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The Death of the Middle Class & The Rise of Racism
 According to new data from the federal reserve, if current trends of the rich getting richer and the middle class getting poorer continues at their current rate, in 33 years the top 10% of Americans will own one hundred percent of all American wealth. Everyone else will be in poverty and in debt. Right wing billionaires like Donald Trump are cheering this on, calling for more tax cuts on rich people and less power for working people through the continuing destruction of unions and fighting the minimum wage. They tell us that the problem is not corporate monopoly and rich people taking everything for themselves, but instead brown people from south of the border, black people wanting affirmative action, and women wanting equality, what Limbaugh calls "feminazis." They are more than willing to tear up the fabric of American society in exchange for what they think will be a permanent position of wealth and power. By destroying the American working class, they're fueling class, regional and racial resentment, and then they use that resentment to split us apart and encourage us to hate each other - all so long as we don't point our fingers at them. -Thom |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The Death of the Middle Class & the Rise of Racism...
Quote: " If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows" - John Kenneth Galbraith (referring to "trickle down" economics). Article: " 25th Amendment Section 4" " Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..." Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. " These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power." Speech: " Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred"
Hour Two: How Do We Criminalize Domestic Terrorism Without Creating a Police State?
Tweet: " After Columbine over 10,000 school police officers were hired just in case a school shooting happened. Two decades later, they haven't stopped a *single* school shooting. Instead they've arrested over 1 million kids, mostly students of color, for routine behavior violations." (thread) by Samuel Sinyangwe. Quote: " I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." - Abraham Maslow. 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.
Hour Three: How the Billionaires Put Another Nail in the Coffin of Democracy & Journalism Today...- Yosef Getachew, Director - Common Cause Media & Democracy Program 
Tweet: " Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others). Would make it easier for police to do their job!" by Donald J. Trump. Article: " Copts" by Wikipedia. |
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
I'll be debating the reason for mass shootings with (former) Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA, 7th District) / Attorney / Member-Board of Directors, National Rifle Association (NRA)
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