Your Take, My Take is the segment of the show when we answer your questions, comments, criticisms and opinions heard on "The Big Picture." Get out there and Occupy something - just do your part to keep it peaceful!

Frances Causey, Co-producer & co-director-Heist & Donald Goldmacher, Co-producer & co-director-Heist join Thom Hartmann. Corporate America is the biggest Welfare reciepient in the country - but that wasn't always the case. The makers of Heist will tell you how organized money has been able to pull off the biggest "Heist" of the American Dream!

Russ Baker, author, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty joins Thom Hartmann. The Occupy movement received a boost yesterday from senior citizens. To send a message to Congress about plans to cut Medicare and Social Security - cuts that will likely come out of the Gang of 12 - hundreds of senior citizen patriots occupied a downtown intersection in Chicago. They were joined by nearby members of Occupy Chicago and other grassroots organizations - as well as a few members of Congress including Representatives Jan Schakowsky and Danny Davis. Ultimately - police moved in to break up the demonstration - hauling away 47 people - mostly senior citizens - away in handcuffs. We can add their names to the growing list of 3362 patriots who've been arrested since the Occupy movement started more than a month and a half ago. But these mass arrests of patriots instead of banksters don't jive with the attitudes of most of the American people. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows Occupy Wall Street popularity surging with 60% of Americans supporting the basic sentiment of the occupiers. That's twice as much support as the Tea Party received in the same poll. So while more and more Americans seem to be "getting it" when it comes to the 99% movement - there's still one group that's woefully ignorant...the corporate media.

Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America (DFA) & Cliff Schecter, Libertas, LLC & Amanda Beadle, Think Progress.org joins Thom Hartmann. It's Election Day - also known as the day when voters across the nation can have their say about the radical anti-American agenda being pushed by Republicans. At the top of the list issues soon to be decided is the fate of SB-5 in Ohio - the law passed by state Republicans to strip public sector workers of their legal rights to collectively bargain. Early polling showed the harsh anti-union law headed for repeal today - as a majority of Ohioans tell pollsters they're against the right-wing war on labor, and think Governor Kasich overstepped his mandate. Meanwhile - up in Maine - voters go to the polls to repeal several new laws passed by Republicans that make it harder to vote. These new laws now require voter IDs - they make it more difficult for people to register - and they shorten early voting. According to reporting from the Center for American Progress - a secret conservative donor has dumped a quarter-million dollars into that election to make sure these laws stay on the books. But early polling in Maine too - showed a majority of voters in support of repealing these anti-democratic laws. So as the votes are being counted right now - there's a chance that come tomorrow - workers in Ohio will be allowed to collectively bargain again - and voters in Maine will be able to vote. Unfortunately, down in Mississippi - it looks like voters ...