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Why Does a Cashed Strapped Mother Sell her Baby?
You need to know this about our nation’s grim labor market. In Florida – a cash strapped mother of a newborn tried to sell her baby for $30,000 to pay off legal bills and buy a new car. Luckily the person she tried to make the sale to was an undercover cop and she was arrested. This case highlights a disturbing situation in our country though. Welcome to America – the home of a desperate underclass with no hope of finding a job. According to a new study by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics – there were 2.9 million available jobs in September – unfortunately there were nearly 15 million people unemployed. That means there is only 1 job available for every 5 people looking. Yet Reuters is reporting that companies have plenty of money to start hiring – with over $1 trillion dollars in cash on hand – they just aren’t doing it. That’s because the Chamber of Commerce and their allies in the Republican Party continue to promote job outsourcing. Thanks to Republicans, if you want a good American job? Move to India.
-Thom
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Today on the Big Picture..Why Does a Cashed Strapped Mom Sell her Child? On RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Today you "Need to Know" It's all about the money...welcome to America – the home of a desperate underclass with no hope of finding a job - where a cash strapped mother of a newborn tried to sell her baby for $30,000 to pay off legal bills and buy a new car.
In Everything You Know is Wrong..It's 2010, isn't it time to decriminalize and organize sex workers? Guest: Michelle Chen, Regular contributor to Working In These Times blog and also Colorlines.com
Screwed! Why is the Number of Uninsured Americans Skyrocketing to Nearly 50 million or 60 million....
"Best of the Rest" of the News...Bush's book...truth, dare or total B.S.? Investigative journalist Russ Baker provides the stunning counter-story to what’s in George W. Bush’s new book.
Plus Thom is debating a NeoCon - Did Water boarding saved lives?... and Why do Neocon war hawks in Congress want to start a new war – with Iran.
Crazy Alert! Where you can you see the moral decay of our society best? Find out tonight.
Daily Take: Is Food Prices the Next Bubble?
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Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the next 12 weeks.
The introduction is already up, and each week we will be publishing another of the proven 11 steps to restoring America. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The corruption of journalistic integrity is always bad, but it becomes obscene under conditions of extreme media concentration as now exist." -- Robert McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy 1999.
Hour One: Ireland is in meltdown...what happened? Thom is joined by Max Keiser,host of The Keiser Report on RT, film-maker/broadcaster and former broker/options trader.
Hour Two: "Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream" Thom is joined in the studio by Christopher Whalen, cofounder of Institutional Risk Analytics, the Torrance, CA, provider of bank and company ratings, custom analytics and consulting services for auditors, regulators and financial professionals. Author of the new book " Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream."
Hour Three: Best of the Rest of the News
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Coming up Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program
There's a controversial new film out this week that claims to dispute an Inconvenient Truth Climate Denier and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" Bjørn Lomborg will be here and it's gonna be a rumble.
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Small businesses vs. big corporations who can afford lobbyists
I am a somewhat typical “serial entrepreneur,” and fortunately, we have a lot of them in America. They are generally middle class people, they generally do not have an inheritance or family money to draw on, and yet they spend their lives pursuing the American Dream.
I have never relied on a Congressman or a government agency to do me a favor or bend the rules. I have never given campaign contributions to politicians in hopes of getting favors that would help my business. I have never hired a lobbyist to try to amend laws that would serve my financial interest. And this is generally true of all the hundreds of thousands of sole proprietors and partnerships and small businesses across America.
But that is not how big-time corporate America operates. To them, making large campaign contributions and spending millions of dollars each year on lobbyists is just another investment that pays off handsomely. Their motto (in behavior if not in fact) is: “You’ve got to pay to play,.”
But this flood of money and influence in our government makes for a decidedly uneven business playing field, as well as tainting and corrupting our government. Unfortunately, the trend is moving in the direction of allowing even more money to flood our politics, thanks to the Supreme Court. The absolutely necessary solution here is to bring honesty and transparency to our politics.
Learn more about my series of businesses and how to level the playing field in chapter six, "Make Congressmen Wear Nascar Patches" of " Rebooting the American Dream". (On Kindle too) |
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Pres. of Citizens United, David Bossie, says foreign money shouldn't influence US elections
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow urgently. Please help if you can. |
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