Nader speaking with Pat Buchanan, towards disenchanted conservatives, june 21 of 2004.
They’re almost all puppets. There are two sets: Congressional puppets and White House puppets. When the chief puppeteer comes to Washington, the puppets prance.
Well, that is what representative government is for, to counteract the excesses of the monied interests, as Thomas Jefferson said. Because big business realizes that the main countervailing force against their excesses and abuses is government, their goal has been to take over the government, and they do this with money and politics.
Let’s put it this way: it is impossible to exaggerate the dereliction of diligence in the Congress.
The point is this: work should be taxed the least. Then you move to wealth, and then you move to things we do not like. And you will have more than enough to replace the taxes of under $100,000 income and to provide for universal health insurance and decent public transit and to repair the public-works infrastructure.
Nice talk on writing (mac) software for a living, from former OmniGroup employee and current CEO of Delicious Monster. I want audio.
What a good station. I was surfing around and came to their site, and choked the minute I saw that I had missed this arrangement of songs – it just looks so perfect, like lots of their programming.
Songs recently played:
The Decemberists – The Sporting Life
Paul Westerberg – Lookin’ Up In Heaven
Low – Stars Gone Out
Sage Francis – Slow Down Ghandi
The current is like KEXP but from minneapolis, and on my radio. Points off for not having a radio stream that works with iTunes, but it works with mplayer or vlc.
Treatise of tips on how to set yourself up as an independent consultant, which would be fun. Read over again sometime.