Our government has been corrupted by greed and the money it brings, and that corruption has spread like a cancer to religion, education and helping professions like healthcare.

Every aspect of American life has been corrupted by greed. One of the purposes of government is to protect both individuals and society from such corruption, and that means protecting people and institutions from greedy predators. In that simple task, over the past 40 years since America embraced Reaganomics and Reaganism, our government has failed.

We once enforced laws that protected small businesses from greedy oligarchs who knew that crushing or buying out competitors and creating monopolies was a fast, although societally destructive, way of getting rich. We saw how John Rockefeller brutally crushed thousands of small businesses on his way to becoming the richest man in the world, and we passed laws against his practices. Wealthy and powerful wannabee-Rockefellers hired Robert Bork and Milton Friedman who relentlessly pushed for the destruction of those laws in the 1980s, and Ronald Reagan took executive actions that included stopping enforcement of many of them, so today our small business sector is in a crisis and struggling.

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Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "When Does the Greed Stop?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "DYK: Before 1973, It Was Illegal in the U.S. to Profit Off Healthcare" by 1MD.

Article: "Right to Work" by AFL-CIO.

Book: "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The U.S. Land-Grant University System: An Overview" by CRS.

Book: "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of the War On Voting" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It " by Thom Hartmann.

Bible: "1 Timothy 1".

Article: "Republicans double down on protecting wealthy tax cheats at the expense of nation's infrastructure" by Joan McCarter .

Article: "What Happened to Tuition-Free College?" by Harlan Green.

Article: "Jefferson's Gravestone".

Article: "Number of Georgia Voters Purged by Brian Kemp Continues to Climb" by Peter Wade.

Article: "Jeb Bush's secret weapon" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Some younger evangelicals are leaving the faith" by Terry Shoemaker.

Video: "Senator Kennedy on Raising the Minimum Wage".

Bible: "Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil..." - 1 Timothy 6:9-10.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "Judge eyes sanctions on pro-Trump lawyers who claimed voter fraud" by Jan Wolfe, David Thomas.

Book: "Cracking the Code" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "State Voting Bills Tracker 2021" by Brennan Center.

Article: "Powell Memo".

Article: "Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire" by Wikipedia.

Article: "7 ways to fix America's broken policing system, according to experts" by Isaac Scher.

Article: "Supreme Court strikes down section of Voting Rights Act" (4) by Stephanie Condon .

Article: "Goodbye to the Crown Jewel of the Civil Rights Movement" (Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act) by Heather Gerken.

Article: "Did Clarence Thomas' Wife Ginni Sponsor 80 Buses to Capitol Riots?" by Alex Kasprak.

Article: "Delano grape strike" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "I own a plug-in Prius hybrid that I've frequently praised on the air to our audience of 7 million; it's the last car I'm buying from @Toyota . Any company that supports people trying to overthrow our republic is a company that has lost my support..." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Toyota, under fire for funding insurrectionist Republican lawmakers, doubles down" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Toyota to stop donating to GOP lawmakers who objected to certifying Biden's win" by Amy B Wang.

Quote: "Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference" - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Quote: "Taxes, after all are the dues we pay for the privilege of membership in an organized society. And as society becomes more civilized government, national and state and local, is called on to assume more obligations to its citizens. The privileges of membership in a civilized society are vastly increased in modern times. But I am afraid we still have many who still do not recognize their advantages and want to avoid paying their dues" - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Site: Media Matters for America

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Death is Their Election Strategy " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Oregon COVID-19 Update" by Oregon Health Authority COVID-19.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) @RepRoKhanna

Article: "Democrats Roll Out $3.5 Trillion Budget to Fulfill Biden's Broad Agenda" by Jonathan Weisman, Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley.

Article: "ExxonMobil admits it owns 11 US Senators" by Hank Z.

Article: "Shocker: Republicans Fight Obama Plan to Privatize the Hugely Popular, Cheap Energy Source of the TVA" by Gar Alperovitz and Thomas M. Hanna.

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Rawls" by Leif Wenar.

Article: "House Democrats tell Senate: exempt voting rights bill from filibuster" by Hugo Lowell.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 4 "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."

Case: "Bush v. Gore". "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the Electoral College"

Article: "Nevada health officials ask people to mask up in Las Vegas casinos, other indoor spaces" by Bailey Schulz.

Article: "Elko Councilman Hance dies of COVID-19" by Elko Daily.

Article: "5 Things To Know About the Delta Variant" by Kathy Katella.

Article: "Here's what you need to know about the lambda Covid variant" by Holly Ellyatt.

Article: "Indianapolis FBI made many errors during Larry Nassar investigation, DOJ report finds" by Jack Armstrong.

Article: "Sen. Blumenthal Calls For Accountability In FBI's Mishandled Nassar Investigation" by Ailsa Chang, Justine Kenin, Karen Zamora.

Article: "Former Afghan interpreter fears for family amid troop withdrawal" by Lindsey Peña.

Article: "Progressives Won't Give Up On 'Medicare At 60' In Budget Package" by Bruce Japsen.

Bill: "H.R.2590 - Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act" by Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4].

Law: "Arms Export Control Act" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.1996 - SAFE Banking Act of 2021" by Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7].

Article: "The Car That Was Made And Run Off Hemp By Henry Ford" by Carlie Beblin.

Article: "Nina Turner announces bid to succeed Marcia Fudge in Congress" by Seth A. Richardson.

Article: "Nina Turner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Stimulus Is Financing GOP's Tax Cuts For The Rich" by Julia Rock.

Article: "Proposed bill that could gut California rooftop solar draws fire" by Tim Sylvia.

Article: "Biden says Cuba is a 'failed state' and calls communism 'a universally failed system'" by Maegan Vazquez.

Article: "Cuban thaw" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Seattle, Go See Some Local Music This July" by Stefan Milne.

Article: "Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley feared Trump would start a war with Iran to stay in power and warned lame duck president not to launch missile strike, new report claims" by Ariel Zilber.

Article: "Jim Justice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ransomware Hackers Demand $70 Million In Bitcoin, Claim Massive U.S. Attack As Biden Investigates Possible Russian Involvement" by Robert Hart.

Site: Greg Palast

Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Guns, knives, bombs and bear spray: Here are the weapons Trump supporters brought to DC on the day of the Capitol attack" by Marshall Cohen, Eric Hall, Brianna Keilar and Catherine Valentine.

Article: "Confirmation That Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) Gave Tour of Capitol to Insurrectionists, January 5th." by AlyoshaKaramazov.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Article: "This historian predicted Jan. 6. Now he warns of greater violence." by Dana Milbank.

Book: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "The Multiracial Democracy Ulysses Grant Was Willing to Die For is in Danger" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Donald Trump for ... speaker of the House?" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "COVID-19: All health workers in France ordered to get jabbed as Macron announces coronavirus passes" by Sky News.

Article: "Almost 1 million people booked a COVID-19 vaccine on the day France announced a 'health passport' for non-essential places like restaurants" by Marianne Guenot.

Documentary: Seaspiracy.

Event: July 24: March For Medicare For All.

Article: "Giant Marilyn Monroe Statue in Palm Springs Draws Criticism: 'Have We Learned Nothing?'" by Pat Saperstein.

Article: "Why space flights' green credentials don't fly: Billionaire space race between Bezos & Branson raises climate questions" by Climate Depot.

Article: "The Five Democrats Who Voted Against The Public Option".

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