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The US is not the wealthiest nation on the planet
America likes to think of itself as the richest nation on the planet, and looking strictly at total combined wealth, it is. But that’s only because there are a heck of a lot of billionaires living here. But looking at median wealth, or how much Americans in the middle are making, the United States doesn’t even crack the top ten in the world.
According to a new report by Credit Suisse, 15 OECD nations have a higher median wealth than the United States. That includes nations like Australia, Japan, and Israel. It also includes European nations that are in crisis like the Spain, Italy, and Ireland. That’s because over the thirty years since we embraced Reaganomics – the middle class in America has been devastated. We’re not the wealthiest nation on the planet anymore – we just have the most Romney-rich.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Bain Capital...born with blood money? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Bain Capital...born with blood money?
Need to Know: The dark side of Bain...- Mike Papantonio, Attorney, Host, Ring of Fire Radio 
Screwed: We're #1...NOT!
GOP's catch 22...raise taxes or cut defense spending?- David Selig, Federal Tax Practitioner.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Record high temps...record high food prices- Robert Engelman, World Watch Institute 
Geeky Science Rocks: Where do animals get their magnetic sense from?
Daily Take: Talking back to Antonin Scalia...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: We're #1...NOT!- Logan Clements, Filmmaker & CEO-Freestar Media / Objectivist
Hour Two: Business, you can't do it alone...- Mark Williams, Conservative Commentator & Author / Former Chair-Tea Party Express
Geeky Science Rocks: Where DO animals get their magnetic sense?
Hour Three: Talking back to Antonin Scalia...
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 
Hour One: How to marry a millionaire...corporation
King County, WA issues marriage license to corporate person- Angela Marie Vogel, "Bride" of the corporation / Activist-Envision Seattle
Article: " 13th Amendment", 1865, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Article: " 15th Amendment", 1870, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude--" 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 Two: Term limits...what we need to help fix congress?- Robin Fawsett, Management Labor & Employment law partner (Shutts & Bowen LLP) / author, American Manifesto
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8: The Congress shall have Power ... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes...
Quote: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it" by Frederic Bastiat. Quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." by John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Thom's Poll
Will Congress reverse the automatic defense spending cuts
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Watch & Listen to Thom
The Republican Lie about the Self-Made Myth
The Good, The Bad, and the Very, Very Hippomaniacally Ugly
Meet 1 Family w/More Wealth than 40% of America
Bain Off-shoring Victims Beg Romney for Help
How to Marry a Corporation
Lone Liberal Rumble - What is Romney Hiding?
Or Watch the Full Show
Full Show 7/18/12: The Self-Made Man Myth
Thom discusses how no one makes it on their own, that government always plays a role in our successes. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses the call from all sides for Romney to release his tax returns, who came first, Bane the Batman character or Bain Capital and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom tells the heartfelt story of Angela Vogel and her recent marriage to a corporation.
Thom Hartmann on the News - July 18, 2012
Earners and Takers - Our Two-Class Income System
How to marry a corporate "person"
Here comes the "bride"... Mrs. Angela Vogel-incorporated
LIBOR: Are banksters on the brink of real reform?
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