How To Save 4.2 Million Lives
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On the 55th anniversary of the publication of Ralph’s landmark auto safety book, we welcome fellow traveler, Joan Claybrook, who has authored a report not only to celebrate the 4.2 million lives that have been saved in that time, but also on what more needs to be done. And Public Banking expert, Ellen Brown, joins us to talk about how public banks would be better than private banks at rescuing Main Street during this depression. Plus, Ralph answers listener questions!
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with |
| 0:17.2 | my co-host David Feldman and David today we're going to be celebrating the |
| 0:20.8 | 55th anniversary of Ralph Seminole Work Unsafe at any speed. |
| 0:24.3 | Yes, very exciting. |
| 0:26.8 | And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello, it's good to see regulation working because of citizen group vigilance and some good members of Congress |
| 0:36.2 | saved a lot of lives. |
| 0:38.0 | That's right and also, and I know Ralph, you're too modest to say this, it helped launch |
| 0:41.6 | the modern consumer movement. And on the show today, |
| 0:45.1 | one of the great advocates who has been with Ralph since the beginning is the former president |
| 0:49.7 | of Public Citizen Joan Claybrook. She's going to be our first guest today and she's an expert on |
| 0:54.2 | auto safety and is going to tell us about the report she wrote that came out on November 30th |
| 0:59.7 | marking the 55th anniversary of Unsafe. In that report we find out that in the 55th anniversary of Unsafe. |
| 1:02.6 | In that report, we find out that in the 55 years |
| 1:05.4 | since its publication and the laws that flowed from it, |
| 1:09.0 | 4.2 million lives have been saved on our nation's highways. She also tell us what more needs to |
| 1:14.6 | be done to bump those numbers up even higher. In the second after we will be |
| 1:18.9 | joined by Ellen Brown, one of the foremost advocates of public banking. |
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