(2014/01/27) Our social safety sieve (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 January 2014
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #793
Our social safety sieve
Today we look at low-income individuals and the social programs that serve them to try to figure out once and for all if poor people are human or not and whether they should be helped or thrown to the wolves for our entertainment.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: SNAP: Myths vs. Facts - @takepart TV - Air Date: 12-02-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Wax & wire - Loch Lomond
Ch. 4: Act 2: Defining Economic Problems In All The Wrong Places - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date 12-27-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: I wish I knew - Years and Years
Ch. 6: Act 3: Fox News: Welfare for Me, Not For Thee! - @majorityfm - Air Date: 10-11-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Hell=Other People - Bettie Serveert
Ch. 8: Act 4: The coded-language demonization of social programs - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 1-13-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Minnie the moocher - Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
Ch. 10: Act 5: Congress Takes Another Vacation, the Jobless Starve! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran
Ch. 12: Act 6: Economist Richard Wolff: Does Government Healthcare & Welfare Hurt Economies? - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 11-13-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Capitalism - Yellow Umbrella
Ch. 14: Act 7: The GOPs poverty agenda - @allinwithchris - Air Date: 01-07-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Poverty - Bobby "Blue" Bland
Ch. 16: Act 8: Getting perspective from Europe on how screwed we are - @fakedansavage - Air Date: 8-20-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: No champagne socialist - Arkells
Ch. 18: Act 9: Demanding Tuition-Free Public College Education - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 20: Act 10: A Tip For Christian Tippers - Real Time With @billmaher - Air Date 11-10-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Time for actions on the TPP - Jamie in Cincinnati
Ch. 22: Actual definitions vs popular usages - Krissy from Kansas
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 23: Final comments on systems, shifting baselines and the definitions of racism
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
Make Public College Tuition Free, CREDO petition
Sources/further reading:
Tuition-Free Public Education Is Possible. Demand it. via Truthout
State by State: Student Loan Debt
Campaign for America's Future
Ny Sen. Gillibrand Pushes Student Loan Refinance
Time To Bring Bankruptcy Back for Student Loan Debt via Gawker
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
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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 BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Coops today from TakePark TV, |
| 0:13.0 | the Jimmy Dore show, the majority report, Citizen Radio, the Tom Hartman program, the David |
| 0:16.9 | Packman show, all in with Chris Hayes, Dan Savage, and Real Time with Bill Marr. |
| 0:21.4 | And we apologize in advance for any discomfort caused by this episode, taking the controversial |
| 0:25.6 | stance of considering poor people to also be human. |
| 0:30.0 | Today we're going to be talking about SNAP. |
| 0:32.0 | What the heck is SNAP? |
| 0:33.8 | SNAP is a supplemental nutritional assistance program. |
| 0:37.3 | It used to be called food stamps. |
| 0:39.0 | Gotcha. |
| 0:40.0 | Now we call it SNAP and SNAP offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible low-income |
| 0:44.8 | Americans. |
| 0:45.8 | The program started in the 70s and teams of doctors proved that it dramatically produced |
| 0:49.8 | hunger in America. |
| 0:50.8 | 95% of federal SNAP funding goes to food. |
| 0:53.9 | I can see there is still some confusion out there, so let's try to separate the fact |
| 0:57.9 | from the fiction. |
| 0:58.9 | How about SNAP is a program that suffers from rampant fraud and abuse? |
| 1:02.1 | On-going improvements to regulate the program have actually kept fraud and abuse at a historic |
| 1:06.5 | low. |
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