Episode 763 | Kamala is Out | The Middle-Class Squeeze | Medicare for All | Co-opting Malcolm X

The Benjamin Dixon Show

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4.6 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Episode 763 |
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Kamala Harris' team just announced that she is out of the running as she no longer has the funds necessary to compete for the presidency. This is breaking news.
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The Middle-Class Squeeze is a real thing, and people need to understand that even if you're making $250,000 a year, you have more in common with minimum wage earners than people living off capital gains.
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The UK is facing the grim possibility of losing the NHS system to America's vulture healthcare industry. Let's discuss.
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And white supremacist, Richard Spencer, shared a clip of Malcolm X. Here's why.

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0:00.0	The Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listener support.
0:04.3	Go to W.W. dot the Benjamin Dixon Show.com to register for our blog
0:09.5	and join the Progressive Army.
0:11.3	Breaking the Progressive Army. Breaking news, Kamala Harris is out.
0:17.0	According to Political and NPR, she has announced on a call today that she didn't have the resources necessary to continue and so her campaign is ended
0:26.4	This actually broke as I was getting ready to push publish on today's podcast and it's important news so I will talk about it more at the end of this episode.
0:38.3	I don't think it's going to be as big of a shakeup as people think, but I want to pick up where we left off yesterday about this middle-class
0:45.1	squeeze because I think it is critical for the movement right now. Now the actual definition of the middle-class
0:51.9	squeeze is the situation where increases in wages fail to keep up with inflation for middle income earners leading to a relative decline in real wages.
1:04.9	Yeah, I took that straight from Wikipedia. So that's the precise definition of it but I think there's a better
1:11.4	usage of that phrase. I think the best usage of that phrase is to describe the situation where you
1:17.8	believe that you're middle class and society is telling you that you're middle class, but what actually happens is after you get done paying federal income taxes,
1:29.0	you make just enough to be in that 42% that pay federal income taxes, but you get no benefit from it.
1:38.0	And because of that, you find yourself in a situation where you're actually worse off than some people who are in the working class.
1:45.0	Now, worse off is relative and I know there's a lot of people who are probably going to
1:50.1	yell at the computer and say I would love to make $100,000 a year for a household
1:54.8	of four.
1:57.9	But I can tell you from personal experience being poor, that once when you are poor and you actually don't make anything and you're dirt poor, like for real,
2:06.4	you get actual benefits. You can get Medicaid for your kids. You can get, you know,
2:12.2	you can get assistance of some type. It's not much. It's degrading. It's a painful situation, but you at least have a safety net.
2:19.0	People who are in this middle class squeeze, you make good enough money to pay taxes, but you make too much
2:25.4	money to get any benefit.
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