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Why We Can't Privatize Fire Fighters... Again
Feb. 15, 2018 3:54 pm
By Thom Hartmann A...
This should be the metric by which we determine what is public and what is private - public being government-run, we all own it collectively, and private being privately owned, it's owned by capitalists, essentially.Trump's America First Policy Is Leading America To Last Place in Healthcare
Feb. 14, 2018 4:01 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Everybody has the right to education. It's a basic right. Everybody has the right to housing. It's a basic right. Everyone has the right to food. It's a basic right.Donald Trump's Budget Will Cut Trillions From Social Safety Net To Give Tax Breaks To Morbidly Rich
Feb. 13, 2018 3:37 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... This is fascinating because the Trumpistas, the Republicans, just released a budget which is going to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps. It's going to cut everything. It's just right across the board, it's three trillion dollars in cuts over a ten-year period. Three hundred billion dollars a year.How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years
Feb. 12, 2018 3:50 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...
This scam has been killing wages and enriching billionaires for decades."The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus."
-Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976
Neoliberalism Is Creating a Mental Health Crisis
Feb. 9, 2018 3:40 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Meagan Day writing over at Jacobin magazine is quoting from a new study that was published in Psychological Bulletin written by Thomas CurranDonald Trump Orders Test Of Nuclear Weapons as North Korea Crosses Red Lines
Feb. 8, 2018 3:33 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... W.J. Hennigan wrote a fairly lengthy piece in Time magazine on the first of February. He writes:GOP Is Wrecking Your Retirement Savings
Feb. 7, 2018 3:06 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... The rich get richer, and the poor will never be able to retire.
The #GOPTaxScam was the straw that broke the markets’ back. Here’s why and how.
First, America is hugely in debt (known as “overleveraged” in econ wonkspeak).The End Of Democracy Brought to You by Thatcher, Reagan and Trump
Feb. 6, 2018 3:50 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... The corruption of small D democracy, the corruption of human rights, the corruption of civil rights, the destruction, actually, of civil and human rights, the destruction of the public sphere, the the deconstruction of government - or as Steve Bannon famously said, the deconstruction of the administrative state, in other words taking apart government.
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At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
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