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Meet the New Republican Plan to Create Jobs – George W. Bush, Recycled
Falling behind in the polls – Mitt Romney is expected to lay out his plan for job creation today at an event in Nevada. And like all the other plans put forward by his colleagues on the right – Romney’s job creation plan sounds more like a Christmas list for millionaires, billionaires and transnational corporations, and less like an effective way to get Americans back to work.
The plan is complete with massive tax breaks for US-based corporations - which already pay the second lowest taxes as a percent of GDP in the entire developed world – and are today sitting on more than two trillion dollars in cash and not hiring anyone. Romney will also call for the elimination of the Capital Gains tax so that trust-fund babies like Paris Hilton and Wall Street speculators can get a free ride in American while just sitting on their butts by the pool collecting dividend checks. And of course – Romney will take aim at bringing down those pesky federal regulations that make sure the air we breathe, food we eat, and water we drink are safe. That’s also what House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said are the priorities of House Republicans, as Members of Congress head back to Washington, DC and Republicans begin their assault on the EPA.
So, meet the new Republican plan to create jobs – George W. Bush, recycled.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Destroying the Postal Service in Order to Save It? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Destroying the Postal Service in Order to Save It? - Chuck Zlatkin, NY Metro Area Postal Union 
Screwed: Privatized prisons...criminal in a democracy - Cliff Schecter, Libertas, LLC
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Has Fukushima poisoned North-West Japan? - Dr. Helen Caldicott, The Helen Caldicott Foundation/NuclearFreePlanet.org
Daily Take: Is it time for an American Spring?
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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 Chapter 15: Unequal Taxes and Chapter 16: Unequal Responsibility for Crime today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under." -- Harry Bridges (Australian-American union leader - International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)).
Hour One: Standing up for working Americans James Hoffa, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny" Speech before the 1936 Democratic National Convention, Franklin D Roosevelt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.
Hour Two: Fighting back against Citizens United one community at a time Tom Linzey, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
Hour Three: The GOP War on Voting Ari Berman, Rolling Stone Magazine
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Coming up Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Two: It's raining...jobs plans?! Earnest Istook, Former Congressman (R-OK) & Distinguished Scholar - Heritage Foundation
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program... your media support group for we the people.
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Thom's Poll
Will the Republicans get what they want & U.S. Post Office be Privatized?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations w/ Great Minds - Dr. David Graeber Debt: The 1st 5000 years P1
Conversations w/ Great Minds - Dr. David Graeber Debt: The 1st 5000 years P2
The Big Picture Rumble
Hartmann: A French Revolution on Corps - off with their Corporate Heads!
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show
Full Show - 9/2/11. Conversations with Great Minds & The Weekly Rumble
Anthropologist and author, Dr. David Graeber joins Thom for the first half hour in "Conversations with Great Minds." They discuss his latest book "Debt: The First 5,000 Years", which chronicles how the concepts of debt and credit have defined human history and what this means for America's current credit crisis and the future of the economy. Later, Thom talks about the recent jobs report in the weekly rumble.
Thom Hartmann on the News - September 06, 2011
Thom Hartmann and James Hoffa - Pushing back on the war on democracy
Thom Hartmann & Tom Linzey - Fighting back against Citizens United one community at a time
Thom Hartmann & Ari Berman - "The GOP War on Voting"
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