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Nothing Short of Theft
The days of guaranteed retirement benefit in the form of a pension are long gone. As numbers out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics show – defined benefit retirement pension are on a drastic decline since 1981. That was the year when over 80% of full-time workers in the private sector participated in a pension plan. By 1997, that number had plummeted to just over 50%. And by 2011, looking at all workers in all private businesses in America, fewer than 20% of workers have some sort of pension retirement plan.
This translates into economic insecurity for seniors – especially now that Republicans in the House are trying to turn Social Security and Medicare over to private sector profiteers. This also adds to the growing list of things that Corporate America is taking from their workers, in its quest for higher and higher profits.
In recent months – we’ve seen employers promise to reduce hours to avoid providing health insurance, we’ve seen the right to free political speech taken away, guaranteed vacation time and maternity leave don’t exist – workplace safety laws are getting watered down – heck, they’ve even taken our money by flattening our wages during a time of increased productivity. In some states, they even want to take away our bathroom breaks!
This is nothing short of theft. And pretty soon, we’ll be handing over the shirts on our backs, just so that our bosses can squeeze whatever profits they can out of them.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... The corporate war against "we the people" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: The corporate war against "we the people"- Dr. Michael Hudson, Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET) & Author, "Trade, Development and Foreign Debt"
Screwed: Do you want "Dirty Harry" outside your school with a gun?- Sheriff Richard Mack 
The Best of the Rest...
YOUR TAKE / MY TAKE LIVE
Geeky Science- Depressed? Could be your beverage of choice...
Daily Take: Shouldn't we get a check for the wealth of our nation?
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Should Senator Feinstein be tried for treason?- Alex Jones, Host-The Alex Jones Show
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8. " The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States". Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 7: All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills...
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."
Hour Two: Should we ban plastic water bottles?- Brian Dunning, Science Writer / Host & Producer-Skeptoid
Hour Three: KBR - Guilty in Iraq Negligence- Mike Papantonio, Attorney, co-host, Ring of Fire Radio
Ma biz/baby biz...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Do you really want Dirty Harry standing outside your school with a gun?- Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sheriff-Maricopa County
Should the names of legal gun owners be published in the newspaper?- Noel Flasterstein, Attorney & host-The Gun Show.
Hour Two: Sandy Hook tragedy...fact or fiction?- Dr. James Tracy, Professor-Media history and analysis, political economy of communication
Geeky Science Rocks - Depressed? Could be your beverage of choice... (Soda Consumption Linked With Higher Depression Risk In Study (And The Opposite Goes For Coffee).
Hour Three: Why don't Republicans pay their bills?- Lance Roberts, Chief Strategist-Street Talk Advisers
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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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's Friday and that means it's "Brunch With Bernie"...America's Senator...Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here talking about the important issues of the week and he'll be taking your calls too...
Plus, it's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...what do you want to talk about?
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
Should armed volunteers be allowed to "guard" schools?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Lone Liberal Rumble - Are more states ditching the death penalty?
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Paratonicously Ugly!
Lone Liberal Rumble - How is an assault weapon ban treason?
Is KBR Guilty in Iraq Negligence?
It's Time to Break up Ma-Biz into Baby-Biz
Should We Give Up on the Constitution?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 1/9/13: A Whale in a Fish Tank is a Bad Idea
Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses how Governor Rick Scott is using his state's poor as pawns in his political game, if anything positive will come out of Biden's meeting with the gun lobby and what two states are doing to try and get rid of the death penalty. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom describes how corporate America is like a whale in a fish tank.
Thom Hartmann on the News - January 9, 2013
Corporate America: A Whale in a Fish Tank
KBR: Guilty in Iraq Negligence
No Sound Science on Chemicals in Plastic
Diane Feinstein should be charged for treason
Does NRCC Know How Government Works?
Will We Become a Nation of Part-Time Workers?
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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