Daily Topics - Monday March 28th, 2011
By shawnt56
Truthout proudly presents Thom Hartmann's book, "Unequal Protection" Click here for the latest chapter
Hour One: 500,000 Brits take to the streets...where was the mainstream media? Erica Sagrans, Think Progress / Plus, Latest on the War on democracy - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine / And, students take back America - David Vines, Autonomous Solidarity
Hour Two: Is Fukushima already worse than Chernobyl? Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear
Hour Three: Should we abandon the social safety net...get a job? Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum / Plus, are mandated drug tests unconstitutional? Howard Simon, ACLU of Florida
Comments
#2
There is a large number of corporations that intentionally abuse the system . . . Ms Lukas, what message does that send?
#3
Ms Lukas's argument assumes that folk are being warehoused by welfare devoid of any positive effects within the society. If for no other reason that expanding the sales tax base, she in wrong.
#4
I never seize to be amazed at how, narrow minded the conservative view on social safety nets really is. It makes only sense if they live on a different planet. The argument to abandon welfare because there are some bad apples in the system who could use it to get a free ride is misguided. It does not make any sense. To cut a whole system because of a small minority who slacks off will cut short the greater good it can do for a much bigger portion of the population who use it constructively to get back on their feet, which then again is of benefit for the country as a whole. In my mind there is something inherently unpatriotic about this, and it has nothing to do with rich, poor, good or bad. It is an ideology that is so 'reverse current' of everything that makes sense, because the same people who want to destroy social safety nets argue for tax money in form of bail outs and obscene bonuses to a moiority of banksters who caused the system to collapse in the first place; and pull the carpet away from that very part of the population that is then dependent on social safety nets. Since none of this makes any logical sense, I wonder if the whole conservative agenda is not rather based on some form of neurosis rather than political ideology, and if it is, I wonder if there is a form of cure for it, and if there isn't, I wonder when they will stop, after everything is destroyed?
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
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
From Screwed:
"If we are going to live in a Democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class. Thom Hartmann shows us how the ‘cons’ have wronged this country, and tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American."
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 The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Right through the worst of the Bush years and into the present, Thom Hartmann has been one of the very few voices constantly willing to tell the truth. Rank him up there with Jon Stewart, Bill Moyers, and Paul Krugman for having the sheer persistent courage of his convictions."
Ms Lukas is absolutely incorrect. Liberty requires a baseline.
May she find any future time in an unemployment line, not onerous but be grateful that our great nation provides for folk that need it . . . That is if she ever moves back to America.