Chances are that you have heard (of) This American Life, but if you haven’t, you really should. I’m not going to try to explain it- the people who work on the show can’t even really figure that out: “There's a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It's mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There's lots more to the show, but, like we said, it's sort of hard to describe.”
Consider their recent report on a businessman who brought workers from India to Tulsa. He housed them in inhumane conditions and paid them measly wages, but he truly thought that he was saving them from squalor and starvation in India. You don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
I listen to their free podcast every week and catch them on Showtime whenever they air, because I find the product to be some of the most interesting storytelling out there. The pieces are impossibly entertaining, but they also really make you think and reflect. Yes, public radio isn’t all Garrison Keillor and Car Talk. Here is an entertaining skit that TAL ran a few weeks ago.
You’re probably sick of listening to that new Wyclef album by now, shake up your mp3 player with something worth listening to.
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"All union to the comunist party" Vladimir Lenin and all centralization power is to be a dictated agenda. "All power to the soviet" Vladimir Lenin again and the power to collective confiscate all the requisition grain did not settle well no not even with the proletariats. One world nation is to open up all the borders and we can do all of their bills paying and none not one dose not have to pay back.
Consider their recent report on a businessman who brought workers from India to Tulsa. He housed them in inhumane conditions and paid them measly wages, but he truly thought that he was saving them from squalor and starvation in India. You don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Don't laugh or cry. Instead, work to change the law. Illegal immigrants like the ones in that story have a similar dilemma to that of illegal drug users and prostitutes. It's too hard to improve your life situation when you're constantly evading legal authorities. Open immigration helps reduce exploitation of immigrants.