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Thom's blog
Peter G. Peterson wants your Social Security money
Meet Wall Street billionaire – Pete Peterson – the man trying to destroy Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as we know it. According to tax documents – between 2007 and 2011 – Peterson has given nearly a half-billion dollars to his Peter. G. Peterson Foundation to run ads and lobby Congress warning that federal safety net programs are going broke and need to be drastically cut or privatized.
And last Tuesday – Peterson hosted a “fiscal summit” with power plays like Bill Clinton, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Paul Ryan, and John Boehner on reducing the deficit by cutting Social Security and Medicare. Senator Bernie Sanders was also at the meeting – though he wasn’t invited. He was there to protest - and we should all be doing the same to stop Pete Peterson from destroying our social safety net.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... How progressive Cory Booker took down Democracy (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: How progressive Cory Booker took down Democracy- Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com 
Screwed: The Rise of the New Economy Movement- Gar Alperovitz, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland / Historian / Political Economist 
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Something Stinks: John Edwards and a Thirty Year Jail Term? - Mike Papantonio, Attorney/Host-Ring of Fire Radio
Daily Take: Will the soft peddle take down of Obama work?
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm
Hour One: How Progressive Cory Booker sold out Democracy
Hour Two: Will the soft peddle take down of Obama work?
Hour Three: End the Federal Crackdown on Medical Marijuana- Mike Riggs, Reason Magazine
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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Monday's Daily Stack 
Syndicated columnist & Democratic strategist Karl Frisch in for Thom today...
Hour One: Gay Marriage, The Republican Love Affair With the Past- Tina Dupuy, Crooks & Liars
Hour Two: The haunting of Mitt Romney- Adam Green, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
Hour Three: NAACP endorses marriage equality- Jerame Davis, Stonewall Democrats
2012 elections- Bill Press, The Bill Press Show...
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Thom's Poll
The OECD warns of a “severe recession” for the Eurozone in 2012. Do you feel that the worst is yet to come for the US Economy?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Full Show 5/21/12: NATO Comes to Chicago and Protests and Arrests Take Place
Thom was off on Monday, but Guest Host Sam Sacks discussed the protests in Chicago at the NATO Summit and the treatment of the media trying to cover the event. Sam also hosted a Monday rumble that covered the topics of The Paul Ryan Budget and Donald Trump's Reverend Wright advice to Mitt Romney
Thom Hartmann on the News - May 21, 2012
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