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🗓️ 10 July 2025
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
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0:34.3 | This is John Batchelor, conversation with colleague Mary Anastasio Grady about socialism at the ballot box, the appeal, redistribution. |
0:39.5 | Mary explains why that is all the socialists offer and why it's not the future, and certainly |
0:47.7 | not even the present of the United States, is Mary Anastasia Grady, and a socialist runs |
0:53.9 | for mayor, what is to be done? What is he think |
0:57.9 | to be done? What is actually needs to be done? Much more of this tonight. Well, he's not. I mean, |
1:06.5 | and part of the problem is that you have young college graduates in this city came from other places who, you know, don't like the rents they're paying. |
1:16.7 | And here comes the Piper who says, well, I'm going to freeze rent. |
1:20.2 | Of course, he's talking about in rent-stabilized buildings. |
1:23.7 | He's not talking about private property at this point. |
1:29.3 | But he says he's going to freeze rent. That sounds very seductive to people who are saying my rent too high. |
1:34.3 | And of course, you know, all of these offers that are coming from socialists are always really just a redistribution of wealth. |
1:43.3 | It's like we have this much money right now, and it's not distributed well. |
1:48.3 | So I, as the guy in charge, am going to redistribute it so it's more equal. |
1:54.3 | They're not talking about creating wealth, I'm growing the pie, |
1:57.8 | which is, of course, what you need to do if you're going to bring prosperity |
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