Episode 6
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We had so much to talk about this week. We could have made the show twice as long. Hope you enjoy. Please give us your feedback and comments. (Scroll all the way down to listen or download the show)
Seg 1 – Our Representative Are Out of Touch
Lawmakers Bill Taxpayers For TVs, Cameras, Lexus
Bloomberg: President Obama Lives ‘On Budget, Too’
Obama Keeps His Big Apple Pledge
Presidential Fundraising Trips Leave Taxpayers With Hefty Tab
Seg 2 – Defense and North Korea
Clinton-era SecDef: Now is no time to cut missile defense
Kim tests another nuke
Obama adviser: North Korea not an imminent threat to the US
Administration: Now North Korea is a threat again
Seg 3 – Lectured by China and Russia
China warns Federal Reserve over ‘printing money’
Chinese students laugh at Geithner’s assurances
American capitalism gone with a whimper
Seg 4 – Government Motors
GM Makes New Bondholder Offer Ahead of Bankruptcy
STEVEN MILLOY: Obama’s New Car Standards Would Kill More Americans Than the Iraq War!
Quick side note – Schwarzenegger suggests state consider flat tax – could he possibly be a conservative after all?!?!
Seg 5 – Sotomayor
‘Empathy’ in Action – By Thomas Sowell
Sotomayor Ruled in “D-Bag Case”
Outside Groups Sound Siren on Sotomayor as Senators Stay Mostly Silent
Sotomayor: Obama’s End Run on the Second Amendment
Seg 6 – Economy Recovering?
Obama: Economy Is ‘Back From the Brink’ (which planet is he living on?) (side note: taxpayers pay for fundraising trip)
Initials Jobless Claims Ease, Unemployment Rolls Hit Another Record High
Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures, Rates Increase
About 12 pct of US homeowners late paying or foreclosed
America’s Hidden Trillion-Dollar Tax
Stimulus projects bypass hard-hit states
Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore
Seg 7 – You must be kidding!!
Couple: County Trying To Stop Home Bible Studies
