YES! Today's wealth gap is greatly hindering our youth’s success.
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YES! As Obama has said income inequality is "the defining challenge of our time."
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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.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."
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."
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."
Yes, and Obama is just a much to blame as the rest of the Democrats and the Republicans. The decline of unions and rise of the corporate oligarcy, of which both parties are owned, also share in the blame. Maybe it's the obvious result of exporting jobs or NAFTA, or unsecured borders and flooding of illegal immigrants which has reduced the availibility of many low wage and entry level jobs that some students or those just entering the workforce would take, and thus driving down wages as competition for these jobs increase; the depressing of wages or the increase in private debt (especially school debt). Perhaps it's the corruption of the political system to the point where "reform" is seen as a punchline in some bad joke.
What has been created is essentially a two tier economic system with little or no hope of much social movement with a declining quality of life, and a small and wealthy political class whose tenure is all but assured through district gerrymandering and Citizens United; an oligarcy in place of our democratic republic.