(2013/03/12) Part 2: Why we should give to the poor (Economics)
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🗓️ 12 March 2013
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Edition #697
Part 2: Why we should give to the poor
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Government Needs to Put People to Work - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 02-12-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Brand new day - Joshua Radin
Ch. 4: Act 2: Obama Proposal: $9/Hour Minimum Wage - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 02-15-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Until the water goes down - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Ch. 6: Act 3: Fox News Seizes On Obama Proposal To Attack Minimum Wage Increase - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 02-13-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Until the water goes down - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Ch. 8: Act 4: Remembering George W. Bush's "Social Security Trust Fund Isn't Real" - Majority Report - Air Date: 02-26-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Capone - Ronan Hardiman
Ch. 10: Act 5: Pundits like to cut from the middle class - CounterSpin - Air Date: 3-1-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle & Sebastian
Ch. 12: Act 6: 40% of Americans Making Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-01-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: The game is on - David Arnold & Michael Price
Ch. 14: Act 7: We're ALL Welfare Queens - Majority Report - Air Date: 03-05-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Daylight - Matt & Kim
Ch. 16: Act 8: Hugo Chávez fails at spending money frivolously - CounterSpin - Air Date: 3-8-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Disappointment - The Cranberries
Ch. 18: Act 9: Dow Hits Record High, Household Income Low - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-07-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Comin' back for more - Robert Crew
Ch. 20: Act 10: The mythical "Dow" versus the real "Doug" - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 3-11-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Revolt - CHANT
Ch. 22: Act 11: Trickle Down Economics False, Middle Out is the Best Policy - The Young Turks - Air Date: 02-10-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Responding to Scott who's feeling beat up for being a white guy - Elka from Fort Wayne, ID
Ch. 24: Black racism is a minor irritant at best - Will in Starkville, MS
Ch. 25: Humanists are generally the opposite of biggoted - Anonymous
Ch. 26: Different ways of approaching foreign policy matters - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 27: Privilege discussion must focus on white privilege because it's the paradigm in power - Jordan in Wisconsin
Ch. 28: Establishing guilt is paramount - Jay in New York
Ch. 29: On white privilage, both foreign and domestic - Mara from Pittsburgh
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Ch. 30: Final comments on the relative values of various human's lives
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
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| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Bestival F podcast with Cups Today from the Tom Hartman |
| 0:12.5 | program. |
| 0:13.5 | The David Pakman show, The Media Matters Minute, The Majority Report, Counter-Spin, Jim |
| 0:17.5 | Hightower and the Young Turks, and stay tuned to the end for a bunch of really intelligent |
| 0:21.5 | comments about race, privilege, and drones. |
| 0:24.5 | When we're the last time your foot had the flu, you don't get flu in your foot. |
| 0:35.6 | You get it through your whole body. |
| 0:37.1 | Similarly, economies are systemic when an economy is in recession, the private sector is in |
| 0:45.0 | recession, the public sector is in recession. |
| 0:46.9 | Everything is being affected by that recession. |
| 0:50.9 | Everything has to participate in responding to that. |
| 0:54.0 | To say, oh, we just need to wait for the private sector. |
| 0:57.2 | This is Herbert Hoover's plan in 1929. |
| 1:01.0 | He said, oh, in fact, his Andrew Mellon was his secretary of treasury, is that recall? |
| 1:10.2 | He said, liquidate everything, liquidate labor, liquidate equity, liquidate, and he went |
| 1:15.7 | through a list. |
| 1:16.7 | In other words, let it all fall. |
| 1:22.0 | And it will eventually resolve itself. |
| 1:25.4 | It wasn't Andrew Mellon. |
| 1:27.3 | Thank you very much. |
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