"Your Take - My Take" is YOUR chance to send in your questions, comments, rants and observations about anything we talk about here on The Big Picture or during my radio show. Todays comments and Qs are about party ideology, shared sacrifice from wealthy corporations, and the difference between selfishness and sharing.

David Selig, Conservative Commentator joins Thom. Our public education system is under attack. Down in Florida - Governor Rick Scott and his Republican cohorts in the state legislature are starving public schools. $55 million dollars intended to go to repairing aging public school facilities - was instead redirected to exclusively fund for-profit charter schools. In total - about 350 for-profit schools will share the $55 million - leaving over 3000 public schools that desperately need money left holding an empty bag. Not only that - President Obama's Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan - just announced $49 million in federal education grants that will also go exclusively to New York and Florida for-profit charter schools. And President Obama's 2012 budget calls for $372 million to go to for-profit charter schools all around the nation. So here we are outsourcing the education of our children to corporate CEOs and religious leaders - neither of whom care about ACTUALLY preparing our kids for the jobs of the 21st century and competing with China - but instead only care about profits. So is this really the sort of education policy we should be pursuing in America?

Jeff Cohen, Founder of FAIR, joins Thom Hartmann. With this debt-limit fiasco nearing a conclusion now - one has to wonder just where it came from to begin with? The debt-limit had been raised over 100 times before now - and more often than not it was raised via a non-controversial one sentence piece of legislation that just erased the old debt-limit and wrote in a new one. But that's not how things worked out this time. Instead - we were all told there was a debt crisis. And for the last month or so - the REAL crisis facing America - our lack of jobs - took a back seat to this manufactured crisis of the debt-limit. A Gallup poll taken a few weeks ago showed that a majority of Americans - 58% - agreed that jobs and the economy should be issue number one - whereas only 16% of Americans thought the debt was issue number one. But the media thought differently. Last week - cable news outlets mentioned the words "unemployed" and "unemployment" 502 times. But they mentioned the word "debt" 7583 times. I guess it's pretty easy to believe there is a crisis when that's all the news is covering. But creating the crisis isn't the only ONLY role the media played in this debt-limit debate - they also created the solutions

Renowned director and filmmaker, Tom Shadyac joins Thom for the first half hour of "Conversations with Great Minds". They discuss how his love for film-making and how a very difficult experience led him to make a seminal documentary about some of the biggest challenges facing the world. In the second half of the show, Thom discusses the House's decision to pass Speaker Boehner's budget plan in the Weekly Rumble.