Daily Topics - Tuesday October 14th, 2014
By shawnt56
Join Thom in our chatroom during the program!
Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON & LAST HOURS
- both narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Hour One: How Rupert Murdoch killed Ronan Farrow...
Hour Two: Liberty means lower pay for women... Sabrina Schaeffer, Independent Women's Forum
Hour Three: Why are we number one in violence?
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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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"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
From Screwed:
"Once again, Thom Hartmann hits the bull’s eye with a much needed exposé of the so-called ‘free market.’ Anyone concerned about the future of our nation needs to read Screwed now."
From Screwed:
"Hartmann speaks with the straight talking clarity and brilliance of a modern day Tom Paine as he exposes the intentional and systematic destruction of America’s middle class by an alliance of political con artists and outlines a program to restore it. This is Hartmann at his best. Essential reading for those interested in restoring the institution that made America the envy of the world."
I recently got an e-mail newsletter from my Republican so-called representative that was laid out so concisely I had to respond. One of his three bullet points for reforming the Congress was having a balanced-budget amendment.
I explained that war is the primary reason to allow a sovereign government to have debt. Then I told him that the founders were worried about standing armies and paper money--both of which we have now and don't worry about--but explicitly allowed the Congress to borrow money, and there just might be a reason for that.