(2013/04/20) The legacy of Reaganomics (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 April 2013
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Edition #709
The legacy of Reaganomics
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Shocking Income Inequality in the US - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-26-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Allentown - Billy Joel
Ch. 4: Act 2: Time to Roll Back Reaganomics! - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 03-26-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: The end of innocence - Don Henley & Bruce Hornsby
Ch. 6: Act 3: Trickle-Down Theory's Pathetic Imbalance - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-30-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Soldier of plenty - Jackson Browne
Ch. 8: Act 4: Feeling Rich Again - CounterSpin - Air Date 4-5-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Money's too tight to mention - Simply Red
Ch. 10: Act 5: Bill Clinton's Ugly Welfare Legacy - Majority Report - Air Date: 04-11-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Down and out in paradise - John Mellencamp
Ch. 12: Act 6: Rush Limbaugh Claims Unemployed Americans Are Doing Just Fine With Food And Cell Phones - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 04-08-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Finest worksong - R.E.M.
Ch. 14: Act 7: 30 Years of reaganomics: What do we Have to Show? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 03-26-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Great Inequality Divide - Moyers And Company - Air Date 4-12-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: How different would the world be without Thatcher and Reagan? - Doug in Chicagoland
Ch. 18: Christians and the gays - Ty from Yuma, AZ
Ch. 19: Conservatives are fearful - Jay from New York
Ch. 20: There should be less anger directed at newcomers to the acceptance bandwagon - Mike From Lexington, KY
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 21: Final comments on how we react to conservatives accepting gay marriage
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details visit the membership tab at bestofleft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning best of the left podcast will clips today from the David Pakman show. |
| 0:13.0 | The Tom Hardman program, the Young Turks, counterspin the Majority Report, the Meeting Matters Minute, and Moyers & Company. |
| 0:19.0 | And a note that you can stop worrying because this episode does not contain any instances of the use of the nickname, the Gipper. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, while it's a verb, that one right there. |
| 0:29.0 | There's an article in alternate, which I encourage you to read right now. |
| 0:33.0 | It's called Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality in America. |
| 0:37.0 | The contrasts will drop your chin to the floor. |
| 0:40.0 | So we talked a couple of weeks ago about a study. |
| 0:44.0 | Maybe it was a couple of months now, Lewis. |
| 0:46.0 | A study that asked people a couple of questions. |
| 0:48.0 | Question number one was, how do you think income is distributed amongst the... among quintiles, right? |
| 0:55.0 | The top 20%, the second 20%, the middle 20%, fourth and bottom 20%. |
| 1:00.0 | In the US, how do you think income is distributed? |
| 1:02.0 | Please kind of draw lines how you would do it. |
| 1:05.0 | Question number two, how do you think income should be distributed, right? |
| 1:09.0 | In other words, what would be fair to you? |
| 1:11.0 | And then it was another set of lines. |
| 1:13.0 | And then they compared that to the reality of how income is distributed in the United States. |
| 1:18.0 | And it turned out that number one, people had an idea very incorrect, drastically wrong. |
| 1:24.0 | They... overall people think that income is much more equally distributed in this country. |
| 1:30.0 | And when you ask them how it should be distributed, it's even further from the reality of how income is distributed. |
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