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We need more than words
Yesterday, President Obama spoke to a crowd at The ARC arts schoolhouse about the real deficit in our nation – which has nothing to do with our national budget. He said, “A relentlessly growing deficit of opportunity is a bigger threat to our future than our rapidly shrinking fiscal deficit.” The President explained that the lack of economic mobility in our country has led to the wealthy staying wealthy, and the working poor finding it harder than ever to get out of poverty.
He said that this is an American problem, not one that people face in other first-world nations. President Obama said, “It is harder today for a child born in America to improve her station in life than it is for children in most of our wealthy allies, countries like Canada or Germany or France.” The president was referring to the perpetuation of trickle-down economics, which started in the late 1970s and created an ever-widening wealth gap in our nation. He called on Congress to pass legislation that could reverse this economic inequality – like universal preschool, a minimum wage hike, and the Paycheck Fairness Act. And, his speech brought back images of the old social contract – the so-called American Dream – when a child's economic future would “not be determined by the ZIP code he's born into, but by the strength of his work ethic and scope of his dreams.”
Once upon a time, these principles were not just ideals in our nation, but policies that gave everyone an equal chance at success. Today, the system is rigged, and it's harder than ever for those born at the bottom of the income ladder to climb their way to the top. President Obama's speech cut right to the core of some of the biggest issues in our nation, but we need more than words to fix this broken system. It's time for our elected leaders to get to to work at restoring the American Dream.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Detroit: An Experiment in Fascism? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Geeky Science: Dinner shocker...what's in your meat?
Daily Take: SCOTUS prefers free speech for corps not people...
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Banksters...too big to fine?- C. Edmund Wright, WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost…Again
Hour Two: What the media isn't telling you about Detroit's bankruptcy
Event: Minneapolis, Friday, January 17th, 2014: " 2014 Blue State Ball" with Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz.
Movie: " I AM", Directed by Tom Shadyac.
Quote: "Memory is the scribe of the soul" - Aristotle.
Bible: " Ecclesiastes 5:9". " Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field." Bible: " Proverbs 28:27". " He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack, but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse."
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Are we seeing a return to Nixon conservatism?- Daniel Rothschild, R Street Institute
Hour Two: Banksters adopt Walmart method of doing business- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Plus, Geeky Science - dinner shocker...what's in your meat?
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Thom's Poll
Is Detroit a testing ground for Republican privatization efforts?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
What the media isn't telling you about Detroit's bankruptcy
Crazy Alert! How not to get pinched or groped on subway
Bankruptcy: The Motor City is Running on Empty
Lone Liberal Rumble - Wall Street Banksters at it Again
Lone Liberal Rumble - Can Christians be Republicans?
Exposed! ALEC's extreme agenda for 2014
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Full Show 12/4/13: What the Media Isn't Telling You About Detroit's Bankruptcy
Thom talks ALEC's new corporatist agenda with Congressman Mark Pocan and Detroit's bankruptcy with Pastor D. Alexander Bullock. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" discusses the recent success of Obamacare, DC's $4.25 increase in their minimum wage and President Obama's speech on wealth inequality. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains the real reason why Detroit is in bankruptcy.
Thom Hartmann on the News: December 4, 2013
Could Looking at Porn Keep you From Getting Credit?
Detroit Bankruptcy on...Pensions Gone
Banksters...too Big to fine?
How Could Anyone be Both Christian & Republican?
The Condemnation of Trickle Down Economics
President Obama Talks Inequality
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