Highlights on the Show...February 22 - 26, 2010
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Monday
Hour Three: Can "Made in the USA" make a comeback? Thom speaks with UAW Vice President Bob King www.uaw.org
Tuesday
Hour Two: Economic inequality and the future of the middle class...why it matters! Thom talks with Bruce Judson, author of "It Could Happen Here: America on the Brink" itcouldhappenhere.com
Hour Three: What happens to America if China devalues its currency? Thom speaks with international economics experts Marshall Auerback www.newdeal20.org and Eamonn Fingleton www.unsustainable.org
Wednesday
Hour Three: "A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy ...do animals deserve rights?" Thom confronts Wesley Smith, author of a new book on the animal rights movement www.discovery.org/p/13
Thursday
Hour Two: Is it time for a third industrial revolution? Thom talks with Jeremy Rifkin, from The Foundation of Economic Trends www.foet.org
Hour Three: Is America about to "Return to Prosperity"? Thom challenges conservative economist Arthur Laffer about his new book www.arduinlaffermoore.com; plus Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, author of "Freefall", joins me in studio www.penguin.ca
Friday
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions www.sanders.senate.gov
Upcoming Events with Thom Hartmann:
Friday, March 5th - 6 to 8pm, Denver, CO - AM 760 presents Thom and David Sirota taking opposite sides "Is it Time to Abandon the Democratic Party?" Tickets are $10 at AM760.net
Comments
#2
CREDIT CHECKS for Jobs?
Thom: please cover this serious topic of how employers, including the federal government, run credit checks as part of their background checks for most potential hires (even non-financial positions). It is good business for credit bureaus, good business for the government contractor firms who perform these checks... But a disaster and possibly a discriminatory practice for many non-wealthy Americans who are just trying to earn a living. This practice is classism, at least.
LINK:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35512038/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/
#3
Thom - I wish you would not have contacted PETA to discuss animal rights. They are about as educated on animal rights as Sarah Palin is on foreign policy.
#4
Science News - "Magic" Energy Box
The Bloom Box may be an important future source of clean energy. This story was featured on last Sunday's "60 Minutes." A shorter story was hightlighted on MSNBC. Fascinating (video):
#5
Gingrich Points One Finger at Obama; 4 Fingers Point Back at Republicans: "Gov't. is Smart, You're Stupid"
Excellent summary of Republican/Democratic polices since Eisenhower (video):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olb...
#6
Rep. Anthony Weiner: Righteous Anger on the House Floor
Video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#3557...
#7
It is interesting that, just as majority leader Steny Hoyer started to introduce the idea of the public option, TV channels that were carrying the health care meeting went to commercials.
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thom can you explain to us once again ,how mitt romney created his wealth?