(2013/11/12) Overthrowing Plutonomy (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 April 2014
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Edition #773
Overthrowing Plutonomy
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Plutonomy - Common Sense with Dan Carlin - Air Date: 10-06-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Cosmic love - Florence + The Machine
Ch. 4: Act 2: There are others things Government needs to do - Moyers and Company - Air Date: 10-18-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Baltic Avenue - Chris Roth
Ch. 6: Act 3: Does 'Capitalism Good, Communism Bad' Even Mean Anything? - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 08-12-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Variety is the spice of life - Larry Clinton
Ch. 8: Act 4: Stop Treating Capitalists Like they are Gods! - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 10-24-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Capitalism - Eastenders
Ch. 10: Act 5: Chris Hedges on the Implications of the Corporate State's Hobbling of the Liberal Class - Economic Update - Air Date: 04-12-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Up against the wall - Peter Bjorn & John
Ch. 12: Act 6: Study: Socialism Makes People Happier - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-17-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Pursuit of happiness - Kid Cudi
Ch. 14: Act 7: The Worst Problem In America? | Poll Results - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-21-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Time for action - Secret Affair
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Progressivism of Dr. Seuss - Moyers and Company - 10-25-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: How to improve education and support teachers - Sally from San Francisco
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 18: Final comments on teachers unions holding the line
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.0 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with cups today from Common Sense |
| 0:11.8 | with Dan Carlin, Moyers & Company, the David Pakman show, the Tom Hartman program, economic |
| 0:16.3 | update with Richard Wolff, the majority report, and the young Turks. |
| 0:19.8 | And a quick story that when my girlfriend asked me how my day was going today, and I told |
| 0:23.0 | her that I was just working on overthrowing capitalism, her word to the wise was, if |
| 0:26.9 | at first you don't succeed, try, try again. |
| 0:29.9 | Good advice. |
| 0:30.9 | I see it on every street corner. |
| 0:33.0 | I have no idea from city to city, town to town how representative this is to your life. |
| 0:41.5 | I can just say that between Los Angeles and Eugene Oregon where I live, it's a crisis |
| 0:50.4 | folks is what it is. |
| 0:52.0 | Do you see all those people on the street corners? |
| 0:55.7 | Do you see all those people holding signs? |
| 0:58.2 | Do you see how stretched the city services are to help people who are falling out of the |
| 1:03.3 | middle class into poverty? |
| 1:05.2 | Do you see how little we do for the poverty question? |
| 1:08.4 | Do you see how low on the totem pole it is in terms of a political concern for either |
| 1:13.4 | party? |
| 1:15.1 | This is a growing, horrible problem in the United States of America that you may think |
| 1:20.4 | is not going to affect you because you're doing okay and you're one of the hardworking |
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