Program featuring Jim Hightower, chair of the Financial Democracy Campaign, which explores the problems with the current political system and points to some ways to address those problems.|THE FINANCIAL DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN / Jim Hightower. - Program featuring Jim Hightower, chair of the Financial Democracy Campaign, which explores the problems with the current political system and points to some ways to address those problems. - CONTENT: pt.1. Phone interview with Ian Masters from "Background Briefing" (For complete program see: KZ1690.51). -- pt.2. A speech by Hightower on the values that bind us: equal opportunity, social justice and economic fairness. He points to Washington's scapegoating of the poor while playing favorites to the wealthy who have harvested the riches of deregulation and trickle down economics. Hightower explains how George Bush has successfully avoided paying state income tax, critiques performances by Bush and Quayle at the Republican convention, and discusses the Savings and Loan scandal and soon to come banking bail out. - RECORDED: Aug. 1992 and Apr. 1992 at the University of Southern California.
pt.1. Phone interview with Ian Masters from "Background Briefing" (For complete program see: KZ1690.51). -- pt.2. A speech by Hightower on the values that bind us: equal opportunity, social justice and economic fairness. He points to Washington's scapegoating of the poor while playing favorites to the wealthy who have harvested the riches of deregulation and trickle down economics. Hightower explains how George Bush has successfully avoided paying state income tax, critiques performances by Bush and Quayle at the Republican convention, and discusses the Savings and Loan scandal and soon to come banking bail out.
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