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Back to the Future!
Greetings!
I am returning to my original time slot noon-3pm - where I used to be for seven years. There will be exciting changes announced next week for the 3pm to 6pm ET slot for commercial radio - so stay tuned. Our non-commercial stations will remain the same.
Next week - Tag! I’m it - so I will be filling in for both time slots - putting me on air from noon to 6pm ET. We are looking forward to it - We’re a hard working crew and everyone here, Shane, Danielle, Jim, Shawn and Louise, will be here helping each other with breaks and food runs. Don’t worry - FSTV viewers- we’re here for you and you’ll still see me on TV. So call in and be part of the shows & thanks for listening and watching.
Tune into The Big Picture tonight - Did you know that it may be a felony to expose tracking chemicals? Find out tonight at 7p et.
—Thom Hartmann
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Thom's blog
Students Now Indentured to the Banksters
Never in the history of the developed world has an entire generation had to go into debt just to get an education and a job. Until now. Back in January, 31-year-old Tony Muzzatti, who at the time owed around $60,000 in student loan debt to Sallie Mae and always made on-time payments, was told that he had to immediately make a payment of $10,000, or face asset seizures. That’s because his grandmother, who also happened to be his cosigner on the student loans, had just died.
Christopher Kibler was also told by Sallie Mae that he had to immediately pay back nearly $22,000 in student loan debts after his father, the cosigner on his loans, had passed away. Muzzatti and Kibler are just two of the many victims of what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau refers to as “auto-defaults,” or when banks immediately say that private student loan debts are in default after the death or bankruptcy of a cosigner.
The “auto-default” practice is just one of the many ways that big banks and Wall Street executives are making billions of dollars off of an entire generation of struggling, debt-ridden Americans. Right now, there’s over $1.18 trillion in outstanding student debt in America. More than 40 million Americans hold student loan debt; which is "greater than the entire population of Canada, Poland, North Korea, Australia and more than 200 other countries"
And of those 40 million borrowers, around 7 million have defaulted on their debt. The average debt for a 25-year-old American student has risen a staggering 91 percent over the past decade, and the average college debt per person is over $23,000. An entire generation of Americans is completely screwed, and is unable to start a family, buy a house, and build the equity needed to retire down the road.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Another year in Gitmo (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Have a question or comment for Thom? Grab your phone, hit record and send your video to YourTakeMyTake@gmail.com and we may air it on "The Big Picture."
Screwed: A felony to expose fracking chemicals?- Jessica Ennis, Earth Justice.
Plus, Do these 17 chemicals cause breast cancer?- Ruthann Rudel MS, Silent Spring Institute.
Your Take / My Take Live: Call Thom LIVE at (202) 904-2134 TONIGHT 7-8pm ET (check local listings)
Geeky Science: The real reason behind obesity revealed!
Daily Take: Students Now Indentured to the Banksters
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Sovereign Citizens, Oath Keepers, American Spring...oh my!- Sheriff Richard Mack 
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..." Quote: "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. " - Thomas Jefferson", Notes on the State of Virginia (1781–1783). 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.
PLUS, Tag...they're IT!- Jeff Golden, Our Family Farms Coalition.
Hour Two: What happens when the bees are gone?- Greg Loarie, Earth Justice
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".
Hour Three: PDA Progressive Round Table- Michael Lighty, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)
Bill: " H.AMDT.149" by Rep James P. McGovern[MA-2] (to National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014).
The GOP death panels...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Students now indentured to the banksters...
PLUS, Geeky Science - the real reason behind obesity revealed
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's Friday and that means it's Brunch With Bernie...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, it's Anything Goes Friday...your chance to choose the topics, what's on your mind?
And, we'll have all the news and information you won't hear from the corporate owned news media...together 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"...
And remember...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Should there be a national jubilee on all student debt?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Sarah Palin was right - There are death panels in America
The Populist Majority
Lone Liberal - Here Comes the Small Penis Gun Club
Lone Liberal - Raising minimum wage doesn't harm job creation
Obama Breaks his Promise on Net Neutrality
Email Encryption...What You Need to Know and Why
Fast Lane...big win for monopolies - big loss for everyone else
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 5/21/14: Highest Min. Wage State Leads in Job Creation
Thom talks the latest news surrounding net neutrality with Laura Friedenbach of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and small business owner Joe Niederberger. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" discusses how just kids in rural areas (not urban) will receive free school lunches this summer, how losing unemployment benefits doesn't make people get jobs and how business is booming in Washington State despite having the nation's highest minimum wage. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses the truth of the GOP death panel.
Tag...They're it!
The Thom Hartmann Program - May 21, 2014
What Happens When the Bees are Gone?
The GOP Death Panels...
The PDA Progressive Roundtable..
Sovereign Citizens, Oath Keepers, American Spring...oh my!
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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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