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Quote:  "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance ~ it is the illusion of knowledge." ~ Daniel Boorstin

 

Hour One - Jeremy Ben-Ami Executive Director J Street www.jstreet.org Topic: Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

 

Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: "A Modest Conservative Wish List for 2009"

 

Hour Three - Ed Rampell www.politicalfilmcritics.blogspot.comTopic: Announcing the nominees for the Progie Awards for the best Progressive Pictures

Quote: We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

Hour One - Congresswoman (D-CO) Diana Degette www.degette.house.gov Topic: Should health care providers be able to deny you potentially life saving treatment because they object on moral or religious grounds?

Guest:  Melissa Etheridge www.melissaetheridge.com/home Topic: "The Choice Is Ours Now”

Hour Two - Rabbi Michael Lerner www.tikkun.org Topic: Chanukah & Christmas: When Hope Triumphs Over Cynical Realism

Hour Three  "Everything You Know is Wrong" Santa Claus is here!

Guest: Larry Scott www.vawatchdog.org  Topic: Vets issues

Guest:  Kenneth "Ken" Davis www.dontknowmuch.com Topic: Christmas trivia and traditions 

Quote: "Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man." - Stewart Udall 

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Hour One - Wendy Gelberg www.gentlejobsearch.com Topic: How to keep or get a job in a recession...how to stand out in a crowded marketplace

Guest: Jim Sues www.cair.com Topic: 5 Muslims Convicted - The Fort Dix Verdict: A Victory for Pre-emptive Prosecutions? 
 
Hour Two - Holiday tipping...who do you tip and how much??  
 
Hour Three - Sandra Swirski www.philanthropycollaberative.org Topic: Giving Well...who's giving, who's getting and who needs your help 

Quote: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin

Hour One - Lawrence Yun www.realtor.org Topic: what's ahead for the housing market, mortgages and economy in 2009?

Hour Two – What does Global Warming – and maybe China - China have to do with all the snow and cold?

Global Warming Deniers attack Thom Hartmann http://newsbusters.org/people/thom-hartmann

From Newsbuster's  Noel Sheppard "Speaking of lunacy, Hartmann was so proud of this moment in broadcast history that he created an mp3 of his explanation as to why global warming is making us all freeze to death, and not only posted it at Air America's website, but also included an embed feature if folks wanted to share his astounding stupidity with others." 

Here's Thom's links... 

http://www...2003/11/031106052121.htm
http://ams...i1520-0477-74-6-1007.pdf
http://climateprogress.org/
http://gri...ry/2008/12/18/101834/49/
http://new...Jk4xdEjVtIh3u8e5SD7Zn414
http://blo...rming-and-severe-storms/
http://www...ght.php?pid=2008GL035333 

Hour Three - Michael Ratner www.michaelratner.com Topic: his new book "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution" Why Was Cheney So Quick to Admit He's a War Criminal?

Guest: "Labor Segment" Kim Bobo www.iwj.org Topic: Obama's choice for Labor Secretary 

Quote: The good of the people is the highest law. — Cicero
 
"Anything Goes Friday"

Hour One - "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov
 
Hour Two - Dr. Ravi Batra www.ravibatra.com Topic: State of the economy

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Guest: Sarah Rosen Wartell www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/changeforamerica  Topic: Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President (Edited by Mark Green and Michele Jolin) "Managing the White House for a Successful Presidency" and on page 15 "National Economic Council."
 
Hour Three - "Geeky Science Rocks" 

        Alexander Hamilton, in 1791, proposed to the United States our first true industrial policy.  We adopted it over the next few years, Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed it fourscore years later, and it was again affirmed by every President of the United States until Reagan began his now-28-year “Reagan Revolution” which has disassembled America’s industrial base and impoverished our nation. For over 200 years, Hamilton’s policy made America the most powerful industrial nation in the world; now – after just 28 years of Reagonomics and Clinton/Rubinomics – we are the largest importer of other people’s industry, and the most indebted nation in the world.

     The entirety of Hamilton’s paper is easily found on the web.  The first third of it deals with Jefferson’s objections to it (which Jefferson withdrew later in his life), as Jefferson favored America being an agricultural rather than an industrial power in 1791.  Once you cut past that, though, Hamilton gets right to the rationale for, and the details of, his 11-point plan to turn America into an industrial power and build a strong manufacturing-based middle class. Ironically, his policies are exactly – EXACTLY – what Japan, South Korea, and China are doing today. And what we have ceased to do.

     Hamilton had it right.  We must reject Reagon/Bush/Clinton/Bush-onomics and return to what the Founders knew worked.  Here are selected excerpts from Hamilton’s 1791 Report on Manufactures to Congress:

     First, Hamilton points out that real wealth doesn’t exist until somebody makes something.  A “service economy” is an oxymoron – if I wash your car in exchange for your mowing my lawn, money is moving around, it’s a service economy, but no real and lasting wealth is created.  Only through manufacturing, when $5 worth of iron ore is converted into a $2000 car door, or $1 worth of raw wool is converted into a $1000 Calvin Klein suit, is real wealth created.  He also notes that people being paid for creating wealth (manufacturing) creates wages, which are the principal engine of demand, which drives an economy.  And both come from a foreign trade policy.