Restoring Local Government with “Lawful Transparency” – Epi-3019

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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David F. Bradley, Sr. was elected by my community in the general election to fix the local school board from the inside. Elected to office as a fixer, he turned the tables on the corruption and waste, exposing the people … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	There's a better way to do this.
0:07.0	Let me show you a better way.
0:15.0	Hi folks, this is Jack Spirko with another edition of the Survival Podcast.
0:19.0	This is always one man's view of the changing world, the changing times of the things we can all do to live a better life.
0:23.0	If times get tough or even if they don't, today is Wednesday, January the 19th.
0:28.0	2022, and this is episode 3,019 of the Survival Podcast.
0:37.0	Today's subject is going to be one that a large portion of this audience is going to want to tune out on really, really quick.
0:42.0	This is a great discussion though.
0:44.0	And I think the problem is that we become absolutists, right?
0:47.0	And so today's show is called Restoring Government with Lawful Transparency.
0:52.0	Has Jack denounced his anarchist credentials? No, I have not.
0:56.0	I am also a pragmatist and I have always been a pragmatist and I've always tried to be a pragmatic anarchist as long as I've called myself as such.
1:04.0	And you will hear some collision of that philosophy with our guests today because I want to make sure that I'm understood when I say a thing and that my guest has understood when they say a thing.
1:15.0	But this is not about fixing the whole country.
1:18.0	So if you think this is going to be the template to go into Congress and fix our federal government, that is zero to do with what we're talking about.
1:27.0	We're talking about as a local guy, basic businessmen, living in a small place called Carbon County, Pennsylvania, in a town called Leighton.
1:38.0	And this town is exactly, downtown Leighton, is exactly 31 miles from where I went to high school in Potsville, Pennsylvania.
1:47.0	This is an area I know well. There is a lot of corruption in local government and small town American, small town, Pennsylvania.
1:54.0	There's a lot of corruption in all government, but there's a lot of corruption in rural, small town, Pennsylvania.
2:01.0	More than you would ever freaking believe if you're not from there.
2:05.0	And this guy got tired of it because as bad as it's always been, it got a whole lot worse as you'll hear today.
2:13.0	And decided, you know what? Somebody should do something. I'm somebody. This is the system in which they do this thing.
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