{"id":4156,"date":"2008-11-06T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2008-11-06T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T18:06:48","slug":"is-obamanomics-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/11\/06\/is-obamanomics-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Obamanomics = Socialism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_06_08\/2008_11_06_wolff.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_06_08\/2008_11_06_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/home\/graphics\/obama-socialist.jpg\" align=right alt=\"Obama\" \/>President Elect Barack Obama is inheriting a financial mess of catastrophic proportions. And millions are counting on him to fix the problem. During his long campaign, he offered detailed proposals for tax relief and enhanced government benefits for the middle and working class, college students and the elderly. He has also proposed investing in infrastructure and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153green\u00e2\u20ac\u009d technologies, and expanding health insurance to cover all Americans. Passing a $50 billion economic stimulus plans is high on his agenda. Still, with Barack Obama being able to credit a crashing economy for his successful White House run, it remains to be seen what sort of real \u00e2\u20ac\u0153change\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will he bring to business-as-usual on Wall Street. His rivals painted him as a socialist, even though it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unlikely they know or care for the definition of the term. Does the fact that he still won with overwhelming support mean Americans are okay with the idea of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153spreading the wealth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d around? Will he, in fact, be a more socialist president than his predecessors? <\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, co-author of &#8220;New Departures in Marxian Theory,&#8221; contributor to Monthly Review&#8217;s Blog<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program President Elect Barack Obama is inheriting a financial mess of catastrophic proportions. And millions are counting on him to fix the problem. During his long campaign, he offered detailed proposals for tax relief and enhanced government benefits for the middle and working class, college students and the elderly. He has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}