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Moment of Clarity

#691 [Redacted Tonight] - Breaking Down The Crisis In Ukraine & The Return Of Child Labor In The US

Moment of Clarity

Lee Camp

News Commentary, Comedy, News

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

The US economy is struggling and everyone seems to have a different understanding of why. Lee Camp looks into the causes of the current labor struggles, some of the wackier symptoms of an economy in collapse, and a potential policy-based solution.

Then Ben Norton from Multipolarista joins Lee to discuss and break down the crisis in Ukraine. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:16.3

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0:17.4

Let's roll.

0:18.3

Never get their control.

0:20.2

They've got their money, but we've got our soul. Let's roll, let's roll, never get their control. They've got their money, but we've got our soul.

0:22.6

Let's roll, let's roll, never get their control.

0:26.6

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0:42.9

What? Who wrote that completely untrue thing in the teleprompter?

0:48.7

Not?

0:50.3

Anyway, America finally has a solution to our labor crisis. You know, the one that's been causing restaurants to close due to a lack of employees,

1:00.0

causing retail outlets to cut their hours, and causing Sesame Street to have to fill employment gaps with undocumented puppets.

1:09.0

I love you, Carlos, but it's just not the same.

1:11.6

The immigrants come here and they steal our jobs.

1:14.6

That should be my ass with an art student's hand up it.

1:17.6

Anyway, with the labor crisis getting bad,

1:20.6

perhaps the answer is to pay workers more.

1:23.6

Here's a rather complicated chart of the minimum wage since 2009. As you can see,

1:30.3

back in 2009 it was 725, okay? And now a whole 13 years later, it's a whopping 725. So that's

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