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Ignoring the lessons in Europe...
The United States is set to jump into an austerity economic death spiral this year. Already – thanks to Republican hostage scenarios forcing deep spending cuts, the United States is set to swallow $348 billion in austerity measures in 2013. That includes $200 billion in spending cuts and an additional $125 billion from the expiration of the payroll tax cut. These austerity measures total 2.1% of our national GDP – which is more austerity than most nations in Europe have endured thus far – including the UK, France, and Spain. This month, we learned that thanks to austerity, the UK is now in a double-dip recession. And Spain, which has been choking on austerity for a year, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe of 26.2%.
Austerity sucks money out of the hands of working people, so that rich people don’t have to pay their fair share for deficit reduction and economic growth. And since working people are the real job creators – and not rich people – then austerity kills economies. All austerity has done to the Eurozone is push it closer and closer to collapse – and it will do the same thing to the United States. And considering that a new so-called fiscal cliff looms two months from now – and Republicans, as well as President Obama, are pushing for more spending cuts and more austerity – our nation could be facing a tumultuous 2013.
Today is the first day of the new Congress -- and we all have to get active and convince our lawmakers to abandon this psychotic thinking that we can cut our way to prosperity. It’s never happened before anytime in the history of the planet. We need stimulus spending – not austerity gutting.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... 2013 - extreme austerity here we come (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: 2013 - extreme austerity here we come
Need to Know: Dennis Kucinich...what are "new politics?"- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH, outgoing) 
Screwed: Do we need armed teachers?- Neil McCabe, Human Events Online 
The Best of the Rest of the News...
YOUR TAKE / MY TAKE LIVE
Geeky Science Rocks - Hitting streaks in baseball may be contagious
Daily Take: The case against billionaires...
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." -- Benjamin Franklin.
Hour One: Django - Tarantino tells the South to screw itself
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Two: Is ‘Frankenfish’ far less scary than fast food?- Dr. Arthur Caplan, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center / Author
Hour Three: Will filibuster reform cause the Democrats to lose the House in 2014?
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: The case against billionaires- Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Manhattan Institute, former Chief Economist of the U.S. Dept of Labor
Hour Two: Do we need armed teachers?- Noel Flasterstein, Attorney & host-The Gun Show
Geeky Science - Hitting streaks in baseball may be contagious
Hour Three: 2013 - extreme austerity here we come
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 it's our first "Brunch With Bernie" of 2013! America's Senator...Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here talking about all the important issues of the week and he'll be answering your questions too...
Plus, it's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...what's on your mind this week?
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
Will new GOP austerity measures put U.S. back into recession?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
The Battle for 2014 Begins on Day One in the Senate
Django - Tarantino Tells the South "F You"
Are We Ignoring a Return to the Dust Bowl?
Environmentalists in the Arctic, "I told you so."
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Batrachoidously Ugly!
Lone Liberal Rumble - Are corporations allowed to have their own religious beliefs?
Lone Liberal Rumble - Stop playing games with America's credit worthiness!
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 1/2/13: End the Filibuster!
Thom details how the "fiscal cliff" deal is bad for everyone except millionaires and billionaires. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses the "fiscal cliff" deal, what's happening with the aid for Sandy victims and whether lawmakers will act to try and prevent another Newtown tragedy. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom calls on Harry Reid to end the filibuster.
Thom Hartmann on the News - January 2, 2013
Caller: I've Experienced Racism Firsthand
Django Unchained To The South: Go Screw Yourself!
Caller: GMO's Are Like Opening Pandora's Box
Is 'Frankenfish' Less Scary Than Fast Food?
Fixing The Filibuster
Caller: Disgusted With Obama's Handling of Fiscal Cliff
Just Who Won The Fiscal Cliff Fight?
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