Viking Economics/Robocalls

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

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🗓️ 9 February 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes activist, George Lakey, to discuss “Viking Economics,” about what the U.S. can learn from the Scandinavian economies and “How To Win” social progress with direct action, non-violent campaigning. Then, Ian Barlow from the Federal Trade Commission, tells us how to stop robo-calls. Plus, Ralph weighs in on Trump’s State of the Union.

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0:00.0	From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,
0:03.6	it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.6	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.8	You've been sitting ready to jump.
0:17.7	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman who is back with us after having a bout with the flu.
0:21.8	Welcome back David. It's great to be back.
0:25.0	And we also have the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph.
0:28.7	Hello, this is going to be a good program on emulation. Yes it is and on the show today we're going to talk about not
0:37.7	only emulation but Vikings not the Minnesota Vikings football team and not Leif Erikson.
0:44.0	We're going to talk to activist author George Lakey about his book Viking Economics,
0:50.0	how Scandinavia got it right and how we can too. I've remembered during the last
0:55.3	presidential election campaign that Bernie Sanders you would hold up a place like
0:59.8	Denmark as an example of a country that had a high standard of living, great social safety net,
1:05.4	free education, universal health care, and many commentators in this country would
1:10.1	decry him for making the comparison because the US was too big and diverse a country
1:15.1	to be able to afford or implement those kinds of policies.
1:18.7	Well, Mr. Lakey is here to help us sift through what is fact and what is myth in that regard.
1:24.1	Now that's in the first half to show. In the second half we're going to talk
1:28.0	about something we all can relate to on an everyday basis and that is the robo-calls we get from telemarketers.
1:36.0	We're going to welcome Ian Barlow who works at the Federal Trade Commission, which is the government
1:41.2	agency that deals with consumer issues.
1:43.4	And those of you know Ralph's history know that it was the FTC
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