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Thom's blog
Our economy should work for us
You wouldn't know it by looking at your bank account, but our GDP growth rate was 2.8% in the third quarter of 2013. That's much higher than the long-term rate of 2%, but average Americans won't see any benefit from better growth. The latest figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis show that our nation is recovering from the 2008 recession, but all of that growth is going straight into the pockets of the corporate elite. Executive salaries and bonuses have exploded in recent years, and corporate profits are higher than they've ever been. But, average wages remain stagnant, and median incomes are actually lower than they were in 2007.
The Right claims that our national debt is stifling economic growth, but that's nothing more than a talking point meant to hide the fact that corporate greed is the reason paychecks haven't gotten any higher. Growth is not the problem in our nation, and it's not the reason that Americans haven't gotten a real raise since Reagan. The real problems are income inequality, and the Right perpetuating economic myths. Over the past 32 years, the rich have convinced us that the purpose of our economy is to generate corporate profits, rather than serve the people who depend on it.
As it stands now, our economy is working great for those at the top, and it's preventing the rest of us from benefiting in any growth. All around our nation, people are starting to wake up to the fact that we need to change this. From WalMart strikers to fast-food workers to transit employees, people are speaking out against corporate greed. By standing together, Americans are realizing that we have the power to change things, and we have the power to create an economy that works for us.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... The Wikileaks TPP leak (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
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Wonk Out: On Taft Hartley / Wagner Act- Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator 
Daily Take: The real web of America's economic life...
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
In for Thom today, Dr. Mike Newcomb, The Mike Newcomb Show on KPHX 1480AM, Phoenix, AZ
Hour One: Obamacare - the Affordable Care Act- Wendell Potter, Journalist, contributor to Huffington Post & Center for Public Integrity / Author-of the forthcoming new book: Obamacare: What's in it for me? What Everyone Needs to Know about the Affordable Care Act
Hour Two: What candidates should learn from last week's elections- Heather Smith, Rock the Vote
ENDA and the free market...- Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council
Hour Three: ENDA and the free market- Karl Frisch, Democratic Strategist & Syndicated Columnist / Bullfight Strategies
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Portland's Carl Wolfson pays a visit- Carl Wolfson, Host of Carl in The Morning, co-host for 6 years on KPOJ in Portland w/Thom Hartmann
Scrooge vs. Walmart
Hour Two: The Wikileaks TPP leak...- Mike Papantonio, Attorney / Host-Ring of Fire Radio
Virginia election...- Brad Friedman, Editor/Publisher-The Brad Blog
Hour Three: Hands off Social Security!!- Steve Cobble, Institute for Policy Studies / Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
I'll be broadcasting live from the studios of the might WCPT in Chicago, Illinois with all the news & information you won't get from the mainstream news media...
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Thom's Poll
Should Walmart workers refuse to work on Thanksgiving?
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On the Road Again
Nov 16 6-9pm: Minneapolis, MN Operating Engineers Hall. Tickets
Nov 20 7-9:30pm: Los Angeles, CA Laemmle Monica Theatre. KPFK
Nov 21 12-2pm: San Francisco, CA
Commonwealth Club.
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 11/12/13: Mitch McConnell: The Filibuster King
Guest host Sam Sacks is in for Thom Hartmann tonight and talks the latest Fukushima news with Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter. Tonight's "Big Picture Politics Panel" discusses Mitch McConnell's filibuster record, raising the minimum wage and how to reinstate the Voting Rights Act. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how we need to stop privatizing our national security.
Thom Hartmann on the News: November 12, 2013
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