America’s biggest transnational corporations have a secret they don’t want you to know about. Arguing that they’ll create jobs in the United States if they just get massive tax breaks – many transnational corporations are refusing to release just how many jobs they have ALREADY created in the United States – and how many jobs they’ve created overseas - over fears that if the American people saw just how much outsourcing they’ve been doing – then they’d miss out on their tax breaks.

When it comes time to report hiring to government statisticians – these transnational do so under anonymity – under the promise that only the aggregate amount of job creation numbers will be released – and not job creation on a company-by-company basis. That aggregate number is troubling in itself – between 2000 and 2009 – transnational corporations cut 2.9 million jobs here at home – and hired 2.4 million workers overseas. And since lawmakers can’t figure out which company is ACTUALLY creating jobs here in American and which ones aren’t – then it’s impossible to determine which should get tax cuts.

To make matters worse – the guy heading President Obama’s job creation council – GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt – is one of the biggest job outsourcers around with over half of his workforce made up of foreign workers. The real problem here is that our lawmakers for almost two decades have been drinking the so-called Free Trade kool aid – and it’s destroying our economy.

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Quote: "The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945).

Hour One: Latest on the war on democracy...deregulation Lee Fang, Think Progress

Article: "Businessman Behind Effort To Dismantle Health Care Hints At Campaign Against Federal Banking Regulation" by Lee Fang.

Article: "NH Sponsor Of Minimum Wage Restriction Law: Young People Are ‘Not Worth The Minimum’" by Lee Fang.

Article: "KBR Wants Former Employee Who Sued Over Rape To Pay Them $2M" by Ryan J. Reilly.

Article: "Judge Orders Dismissal of Charges Against Strauss-Kahn" by John Eligon.

Article: "Things To Expect In Jail: Some Notes For Peaceful Protesters" by Crane-Station.

Article: "DNC launching campaign to extend temporary payroll tax cut" by Jed Lewison.

Article: "Spitzer Sued For Libel Over Column On Insurance Firm's Alleged Kickbacks" by Jillian Rayfield.

Article: "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)".

Article: "McKibben released from jail after White House protest" by Kevin O'Connor.

Hour Two: As the war on labor continues, AFSCME remembers the legacy of MLK Lee Saunders, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

Article: "AFSCME Co-Chairs August March for Jobs and Justice" by Clyde Weiss.

Article: "A Dream Fulfilled, Martin Luther King Memorial Opens" by Sabrina Tavernise.

Article: "Libyan rebels storm Gadhafi compound" by AP.

Clip: "Dank Ihrer Führung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt." Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremburg rally.

Book: "We the People: A Call to Take Back America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Myth of National Victimhood - All Wrapped and Delivered for Christmas" by Thom Hartmann.

Talk Radio News Segment: Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "Obama, Sarkozy speak about Libya" by UPI.

Article: "Libya and Beyond: How Did We Get There and What Happens Next?" by Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

Article: "Regulatory Cuts To Yield Billions In Savings, Says White House" by Geoff Holtzman.

Article: "Earthquake Hits DC" by Elianna Mintz.

Article: "Romney To Unveil His Own Jobs Plan" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "POLL: Stabenow leads Hoekstra, Michigan on wrong track" by Chuck Stokes.

Article: "Obama to visit Detroit for Labor Day, address unions" by David Shepardson.

Article: "Report: 60 percent of House members not holding town halls this summer" by Felicia Sonmez.

Article: "In South Sudan, the strength to overcome a painful past" by Michael Gerson. Ker is being operated upon tomorrow.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Hour Three: How different the U.K. riots would have been if Brits were armed with guns instead of bats Jan LaRue, American Civil Rights Union (ACRU)

Article: "Bat's the Way It Is for Unarmed Britons" by Jan LaRue.

Article: "Earthquake map shows epicenter in central Virginia".

Book: "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Site: "The Equality Trust".

Site: "John Lott".

Site: "350.org".

The good: "Ben Stein destroys O’Reilly’s ‘Talking Points’ on taxes" by .David Edwards

The bad: "Romney Attacks Obama For Releasing Jobs Plan Too Late, Then Announces He’ll Unveil His Plan Same Day" by Marie Diamond.

The very, very ugly: "NH Sponsor Of Minimum Wage Restriction Law: Young People Are ‘Not Worth The Minimum’" by Lee Fang.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Make Members of Congress Wear NASCAR Patches" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Corporations pushing for job-creation tax breaks shield U.S.-vs.-abroad hiring data" by Jia Lynn Yang.

Article: "Facing Deadline, Kasich Refuses Millions In Unemployment Funds Because Expanding Benefits ‘Makes No Sense’" by Tanya Somanader.

Article: "Rebels hunt for Gadhafi after lightning takeover of Tripoli" by Sandro Contenta.

Article: "On Food Safety, a Long List but Little Money" by William Neuman.

Crazy alert: "PETA plans to launch a porn site" by Chenda Ngak.

Hour Two: Clarence & Virginia Thomas Jeffrey Toobin

Hour Three: It's not even September yet and Conservatives are already out revising their push for a balanced budget amendment Thom confronts Ken Klukowski of Pass the BBA...

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