(2012/08/03) Cutting to the bone (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 August 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #629
Cutting to the bone
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is The U.S. Being Sold For Parts - Lee Camp - Air Date 5-18-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Buildings and mountains - The Republic Tigers
Ch. 4: Act 2: Broke Cities Sell Ad Space On Cop Cars, Schools, Manhole Covers... - Young Turks - Air Date: 07-04-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Sell out - Reel Big Fish
Ch. 6: Act 3: Fareed Zakaria giving bad economic advice for pay - CounterSpin - Air Date: 6-21-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Heard 'Em Say (Featuring Adam Levine) - Kanye West
Ch. 8: Act 4: Ron Paul On Social Security - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 6-22-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Crazier than you - Krysta Rodriguez & Wesley Taylor
Ch. 10: Act 5: "Libertarian" Ron Paul Exposes His True Self: a Corporate Feudalist - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-13-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: I'm looking through you - Steve Earle
Ch. 12: Act 6: Tax The Rich or Cut Food Stamps? - Young Turks - Air Date: 07-14-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Blue Rondo A La Turk - Dave Brubeck
Ch. 14: Act 7: Pope Lays Off 20 Cardinals - The Onion
Ch. 15: Song 7: Everloving - Moby
Ch. 16: Act 8: Preferring Equal Attention To Equal Cuts - CounterSpin - Air Date 6-28-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Everybody's gone to war - Nerina Pallot
Ch. 18: Act 9: How A Single Olive Destroyed Common Decency - Lee Camp - Air Date 5-30-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: We set ourselves free - Club 8
Ch. 20: Act 10: Scranton, PA Lowers Firefighter, Police Salaries to Minimum Wage. Is Your City Next? - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-09-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Minimum wage - They might be giants
Ch. 22: Act 11: Deficitbots - Mark Firoe - Air Date 6-25-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: The killing moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
Ch. 24: Act 12: Rant: How You Get Screwed By Fees & Fines - Young Turks - Air Date: 07-06-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 25: Vote for third parties if you don't live in a swing state - Jeremy from Lynnwood, WA
Ch. 26: Offended by talk about centrism - Steven from Washington State
Ch. 27: Centrism is the answer - Jane from the south
Ch. 28: Centrism is a myth - Rod from Bakersfield, CA
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Ch. 29: Final Comments on taking comfort in the inevitability of inequality
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with us today from comedian Lee Camp, |
| 0:13.2 | the young Turks, counterspin, the Jimmy Gore show, the Majority Report, the Onion Radio |
| 0:17.2 | News, and Mark Fury.com. |
| 0:19.3 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, though this episode may be depressing, it does |
| 0:22.8 | end on a high note of the inevitability of endlessly recurring progressive failures. |
| 0:27.8 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 0:29.8 | We're currently witnessing the sale of the United States of America. |
| 0:33.6 | So don't say you never saw anything exciting in your life. |
| 0:36.8 | We're watching a formerly great nation being chopped up and sold off for parts right |
| 0:41.2 | before our eyes. |
| 0:43.0 | Chicago's parking meters have been sold to Abu Dhabi. |
| 0:46.3 | This means that if the city of Chicago wants to close its roads to have a parade to celebrate |
| 0:52.0 | their freedom, they would have to get permission from Abu Dhabi. |
| 0:57.6 | It also means that Abu Dhabi can and has jacked up parking spot rates to $8 an hour. |
| 1:03.9 | So basically if you're poor and you want to go see downtown Chicago, don't bother, it's |
| 1:08.8 | not for your kind. |
| 1:10.0 | The Silver Dome in Michigan sold for only half a million dollars to a Canadian millionaire. |
| 1:15.4 | The Pennsylvania Turnpike was going to be sold to foreign investors until they backed |
| 1:19.7 | out. |
| 1:20.7 | I guess there were too many drunk driving stealer fans that came with the purchase, kind |
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