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Republicans just tipped their hand...
They’re going to use the debt ceiling to hold senior citizens on Medicare hostage. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, prominent Senate Republican Bob Corker said Republicans plan to use the upcoming debt ceiling debate as leverage to force cuts to insurance programs like Medicare. Corker said, “The Republicans know they have the debt ceiling…The leverage is going to shift, to our side where hopefully we’ll do the same thing we did last time, and that is if the president wants to raise the debt limit by $2 trillion we get $2 trillion in spending reduction, and hopefully, this time it will be mostly oriented towards entitlement.”
Republicans have been purposefully misleading the American people about what the debt ceiling is – claiming that by raising it the President will have unlimited money to continue spending. In reality, raising the debt limit just gives the US Treasury the authority to pay off the debts that the nation has already racked up, like Bush’s two wars and his Medicare Part D prescription drug program, which were never paid for.
The debt-limit is about paying off the nation’s credit card; not spending more money on that credit card. By using the debt-limit as a political tool, Republicans are questioning the credit of the United States, and threatening to turn us into a dead-beat nation.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Will America soon be just like China in wages? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Will America soon be just like China in wages?- Cindy Estrada, United Auto Workers (UAW)  - Ryan Johnson, Parole & Probation Officer-State of Michigan - Josh Eidelson, The Nation, Salon and In These Times
Screwed: Occupy free education...- Victoria Sobel, student/activist-Cooper Union
What's the legal limit for driving while stoned?- Steve Sarich, Cannabis Action Coalition, WA State.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Were over 9 million voters suppressed on election day...- Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter-BBC News & The Guardian / Author "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps"
Everything You Know is Wrong: Why men go to strip clubs...- Jennifer Ward, Kinkly
Daily Take: Is public school going the way of public housing...
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Friday's Daily Stack 
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 Friday - co-hosting with Thom for the hour- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Three: Walmart's "death vs. profitability" calculation
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Is an evolutionary change coming from global warming?
Hour Two: Is the white race an endangered species?- Matthew Heimbach, White Student Union
Hour Three: Is public school going the way of public housing?
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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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
GOP's war on the poor is ramping up again as Republican run states play scrooge...want your welfare check? Pee in a cup... I'll challenge conservative Jamie Weinstein of The Daily Caller
Plus, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
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Thom's Poll
Will the GOP demand Medicare cuts to raise the debt ceiling?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Was the Bangladesh Factory FIre Caused by a Cost-Benefit Analysis?
Conversations w/Great Minds - Chrystia Freeland - Are Liberals Persuasive Enough? Part 1
Conversations w/Great Minds - Chrystia Freeland - The Time America Grew Together Part2
Big Picture Rumble - How does everyone prefer their pot? Brownie? Hookah?
Big Picture Rumble - Who's rights are more important - shareholders or workers?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 12/7/12: Walmart: Profits Over Lives
In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with veteran journalist Chrystia Freeland, author of the new book "Plutocrats." Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses Michigan becoming a right-to-work (for less) state, November's positive job numbers and Senator Demint leaving the Senate for The Heritage Foundation. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at how corporate America's cost-benefit analysis is killing us.
Thom Hartmann on the News - December 7, 2012
Brunch with Bernie - December 7, 2012
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