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Thom's blog
Stop the economic terrorists!
President Obama is negotiating with economic terrorists. And a new Reuters report shows he's giving in to their demands by offering cuts to our social safety net. In calls with lawmakers over the weekend, Obama said he will cut programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in exchange for a so-called compromise to replace the sequester, as long as Republicans agree to more tax increases.
This is not a compromise. The Republicans have held our economy hostage, and pushed their austerity measures, so they could force Obama's hand in the budget debate. Because of the GOP's economic terrorism, and refusal to end tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, our nation will face cuts to programs many of use depend on.
A new report from Alternet lists several of the most devastating cuts we now face, like a $199 million cut to public housing, a $633 million cut from Special Education programs, and nearly a $1 billion cut to FEMA disaster relief. And now Obama offers more cuts in hopes that Republicans will negotiate? This is insane. We shouldn't have allowed these cuts in the first place.
No nation, in the history of the world, has ever cut it's way to prosperity, but apparently Congress and the President think somehow austerity will be successful now. We need to band together and fight back against these Republican austerity measures, and against the Administration's purposed cuts to our vital social safety net.
Let's remind them they work for us. Call Congress and the White House and tell them to stop the economic terrorism now.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Swiss ko fatcats...ok paycuts, will we? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Swiss ko fatcats...ok paycuts, will we?- David Williams, Taxpayer Protection Alliance 
Screwed: Slut shaming exposed...- Sam Bennett, Women's Campaign Fund & She Should Run
The Best of the Rest...
The Millennial Generation Exposed- David Burstein, "Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World"
Daily Take: Dead fish, Banksters and the Sherman Act...oh my!
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: March for Civil Rights and Justice for Don Siegelman- Dana Siegelman, Daughter of former AL Governor Don Siegelman / Activist.
Book: " Truman" by David McCullough.
Hour Two: 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.
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: Swiss ko fatcats...ok paycuts...will we?
Sequester...you ain't seen nothin' yet- Elliot Richardson, Small Business Advocacy Council-Chicago, IL
Hour Two: Dead fish, Banksters and the Sherman Act...
Hour Three: Time to ban "Big Sugar?"- Julie Gunlock, Women for Food Freedom Project / Independent Women's Forum
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
Taking the mystery out of money...I'll be talking with Economist & Professor Dr. L. Randall Wray, of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri–KC and the author of "Modern Money Theory"...
Plus, 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
Can we limit corporate executive pay like the Swiss & the EU?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
When to Tax and When to Spend...
Conversations with Great Minds - Susan P. Crawford - Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age P1
Conversations with Great Minds - Susan P. Crawford - Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age P2
Rumble - liberals & conservatives agree - break up the big banks!
Rumble - Sequester wouldn't happen w/more women in politics
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 3/1/13: Welcome to American Austerity
Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses the sequester/austerity cuts that will start going into effect at the end of the day, whether The Voting Rights Act will be struck down and how Sherrod Brown and David Vitter are teaming up to break up the big banks. In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with author Susan Crawford about her new book, "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age," and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains how to know when to tax and when to spend.
Thom Hartmann on The News: March 1, 2013
President Obama Could Learn From Harry Truman
Remembering 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma
Obama: I Can't Perform a Jedi Mind Meld
Brunch with Bernie: March 1, 2013
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