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It's time to outlaw billionaires!
Welcome to America, where half the nation lives right on the razor’s edge. A shocking new report out of the Corporation for Enterprise Development, finds that 44% of Americans are just one financial shock away from complete ruin. Nearly half the nation doesn’t have enough savings to keep them out of poverty for more than 3 months, should they suffer a job loss, an accident, a sickness, or other financial shock.
Another recent study out of the Consumer Federation of American, found that 40% of all American households live paycheck-to-paycheck, with virtually no savings. This is what’s become of the once valued American middle class, after thirty years of trickle-down Reaganomics. And it’s the main reason why are economy continues to falter – our nation's working people and consumers don’t have enough money to spend.
Let’s roll back the Reagan tax cuts – put in place a new wealth tax on everyone making over a billion dollars and redistribute some of that wealth down to working people, who will actually spend it. Go to NoBillionaires.com.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... End Poverty...by ending billionaire-ism? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: End Poverty...by ending billionaire-ism? - Austin Petersen, FreedomWorks 
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: We have a showdown on guns today in Congress
Event: " GATE 3" - Saturday 2/1 from 6:30 PM-11:30 PM at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, CA featuring Thom Hartmann and more! Event: In Los Angeles at the Steve Allen Theater, KPFK welcomes Thom Hartmann in person, Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 2pm at the Los Angeles Press Club 4773 Hollywood Blvd., L.A. CA 90027.
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8." ... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; ..."
Hour Two: Conservatives say, "after guns, your savings is next"- Lowell Ponte, Futurist w/Swiss America Trading Co. & co-author (w/Craig Smith) "The Great Debasement".
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 Three: What did slave patrols have to do with the 2nd Amendment?- Dr. Junius P. Rodriguez, Professor of History-Eureka College, Eureka, IL
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8: ...To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;...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"
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: the state of healthcare- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Some families to be priced out of health overhaul- Ron Pollock, Families USA
Los Angeles One Step Closer to Citizen United Ballot Measure- Bob Edgar, Common Cause
Hour Two: So...what's wrong with a little socialism?- Dan Weber, Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)
Hour Three: Debt Ceiling Games—Court Could End Leverage- Bob Weiner, Democratic Strategist.
Cover Missouri...expanding coverage to the uninsured- James Kimmey, MD, Missouri Foundation for Health
Dying for Coverage: The Deadly Consequences of Being Uninsured- Kim Bailey, Families USA
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Get your health care questions ready...we'll have more from the experts at the Families USA Health Action 2013...
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
Should people be burdened with debt just to get an education?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
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Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses where gun control efforts are in Congress and the latest shooting in Phoenix, the contraction of the U.S. economy and Fox News' low ratings. Also discussed: a debate on increasing the minimum wage to a living wage, Republican electoral election rigging and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at America's recent alternative energy triumphs (solar and wind) and wonders why the mainstream media chooses to ignore these victories.
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