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It's time to fix the system!
Last year, median CEO pay jumped to $10.5 million dollars – an increase of about 13 percent. However, most workers didn't see their paychecks go up by a single dime. According to an analysis by USA Today, corporate executives scored huge pay bumps thanks to big gains in the stock market. But, earnings for average workers stayed pretty much stagnant – only increasing 1.4 percent in all of 2012. According to the myth of Reaganomics, when those at the top make tons of money, some of that wealth should trickle down to the rest of us. But, for more than three decades, we've seen how that could not be farther from the truth.
Last year, degenerate gamblers on Wall Street made 20 billionaires $81 billion dollars richer, but that did nothing to boost our real economy, or provide more financial security for the average American. Our economy is so rigged that the very banksters who crashed our economy – and the CEOs who pay workers poverty wages – continue to be rewarded, while hard-working Americans can't even keep up with the cost of living. If we don't change this system, the billionaires will keep raking in hoards of cash, and we can kiss the American Dream goodbye forever.
As it stands, the middle class is shrinking day by day, and the super-rich control the very lawmakers who should be working to protect us. We need to get money out of politics. We need to ensure that workers share in our nation's prosperity. We need to stop rewarding the very folks who've rigged the system. That's why we need progressive policies that will strengthen the middle class, stand up to the banksters, and rebuild the American Dream.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Tom Newmark, The Carbon Underground / Finca Luna Nueva Organic Farm (Costa Rica) (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, 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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Conversations with Great Minds - Tom Newmark, The Carbon Underground / Finca Luna Nueva Organic Farm (Costa Rica) 
Daily Take: The Climate Change Wars Have already Begun...
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Each one of us is a toxic super fund site...
Article: " Lead" by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Big Picture- Nate Sweet, The Big Picture producer
Hour Three: Should all billionaires be banned?- Peter Schiff, The Peter Schiff Show
Letter: " To James Madison, Fontainebleau, Oct. 28, 1785" by Thomas Jefferson. "Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise."
Article: " Letter to Samuel Kercheval" by Thomas Jefferson, June 12, 1816. " I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom." Letter: " To James Madison, Fontainebleau, Oct. 28, 1785" by Thomas Jefferson. " Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise." Article: " Letter to Joseph Milligan" by Thomas Jefferson, 6 Apr. 1816. " If the overgrown wealth of an individual be deemed dangerous to the State..." |
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Hour Three: It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
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On the Road Again
May 1 - Seattle, WA 730pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, Seattle Town Hall. details
May 2 - Portland, OR 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, First Unitarian Church. details
May 3 - Portland, OR:
Thom’s TEDX talk - SOLD OUT.
May 10 - Northampton, MA 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, The Parlor Room. Free, but sign up at whmp.com
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Thom's Poll
Should there be a 100% tax on all income over $1 billion?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Each One Of Us Is a Toxic Super Fund Site
Which Side Are You On? Big Energy or Community?
Your Take/My Take - What will really bankrupt America?
The Good - The Bad - And the Very Very Nucivorously Ugly
Whale War's Captain Paul Watson "There are No Eco-Terrorists"
It's Time to Outlaw Billionaires
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 4/17/14: Koch Brothers Net Worth Tops $100 Billion
Thom discusses his "No Billionaire Campaign" with Conservative Commentator David Laska and whale hunting with the "Whale Wars'" Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Thom takes viewer video questions and phone calls in "Your Take, My Take Live" and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how we're all lab rats of the chemical industry.
Each one of us is a Toxic Super Fund Site
What Would Thomas Jefferson think about the Koch Brothers?
Should all Billionaires be Banned?
Caller: There are Huge Problems with Common Core
The Thom Hartmann Program - April 17, 2014
Caller: Be Leery of how Common Core is Implemented
What you Need to Know about Common Core
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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