young Turks Air Date: 9-12-11
Final comments on why I eagerly give away my freedom
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Other American Jobs Act - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at bestoftheleft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cubsiday from the Colbert |
| 0:12.4 | Report, the Young Turks, the David Pakman Show, the Majority Report, NPR, Media Matters, |
| 0:17.2 | the Daily Show, and Mumi Abu Jamal with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android |
| 0:21.9 | app users from the Colbert Report. |
| 0:29.9 | The number one issue on everyone's mind today is jobs. |
| 0:34.1 | It's even replaced sex, which means men now fantasize about beautiful women giving them |
| 0:39.1 | stark paperwork. That is why tonight's President Obama is revealing his jobs plan, |
| 0:46.1 | and in a desperate attempt to get our attention. He is doing it in a speech before a joint session |
| 0:53.0 | of Congress. Now he's asking his opponents to join with him for the good of the American people |
| 0:57.9 | and Republican leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to put aside partisanship. |
| 1:02.9 | We'll listen politely to what he has to say and take a look at it, but our view is we need to |
| 1:07.7 | go in an entirely different direction. See? That's meeting Obama halfway. They will listen politely |
| 1:15.6 | to something they have already rejected, and to show their concern for the unemployed |
| 1:21.8 | many GOP members of Congress have come up with their own plan of not attending the speech. |
| 1:28.4 | But the President will not be talking to an empty room, folks. Just like the Oscars, |
| 1:33.2 | Congress has seat fillers, people who occupy the chairs, but serve no real purpose. |
| 1:38.8 | They're called Democrats. And and skipping the speech, folks, I got to tell you, skipping the |
| 1:50.0 | speech isn't some FU to the President. All of these Republicans have a good reason, |
| 1:56.9 | like Louisiana Senator and former horror rotisserie David Vitter. Vitter is going to be at home. |
| 2:05.7 | I'm going to be watching from my family room in Metarell, Louisiana because I have a |
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