89 - Right-Wingers Can Be Proud: 2005 Saw The Greatest Income Inequality Since The Great Depression / Listen To McCain's Descent Into Delusion

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🗓️ 12 April 2007

⏱️ 33 minutes

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As a general rule of thumb, everything right-wingers do is designed to accomplish one of two goals: either (a) transfer wealth to the already-rich from everyone else, or (b) distract everyone else from the fact that (a) is occurring. As far as (a), transfer wealth to the rich from everyone else, the right-wingers are succeeding probably beyond even their wildest expectations.Figures just released

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 89 of Blast the Right.
0:24.1	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com.
0:30.7	Today, we're going to discuss what it means that we now have the worst income inequality
0:36.2	in this country since the Great Depression.
0:38.8	We'll also listen to Senator John McCain do what right-wingers do so well.
0:44.7	Ask us to believe him, not our lion eyes.
0:49.0	Included here will be a clip from the Blast the Right Life call-and-show.
0:52.8	In my closing comments, I'll tell you about the next live call-and-show.
0:56.6	We'll do it at an earlier hour, 10pm Eastern time, 7pm Pacific time.
1:01.7	It'll be hosted at a different website, www.blogtalkradio.com, details to follow later in the podcast.
1:10.4	Let's get right into it.
1:12.6	My sources for this first segment are the New York Times, Bloomberg.com, Pewresearch.org,
1:19.4	and MSNBC.com.
1:22.6	As a general rule of thumb, everything right-wingers do is designed to accomplish one of two goals,
1:29.0	either A, transfer wealth to the already rich from everyone else, or B, distract everyone
1:36.6	else from the fact that A is occurring.
1:40.5	As far as A, transfer wealth to the rich from everyone else, the right-wingers are succeeding
1:46.0	probably beyond even their wildest expectations.
1:50.6	Things just really show that in 2005, income inequality continued to grow by leaps and bounds.
1:57.2	The richest 1% of Americans took home 21.8% of all reported income, up from 19.8 in 2004.
2:06.6	The really significant number is, this is more than double their share of the national
2:11.8	income in 1980.
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