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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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From Screwed:
"I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom’s great work, it helps show us the way forward."
From Screwed:
"Hartmann speaks with the straight talking clarity and brilliance of a modern day Tom Paine as he exposes the intentional and systematic destruction of America’s middle class by an alliance of political con artists and outlines a program to restore it. This is Hartmann at his best. Essential reading for those interested in restoring the institution that made America the envy of the world."
From Cracking the Code:
"No one communicates more thoughtfully or effectively on the radio airwaves than Thom Hartmann. He gets inside the arguments and helps people to think them through—to understand how to respond when they’re talking about public issues with coworkers, neighbors, and friends. This book explores some of the key perspectives behind his approach, teaching us not just how to find the facts, but to talk about what they mean in a way that people will hear."
What will help everybody is if Obama enacts a comprehensive Ban on all money in politics! And to that end if he has to call in the army for help so be it! He should.
The only way worker movements will get any tread at all is apealing to the solidarity of all American Workers, past, current and future!
I believe the very propaganda the Fascists have inflicted upon America and the world will be their undoing, as it proved that you can MAKE THE POPULATION BELIEVE LIES. These Corporate CRIMINALS are going to choke on what happens when people have the TRUTH to stand together on!
As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me...They think, deep down, that they are better than we are.” Our nation's responses to the climate crisis, the federal deficit, our economic stagnation and many of our other serious challenges are still being held hostage by people who manifest a detachment from reality as profound as that of schizophrenics. We are still allowing a powerful elite, who behave like psychopaths, to steer our government towards protecting their interests at the expense of everyone else. The greatest threat to the United States will never be Al Qaeda, Russia, China or Iran. It will be our failure to wrest control of public policy from the inmates of our own insane asylum.
We desperately NEED Public financing of elections .As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me...They think, deep down, that they are better than we are.” Our nation's responses to the climate crisis, the federal deficit, our economic stagnation and many of our other serious challenges are still being held hostage by people who manifest a detachment from reality as profound as that of schizophrenics. We are still allowing a powerful elite, who behave like psychopaths, to steer our government towards protecting their interests at the expense of everyone else. The greatest threat to the United States will never be Al Qaeda, Russia, China or Iran. It will be our failure to wrest control of public policy from the inmates of our own insane asylum.
The only way things will change is if the people speak up for what is right for all. There is power in numbers.
When the wokers get involved in anything it is good for the workers. Not getting involved is good for the corporate greed. Corporate profits are through the roof while wages are at the lowest compared to gdp. I think workers need to take a stand against the greed to stimulate the economy.
I'd just like to applaud the commentary submitted by "rruppena". I could not have said it better. - Aliceinwonderland
As an afterthought, what occurs to me is yet another weapon in the owner class's arsenal: outsourcing! If Yankee workers get too uppity, all those parasites have to do is pack it in, give us our pink slips and.... bon voyage! Plenty of slave labor to be had In China, Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador, India, Pakistan ad nauseam. Remember, we're dispensable now! - Aliceinwonderland