Hour One: remembering Senator Ted Kennedy

Hour Two: Why should private health insurance companies exist? with Dr. Fred Shessel www.docs4patientcare.org

Okay, lets take this to the largest picture. I see two things going on here. Let’s assume for a moment that the people who are promoting the Birther Movement, the ones who are out there aggressively sending the emails like the one I received, saying you know, sign our petition, we need to get a million names on this petition by August 4th, by President Obama’s birthday, so that we can force him into court, etc. etc. etc. Let’s assume for a moment that they’re actually not racists. That the members of Congress are actually not racist.

And the U.S. economy, this is absolutely incredible. I want to share with you, first of all, let’s just broadly talk about what’s happening with the economy in the United States. Elizabeth Warren is the person who is in charge of overseeing the TARP program. And you know, given that job by Congress when they put the thing together. And here she is with her report. This is from about three days ago, three or four days ago [it was uploaded 14 July 2009]. Her report to the nation.

Thom Hartmann: So we get mail, I have this very, very thoughtful email that leads, I think is a perfect segue to our next guest. It’s an email from, well I’m not going to name her actually. She didn’t ask me not to, but uh, this is about harassment she is experiencing at work. She says,