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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Dean Baker/Standing Up For Children

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ralph talks to renowned economist, Dean Baker, about the state of “free trade” in the era of Trump; and original Nader’s Raider, Robert Fellmeth, joins us to advocate for a group of people who have virtually no say in the political process, children.



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.6

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.7

You've been sitting ready to song.

0:10.2

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David

0:18.0

How you doing today David?

0:20.0

Very good. I have a question for Ralph. If ISIS really wants to kill Americans, shouldn't they just donate to the Republican Party?

0:27.0

Well, that might be considered a mischievous remark, but this is the cruelest Republican Party since the party started in 1854.

0:36.0

I think Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Robert Taft, and others, including even Robert Dole,

0:42.0

would be pretty upset by the uniform

0:46.3

pattern by Senator Mitch McConnell and speaker Paul Ryan of trying to inflict this

0:52.4

health insurance travesty legislation on the American

0:57.3

people.

0:58.3

I might add the fact that McConnell had to postpone the vote until after July 4th. It's entirely due to people around the

1:06.4

country. They're answering polls. The latest poll had won five, 15% of the people

1:11.8

favored this bill, only 15%.

1:15.0

And also flooding the town meetings of the Republican members of Congress,

1:21.0

protesting, sit-ins, emails, telephone calls, it's all you folks who've put

1:27.4

the stop sign on these ravaging Republican corporatists, all you. And so over the 4th of July weekend you have a

1:36.8

great opportunity to go to any of these gatherings. Senator Capito is so

1:41.4

upset by the revolt of West Virginians against her.

1:45.6

She's cancelled the town meetings for the July 4th.

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