June 10 - Time to Tread on the Insurrectionists; Senator Collins Helps the Trucking Lobby Exploit and Exhaust Truckers; Wall Street Buys Members of the Congressional Black Caucus

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the shootings in Las Vegas on Sunday and the 74^th school shooting since Sandy Hook in Oregon on Tuesday, and speak with Joshua Horwitz, the Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. We look into the NRA slogan that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun”, and how the NRA’s reckless and dangerous backing of conceal-carry laws backfired in Las Vegas, where a citizen with a conceal-carry permit was killed trying to stop a bad guy with a gun. We also discuss Joshua Horwitz’s article at The Huffington Post “In Wake of Las Vegas Killings, It’s Time to Tread on Insurrectionists”.

Part 2

Then, we examine the alarming statistics of 317,000 trucks involved in crashes in the U.S. in 2012 that left 3,921 killed and 104,000 injured, and look into efforts by Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, to undo recent reforms meant to curb trucker fatigue that appears to be the cause of the crash of the Wal-Mart 18 wheeler that severely injured Tracy Morgan and killed his fellow comedian Jimmy Mack. Henry Jasny, Vice President and General Counsel of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety joins us to discuss how the powerful trucking lobby, the American Trucking Association, exploits and exhausts truckers and endangers motorists and passengers on America’s highways by buying the political clout in Washington to operate their “sweatshops on wheels.”

Part 3

Then finally we speak with Marcus Stanley, the Political Director of Americans for Financial Reform, about the way the Wall Street banking lobby has bought off members of the Congressional Black Caucus to give their bills the stamp of left wing social justice approval while they attempt to roll back key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act to regulate derivatives. We also look into the irony that while Democrats are running against the Koch brother in this year’s election, a number of House Democrats are carrying out the Koch brothers’ deregulation agenda of Wall Street in exchange for campaign funds from Wall Street.