(2013/06/25) Bad ideas and fundamental flaws (Economics)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 June 2013
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #729
Bad ideas and fundamental flaws
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republicans Want to Yank Food Stamps from the Hungry - The Progressive - Air Date: 5-16-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Food glorious food - The London Theatre Orchestra and Cast
Ch. 4: Act 2: The Sequester Creates New Problems Without Fixing the Old Ones - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 05-24-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Problems - The Everly Brothers
Ch. 6: Act 3: Consumer's Demands Are A Myth - CounterSpin - Air Date 5-24-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: New clothes - Pat McCurdy
Ch. 8: Act 4: Markets Make Us Less Moral - Majority Report - Air Date: 05-30-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Moral of the story - Watsky
Ch. 10: Act 5: Capitalism Has Hit The Fan - Moyers And Company - Air Date 3-22-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Burden - Face to Face
Ch. 12: Act 6: The Most Dangerous Conversation In The World? - Lee Camp - Air Date: 05-27-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Peacocks - The Mountain Goats
Ch. 14: Act 7: Economic News Good... For Some - CounterSpin - Air Date 5-31-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Razorwire - Chris Priest
Ch. 16: Act 8: IMF: Whoops! Our Bad. Austerity Doesn't Work - Majority Report - Air Date: 06-07-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Hard to say I'm sorry - Chicago
Ch. 18: Act 9: The Reaganomics Doctrine of Privatized Government - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 06-13-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Mic (Military Industrial Complex) - Inna Sense
Ch. 20: Act 10: Washington Tells Wall Street...Have At It Hoss!!! - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-25-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Thoughts on the rebutted callers - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 22: Rebutting the offensive question about being offended by "the truth" - Anonymous
Ch. 23: White privilege is self-hate - Robert In Richmond, VA
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Ch. 24: Final comments on a white privilege 101 refresher
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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 bestivalf.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning bestival left podcast with Cubsiday, from the Progressive, |
| 0:13.4 | the Rachel Maddo Show, Counter-Spend, the Majority Report, Moyers & Company, comedian |
| 0:17.6 | Lee Camp, the Tom Hartman program, and the Young Turks, and a warning that this episode |
| 0:22.0 | contains one of the most forbidden statements in American society. |
| 0:26.2 | So, brace yourself for that one. |
| 0:30.2 | With bad enough, the Republicans from Newt Gingrich Island down derided Barack Obama |
| 0:34.2 | as the food stamp president during the last campaign, but now they're going to try to |
| 0:38.1 | take food stamps literally out of the hands of the hungry. |
| 0:41.2 | On Wednesday, the House Ag Committee voted to cut $21 billion out of the Supplemental |
| 0:45.7 | Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, which is the fancy name for food stamps. |
| 0:51.1 | The cuts would yank food stamps away from two million people, and get this. |
| 0:55.3 | 200,000 poor and hungry kids would no longer be able to get free school lunches. |
| 1:01.5 | Republicans like to spin stories the way Ronald Reagan used to, saying that lottery winners |
| 1:05.8 | shouldn't have access to food stamps, well, I doubt there are many lottery winners getting |
| 1:10.0 | this benefit. |
| 1:11.0 | They also say that we need to cut food stamps to reduce the budget deficit. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, the deficit isn't a problem they make it out to be, and food stamps are a tiny, |
| 1:19.3 | tiny portion of federal expenditures. |
| 1:21.7 | The poor and the hungry shouldn't have to suffer because of Wall Street's excesses |
| 1:26.1 | and George Bush's wars. |
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