Letters and Politics, for August 5, 2011 - 10:00am
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Unemployment data, economics news for the week & the debt crisis with Sylvia Allegretto, Richard Wolff and David Graeber.
Hosted By Mitch Jeserich.
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My opinion about the Morning Show was that it was kind of an extension of Democracy Now, which to me filled that "niche" of news and reporting sufficiently. So I think the uproar of cutting the morning show is more a reaction to people that had really identified with those specific radio personalities. If cutting the Morning show saved KPFA then it was the right decision to make. I think the most important issue at this time is to keep KPFA alive so all those that are listening regularly without donating should feel guilty because it's such a great station and resource. Politics are everywhere, let's just keep this good thing going.
Re-instate the Morning show with Aimee and Brian.
I have donated and have been a paid member to kpfa.
I will only support kpfa through the Savekpfa.org organization until the Morning Show returns.
Management has ignored the will of its listeners and now want our MONEY....... just like politics
Sure, we can blame the ruling elite for our current economic decline, as does Sylvia Allegretto. And we can blame the lack of a federal hiring program a la FDR, as does Richard Wolff. (Never mind, the phony attempts at holding up the so-called "Tea Party," as a key causality, as host and devil's advocate Mitch Jeserich likes to do: "It looks like it's the Tea Party," he asserts, only to be quickly refuted by Allegretto. We can even blame the lack of political diversity, as Wolff likes to do, citing socialist, communist, and union influences among the masses in Europe today and in the U.S. in the days of FDR.
Yet, none of the above on "Letters and Politics" (8/5/11) dare to ask what role the corporate political parties in the U.S., namely the Democrat and Republican parties, have played in our socioeconomic decline. Wolff and Allegretto have hinted at it, particularly in reminding us of the economic trend toward deregulation in recent decades of legislative activity. But they dare not make the final, necessary leap to connect the dots and speak plainly for the listeners about what role both political parties play in our economic descent.
And, of course, one cannot help wondering what role the personal political views of a program host play into the general direction of a political discussion.
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