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Thom's blog
Do Republicans really want to turn us into Greece?
There are less than 20 days until the March 1st Sequester deadline. And Washington is gearing up for a major fight. If politicians can't come to a compromise, the looming $85 billion of Republican austerity is set to make devastating cuts to programs many Americans depend on. Despite non-defense spending being 14% lower than it has been in a half-century, deficit hawks in the Republican party want more austerity imposed on the working poor in our nation.
Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee estimate that additional cuts will have a devastating impact on food safety, aviation safety, early education, disaster relief, and law enforcement. And vital programs like WIC, which helps low-income women provide food for their infants and toddlers, may be forced to tell 600,000 women and children to go hungry.
In his weekly YouTube address over the weekend, President Obama again called on Congress to act now in order to avoid “deep, indiscriminate” cuts. He called out the Republicans directly saying, “they would rather ask more from the vast majority of Americans and put our recovery at risk, than close even a single tax loophole that benefits the wealthy.” Rather than working to avert the impending crisis, House Republicans like Speaker John Boehner are simply using it to attack our President...coining the ridiculous term “Obama-quester.”
No country, in the history of the world, has ever cut it's way to prosperity. We can only hope that Congress starts considering a smarter approach – like the Sanders-Schakowsky Corporate Tax Fairness Act – and prevent devastating austerity. Stay tuned.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Zieg Heil is again being chanted in Europe (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Zieg Heil is again being chanted in Europe- Professor Costas Panayotakis, New York City College of Technology at CUNY, author of “Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy”  - Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst / Author-"Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism" 
Screwed: Are Dorner’s actions the result of racism?- Maria Lloyd, Your Black World Network
Are Drones being used for the Dorner manhunt?- Amie Stepanovich, Electronic Privacy Information Center (E.P.I.C.)
The Best of the Rest...
What is "right to work" kryptonite?- VT State Senator Philip Baruth
Everything You Know is Wrong - How did radioactive metal get in your shopping bag? - Karen Charman, WhoWhatWhy.com
Daily Take: USPS...NBC get your facts right
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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 on Townhall Friday!
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: How MMT will save America...and the world!- Dr. Michael Hudson.
Hour Two: LOOKOUT! GOP now trying to nationalize right to work for less- Greg Mourad, National Right to Work Committee
Hour Three: USPS...NBC get your facts right
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
The President delivers the first State of the Union speech of his second term Tuesday night...what do you want to hear? We'll have a preview...
Plus, why some progressives think the President should channel LBJ...I'll have a conversation with Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America...
And, 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 gun nuts defend Christopher Dorner's actions?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
A New Manhattan Project - A lesson from Australia!
Will we prevent future monster storms?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 2/8/13: A New Manhattan Project
Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses our country's continued drone war, the massive increase of our prison population since 1980 and George W. Bush's strange self-portraits. Thom takes viewer phone calls in "Your Take, My Take Live," and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks to Australia where producing electricity from wind turbines is cheaper than from coal.
Thom Hartmann On The News: February 8, 2013
Why Milt Friedman's Ideas Don't Work
Brunch With Bernie: February 8, 2013
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