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Daily Topics - Tuesday March 15th, 2016
Mar. 15, 2016 9:38 amBy shawnt56A Key Component of American Fascism is Already in Place
Mar. 14, 2016 1:16 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Thanks to Donald Trump’s increasingly hostile and race-baiting rhetoric, the topic of fascism -- what it is and what causes it -- is once again on the minds of many Americans.
Generation Y - the hidden wealth divide.
Mar. 11, 2016 8:00 amBy Thom Hartmann A...Young Americans are now poorer than retired people. That's the stunning take away from a new study by The Guardian Newspaper, and they say that the problem not unique to the United States.
Dear Hillary… Fire Robby Mook and John Podesta
Mar. 10, 2016 2:57 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Wednesday's debate was the first debate after a surprising loss for Hillary Clinton in Michigan, and the former Secretary of State was particularly critical of Sanders on the debate stage in Miami.
The Era of Small Government is Over
Mar. 9, 2016 2:40 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Americans are finally waking up to the biggest Republican con of them all: the small government con.
Ever since the 1980s, Republicans have used a strategy former Reagan budget director David Stockman called “starving the beast.”
The thinking behind this strategy is pretty simple.
First, you cut taxes to “starve” the “the beast” (the government) of the revenue it needs to survive.