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Thom's blog
It pays to be a greedy CEO and screw over your workers
The AFL-CIO is out with their new Executive Pay Watch report – revealing that CEOs at Fortune 500 companies made on average $12 million each in 2011. They’re now getting paid 380-times more than their average worker. That’s a slight increase since 2010 – and a massive increase since 1980 – when, before Reaganomics, CEOs were paid only 42-times more than their average worker.
On top of that – CEO pay increased nearly 14% in 2011 – compared to a meager 2.8% increase in worker pay that same year. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer – creating the largest wealth inequality gap in America since right before the Stock Market crash of 1929. And rather than doing something about it – multi-millionaire Congressman Paul Ryan and the Republicans want to make wealth inequality even worse with a $3 trillion tax cut for the nation’s Romney-rich. We can’t afford to do that – in fact, we need to be doing just the opposite.
We need to roll back the Reagan tax cuts – and make the Romney-super rich pay their fair share in taxes again.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Chris Mooney, author of "The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Chris Mooney, author of four books, including his latest "The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality". His recent articles include pieces on the science of fracking, why people deny science, and how the reality-based community is moving to the left. He is the host of the "Point of Inquiry" podcast and his previous book was the bestselling, "The Republican War on Science". 
Daily Take: Is America becoming the old wild west?
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
Hour Three: The secret Mitt Romney...- Melanie N. Roussell, National Press Secretary for the Democratic National Committee
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present." -- Robert F. Kennedy (Address, Seattle World's Fair, August 7, 1962.)
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Two: Best of the Rest of the News
Quote: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." -- Hamlet (III, ii, 239)
Hour Three: The shocking truth behind BP settlement- Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter-BBC / Author of several books, latest "Vulture's Picnic"
Vermont votes against corporate personhood - David Cobb, Democracy Unlimited & Move to Amend
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
In for Thom, Democratic Strategist & Syndicated Columnist Karl Frisch
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"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!! (OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!)
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Thom's Poll
A secret cadre of rich people is buying our elections. Do you believe that we still have a democracy in the US?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
If the Government Shutdowns - Who Wins?
Sunday Morning Shows - Not fair & Very Unbalanced!
The Gulf 2 Years Later - Scientists Alarmed
Punctuated Equilibrium, The Gulf & Eyeless Shrimp
Murder, Suicide & Financial Ruin
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Angustirostratously Ugly!
How Music 'Awakens' Alzheimer's Patients
The Dem Party Doesn't Need Phony Dems
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 4/19/12: Obama Threatens to Shutdown Gov't
Thom talks with The Nation's John Nichols about Obama's threat to shut down the government if Republicans don't hold to the budget deal made last year. Also discussed: the two-year anniversary of the BP oil spill and whether we've yet to see the worst from it, how the foreclosure crisis is effecting our nation's children and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom talks about why he doesn't want any phony Democrats.
Thom Hartmann on the News-April 19, 2012
Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad giving to the Romney campaign?
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