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Thom's blog
There's Nothing "Normal" About Having a Middle Class: It has to be Chosen
 If we want to stop the destruction of the remnants of the last generation's middle class, it all starts with taxing the rich: The time is long past due for us to roll back the Reagan tax cuts. The American middle class has collapsed. We're heading in the direction of looking like the 19th century England that Dickens wrote about in his novels, unless we can stop this grab by the rich. Here's how and why: Five years ago the American middle class ceased to be more than half of us: the middle class went from two-thirds of Americans when Reagan took office to 49 percent in 2015. NPR commemorated it with the headline: " The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class." This year, according to new statistics just released from the US Census and the Fed, "middle class" households sank below the top 1% in total wealth: a handful of super-rich households have more wealth than the entire American middle class. This month the headline went to Bloomberg: "T op 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class." Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: There's Nothing "Normal" About Having a Middle Class: It has to be Chosen
When Will Voters Figure Out the Scam Rich Legislators Like Joe Manchin Are Running?
Quote: " There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." - Maggie Thatcher.
Hour Two: Is Clarence Thomas Going to Help the Supreme Court Blow Up the Jan 6th Investigation?
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."
Will Firing the Anti-Vaxxers from Police & Military Get Rid of the Far Right Wingers?
Tweet: " holy fucking shit, vaccine mandates are causing teachers who don't believe in science to quit, nurses who don't believe in medicine to quit, and cops who don't believe in public safety to quit. I'm failing to see the downside to this" by Jeff Tiedrich. Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.
Hour Three: How Virginia School Boards Are Being Weaponized to Elect a GOP Governor- Journalist Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org) 
Article: " Denver" by Wikipedia. |
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
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The Middle Class Won't Survive Unless We Do Something Drastic
Billionaires Are Telling Sinema to Jump & She Says, "How High"
Is Resistance To COVID Futile? (w/ Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding)
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