Thom Hartmann: Welcome back, Thom Hartmann here with you, to the second hour of our program, or the 2nd segment of our first hour. Oh my. You can tell I’ve been on the road for two weeks and Mercury is still in retrograde for another 24 hours. David Cobb on the line with us. One of my favorite people, a dear friend, one of American’s finest activists, and the 2004 Green Party candidate for President, David. welcome to the show.

Thom: Ok, here’s the bottom line. Let me just lay this out as simply as I can. It is not rocket science. It is something that Americans have been living with, and surviving, tolerating, for a long time now, in the United States, and in large part because they didn’t realize. Most Americans don’t realize how it’s done in the rest of the world. Only three percent of Americans have passports. Only about one percent of Americans travel internationally, and most Americans just… And our news is just incredibly Amero-centric, it doesn’t show what’s going on in the rest of the world.

• Guests:
  • Attorney/Pastor Alan Reinach.
  • Conservative John Lott
  • Independent investigative journalist Dahr Jamail,
• Topics:
  • Is it time for the European dream?
  • Why do whining conservatives run to liberal legislation to protect their workers when a union would do a better job?
  • Labor news.

The three biggest banks to exit the government’s TARP program — Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank — “are set to pay record bonuses this year,” totaling $29.7 billion.