Jacobin Show: Brandon, Can You Spare a Dime? w/ Matt Huber
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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This week on The Jacobin Show, Jen Pan and Cale Brooks discuss America's pitiful "industrial policy," Paul Prescod discusses the upcoming teamsters contract fight, Matt Huber talks about Joe Manchin and the climate bill, and Branko Marcetic tells us why the Democrats, despite their rhetoric, are failing to do anything about the Jan 6 assault on the capitol.
The Jacobin Show is a weekly YouTube show offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. Music provided by Zonkey. This is the podcast version of the episode from August 3, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Jack of In Show. I'm Jen Pan. Here, as always, with my friend and yours, |
| 0:36.0 | Kale Brooks. Kale, how are you? What's new? |
| 0:39.7 | I'm good. It's another glorious day in our country where everything is going just the way the left wants it. |
| 0:47.2 | There, no, it's not. But I'm good, at least. So I hope that, I hope people appreciate that. How are you doing, Jen? |
| 0:56.2 | I'm good. I'm good. Looking forward to today's show just very quickly before we dive in. We will be |
| 1:03.4 | talking to Labour Paul about the upcoming UPS contract fight and what the teamsters are doing to prepare for that. |
| 1:11.4 | We'll be talking to Bronco Marche Teach about the Democrats as usual messing up. In this case, |
| 1:17.8 | messing up the January 6 hearings and really not doing a thing to actually safeguard democracy. |
| 1:23.6 | And we'll be talking to our friend Matt Huber about the climate package that has just come out. |
| 1:30.0 | His thoughts on that and basically what he sees as sort of the prospects for transformative climate action and |
| 1:38.3 | a green new deal in this country. So please stay tuned for all of that. First, though, Kale, what's on your mind? |
| 1:45.9 | Yeah, well, so I'm sure a lot of people know that the big news last week, obviously undoubtedly was the announcement |
| 1:52.6 | that Senator Manchin and Senator Schumer have a potentially viable infrastructure bill, at least at the time of |
| 1:57.8 | recording this. It's potentially viable. Hopefully, it still is, but we'll get to that more with Matt Huber later. |
| 2:05.6 | But just before that actually happened, both the House and the Senate passed what's called the Chips |
| 2:12.2 | and Science Act, which was introduced to deal with the microchip and semiconductor shortage that you might be |
| 2:17.2 | aware of. Obviously, microchips and semiconductors are a big part of cell phone production, of car production, |
| 2:23.7 | of many medical devices. And it's been a large part of the supply chain issues that we've been dealing |
| 2:30.2 | with for the last two years. So the bill that was just passed allocates tens of billions of dollars |
| 2:37.4 | towards domestic research and development costs for companies like Intel and Samsung and Texas |
| 2:43.0 | instruments, among others. But the notable part of this is that the federal government is basically |
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