Today, a really big change of pace. You'll be treated not to one subject in depth, or even two topics with extended segments.
No, today I have 5 QuickBlasts for you, in the areas of foreign policy, taxation, regulation of business and health care.
Let's get right into it.
Sometimes you don't need long permutations and combinations of an issue, you just need a solid fact or two to whack a right-winger upside the head -- intellectually, not physically of course -- so as to get their attention, and maybe knock some sense into them, penetrate that thick wall of denial and unreality that so many right-wingers have surrounding their brains.
Sometimes less is more.
This will be like a short, intense 5 round fight.
In one corner, progressive truth. In the other corner, right-wing distortions, half-truths and outright lies you currently hear bandied about on the corporate media.
Are you ready to rumble?
The fight card:
Round 1: Right-wing lies about why we went to war in Iraq
Round 2: The Republican claim that Democrats don't support the troops, and that the military community is behind President Bush
Round 3: Another campaign lie: Democrats want to raise your taxes
Round 4: Nonsensical right-wing policy position: there's too much government regulation of business
Round 5: Another nonsensical right-wing policy claim: we already have the best health care system in the world
If you want to see the right-wing get knocked silly, if not knocked out completely, just listen to the podcast.
(PS: Right-wingers, if you want to write in to me, fine, but at least do me the courtesy of listening to the podcast first. Please don't respond just on the basis of the brief preview above. Thanks!!)
Programming note: Until February, there will most likely not be live shows on alternate weeks.
A point of clarification - The median income of ~$50,000 is for American households. The median individual income is only about half this.
ReplyDeleteI may be wrong, but I believe Clinton and Obama's plans allow for tax cuts to expire for *individuals* earning a couple hundred thousand dollars.
So the reality is even more extreme - middle income earners are not going to come close to risk tax raises under the Democrat plans.
Sure America has a terrible public health system, but what makes you think people deserve good health care? The rising standard of living and extended life expectancy of people is over-populating the world. As Thomas Hobbes said;
ReplyDelete'...when all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is warre; which provideth for everyman, by Victory or Death'
Also, in light of the fact that the average African is borderline retarded with an average IQ of 70 (as proven by Professor Hans Eysenck), perhaps we shouldn't encourage them to live longer, healthier lives.
Surely healthcare should be given to the noble races; Jews and Western Europeans, and withheld from the barbaric races.
Bill