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

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting great to dumb.

What we're seeing here is a republic, men, women, children who are being run by 536 politicians

in Washington and about 1500 corporations with headquarters in New York, Chicago, LA

into a corporate state and as Warren Buffett has said on more than one occasion,

if we're 300 million people, why can't we control 535 members of Congress?

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting way too long. The Ralph Nader Radio Hours, a weekly series where we get to discuss with Ralph Nader,

what's happening in Washington, what's happening around the world, and most importantly, what's underneath it all?

What's underneath it all? Welcome everybody,

I'm Steve Scrovan.

We're here with David Feldman and joining us from

Washington DC is Ralph Nader. Let's get right to it. One of your old nemesis,

General Motors was in the news. Apparently there's a problem with an ignition system on the

Chevy COBOLBOLBOL-O, there was, which would cause it to lose power and cut the

power steering, deactivate the airbags. Now apparently GM knew about the defect for years and did nothing

then the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found out about it and they did nothing.

What's going on here, Ralph?

Well for more than 10 years general motors as

learned about crashes where people's engine was suddenly turned off and

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