The Rick Smith Show

The Rick Show 04-23-2020

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Bob Ney

Bob Ney: In the next 30 days, are we going to allow visitors from China? But people who've been in the immigration "pipeline" for 9 years can't come in?? Don't let a good pandemic get in the way of what you wanted to do anyway.

@BobNey

Maggie Hart

Maggie Hart: It's federal law that students with disabilities get a fair education, & now is not the time to back down on our obligations to our students.

@maggiefhart

@WashLaw4CR

@BadassTeachersA

Cody Poirot

Cody Poirot: We prioritize healthcare centers & public workplaces, but at the end of the day we're going to get masks to anyone who needs them.

@masksnoworg

#MasksNow #WecanDoIt

Bianca Majumder

Bianca Majumder: One of the biggest hurdles to green energy is that industry only thinks of their bottom lines. Rick: Hopefully there will be an awakening in red states & they will vote out the bums who don't support green energy.

@BiancaMaj

@CAPenergypolicy

@CAPaction

The Rick Show 04-22-2020

@BiancaMaj @CAPenergypolicy @CAPaction @masksnoworg #MasksNow #WecanDoIt @maggiefhart @WashLaw4CR  @BadassTeachersA @BobNey

Dez Bochnak

Dez Bochnak: I'm hoping we can shorten our staying-at-home time by having everyone wear masks & keeping a safe distance from each other.

@masksnoworg

#MasksNow #WecanDoIt

Micheal Wasser

Michael Wasser: I work for the Dept of Professional Employees with the AFL-CIO, & we represent drs & nurses on the front line. We also represent those in arts & entertainment industries. Stage hands have been recruited to build pop up hospitals.

@dpeaflcio

@mspwasser13

@AFLCIO

Matias Vernego

Matías Vernengo: The price for oil has collapsed & they don't want to hold on to the oil, so they're paying people to take it.

@NakedKeynes

@BucknellU

Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh: I'm a limited government guy, & I believe in freedom more than anything else, but my freedom ends where your freedom begins. We're talking about a contagious disease & you can't argue with that.

@WalshFreedom

The Rick Show 04-21-2020

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Bob Ney

Bob Ney: I called two major banks & got recordings that they weren't accepting new applications; they were only working on applications already underway. Wells Fargo & a steakhouse gamed the system for Paycheck Protection.

@BobNey

Propane Jane

Propane Jane: When you go through the Holocaust Museum, they walk you through how it all started, with propaganda & turning against certain groups of people. Same thing now w/ social media.

@docrocktex26

#InstabilityInChief

Michelle Boyle

Michelle Boyle: We have the healthcare infrastructure to handle the current flow of cases, but these protests are a negligent and assault on health. My concern is we overwhelm the healthcare system & have to make horrible decisions like Italy had to.

@seiuhcpa

@SEIU

Phoebe Wall Horward

Phoebe Wall Howard: On one hand, I cover auto & labor, but in the past I've covered labor & politics. I'm not sure the national press is getting it right about the high-profile nat'l campaign strategy that are these protests.

@phoebesaid

The Rick Show 04-20-2020

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Bob Ney

Bob Ney: I was housed in the Bush Housing Program, better known as the federal prison. Trump would have to admit he doesn't control the Bureau of Prisons b/c he wouldn't want Cohen out.

@BobNey

Peter Montgomery

Peter Montgomery: Trump himself loves hyperbole but you have to look at the potential impact of his words. He has followers who have talked about civil war; even some of his religious right have talked of civil war to defend him

@petemont

@peoplefor

@RightWingWatch

@RDispatches

Joe Sanberg

Joe Sanberg: We need more social safety nets in the U.S. We need Medicare for All so when people lose their jobs, they aren't losing their health insurance. We should have a plan in place for a pandemic that incl. an economic plan.

@JosephNSanberg

@Aspiration

#EndPoverty

Helaine Olen

Helaine Olen: Big corporations got trillions of dollars while small businesses get a tiny pot of $250 billion that was first come, first served. Chain restaurants with locations of fewer than 500 ppl got money; hedge funds applied, too.

@helaineolen

@PostOpinions

@PublicSeminar