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A “For the Rich, By the Rich” Economy
There’s more evidence of a widening wealth inequality gap in America thanks to 30-plus years of Reaganomics. According to The Atlantic magazine – two-thirds of all new income in America between 2002 and 2007 went to just the top 1% of Americans. That’s 2 out of every 3 dollars in America being sucked up by the richest of the rich.
Not to mention – that the wealthiest 400 Americans – our nation’s most senior oligarchs, who own more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans – have seen their incomes double over the last twelve years while their tax rates have been cut in half. Talk about a “for the rich, by the rich” economy. Wealth inequality in America is at levels not seen since the 1920’s – and we’re now a more unequal nation than the Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan according to data from the CIA Factbook.
So when the entire American middle class disappears, then can we all accept that Reagan’s vision of America – and the direction that the current Republican Party has this nation headed – will lead us all toward ruin?
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... 3 Reality-Based Charts Your Right-Wing Relatives Will Have a Hard Time Ignoring (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: 3 Reality-Based Charts Your Right-Wing Relatives Will Have a Hard Time Ignoring - Eric Burns, Bullfight Strategies 
Screwed: The Big Business of Islamophobia - Faiz Shakir, Center for American Progress
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GOP: are you naughty or nice... makin' a (watch) list and checkin' it twice - Marie Diamond
Daily Take: Climate change vs. professional wrestling
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Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's " Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the coming weeks. Read the Chapter 14: Unequal Protection from Risk today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln.
Hour One: Is it Obama's bad economy now...majority of Americans still say Bush to blame Brian Hughes, The Washington Examiner
Topic: Is it really "Obama's bad economy now"...or the end result of 30 years of Reaganomics?
Hour Two: What are the Kochs up to now? Robert Greenwald, founder of Brave New Films
Hour Three: Tax cuts for mainstreet too or only for millionaires? Gretchen Hamel, Public Notice
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Thom's Poll
Is it official? Do we now have a “For the Rich, By the Rich” Economy?
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Thom Hartmann on the News - August 29, 2011
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Whatever the issues that bring people out to vote to save this country the will be of no use if the voting machines are rigged. Attention must be paid toward fixing this or the rebublicans have no scrupples about stealing another election. Not only the national races!