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The Brian Lehrer Show / January 15, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, January 15, 2004
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  • Payroll Facts

    Vermont Governor Howard Dean says that if elected President, he’d take back all of Bush’s income tax cuts but reduce payroll taxes. Does that make sense? Robert Reich and Grover Norquist debate the idea. Also, Carol Moseley-Braun drops out, a former priest seeks biblical grounding for abortion rights, corruption in the Americas, and should the Nets move to Brooklyn?

Black and Braun

Leon Wynter Author, American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business & The End of White America (Crown, 2002)
on Carol Mosely Braun's endorsement of Howard Dean

Payroll Over and Play Dead

Grover Norquist President, Americans for Tax Reform
and
Robert Reich Former Secretary of Labor, Social Policy Professor at Brandeis University,
visiting professor at UC Berkeley, founder of The American Prospect, and author of, most recently, I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society (Beacon Press, May 2003)
compares pay roll taxes to income tax

Population Mass

Dr. Dan Maguire Professor of Ethics, Marquette University. President of the Religious Consultation on Population on abortion and world religion and author, Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions Fortress Press; (July 2001)
discusses his work with family planning organizations

Lining their pockets

Charles Gasparino Senior Special Writer for The Wall Street Journal
on corruption in business
and
Sherman Katz William M. Scholl Chair in International Business , The Center for Strategic & International Studies
on the level of corruption in Mexico

Nay To The Nets

Jim Bouton former Yankee Pitcher and author, Ball Four,(Wiley, John & Sons, 1970) and Foul Ball (Bulldog Publishing, 2003)
says a Brooklyn arena would be a major league mistake

Aye To The Arena

Errol Louis Associate Editor at the New York Sun
says Brooklyn neighborhood groups have said no for too long

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

paper trail small

Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

happiness

From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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