By SueN
- Guests:
- Congressman Steve King of Iowa.
- Professor Richard Wolff, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; currently a visiting professor in the Graduate Program for International Affairs at the New School University in New York City and author of "Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It"
- Topics:
- When are Americans going to wake up and protect their economy?<
- Will repealing Obamacare bring back insurance industry death panels?
- Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.
- Bumper Music:
- Turn It Up, Shaman's Harvest.
- Trucker Hat, Bowling for Soup.
- Into The Night, Santana and Chad Kroeger.
- Doctor, my eyes!, Jackson Brown (video).
- I'm In Luv (Wit a Stripper), T-Pain and Mike Jones.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- Where Is The Love, Black Eyed Peas.
- The Candidate, Economy in Crisis.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” –- James Madison.
- Clip: Beck attacks Jewish Funds for Justice's Simon Greer; says putting "the common good" first "leads to death camps".
Once you get into the common good, it's over. And this is the perversion that every minister, pastor, priest, bishop -- every single person in America, every rabbi should be at the pulpit saying the same thing -- get away from anyone who talks about the common good. Because the common good -- if you put that first, and you reject individual -- you are headed for the death camps.
- Article: "The Farmer Refuted." by Alexander Hamilton, February 5, 1775.
"In contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it make him co-operate to public good".
- Article: "Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1780) Article VII" by John Adams.
"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it."
- Article: "Federalist No. 57" by James Madison, James Madison.
"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust. The elective mode of obtaining rulers is the characteristic policy of republican government. The means relied on in this form of government for preventing their degeneracy are numerous and various. The most effectual one, is such a limitation of the term of appointments as will maintain a proper responsibility to the people."
- Article: "Proclamation of National Thanksgiving" by George Washington, October 3, 1789.
"The second concern for the Founders in drafting the First Amendment was that all citizens should be free to practice their religion freely, without interference from government, so long as that practice does not violate the rights of others or threaten the common good."
- Article: "First Inaugural Address" by Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801.
"During the contest of opinion through which we have past, the animation of discusions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the constitution all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good."