(2012/01/19) Of the people, by the people and for the one percent (Economics)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 January 2012
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #567
Of the people, by the people and for the one percent
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Act 1: Welfare Kids Hit With Parents Debt - Young Turks - Air Date: 12-07-11
Song 1: It's a mistake - Men at Work
Act 2: BP Oil Causing Shrimp Without Eyes - David Pakman - Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 2: Swallowed In the Sea - Coldplay
Act 3: How to bring American green jobs home - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-14-11
Song 3: If it is growing - Fanfarlo
Act 4: From Democracy to Plutocracy - Jim Hightower
Song 4: Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Act 5: Firefighters Let Woman's House Burn over 75 Fee - Young Turks - Air Date: 12-07-11
Song 5: Nothing bad ever happens to me - Oingo Boingo
Act 6: 99% v 1% the data behind the Occupy movement Animation - Library Of Electronic Press - Air Date: 11-18-11
Song 6: Revolutions - Cody Long and the Red Beauty
Act 7: If I Was A Poor Black Kid - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-14-11
Song 7: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air - Will Smith
Act 8: Billionaire Donates 600 Million To Cornell - Young Turks - Air Date: 12-21-11
Song 8: She works hard for the money - Donna Summers
Act 9: Boss's Threats Hilarious - The Onion
Song 9: Teddybear's picnic - The Lords
Act 10: Do congressional millionaires represent you? - Jim Hightower
Song 10: Opportunity - Pete Murray
Act 11: Why Republicans Love WH Chief Of Staff Jack Lew - Young Turks Air Date: 1-10-12
Song 11: Change your mind - The Killers
Act 12: ALEC And The Circumventing Of Our Democracy - Lee Camp - Air Date: 1-16-12
Voicemails:
Music suggestion for economics show - Dave from Olympia, WA
Thoughts on how to have some medical bill pardoned - George From South Florida
Thoughts on Daryl and white privilege - Sean Dotson
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on how a contract is like a promise
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Grover Norquist: 'I Engaged In A Week-Long Drug-Fueled Orgy With Corporate Income Taxes' - The Onion
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.7 | For details, visit the membership tab at Best of the Left.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcasts with Cups Today from the |
| 0:12.6 | Young Tox, the David Pakman Show, the Tom Hartman Program, Jim Hightower, the Library |
| 0:17.0 | of Electronic Press, the Majority Report, the Onion Radio News, and Comedian Lee Camp |
| 0:21.9 | with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the Onion. |
| 0:30.0 | If you are a parent who has been paid too much in welfare benefits, your children might |
| 0:36.2 | be forced to pay back the state later on. |
| 0:39.7 | This is a story that was reported by the Sacramento Bee, and I think that it's a really scary |
| 0:43.6 | one because it might kind of set a standard for the rest of the country. |
| 0:48.0 | And basically what's happening is, parents who are paid too much money in welfare benefits |
| 0:53.8 | so later, I guess, let's say if they pass away or if they're no longer easy to access |
| 1:01.2 | by state officials, those state officials will go after the children and force the children |
| 1:05.8 | to pay back those welfare benefits that the parents were overpaid. |
| 1:09.8 | And it's a disaster. |
| 1:10.8 | It's a disaster. |
| 1:11.8 | It's totally unfair. |
| 1:12.8 | It's the state's fault that these overpayments happen. |
| 1:15.6 | I mean, nothing to do with the kids. |
| 1:18.1 | You have no idea what your parents are doing money-wise. |
| 1:21.7 | You should not be on the hook. |
| 1:23.4 | And this will be appealed. |
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