Thom talks to Anthony Holm, Republican Strategist about Rick Perry threatening Ben Bernanke.Mike Riggs, Reason magazine joins Thom Hartmann to discuss Ron Paul lacking media attention for his accomplishments. In the second part of the program Thom speaks with Axel Woolfolk Caballero, founder and director of Cuéntame the problem with illegal and - sometimes - legal immigrants are rounded up and thrown in for-profit detention facilities around the country.

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Axel Woolfolk Caballero, founded/directs/produces Cuéntame. With the economy flailing - there's at least one industry - other than Wall Street and Big Oil - that's booming! And that's the business of locking up immigrants. Not because there's more illegal immigration in America today - there's actually less - but because private prison lobbyists - with the help of paid-off lawmakers who write strict immigration laws like Arizona's SB1070 - are making sure more and more illegal - and sometimes legal - immigrants are rounded up and thrown in for-profit detention facilities around the country. Each new immigrant captured translates into over $70000 a year for the private detention facility - so it's a pretty lucrative industry. As long as profiteers are in control our prison system - and buying off our lawmakers - then a compassionate and common sense approach to illegal immigration - and our legal system in general - will forever remain elusive.

David Selig, Conservative Commentator joins Thom Hartmann. Is asking millionaires and billionaires in America to pay a few more taxes SOCIALISM!? Fox so-called News thinks so. You may remember yesterday - billionaire Warren Buffett - one of the richest men on the planet penned an op-ed for the New York Times in which he said, "While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks...My friends and I have been coddling enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice." Before the ink was even dry - Fox News went nuts with Eric Bolling claiming Buffet was a socialist. That's right - Warren Buffett - one of the wealthiest to ever set up shop in America - is now a Socialist according to Fox so-called News. So how can that be?