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According to Republicans, the sequester will be no big deal.
With the sequester deadline only a week away and Congress no closer to reaching a deal to prevent austerity, Republicans are changing tactics. They've spent the last month blaming President Obama for the looming cuts, but Americans didn't buy it, so now they're saying the sequester is really no big deal. A recent Pew Research poll shows that far more Americans blame Republicans for their failure to prevent impending austerity – despite the GOP's best efforts to shift the blame for this Congressionally-manufactured disaster to the President.
So now Senators, like Rand Paul of Kentucky, are saying the sequester is a mere “pittance” and “will be in some ways a yawn.” And Fox so-called News host Sean Hannity is there to help spread the propaganda. On a recent show, Hannity said the Republican austerity won't leave the country in dire straits, and that “the president's out there, he's using scare tactics and he's scaring seniors and teachers and first responders.” Well, Sean, people are worried, and they should be.
The Republican austerity debacle that begins March 1st means that 600,000 women and children will lose WIC nutrition aid. The cuts also mean 4 million fewer meals on wheels to seniors, and 30,000 kids will be denied affordable child care. And these cuts mean over 1 million Americans will lose their job. These are real people, who will face real pain, because Republicans refuse to end tax breaks for big corporations and billionaires.
We won't fall for this ridiculous Republican spin blaming President Obama for the sequester. And when sequester cuts effect our daily lives in real and substantial ways, all the empty rhetoric in the world won't save Republicans or the billionaires they're trying to protect. Sooner or later, the rich and the corporate elite will have to pay their fair share in our nation.
We can start by making it a crime to hoard huge sums of cash... outlaw the billionaires. Go to NoBillionaires.com.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Eyal Press, "Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Eyal Press, "Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times" 
Daily Take: Time for a draft for men...and women
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Fox News: 5 against 1...?- John Fugelsang, Actor, Comedian & host-Viewpoint on Current TV
Quote: "I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality" by George Washington.
Article: " Matthew 5:17: Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them".
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Quote: "A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' " - William F. Buckley.
Hour Two: Profits up, pay down and no raise for you...what's wrong with this picture?- Harry Veryser, Professor of Economics-University of Detroit Mercy / Author-It Didn't Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust is Unnecessary -- and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle
Hour Three: Will the Supreme Court dismantle our vote?- Myrna Perez, Senior Counsel-The Brennan Center
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, Jobs & Democrats' plan to avoid sequestration- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Hour Two: Conversation w/the President re: Sequestration & Voting Rights Act- Joe Madison, Host-The Joe Madison Show
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
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"...
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the latest on the approaching sequester deadline along with all the important news & information from the weekend...
Plus, more on Modern Monetary Theory and how it can save America & possibly the world...I'll have a conversation with economist, Dr. Stephanie Kelton...
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
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Thom's Poll
Will Congress reach a last-minute deal to avoid the sequester?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
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Thom talks with Journalist Mark Ames on the history of our government's assassination programs. Attorney and Radio Host Mike Papantonio and Radio Host Mark Riley join Thom to discuss the upcoming voting rights cases the Supreme Court will hear, and Libertarian Austin Petersen discusses the civil war going on within the Republican party. Thom takes viewer phone calls in "Your Take, My Take Live," and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom details how we should ignore the sequester and focus on the real issue facing our nation: wealth inequality.
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Talking To Those Who Disagreee With You
Fox News: 5 against 1?
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