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Our crumbling infrastructure & long commutes
Our public transportation system is failing low-income workers. According to a new study by the Brookings Institute – only a quarter of Americans can get to their job within 90 minutes using public transportation. For a lot of Americans who can’t afford a car – or the gas to commute the average 13 miles it takes for the typical American to get to work – then public transportation is their only option. But that means long, exhausting commutes.
The study goes on to recommend that it’s, “critical then for the nation to focus on smart transit investments.” That means spending federal money on infrastructure – something that Republicans in Congress have absolutely refused to do, despite the fact that America currently has a $2 trillion infrastructure deficit – meaning we need at least $2 trillion worth of repairs just to get everything up-to-date.
Considering there’s roughly 15 million American unemployed or underemployed – it’s good policy to put them back to work rebuilding our roads, bridges, and rails. That is unless Republicans REALLY believe that a deteriorating 20th century infrastructure will keep America competitive in the 21st century global marketplace.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Romney caught lying again (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Romney caught lying again- Mike Papantonio, Attorney, Host, Ring of Fire Radio 
Citizens United on steroids...- David Cobb, Democracy Unlimited & Move to Amend 
Screwed: Should we recapture capitalism?- Professor Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago Booth School of Business / author, "A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity"
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Geeky Science When it comes to your brain & altruism...size DOES matter
Daily Take: Republicans should give up their charter...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Latest on the battle for democracy in Michigan- Rev. D. Alexander Bullock, Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Hour Two: Fighting Citizens United in Ohio- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Will R.I.'s "disclosure act" keep them out?- Dan Gainor, Business and Media Institute
Hour Three: Walker Recall...were WI voting machines tampered with?- Adam Porton, Wisconsin Wave
Geeky Science Rocks When it comes to your brain & altruism...size DOES matter
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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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...
Plus, It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...you choose the topics and we'll talk...
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people." -- James Monroe.
Hour One: House repealing Obamacare...creating wage slavery?
Hour Two: Put an end to all Billionaires!- Tanya Marchiol, Conservative Commentator / President-Team Investments Inc.
Hour Three: Put an end to all Billionaires!
Article: Tax Cuts: The B.S. and the Facts by Larry Beinhart. Large income tax cuts are followed by a bubble and then a crash.
Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Speech: " Cross of Iron" - Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16,1953.
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Thom's Poll
Is your commute to & from work longer, or more difficult, than it should be?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Repealing Obamacare...creating wage slavery?
Tax breaks for 10 years...where are the jobs?
The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Chaetiferously Ugly!
America on Fire Sale for Foreign Corporations
The No Billionaires Campaign
Lone Liberal Rumble - Socialists, Poll Taxes & Climate Change
Or Watch the Full Show
Full Show 7/11/12: House Repeals Obamacare (again)
Thom discusses the House's latest repeal of Obamacare with tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel. Also discussed: where Romney's money comes from, whether voter ID laws are the new poll tax and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom calls for the end of billionaires.
Thom Hartmann On the News - July 11, 2012
Thom Vs. Tanya Marchiol - Put an end to all Billionaires!
30 years after Reaganomics - Are you better off?
Hartmann - No more billionaires!
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