Why is free money a good thing for the children of wealthy white kids but free money to poor people or minorities is a terrible social ill that damages those young people for life?

Earlier this week, Newt Gingrich dropped by my show to promote his new book, Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love.

We talked about how terrible it is when people get "free money" from the government, how it destroys individual initiative and turns otherwise productive people into lazy whiners.

Thom: "You have, throughout the years that you were in congress, repeatedly pointed out that it's destructive to people to give them free money, whether it's free housing or free food or, you know, any kind of welfare payments generally, particularly over a long period of time and particularly enough money that they never have to work again. Please correct me if I'm mischaracterizing your position?"

Newt: "Yeah, it's actually a paraphrase of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1935 State of the Union speech when Roosevelt says welfare ultimately undermines and debilitates the entire society and that we should be very careful not to create a system of permanent welfare. So in that sense I'm quoting the greatest Democratic president of the 20th century who understood culturally that if you create a dependency class that it is very, very dangerous and it's very bad for the people who end up on welfare."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Since The Rich Already Have Family Leave - Why Deny It To the Poor?
- Jennifer Stefano, Vice President & Chief Strategist - Commonwealth Foundation / Fellow - Independent Women's Forum

Article: "The Rich Already Have Paid Leave. Why Would They Deny It to the Poor?" by Sarah Anderson.

Article: "Cato Institute" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brookings Institution" by Wikipedia.

Site: "Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)".

Article: "Joe Manchin single-handedly denied US families paid leave. That's just cruel" by Jill Filipovic.

Site: Media Matters for America

Article: "Democrats manage to get 4 weeks of paid leave back into social spending bill. But it's still too early for Americans to count on" by Lorie Konish.

Article: "New poll shows a vicious cycle of COVID-19 misinformation — and Fox News' part in it" by Eric Kleefeld.

Article: "Fox personalities are trying to distance themselves from Fox's vaccine mandate" by Nikki McCann Ramirez.

Article: "Fox's shareholder meeting will require vaccine passports and masks" by Eric Kleefeld.

Article: "Fox has undermined vaccines nearly every day in the last six months" by Tyler Monroe & Rob Savillo.

Article: "After he murdered 2 people-He posed with a proud boy, a smile & a white supremacy gesture." by kpete.

Article: "Types of leaves you can receive as an employee working in federally regulated industries and workplaces" by Government of Canada.

Article: "Veterans Day" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse trial: Judge's ringtone revealed to be Trump's rally theme tune" by Gustaf Kilander and Megan Sheets.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse pretended to be a cop" by Mortos.

Article: "Max Cleland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Does "Cadet Bone Spurs" Mean? Trump's Nickname Was Coined By Sen. Tammy Duckworth" by Monica Hunter-Hart.

Article: "Donald Trump Continues to Trash John McCain: He's 'Abandoned Our Veterans'" by Tony Maglio.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse's friend Dominick Black testifies he bought the gun used in the killings in Kenosha" by Bruce Vielmetti.

Twitter: "Amee Vanderpool".

Hour Two: One Of the Best Ways to Help Disabled Vets Is To Pass the Voting Bill...
- Naveed Shah, Army Veteran / Political Director - Common Defense | Veterans Against Trump (Common Defense is the largest membership org of progressive vets in the nation)

Video: Five Veterans resign from Sen. Sinema's Council.

Article: "Calling Sinema an Obstacle to Progress, 5 Veterans Quit Her Advisory Council" by Catie Edmondson and Luke Broadwater.

Article: "Letter to Krysten Sinema" by 5 veterans.

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

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

Article: "2010 Iraqi parliamentary election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2021 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Employment Situation Of Veterans — 2020" by BLS. "In August 2020, 4.7 million veterans, or 26 percent of the total, had a service-connected disability."

Bill: "S.2747 - Freedom to Vote Act" by Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN].

Twitter: "#vetsfordemocracy".

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

Site: Veterans for Peace.

Article: "Armistice Day" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Judge Steps In After Rittenhouse Prosecutor Says Hollow Point Bullets 'Explode'" by AWR Hawkins.

Article: "Hollow-point bullet" by Wikipedia.

Article: "AR-15 style rifle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Breaking Now: The Tragic Plight of the Children of Wealthy People Exposed" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love by Newt Gingrich.

Article: "These 10 countries have the best quality of life" by Zameena Mejia.

Article: "The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency" by Ian Haney-Lopez.

Article: "Judge OKs state's motion to dismiss fetal manslaughter case" by AP.

Article: "Gun owners ask Supreme Court to back concealed carry for self-defense" by Devin Dwyer, Jacqueline Yoo.

Article: "Anti Protest Laws Grant Drivers License to Kill" by Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan.

Article: "The Kyle Rittenhouse Judge Is the Actual Worst" by Bess Levin.

Article: "1984 New York City Subway shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The people Kyle Rittenhouse shot can't be called 'victims', a judge says. Surprised?" by Akin Olla.

Article: "George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Umbrella Man' Who Smashed Windows in Minneapolis Is a White Supremacist Member of Hell's Angels: Police" by Madeline Charbonneau.

Article: "Originalism" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Augusto Pinochet" (Chile) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sturmabteilung"(brown shirts) by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." - Abraham Lincoln.

Article: "As Covid recedes in US a new worry emerges: wildlife passing on the virus" by Melody Schreiber.

Video: Is Resistance To COVID Futile? (w/ Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding).

Article: "Here's why Denmark culled 17 million minks and now plans to dig up their buried bodies. The Covid mink crisis, explained" by Ben Kesslen.

Article: "What We Know So Far About Waning Vaccine Effectiveness" by Amy Schoenfeld Walker and Josh Holder.

Article: "Kristallnacht" by history.com.

Article: "The Voice UK" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse judge in spotlight after angry reprimand of prosecution" by Maya Yang.

Article: "Security incidents involving Barack Obama" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reuters unmasks Trump supporters who terrified U.S. election officials " by Linda So, Jason Szep.

Video: Reuters tracks down 'untraceable' Trump supporters who threatened election officials.

Site: Poor People's Campaign.

Article: "White Supremacy on Trial: From Rittenhouse in Kenosha to Killers of Ahmaud Arbery, Will They Go Free?" by Democracy Now!

Site: RepresentUs.

Video: The Cure for Your Limp Democracy.

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President" - U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

Article: "750,000 dead: COVID-19 has now killed nearly as many Americans as the Civil War" by USA Today.

Article: "Trump's White House ignored advice on COVID-19 that could've saved over 130,000 lives, Birx said" by John Haltiwanger.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse shooting victims: Who the teenager shot in Kenosha and what he's been charged with" by Alex Finnis.

Article: "US press reports confirm killing of Portland anti-fascist was targeted police assassination" by Patrick Martin.

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