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Austerity is taking hold of our nation
The Republican sequester is wreaking havoc on our economy. Yesterday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced a huge revision to previous estimates of economic growth. Initially, the BEA estimated our economy grew by 2.5 percent during the first three months of this year. Now they say our GDP only increased by 1.8 percent. The original growth estimate was already too low to provide much relief to our struggling economy, but the revised number shows we're now reversing our modest recovery.
It was Republicans who demanded huge spending cuts, and who pushed destructive austerity measures on our nation. However, that hasn't stopped the GOP from blaming President Obama for the decline in economic growth. House Speaker John Boehner is using the revised growth rate to criticize the President's economic policy, and to advocate for the GOP's plan to implement even more extreme austerity. Despite the fact that similar spending cuts have destroyed economies in the European nations of Spain, Greece, and Italy, Republicans refuse to accept that we can't cut our way to prosperity.
Millions of Americans are feeling the pain of cuts to healthcare, education, housing, and more, and they are angry that the GOP continues to play political games while our economy suffers. Americans want Republicans to spend less time on so-called scandals, and more time repairing the damage that their austerity measures have inflicted on our nation.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Robert Kennedy Jr. on Voting Rights Act (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Big Pharma wins, you lose- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio 
What marriage equality means to Rep. Mark Pocan- Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)
Plus, Who pays the price for sick employees?- David Laska, New York Republican State Committee
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Geeky Science: How the ocean breathes
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: SCOTUS & marriage equality...what you need to know- Yetta Kurland, Esq.-Kurland & Associates
Will DOMA be the beginning of the new civil war?
Quote: "A house divided against itself cannot stand" "A House Divided" " by Abraham Lincoln, June 17, 1858.
Today's Supreme Court decisions- Shane Farnan, Talk Radio News Service
Article: " 10th Amendment" " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
Hour Two: Hartmann vs. McNicoll..."big oil should pay for their own damn waste!"- Brian McNicoll, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Hour Three: Issa - "fool me once..."
Article: " 14th Amendment - Citizenship, Due Process Clause, Equal Protection. Quote: "It is well said in the old proverb,'a lie will go round the world while truth is putting its boots on'" by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Quote: "I have since deeply regretted the removal order and my own testimony advocating it" by Earl Warren (about Japanese-American internment).
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: What the Reagan Revolution has brought us...
Camping out for Coverage
- Andre Butler, banquet server / part of camp-out at the PA Capitol in support of expanded Medicaid coverage.
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Darrell Issa: "Fool me once..."
Crazy Alert! Winner! Sex in the air championship
Get Ready for a Chaotic Climate Future
Lone Liberal Rumble - Don't mess with Texas!
Lone Liberal Rumble - Scalia's extreme example of hypocrisy
Will DOMA be the beginning of the new civil war?
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Full Show 6/26/13: Scalia's Flip-Flop on Judicial Review
Thom talks with "The Nation's" John Nichols on the Supreme Court's decisions on gay marriage and the voting rights act. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses Justice Scalia's flip-flop on judicial review, Obama's climate change speech and an epic filibuster in Texas . In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom tells us why we need to stop getting fooled by Congressman Darrell Issa and his "scandals."
Thom Hartmann on the News: June 26, 2013
DOMA and Prop 8: A Personal Connection
SCOTUS & Marriage Equality: What you Need to Know
SCOTUS Shoots Down DOMA, Dismisses Prop 8
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