Daily Topics - Thursday September 27th, 2012
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Why isn't Anderson Cooper an enemy of the state also? / Plus, does Romney want to "harvest" the middle class for profits?
Hour Two: The GOP's "big lie" about our social safety net - Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - can you smell the psychopath in the room???
Hour Three: Palm Beach, FL...focus of GOP voter fraud scandal? Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog / Plus, will Romney lie at the debate? Ben LaBolt, Barack Obama 2012
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Thom overlooked one thing on Social Security statements when he suggested that they shouldn't be sent out. That might be applicable to showing estimated benefits; but people still need to verify the earnings posted. I don't know if it has changed but it used to be that you had 3 years to correct any errors, after 3 years errors are not corrected, even if Social Security made a mistake. That means if some of your wages are omitted or less than they should be, if you don't correct within 3 years, too bad.
Dan
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.
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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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At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
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Thom,
Washington state does have mail in ballots. I just moved here a year ago and I have been mailed ballots and you have the choice of either mailing it back or delivering it in person to your county seat. For me that would be Colfax WA which is 15 miles away so I chose to mail it in. Since a stamp is chaeper than gas.