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Both Red & Blue states want to go green!
Congress may be divided on the issue of climate change, but the vast majority of Americans agree that we must do more to protect our planet. According to EcoWatch.com, even people in red states understand that the our nation has “a responsibility to take steps to deal with climate change.” A new study from the Program for Public Consultation found that about 80 percent of people in both red and blue districts believe that global warming is real, and that we should be doing more to fight it.
Our elected lawmakers can't even agree on whether or not the climate is changing, yet 60 percent of Americans say they'd be willing to pay more for energy to protect our planet. A majority of those surveyed said that “climate change should be given priority even if it causes slower economic growth and loss of jobs.” These statistics prove that the Congressional divide on climate science has nothing to do with what voters want, or with what's best for the American people. Republicans blocking climate actions would rather protect their fossil fuel industry donations than protect the future of our planet.
As EcoWatch points out, the oil, coal, and natural gas industries have donated more than $320 million dollars to federal candidates, super PACs, and political parties over the last decade. Some members of Congress are perfectly fine with letting our planet burn, as long as they keep getting piles of fossil fuel industry cash. This is how it all comes together. In order to save our planet, we have to take our democracy back from the corporate elite. Let's get money out of politics and elect lawmakers who are accountable to We The People.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Peggy Liu, Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Conversations with Great Minds - Peggy Liu, Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) 
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -- Alice Walker, activist/author of numerous books (fiction & non-fiction and poetry) including The Color Purple.
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.
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
I'll have a conversation with Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan who was arrested/convicted and jailed after being assaulted by a police officer...we'll hear her story and what she's doing now to reform inmate's rights....
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Thom's Poll
Should Washington, DC become the 51st state?
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In the 2010 mid-term election, 37% of eligible voters voted for their US Representatives, per the US Census. That is wretched and it let the Tea Party in. No wonder we get shafted. We aren't voting and we are just giving the elections to the GOP.I would like someone in the know to let me know why so many eligible poor voters don't vote. I know many have just given up on politics. It is said everywhere I have read that the more people who vote the better it is for Democrats. What is stopping the Democratic Leaders from hiring a virtual army of people who need jobs to register, ID and transport people to vote? I think they can come up with the money if they didn't waste it on TV ads, and other mechanisms which don't work for midterm elections. I find it curious they have never done this because it would virtually put the GOP out of business and the people back in business. Would some sophisticated, knowledgeable person please tell me explicitly why the Dems have not accomplished this?
Not a clue.