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On the Program - Feb 2 2009

Feb. 2, 2009 12:52 am

By Thom Hartmann A...

Quote: "I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." -- George Washington

Hour 1 - Citigroup's Football Madness

Hour 2 - Topic: What's wrong with the stimulus or in Carrie's case, what's right?! Thom debates Carrie Lukas of the Independent Womens Forum www.iwf.org

Hour 3 - Topic: "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be" Thom talks with author/strategist Mike Lux about his new book www.progressivestrategies.net

Topic - "Labor Segment" Doug Cunningham www.laborradio.org

Topic - Update on Sudan with humanitarian relief worker Nancy Williams www.sudansunrise.org

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The Thom Hartmann Program - Weekly Feb 2-6 2009

Feb. 2, 2009 12:50 am

By Thom Hartmann A...

Monday
Topic: What's wrong with the stimulus or in Carrie's case, what's right?! Thom debates Carrie Lukas of the Independent Womens Forum www.iwf.org
Topic: "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be" Thom talks with author/strategist Mike Lux about his new book www.progressivestrategies.net

Tuesday
Topic: Government accountability and the media...Thom debates Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute www.businessandmedia.org
Topic: Going green, getting out of debt...how many resolutions have you kept? Author Jack Canfield talks to Thom about his new book "Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Resolution" www.chickensoup.com

Wednesday
Topic: Did the media have "A Slobbering Love Affair" with President Obama? Thom challenges Bernard Goldberg about his new book www.bernardgoldberg.com

Thursday
Topic: What was it like being "Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism?" Thom confronts conservative Douglas Feith www.dougfeith.com
Topic: "Letting go of the old ways of thinking to unleash a new prosperity" Thom talks with Matt Miller from the Center for American Progress www.americanprogress.org

Friday
"Brunch With Bernie" Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator (I-VT) www.sanders.senate.gov

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Feb. 1, 2009 5:55 pm

By Thom Hartmann A...

Citigroup's Football Madness
Citicorp executives are using $45 million corporate jets for luxury family vacations in Baja at $12,000-a-night hotel rooms, all courtesy of bailout money from you and me.

Banks across America are laying off Americans by the tens of thousands and replacing them with workers in India, The Philippines, and imported foreign highly-trained white collar workers who'll do work for less than half the prevailing wage for Americans.

Meanwhile, most of the banks getting our bailouts have overseas tax shelters to hide their profits; the practice is so pervasive that worldwide corporate tax rates have dropped from 38 percent in 1993 to 26 percent last year, and a significant number of Fortune 500 companies in America pay no corporate income taxes whatsoever. (While we have the second highest corporate income tax rate in the industrialized world at 35 percent, we also have the second lowest percentage of taxes actually paid because of tens of thousands of loopholes drilled into federal tax laws by lobbyists, and these offshore tax havens.)

But our problem isn't "greedy" bankers and corporate executives. The problem we have is structural.

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January 28 2009 show notes

Feb. 1, 2009 2:44 pm

By Thom Hartmann A...

Guest: Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy".

Guest: Wendy Gelberg, Gentle Job Search & Career Services. Author, "The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career".

Guest: Tom Philbin. Author, " The Killer Book of Serial Killers: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia From The World Of Serial Killers".

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

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On the Program - Jan 30th 2009

Jan. 30, 2009 8:45 am

By Thom Hartmann A...

Anything Goes! Friday

"Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

Show Your Support for Single-Payer Healthcare--HR 676 Today!

On Sunday, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said on C-SPAN that he would oppose any comprehensive health care reform in 2009. And the next day, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers reintroduced HR 676, the single-payer health bill that was co-sponsored by 93 members of Congress last year, including James Clyburn.

Congressman Clyburn needs to know that he cannot take single-payer health care off the table. So on Friday, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) together with its allies in the progressive community have organized the Single-Payer Moment. We need to flood Congressman Clyburn's DC office with your phone calls asking him to keep single-payer on the table and to co-sponsor HR 676.

Air America and progressive radio talk show host Thom Hartmann will be helping us get the word out. He's heard live and he will be taking calls (866-303-2270) about single-payer healthcare in the last 2 hours and urging folks to do 2 things:

Call Congressman Clyburn and ask him to whip up support for HR 676: 202-225-3315

Call your member of Congress and ask that they support and co-sponsor HR 676: 202-224-3121

For more information about HR 676 and TODAY"S Single-Payer Moment go to www.pdamerica.organd www.afterdowningstreet.org

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Joe The Plumber Confesses to Horny Housewife Problem

Jan. 29, 2009 1:15 pm

By Thom Hartmann A...

Thom talks with Joe The Plumber on the areas of his expertise, including hunky and hot plumbers and their problems with horny housewives.

www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/thom-hartmann-talks-with_b_162278.html

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Jan. 29, 2009 9:14 am

By Thom Hartmann A...

Should Gitmo be Used for Those Who Raped and Pillaged our Economy?

Years ago, reporters for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are reporting this week, the FBI knew that home mortgage scams were being perpetrated by banks all across the country. They told the Bush Administration, and were denied agents or resources to pursue their cases.

Two years ago then-New York Governor Elliot Spitzer tried to prosecute banks – along with governors or attorneys general of all 50 states – for just these types of crimes and the Bush administration used an obscure Civil War era law to stop him.

Today we learn that the very hustlers who helped destroy our economy, the so-called “investment bankers” at Morgan Stanley and AIG (who have gotten billions of our taxpayer dollars in the recent bailouts) will be getting their bonuses this year, to the tune of $1.13 million in cash for the 400 brokers at AIG.

But while they should be denied their bonuses, the criminals for whom we should re-open Gitmo are Phil Gramm, John Boner, and the other Republicans who changed laws reaching back to the Republican Great Depression of the 1930s to prevent exactly these types of scams.

Reopen Gitmo! Get it ready for the Republicans!

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On the Program - Jan 29th 2009

Jan. 29, 2009 6:54 am

By Thom Hartmann A...

Quote: "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -- Thomas Pain. The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

Hour One - Should Gitmo be used for those who raped and pillaged our economy?

Guest: Professor Harvey Kaye www.uwgb.edu/SCD/KAYE.HTM Topic: Thomas Paine's birthday (plus Obama quoted Paine in his Inaugural speech)

Guest: Joe "the plumber" Wurzelbacher www.pjtv.com

Hour Two - Tony Blankley www.americangritbook.com www.edelman.com for the PR Firm) Topic: His new book "American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century"

"Advertiser Success" AM 1090 Progressive Talk (KPTK) Mike Radice www.greenwoodhardware.com

Hour Three – Former President Jimmy Carter www.cartercenter.org Topic: His new book "We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work"

Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the Radar

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January 27 2009 show notes

Jan. 28, 2009 4:25 pm

By Thom Hartmann A...

Guest: Dan Gainor, the T. Boone Pickens Fellow and the Vice President of the Business & Media Institute. Why are conservatives freaked out by local governments addressing climate change?

Guest: Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. John Conyers has subpoenaed Karl Rove to appear February 2nd.

Guest: Tax attorney Roni Deutch. Tax Tips for tax time.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

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On the Program - Jan 28th 2009

Jan. 28, 2009 9:35 am

By Thom Hartmann A...

Quote: "There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed." -- Lao Tzu

Hour One - Dean Baker www.cepr.net Topic: "Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy"

Hour Two - Wendy Gelberg www.gentlejobsearch.com Topic: Get a job!...w/callers

Hour Three - Tom Philbin www.sourcebooks.com Topic: The Killer Book of Serial Killers: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia From The World Of Serial Killers