By SueN
- Guests:
- Frederick "Fred" Kaufman, Contributing editor to Harper's Magazine
- Jacob Sollum, Senior Editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com.
- Economist/author Stephen Moore, Conservative economist, editorial board member of the Wall Street Journal, and co-author of Return to Prosperity (w/Arthur Laffer).
- Topics:
- How is Wall Street starving millions and getting away with it?
- Why do libertarians want to prevent parents from protecting their children disease and disaster at the hands of giant corporations?
- Are teachers and other civil servants overpaid?
- Bumper Music:
- Help Me, Nick Carter.
- Fall To Pieces, Avril Lavigne.
- Because I Got High, Afroman.
- Help Is On Its Way, Little River Band.
- Junk Food Junkie, Larry Groce (video).
- Cheeseburger in Paradise, Jimmy Buffett.
- The Twilight Zone, Marius Constant.
- Burgers and Fries, Charley Pride.
- Imagine, John Lennon.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Catch the Reading Bug, Monty Harper.
- 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: "Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it." -- Walter Winchell.
