“The Unemployed.  Lazy, unlucky or victims?

In this episode, Bob explores jobs in America to see if 9% unemployment is the new norm.  Is unemployment the fault of the worker or failed government policies?  

There’s no better way to spend a Sunday afternoon hour than with Bob and Huffington Post reporter Arthur Delaney, author of  ”A People’s History of the Great Recession” to discuss these most pressing and intractable issues: unions, minimum wage, unemployment insurance and bribing employers to hire the unemployed. Don’t miss it.

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Visit Utopia.  Fly to Atlanta and take a short car trip to Sandy Spring, Georgia, the city that efficiently outsourced everything.  Are they the wave of the future?  Their budget is about half of what it would be with city employees doing the work!

Private toll roads vs. crowded public highways.  Fed Ex vs. the Post Office.  Which do you prefer?  Please join Bob and Adrian Moore of Reason Magazine in this encore episode for an hour of light and breezy privatization fun.  Sell the parking meters!   Sell the airports. Sell air traffic control!  Sell the prisons!  Get rid of Public Service Unions, their pensions and their padded payrolls.  Let business do business and government take care of government.

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Ben Shapiro is an attorney, entertainer, journalist and blogger who has set out the link between Hollywood and the American Left.  He argues that the movie moguls and TV producers have come to be the functional equivalent of the Democratic Party and political messages are surreptitiously embedded in films and sitcoms.  What could the propaganda czars of Russia, China and North Korea learn from the residents of Beverly Hills 90210?

In this episode, Ben joins Bob to discuss his highly talked about and controversial new book “Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV.”  Forget the fictional villains such as Hannibal Lector.  They’re just there to distract us from the real ones on and behind the big and small screens!  You won’t want to miss this show.

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Even Mussolini made the trains run on time but our democratically elected government can’t seem to get it right.  America’s transportation system is the unfortunate result of central planning gone awry.  Our ineffective transportation cries out for a free market solution.  We need more private toll roads, private bus systems and privately run air-traffic control.  Remember the days when driving was fun and cruising the strip was a pleasurable pastime? Movement in America should be fun and cost effective.  The Libertarian way.  Join Bob and Reason Magazine’s Shirley Ybarra in this episode.  They’ll get you from point A to point B; the freedom way, not the freeway.

Find out more on Sunday at noon Pacific Time on Talk 910-Fox News Radio.

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S&P downgraded the credit rating on our country’s bonds.  How did this happen? What does it mean to you and me?  Most importantly, how does our country get its AAA rating back?  

If we are all going down in financial flames, should we file the biggest bankruptcy case in the history of the planet with the World Court?  In this episode, Bob is joined by Reason Magazine’s Associate Editor, Peter Suderman.  They will Standard and Poor’s downgrade, what it says about how our country is governed and how it reflects the financial stewardship of the Obama administration.  Bob has spent 45 years in the world of credit.  No one knows it better, except perhaps his guest, Peter.

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Did you see this headline?  Probably not, since it was never written.  However, it has happened.  Not just with GE but with  General Motors, Big Oil and many other American business icons.  Crony Capitalism has replaced the free market.  Business/ government cross breeding has created business mutants which look like business but act like government.  In this episode, Bob is joined by University of Chicago economics professor Luigi Zingales.  Together they discuss “Saving Capitalism From the Capitalists,” which happens to be the title of Dr. Zingales’ recent book and says it all.  Capitalism is being destroyed from within.  We’re losing our entrepreneurial spirit.  American business is too dependent on government and with governmental support comes governmental control.  Is it too late?

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The current budget/deficit/spending fight among the President, the House and the Senate is setting the stage for the election of 2012.  The Jefferson/Adams election contest of 1800 affected the size and reach of the federal government.  2012 will be a rerun, but the stakes are even higher.  What is the current battle really all about?  Money?  Yes, but only to a point.  Please join Bob Zadek and Libertarian economics professor and prolific blogger, as well as frequent media guest Don Boudreaux tomorrow in this episode, when the answer to the key question is demystified.  “Do we look to Modern Europe Government for guidance, or to the Enlightenment? Sarkozy or Locke?”

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How does an environmental Libertarian think?  What are his values? Is a Libertarian’s response to global warming to sweat it out and buy lots of sunscreen?  Hardly.  In fact, only free markets will save the grey wolf, the humpback whale, the snail darter and the spotted owl;  without regulation, without ethanol subsidies, without the EPA, and without Al Gore!  In this episode, Bob joins Dr. Mary Ruwart, a Libertarian who has studied environmental issues for most of her life, to learn why free markets are green markets.

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The talking heads and political pundits are up in arms over the deficit.  Should they raise taxes, reduce spending or both?!   Would cutting entitlements solve the problem?   They’re all missing the point.  The battle today is a battle of monumental importance and it is over nothing less that the direction of our civic life for the next hundred years.  We must redefine the relationship between citizens and government before we can move forward.

When the Founders created this country, they fulfilled their mission of creating a nation that would stand the test of time.  America has lasted much longer than any of the naysayers believed possible.   But now there is stagnation and we need to decide which direction we are going in.  The fight today is about far more than money.  Money is only a code word, a placeholder, for the real issue of individual freedom vs. government domination.  In this episode, Bob is  joined by Dave Shellenberger: radio guest, prolific blogger and Libertarian commentator.  Together they explain these issues in way no other media has even tried to do.

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Fear of crime is so yesterday.  At one time, violent crime was on everyone’s mind but today, money is the big issue.  We are plagued by out of control deficits, powerful public employee union rip-offs, out of control government spending and the expensive failed war on drugs. These issues all come together in this episode as Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow at George MasonUniversity’s Mercatus Center discusses “Prison Math” with Bob.  American Exceptionalism is at risk because the United States hosts the world’s largest prison population.  Are we truly “the land of the free” or are we all prisoners of our failed prison system?

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