(2012/10/27) Maybe if we ask the plutocrats nicely (Economics)
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🗓️ 27 October 2012
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Edition #657
Maybe if we ask the plutocrats nicely
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Burn Your Money! ...Or Maybe Just Put It Away - Lee Camp - Air Date: 09-24-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong
Ch. 4: Act 2: How the 47 Percent Are Taxed Even More Than Mitt Romney - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-16-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Comin' back for more - Robert Crew
Ch. 6: Act 3: Romney's 12 Million Jobs - Real Math Breakdown - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-23-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: That's what's wrong - Good Old War
Ch. 8: Act 4: American Robot's Job Outsourced To Overseas Robot - The Onion
Ch. 9: Song 4: Mr. Roboto - Styx
Ch. 10: Act 5: Fact Checking Moderators - CounterSpin - Air Date 10-19-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Tom Brokaw Blues - Jonas Friddle
Ch. 12: Act 6: The rich may help but only if the poor get hurt too - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 10-19-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Razorwire - Chris Priest
Ch. 14: Act 7: Plutocracy rising - Moyers and Company - Air Date: 10-19-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Remains - Matt Pond PA
Ch. 16: Act 8: Teachers vs Kids In Alabama - Howdyland.com
Ch. 17: Song 8: Selfish - This Providence
Ch. 18: Act 9: Ben Stein Scared on Fox News: Rich People Should Pay More Taxes - David Pakman - Air Date: 10-23-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: You spin me right round - Dead or Alive
Ch. 20: Act 10: Shocker! Study Proves Cutting Taxes on Wealthy Does NOT Create Jobs - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-24-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: She blinded me with science - Thomas Dolby
Ch. 22: Act 11: I Went To The Cayman Islands To Expose The Truth About Romney's Tax Shelters - Lee Camp - Air Date: 10-15-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: The traitor - Sea Wolf
Ch. 24: Act 12: Walmart Workers Strike for First Time - Young Turks - Air Date: 10-11-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.6 | the membership tab at BestOfAleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with clips today from comedian Lee |
| 0:12.4 | Camp, the majority report, the young Turks, the onion radio news, counter-spin, the Jimmy |
| 0:16.6 | Door Show, Moyers & Company, Howdyland.com, and the David Pakman Show. |
| 0:21.0 | And a note for our poorer listeners, I'm sure that if you sacrifice just a little bit |
| 0:24.7 | more that the rich in this country will come around and meet you halfway. |
| 0:29.7 | As millions around the world try to survive with a lack of resources, we need to remember |
| 0:34.4 | that it's almost never because the resources aren't there. |
| 0:38.3 | They are. |
| 0:39.3 | There's more empty houses in this country than homeless people. |
| 0:42.1 | I mean, Jesus Christ, there's probably enough boarded up borders, bookstores, or Barnes |
| 0:47.0 | and Nobles to get every homeless veteran their own personal franchise location. |
| 0:51.8 | There's enough water to create bright green golf courses in the middle of f***ing deserts |
| 0:57.4 | and restaurants throw enough unsolved desserts in the garbage to turn every hungry person |
| 1:02.7 | into a morbidly obese, gently undulating mountain of syrupy flesh. |
| 1:09.2 | So why is anybody starving, cold, thirsty or homeless? |
| 1:14.1 | Seems like fixing this dilemma should be easier than getting f***ed in an orgy and the resources |
| 1:18.2 | are there. |
| 1:19.2 | It's the money that isn't there. |
| 1:21.1 | Philosopher Alan Watts described it well when he wrote that saying there isn't enough |
| 1:24.5 | money. |
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