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The Unemployed Are Screwed
The first casualties of going over the so-called “fiscal cliff” will be more than two million unemployed Americans who depend on extended emergency unemployment benefits. While most of the negative effects of going off the cliff, like the tax hikes and spending cuts, won’t be felt until further out into the future, the expiration of unemployment benefits will be an immediate shock to millions of Americans and the economy. And they are set to expire on Saturday, meaning Republicans in the House will already miss the deadline to extend them, since Speaker of the House Jon Boehner is waiting until Sunday to reconvene the House.
The unemployed in America have no lobbyists like the defense contractors, and have no interest groups like the billionaire banksters – so it’s no wonder why they will be the first casualties in the fiscal cliff showdown. The tragic irony here is these unemployed Americans, when they are receiving unemployment benefits and spending money in our economy, are the real job creators – and not rich guys like Mitt Romney who stash their money in offshore bank accounts and refuse to reinvest in the American economy.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... The Big Picture Rumble (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
The Big Picture Rumble:- Neil McCabe, Human Events Online  - Marc Harrold, Libertarian Commentator / Attorney / Author  - Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
And if you miss it, catch it again on Monday.
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Shouldn't parents have the right to know which homes are gunowners' homes?- Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Angels & Host of the Curtis Sliwa Show on New York's AM970-The Answer
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Quote: "F. Scott Fitzgerald - "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. " by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Article: " 2nd Amendment". "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Article: " 3rd Amendment". " No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
Hour Two: Should the Westboro Baptist Church be labeled a hate group?
Geeky Science - Kindness Key to Happiness and Acceptance for Children
Hour Three: No more billionaires!- Neal Asbury, Entrepreneur & host of "Truth for America" / Author-Conscientious Equity
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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...
Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
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
Check out my rant after the Benghazi attacks..."At the end of the day, this isn't about Islam"...
Plus, my debate with conservative commentator Rich Miniter, author of "Leading From Behind" on "Egypt & Lybia...how did we get here?"
...as we leave 2012 behind...we'd like to wish all of you a very safe & happy New Year's Eve...and thank you for listening...from all of us at...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Please enjoy my rants..."Who Won the Black Friday Hunger Games?" AND "Is Grover Norquist an enemy of the state?"
Plus, my debate with atheist Damon Vix...Did the Grinch Steal Christmas 2012 from Santa Monica?
...as we begin 2013...we'd like to wish all of you a very healthy & happy New Year ahead...and thank you for listening...from all of us at...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Starting the New Year out right...what's for dinner? GMO Frankenfish or "restructured meat sandwich"...THIS is a choice? I'll challenge bioethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan...
Plus, no matter where we end up...above or below the fiscal cliff, we'll be here with all the latest details...
And, we'll have the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will Dems compromise too much to prevent the "fiscal cliff?”
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Watch & Listen to Thom
The Ruling Party of Billionaire-istan
Geeky Science - Want to know how to be "Happy?"
The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Gephyrophobically Ugly...
Japanese Conservatives Plan to Restart Nukes...
Corporate America has Messed with the Wrong People
Generals speak out on the War Profiteers & the Cliff"
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 12/27/12: GOP: the Ruling Party of Billionaire-istan
Thom asks former Lieutenant General Robert Gard why defense cuts aren't being discussed in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. Also discussed: a potential dockworkers strike on the east coast, Japan's reversal on ending their nuclear power program and Thom takes viewer phone calls in "Your Take, My Take Live." In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom details why even Republicans are fed up with their party of billionaires.
Thom Hartmann On The News - December 27, 2012
Caller Has Issues With Thom's Reading of The Constitution
3 Things You Need To Know About The Debt Ceiling
Caller: It's Not The Billionaires
Hartmann: Ban The Billionaires!
Thom vs. Neal Asbury: No More Billionaires!
Shouldn't Parents Know Which Neighbors Own Guns?
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