The Warfare State Compromises our Welfare / Lindsay Koshgarian & Ashik Siddique

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Lindsay Koshgarian and Ashik Siddique, co-authors of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies report, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare. You can check out there report here: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/ LIndsay Koshgarian is Lindsay's work and commentary on the federal budget and military spending has appeared on NPR, the BBC, CNN, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report, and others. At NPP, her work is at the intersection of military and domestic federal spending. Ashik Siddique is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project, working on analysis of the federal budget and military spending. After the interview, Jeff fills us in on the codplast boom. Finally, Chuck and Will's favorite answer to this week's Question from Hell is revealed!

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0:00.0	The Lord is with the Lord is with the
0:06.0	work with our power in the order.
0:09.0	The Lord has to be a better time. Picket back! Get there! Bigotter! This is hell.
0:36.0	So Will, I saw an ad on TV last night for some prescription drug.
0:41.0	And the person who's trying to sell you the drug who is supposedly a victim
0:45.2	of whatever disease the drug is supposed to cure says to the camera you know I
0:51.2	thought with this disease I had a death sentence but now with this new drug I have a life sentence I know right? I guess it depends on the the confines. Do anything they should have actually like
1:07.4	not phrased it that way? Oh I'm like how many people at this ad agency did that line go through?
1:14.4	Right. I'm assuming none of them has known, never known anyone who's ever been
1:20.6	incarcerated and told you that a life sentence is actually worse than a death sentence?
1:25.0	Right?
1:27.0	I don't know.
1:28.0	So now I have a life sentence where I have to deal with this disease for the rest of my life instead of just dying.
1:35.0	But do you remember the drug name?
1:36.0	Hell no.
1:37.0	Maybe that's the whole point.
1:38.0	Hell no.
1:39.0	I don't know what the disease was either.
1:41.0	I completely blank out on all those ads. I have no idea how they have
1:44.7	any effect other than stockholder investment.
1:47.0	Man, but I bet the some of the side effects are pretty gnarly, with that life sentence you might have you know right you know what's the usual litany of side effects
1:57.4	They have one of them is do not use this drug if you are allergic to this drug. I also like this drug will lead to risky behavior like gambling.
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