Daily Topics - Thursday July 19th, 2012
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Who's the richest country in the world? "We're #1"...NOT! Logan Clement, Freestar Media LLC
Hour Two: Business...you can't do it alone, can you? Mark Williams, MarkTalk / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - Where do animals get their magnetic sense from?
Hour Three: Talking back to Antonin Scalia...
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.
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Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
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Your guest's view of objectivism is flawed. Ayn Rand did not understand that Democracy and Capitalism were the reason for America's success. She would have known this had she grown up in the U.S. Capitalism alone is a nutty philosophy. Democracy can shrink or grow the government depending on its needs. For example, if you want people to go to war for you (as many of the rich do and have done for years), you had better give the soldiers and veterans a shot at "happiness". To paraphase Bill Murray in Ghost busters, if you believe all of Ayn Rand, you never studied.
Rand was, however, helpful in comparing the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Capitalism is indeed a better system than communism.
Keep up the good work Thom.