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Air Date: 06/20/2017

Today we take a look at the legacy of conservative economics in Kansas, the new federal budget being pushed that would echo the Kansas disaster, deregulation that will cost citizens billions and the intellectual underpinning of modern conservative philosophy that is driving all this

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Conservatism is failing from Topeka to Tulsa to the River Thames - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 6-9-17

Ch. 3: Song 1: Dust in the Wind - Kansas


Ch. 4: Act 2: A billionaire perspective on Trump's budget - The Other Washington - Air Date 6-1-17

Ch. 5: Song 2: Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote


Ch. 6: Act 3: Republicans Repeal Disastrous Tax Cuts - @theyoungturks - Air Date 06-11-17

Ch. 7: Song 3: Lesson Learned (feat. John Mayer) - Alicia Keys


Ch. 8: Act 4: Roll-Back of Financial Regulations Has Nothing to do with Complexity or Boosting the Economy - @TheRealNews - Air Date 6-13-17

Ch. 9: Song 4: Ennio 08-08 - Silence Is Sexy


Ch. 10: Act 5: Stop Republicans from Deregulating Wall Street & #DefendCFPB via @RealBankReform - Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 11: Song 5: This fickle world - Theo Bard


Ch. 12: Act 6: Nancy MacLean on the intellectual underpinning of a “mean” Republican Party - Who What Why - Air Date 6-16-17


Voicemails

Ch. 13: Russia - Alan from Connecticut

Ch. 14: Interested in hearing about the Draft Bernie movement - Ahmed from the Bronx, NY

Ch. 15: A rumination on freedom of speech - Dave from Olympia, WA

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics


Ch. 16: Final comments in response to Nathan from Vancouver, WA on free speech

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone


Activism:

TAKE ACTION

Hold Congress accountable for the "Financial CHOICE Act" (H.R. 10) via Americans for Financial Reform 

Explore Americans for Financial Reform's website

Follow Americans for Financial Reform on Twitter @RealBankReform  

Engage with the campaign through the hashtags #WrongCHOICEAct and #DefendCFPB

EDUCATE YOURSELF

Letter to Congress: Oppose H.R. 10 – The Wall Street’s CHOICE Act Would Devastate Financial Regulation (Americans for Financial Reform)

What They Want to Hide Tells You Who They Are (Bill Moyers)

Trump Administration Says Financial Watchdog Agency Should Be Defanged (New York Times)

The Choice Act is Not a Community Banking Bill (American Banker, Op-ed)

Bill to Erase Some Dodd-Frank Banking Rules Passes in House (New York Times)

Written by BOTL Communications Director, Amanda Hoffman


Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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