(2013/10/06) Mind the wealth gap (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 October 2013
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #761
Mind the wealth gap
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale - California Federation of Teachers - Air Date 12-5-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Happily ever after - Brobdingnagian Bards
Ch. 4: Act 2: Surfers Eating Lobster, The New Welfare Queens - CounterSpin - Air Date 9-6-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Gravity rides everything - Modest Mouse
Ch. 6: Act 3: The Right Wing Propaganda War On Food Stamps - All in with Chris Hayes - Air Date: 08-23-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: One - U2
Ch. 8: Act 4: Why Recipients Of Food Stamps Have Increased - CounterSpin - Air Date 9-20-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Perfect Balance (Population Ballroom Mix) - PEEZZE
Ch. 10: Act 5: House Votes To Cut Food Stamps By $40 Billion - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-21-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Submarines - The Lumineers
Ch. 12: Act 6: Robert Reich on 'Inequality for All' - Moyers and Company - Air Date 9-20-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Main title (Game of Thrones) - Ramin Djawadi
Ch. 14: Act 7: Take Notice Of The Income Gap - The Bugle - Air Date 9-22-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Small potatoes - A Weather
Ch. 16: Act 8: Ryan rants, and a new voice of morality responds - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 9-30-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: God put a smile upon your face - Coldplay
Ch. 18: Act 9: Income Inequality: Now At Record Highs - Majority Report - Air Date: 09-16-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Taking a closer look at GMOs - Marty from Los Angeles
Ch. 20: We need science on our side regarding GMOs - Matt from Canada
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 21: Final comments on how we all think it's for the other person's own good and a request for food companies to trick me to my face
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:12.9 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of a Best Podcast with Cups Today, |
| 0:16.2 | from Counter-Spin, all-in-with Chris Hayes, the Young Turks, |
| 0:19.5 | Moyers & Company, the Bugle, Jim Hightower, and the Majority Report, |
| 0:23.6 | and a note of clarification that you don't have to hate rich people |
| 0:26.9 | to think that they're not paying their fair share. |
| 0:28.7 | Like, they wore back in that conservative golden age of the 1950s. |
| 0:35.2 | Once upon a time, there was a land that was happy and prosperous, |
| 0:40.0 | and had a great education system, safe streets, and jobs for everyone. |
| 0:45.8 | There were few poor people and few rich people, most were in the middle. |
| 0:51.6 | The people of this land paid for their good life by investing in their future together. |
| 0:56.0 | They called this paying taxes. Everyone paid what they could afford. |
| 1:00.2 | The poor people paid a little, the people in the middle paid a middling amount, |
| 1:04.3 | and the rich people, one percent of everyone, paid more than the others. |
| 1:08.7 | Just about everyone thought this was best. |
| 1:11.6 | But over time, rich people decided they weren't rich enough, |
| 1:14.7 | so they came up with ways to get richer. |
| 1:17.3 | The first way was through tax cuts. |
| 1:19.3 | They didn't mind if there's been fewer services for everyone. |
| 1:22.3 | They said, why should I care about other non-rich people? |
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