215- Third Way's abortion puns with Carl Beijer

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🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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My piece on Sydney Ember https://fair.org/home/sidney-embers-secret-sources/ Carl's paper: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GlobalGreenNewDeal.pdf I chat with Carl Beijer about his new paper, published by the People's Policy Project, on how to pay for the Global Green New Deal, why Third Way, the radical centrist think tank which says it will support any Dem but Bernie and works to cut social security and medicare, is so bad, the media's anti Bernie Bias and why Bernie should run as a socialist. I include clips of Sanders' speech on democratic socialism and Jim Kessler (of Third Way, ) bragging about working with Claire McCaskill (who lost her latest election), compromising on abortion, making abortion puns (the legislation had been "still born" "in gestation"), urging the Dems to focus less on climate change and minimum wage. I also include Third Way's Matt Bennett refusing to say how much money Third Way gets from Wall Street.

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0:00.0	Ask yourself what does it really mean to be free.
0:06.0	Are you truly free if you are unable to go to a doctor when you are sick or face financial bankruptcy when you leave the hospital?
0:18.6	Are you truly free if you cannot afford the prescription drugs you need in order to stay alive?
0:27.0	Are you truly free when you spend half of your limited income on housing
0:32.0	and are forced to borrow money from a payday lender
0:36.4	at 200% interest rates.
0:40.3	Are you truly free if you are 70 years old and forced to work because you lack a pension or enough money to retire?
0:51.0	Are you truly free if you are unable to go to a college or a trade school because
0:57.8	your family lacks the income?
1:01.4	Are you truly free if you are forced to work 60 or 80 hours a week because you cannot
1:07.5	find the job that pays you a living wage? Are you truly free if you are a mother with a newborn baby but you are
1:18.3	forced to go back to work immediately after the birth of that child because you lack paid family leave.
1:27.0	Are you truly free if you are a small business owner or a family farmer who is driven out of business by the monopolistic
1:35.3	practices of big business. Are you truly free if you are a veteran who has put
1:41.9	his or her life on the line to defend this country,
1:45.4	and tonight will be sleeping out on the streets.
1:48.4	To me, the answer to those questions in the wealthiest nation on earth is no under those
1:55.8	conditions you are not truly free. While the Bill of Rights protects us from
2:01.3	the tyranny of an oppressive government.
2:04.2	Many in the establishment would like the American people to submit to the tyranny of
2:09.8	oligarchs, multinational corporations, Wall Street banks and billionaires.
2:16.6	It is time, and in fact, time long overdue, for the American people to stand up and fight for their right to freedom, human dignity and security. Hello and welcome to the Katie Helper show.
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