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Republicans suddenly love tax increases...
Republicans hate tax increases... unless they're part of Paul Ryan's budget plan. The adoption of $600 billion in new revenue, fought for by President Obama and opposed by Congressional Republicans, is just one of the many surprises in Paul Ryan's new GOP budget. According to Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz, new revenue generated from ending the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthy is included in the GOP plan because Republicans lost on the tax issue. Despite their doomsday predictions that Obama's tax plan would crush so-called job-creators and harm the economy, Republicans are now happy to make them part of the Paul Ryan budget.
When Democrats projected $600 billion in savings from decreased war spending, Paul Ryan dismissed the idea as “phantom savings” - yet now he has those very same projections as part of his own budget proposal. Despite incorporating multiple Obama policies in their budget, don't think Republicans are giving up on their austerity measures just yet. In typical GOP fashion, Ryan's budget calls for huge cuts to vital social service programs, like food stamps, job training, Medicare, and Medicaid.
And just in case those cuts wouldn't be painful enough, Ryan's entire budget hinges on the repeal of Obamacare. Without defunding healthcare for millions of Americans, his numbers don't add up. Considering the fact that Obama has repeatedly said he would veto any attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and Democrats in the Senate would block any such legislation, we can only conclude that Paul Ryan knows his budget is doomed to fail.
It's clear that Republicans have no intention of working with the President to negotiate an honest, realistic budget plan. Ryan's budget is a farce, aimed at scoring political points with the tea party base, rather than helping the American people.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Former Iran President says "Argo is wrong" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Former Iran President says "Argo is wrong"- Robert Parry, Consortium News / "America's Stolen Narrative" 
Screwed: Privatize schools...teach hippies are dirty- Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers
The Best of the Rest...
Everything You Know is Wrong - Addiction's Shrinking Gender Gap- Kelly Bourdet, The Fix, Alternet, Vice Magazine
Daily Take: Why Chavez chose social safety net over skyscrapers
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all." -- Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, leader of Burma's democracy movement.
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday / Happy International Women's Day
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..." Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..."
Hour Three: Co-sponsored (w/US Rep Gary Peters D-MI,14) legislation to spur the development of new clean auto technologies- Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Former Iranian President says "Argo was wrong"
Hour Two: Hartmann vs. Ferrara - Keynesian Economics- Peter Ferrara, The Carleson Center for Public Policy.
Hour Three: Saving our social safety net from Wall Street hustlers- Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR, 4th District)
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the latest news on the state of the sequester plus what's happening in Congress this week...
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
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Thom's Poll
Has Fukushima made people aware of the dangers of nuclear power?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
If Women Were in Charge...
Conversations with Great Minds - Dale Stephens, Hacking Your Education - P1
Conversations with Great Minds - Dale Stephens, Hacking Your Education - P2
Rumble - Decriminalize the Smoking of Heroin?
Rumble - Is Rand Paul Picking up the Ron Paul Mantle?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 3/8/13: If Women Were In Charge...
Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses Rand Paul's filibuster, Republicans embrace of Obamacare's pre-existing conditions provision and if legalizing the smoking of heroin to prevent people from injecting it a good idea. In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with author Dale J. Stephens about his new book, "Hacking Your Education: Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will." In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains how our world would be if women were in charge.
Thom Hartmann on The News: March 8, 2013
Clean Auto Technologies
Caller: Time to Phase Out Social Security
Caller: The Sequester isn't That Bad!
Brunch With Bernie: March 8, 2013
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Thom..since you're obviously good buddies w Bernie, you may know that Vermont has a fairly high level of (not just opiate, but) heroin abuse in its adult, slowly becoming impoverished, middle class.
Being our finest Senator, he could initiate a major reform policy in his state by, as in Western Europe, etc., making it (heroin) available by medical Rx...and opening the national drug scene's vision a bit more...and pissing off the cartels, ? Maybe..