it's wednesday time for the lone liberal rumble joining me tonight horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the center for policy public policy research and matthew hayden senior editor with the capital research center gentleman will. so the post office versus google when google is writing the contract it's google and their lawyers none of us were in the room none of us had any say on the matter the contract was entirely designed to increase the profits of google if the post office is writing the contract between us and you know the terms and conditions presumably it's being done with our elected legislators and us at least semi-transparent process and we can actually see why isn't that a good thing once it's a terrible idea to expand the responsibilities of the post office i note that it's in the constitution it is in the constitution i know too many people personally who had bad experiences i just mailed paid extra to have a letter sent with someone's payment check in it the letter finally returned with an address with a stamp on it saying that there was a change and

well the act the long liberal rumble with me tonight around to horace cooper and matthew baden let's get back to it you want to make a final point i was just going to say what the government will do is they're going to pick arbitrarily probably by a little crony capitalism what particular technologies that they're going to adopt when they put these new grids and place and then we'll be stuck with those and complain about that either that's not the way and we ought to do my final word on this is that back in the one nine hundred thirty s. the electric company said we're not going to run electricity out to rural houses is too expensive we can make money in the cities but not out the rural communities and so f.d.r. stepped in and said we'll do it for you we'll with all the whiteboards force don't forget that part. time in american history for that i love how gov ag the matter is choosing f.d.r. stepped in and said we're going to get electra's government picks and chooses who it's going to reward how it's going to what kind of backward technology and you think all issues out of here but

for tonight's lone liberal rumble joining me tim cavanaugh executive editor the daily caller and horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the center for public policy research joan good to see you both heard my rant conservatives are causing child prostitution sadly i know and how did they manage to cause child prostitution in soviet russia how do they manage to do over to hugo at harvard and to do it in their in the conservatives who are creating poverty yes thirty five years of reaganomics has decimated the middle class and i'm really the former soviet union was following that reaganomics book right down by letter writer knows that office is very good and so does fidel castro it is poverty as well you know poverty and you do not see child prostitutes coming out of sweden in large numbers. mainly that the country in the history of the world where prostitutes didn't overwhelmingly come from poverty from the lower classes and it's a sad fact of life i wish we could do something about it but let's let's try to put a floor like the european countries do the northern european co

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