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Will we take the Republican road to ruin – or the Progressive road to prosperity?
 You need to know this. A budget isn't just numbers - it's a statement of morality and our values. And conservatives are showing their true colors. Republicans will likely vote on Paul Ryan’s budget this week, benefiting only the top 1% of Americans, that sells off Medicare to for-profit health insurance company leeches – hands an enormous tax cut to millionaires and billionaires – and sinks our nation deeper into debt – but that’s not stepping Progressives in the House from introducing their own budget – one that serves the other 99% of the American people.
The Progressive budget saves money by ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – ending taxpayers subsidies to transnational oil corporations – closing tax loopholes – raising the estate tax on the super rich – ending the bush tax cuts – and adding a surtax on millionaires in America. With that extra money – Progressives will invest in 1.45 trillion into job creation, green energy, and education, as well as create a public health insurance option. Unlike the Republican budget proposal – the Congressional Budget Office reports that the Progressive budget will eliminate our nation’s deficit entirely by 2040.
The choice for the American people couldn’t be any clearer with these two budgets – we can take the Republican road to ruin – or the Progressive road to prosperity?
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Battle of the budget (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Japan Now Admits: It's Chernobyl... and More radiation leaked 'than first thought'... plus Strontium found... With Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog - Beyond Nuclear.
Screwed: Battle of the budget With Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR, 4th District).
Playing dirty - New ChamberLeaks Presentation With Lee Fang, Reporter / Blogger - Think Progress.
Today is Equal Pay Day (Debate - Paycheck Fairness Act), Executive Director - The Independent Women's Forum With: - Carrie Lukas, executive director of the Independent Women's Forum. - Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President - National Women's Law Center.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Is their a legal case for the existence of God? With Vincent Bugliosi, Attorney/Author...latest book is "Divinity of Doubt: The God Question".
Daily Take: Donald Trump for President...you're fired!!!
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Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's " Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the coming weeks. Read the Chapter Four: The Boston Tea Party Revealed today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice" -- Dwight David Eisenhower.
Hour One: Billionaires are rewriting the history and the reality of America
Hour Two: It's "Equal Pay Day 2011" and Conservatives are once again fighting against the "paycheck fairness act"...what do they have against working women? Thom challenges Romina Boccia of The Independent Women's Forum...
Hour Three: Fukushima...Chernobyl redux? With Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear.
Three Mile Island...the real story With Mary Stamos, survivor.
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Coming up Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Two: "Urban Roots"...an important new film documents how Detroit is making a green comeback...
Hour Three: "Divinity of Doubt: The God Question"... Thom challenges renowned prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi about his new book...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Thom's Poll
Two budgets – Will we take the Republican road to ruin – or the Progressive road to prosperity?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
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Full Show - 4/11/11. The Government "Non" Shutdown
Thom debates on whether the failed government shutdown was a gain for Republicans or Democrats with Vice President of Americans for Prosperity, Phil Kerpen. Later in the daily take, he explains the differences in a conservative brain versus a liberal.
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