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Corporations control our lives...
In our nation, finance has a hold on almost every single part of our lives – from the day we're born, until we take our last breath. Capitalism and the quest for larger profits have taken hold of our healthcare, our education, our homes, our communication, and even our government. Today, most babies are born in for-profit hospitals, and their medical claims are paid by for-profit insurance. As children grow, many go to for-profit charter schools or private schools, and our public education system continues to crumble. Young adults are forced to deal with for-profit lenders to go to college at for-profit universities, and everything from their backpack to their first home will generate a profit for someone on Wall Street.
Throughout our lives, we are forced into paying huge monopolies for access to phones and internet and communication, and all that data is turned over to for-profit corporations who spy on us for our government. Even the vast majority of our elected leaders answer first to corporate lobbyists, and second to the American people. Corporate power has a strangle hold on the entire American existence, and it has turned our entire lives into a profit-making venture.
There is a place for profit in our world, and a reason for corporations, but we must shift the power back to actual people. Without us, corporations would have no production to make their goods, and no customers from which to make a profit. Business should be here to serve American needs, not control us and commercialize everything that we do. We must regain our power by declaring that corporations are not people and money is not speech. Only then can we stop the cycle of putting profit before people.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Should Edward Snowden get clemency? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Screwed: Is real change coming or not on inequality?- Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future
Plus, Military poisoned by Fukushima radiation- Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
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Geeky Science: Is catastrophic climate change coming?
Daily Take: Time to close the Red State donut hole
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom." Nelson Mandela.
Hour Three: Follow the French on the millionaire tax...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Who decides to pull the plug...government or family?
Hour Two: Should Edward Snowden get clemency?- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Hour Three: Time to close the red state donut hole...
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
It's our first Brunch with Bernie of 2014...America's Senator... Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here talking about all the important issues of the day AND he'll be taking YOUR calls too!
Plus, I'll talk with Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) about unemployment insurance and raising the federal minimum wage...
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Right here on...The Thom Hartmann Program...
AND...Don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Should Edward Snowden be protected as a whistle-blower?
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Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 12/31/13: The Defining Challenges Of Our Time
For tonight's special New Year's Eve show Thom looks back at 2013 and looks ahead to 2014 with interviews with Environmentalist Bill McKibben, Economist Richard Wolff, Media Critic Jeff Cohen and Teamsters' President James Hoffa. Happy New Year from Thom and everyone on The Big Picture staff!
Full Show 12/30/13: France to Raise Taxes on Millionaires and So Should We!
Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" discusses the 1.3 million people losing their unemployment benefits, the push to raise the minimum wage and Edward Snowden's recent interview with "The Washington Post." Thom talks with LEAP's Neill Franklin about Colorado and Washington beginning to sell recreational marijuana next month, and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains why we should follow France's lead when it comes to tax policy.
Thom Hartmann on the News: December 30, 2013
Caller: Why not Free Transportation for Job Seekers?
Caller: The Stock Market Creates Jobs
Follow the French on the Millionaire Tax
Should Polygamy be Legalized?
A Fundamental Economic Ignorance in America
The Thom Hartmann Program - December 30, 2013
What Good is 1.3 Million Unemployed?
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