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Corporations are eating our commons
So-called Emergency Financial Managers in Michigan are selling off public schools to private charter school corporations – and laying off hundreds of public school teachers in the process. The “mini-dictators” who – appointed by Republican Governors – have unprecedented power to fire local elected officials, break union contracts, and sell off our commons to corporate interests have decided to eat alive the public school system in West Michigan and around the Detroit area. Study after study has shown that private, charter schools don't produce any better education results, but they do pay teachers less, have higher teacher turnovers, and - making Republicans happy - are union-free.
Meanwhile, across the pond in Greece, the rich are devouring the commons at a record rate. Greece's new coalition government is trying to speed up the sale of state-owned assets including utility companies, airports and railways, and 28 other state properties. Far left SYRIZA Party leader – Alexis Tsipras – who was left out of the coalition government, blasted the privatization plans, arguing that the move was like putting a giant “for sale sign” on his country and that the, “government will have to account for its actions, the looting of public goods.” It doesn’t matter where in the world you are, the Libertarian one-world ideology of billionaires running nations into the ground while impoverishing the working class is on the move.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... The Bigger Picture (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator 
Everything You Know is Wrong: Ex-Scientologist speaks out- Mark Ebner, Journalist / Author
Daily Take: How cities are fighting back against the big banks
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Does Rick Scott's TB cover-up prove we need a national healthcare system?- Peter Suderman, Reason Magazine
Hour Two: Will Obama get tax cuts for the middle class?- Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard 
Hour Three: Cities fight back against the big banks
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard." -- George McGovern.
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom 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... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
Hour Three: Fixing America's trade policies- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Video: " Rachel Maddow Show" 5 July 2012: Tough Talking Timidity: Romney's Mixed Message on China.
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: GOP to vote –again tomorrow– to repeal the Affordable Care Act- Chairman/Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY, 2nd District), Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Hour Two: Help working people...increase the minimum wage- Peter Ferrara, Carleson Center for Public Policy
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Thom's Poll
Will Obama get a 1-year extension of the Bush tax cuts for only Americans making less than $250,000/yr?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Rwanda has Better Health Care than America
Beyond Fukushima - When will we learn? Paul Gunter & Kevin Kamps P1
Beyond Fukushima - When will we learn? Paul Gunter & Kevin Kamps P2
The Big Picture Rumble: School vouchers for Christians but not Islamists?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 7/6/12: Beyond Fukushima
Thom talks the Fukushima disaster with Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear in a special extended discussion on this gravely important issue of nuclear power. Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses June's jobs numbers, the latest from the right on Obamacare and voter ID efforts in Pennsylvania. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at why the U.S. should follow Rwanda's health care plan.
Thom Hartmann on the News - Friday July 6, 2012
Thom Hartmann talks with Senator Sherrod Brown
Thom Hartmann - We have Illegal Employers NOT Illegal Immigrants
Brunch with Bernie - Friday July 6, 2012
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