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3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

Manchin's Spending Pause, Weak August Jobs Report, Autocratic Aussies

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

Radio America

Government, News, News Commentary

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg as they welcome Sen. Joe Manchin's warning that another massive spending bill would saddle our nation with a lot more inflation and debt. They also wince as the August jobs numbers come in far below expectations. Is it really all due to the Delta variant or is there more to it? And they refuse to throw any shrimps on the barbie for the Australian government as the country goes crazy with COVID lockdowns and crushing freedom.


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0:00.0

Sarah, where's the car? It's gone. It's not gone. It's with fixer. Since you never got

0:04.5

Ranta servicing it, I took care of it. Fixed up. Fixed up. Fixed is great. They pick

0:08.2

up your car, drive it to the garage, handle the service, then drive it straight back

0:11.1

to you. Sounds expensive. Don't worry. They negotiate their prices with their partner

0:14.8

garages and the car pickup services included. So since that's all handled, how about you

0:18.9

take a look at that leaky tab or do you need me to fix that too? For easy car maintenance,

0:23.3

head to fixter.co.uk. We'll pick up your car and take care of all the rest. Fixed up

0:28.6

and you'll back on track.

0:30.4

Welcome to the 3 Martini lunch. Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and

0:38.1

Jim Garrity of National Review. 3 Martini's coming up.

0:44.0

We did make it to the end of another week. That might be a good Martini all in itself,

0:49.0

but your stool is ready. We're glad you're here and we actually do have a good Martini

0:53.5

to go along with it. So an official good Martini, a bad and a crazy and Jim, let's say,

0:58.6

let's start with the good. And this is a qualified good, but it's one we've seen before and

1:05.0

so far for the most part it's worked out. And that's that Joe Manchin is tapping the

1:10.0

brakes on a piece of democratic legislation that we would really love to see die. I think

1:14.8

that's a little too optimistic that he and Kirsten Sinema might actually stop it from

1:18.9

happening, but this $3.5 trillion package may not happen nearly as soon as Democrats

1:24.6

want it. Sinema has said she's not spending three and a half trillion and now Manchin

1:28.7

is saying the same thing. He put this in an op-ed just the other day and he says an overheating

1:35.2

economy has imposed a costly inflation tax on every middle and working class American.

1:41.1

At $28.7 trillion and growing, the nation's debt has reached record levels. Over the past

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