(2012/03/08) The game is rigged (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 March 2012
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Edition #583
The game is rigged
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Act 1: Poor Pee-Ple - Daily Show Air Date: 2-2-12
Song 1: Hurt so good - Yellow Snow Company
Act 2: Obama's New Budget Explained - TYT - Air Date: 2-13-12
Song 2: Unforgiven - Apocalyptica
Act 3: Fox News: Who's Responsible for Gas Prices? - Media Matters Air Date: 3-6-12
Act 4: Obama Gets Bad Rap on Gas Prices - The Progressive Air Date: 2-24-12
Song 4: Sweet dreams - The Eurythmics
Act 5: The Mortgage Fraud Deal A Ripoff - Majority Report - Air Date: 2-9-12
Song 5: Bet against the American Dream - Planet Money
Act 6: Foreclosure abuse is rampant - Citizen Radio Air Date: 2-20-12
Song 6: The Secret Agent: The Secret Agent Ending - Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico & Elias Arizcuren
Act 7: Limbaugh: Poor People "Have Only Themselves to Blame" - Media Matters Air Date: 2-21-12
Act 8: Economic Recovery May Force GOP to Talk Social Issues - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 2-29-12
Song 8: Breakneck speed - Tokyo Police Club
Act 9: Close Corporate Tax Loopholes - The Progressive Air Date: 2-28-12
Song 9: Hole in the bucket - Spearhead
Act 10: Greek austerity measures - David Feldman Show - Air Date: 2-14-12
Song 10: Stairway to heaven - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 11: World Bank Forecloses On World Farm - The Onion
Song 11: Too late, to slow - Shout Out Louds
Act 12: Conservative Hypocrisy on Obama's Energy Policies - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 3-1-12
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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 BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with Kup today from the Daily Show, |
| 0:12.9 | The Young Turks, Media Matters, The Progressive, The Majority Report, Citizen Radio, The Rachel |
| 0:17.5 | Maddo Show, The David Feldman Show, and The Onion Radio News. |
| 0:20.8 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, segments of this episode including this sentence |
| 0:24.7 | contain profanity and may review feeling that the poor are being fucked harder economically |
| 0:29.2 | than you previously believed. |
| 0:31.2 | We've been talking a lot lately about the poor. |
| 0:34.2 | What kind of a scam are they running on us? |
| 0:37.2 | And how can we let them know that this incredibly watered down gravy train is coming to an end? |
| 0:42.2 | The answer, as always, is in Florida. |
| 0:46.2 | As if Monvie has more. |
| 0:48.2 | Poor people, they spend their days protected, luxuriating in the social safety net. |
| 0:55.2 | But who will protect us from these drug-addled moochers? |
| 0:59.2 | Fortunately, some courageous politicians in Florida have answered the call. |
| 1:04.2 | Florida Governor Rick Scott just signed a law that welfare recipients should get drug tests |
| 1:09.2 | before they get their hands on that taxpayer-funded welfare check. |
| 1:13.2 | The studies show that people on welfare are using drugs much harder than the population. |
| 1:18.2 | And that damning evidence helped the law pass by a two-to-one margin |
| 1:22.2 | with the strong support of people like representatives Scott Plaken. |
| 1:27.2 | I think in any law that we pass, the first thing should be do no harm. |
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