January 2011

Thom Hartmann: 20 minutes past the hour. Okay, as I said, we’ve got two choices. Now maybe there’s others that I’m missing. But I think that at the most, at the biggest most macro level, in order to pay off our debt, or in order to reduce our debt, which is brought to us courtesy of three republican presidents over nine trillion dollars of the US federal debt. Over nine trillion dollars of that debt was incurred during the Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. administrations.

Thom Hartmann: Yeah the banksters, “Oh, it’s just an act of God. It’s the way things work!” No, it’s a scam. 1999, Phil Gramm, Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Deregulate the banks. In the UK, Maggie Thatcher, Tony Blair, ‘Oh yeah let’s deregulate the, let’s become the world, the capital, the money center of the world.’ And what are we seeing now? Banksters based in the UK and the US, based in New York and London, rolling all over the world, wiping out governments. Banksters. And making billions.

• Members of Congress will be sworn in today – and Republicans will officially begin their rule over the 112th session of the United States House of Representatives.
• Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute. Is the honeymoon over before it begins? Health care.
• Steven Marks, homeowner (in Reno, NV) seeking debt relief, fighting Bank of America over mortgage ownership. "Honey, I Shrunk the Credit Score".
  

• 61% of Americans want tax hikes on the wealthy...time for change?
• Rebecca Wales, Spokesperson and Vice President for Smart Girl Politics. Are we headed for a major battle with the Tea Party over the Constitution?
• Congressman Peter DeFazio. What's ahead for the new Congress with the GOP in charge?
• Bumper Music:
  • New Shoes, Paolo Nutini.