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Thom's blog
Can The Reagan Revolution Be Stopped?
 The Reagan revolution continues. Donald Trump just issued his budget, and it contains over $1 trillion in cuts for healthcare, massive cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, sets up even larger cuts to Social Security and Medicare, cuts funding for the Centers for Disease Control and research into diseases like the coronavirus, and kneecaps the Environmental Protection Agency, among others. Paul Ryan may no longer be in politics, and Ronald Reagan may be dead, but the politics of greed and the top one percent continue to totally rule the Republican Party, and have an outsize influence in the Democratic Party. Until the Democratic Party returns to its New Deal and Great Society roots, there will be no serious challenge to the Reagan revolution. And without that there will be no revival of the American middle class. -Thom |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Can The Reagan Revolution Be Stopped?
Quote: " It's class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn't be." Warren Buffett", May 25, 2005. Quote: " There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." - Margaret Thatcher.
Hour Two: Why Are Tax Cuts For the Wealthy More Important Then Health Care, the Future of Our Children to live in a World not Ravaged by Climate Change, Public Health With a Deadly Coronavirus Nipping at Our Doors, Our Crumbling Roads and Schools, the Future Viability of Medicare and Social Security, the Disabled, the Crisis of Homelessness, the 150 Million Under Insured Americans, and Student Debt. - Grover Norquist, President - Americans for Tax Reform 
Quote: " The occupation of an hairdresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person — to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature" - Edmund Burke. Quote: " There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." - Franklin D. Roosevelt. Quote: " We won the primary tremendously. We should have won the election but they had buses being shipped up from Massachusetts, hundreds and hundreds of buses" - Donald J. Trump.
Hour Three: The War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote--and How To Get it Back!
Article: " New Hampshire primary" ( not a fully open primary, because people who are registered with a party (Republican or Democratic) on voting day cannot vote in the other party's primary). Law: " G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia. |
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Who won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, and what are pundits saying about it?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
The Danger to Democracy is With Us - Be Worried
Do Progressive Values Demand We End Animal Exploitation (w/ Ingrid Newkirk)
Will Progressives Stop Trump? (w/ Ro Khanna)
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On the Road Again
"The War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote--and How To Get it Back" - Book Tour Is Coming...
Fri, Feb 28, 7:30pm PT: Powell's, 1005 W Burnside St., Portland.
Sun, Mar 1, noon: Frugal Muse Books - Chicago - Call the store to make a reservation 630-427-1140..
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