Daily Topics - Tuesday October 28th, 2014
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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: What has greed cost America?
Hour Two: Food fight...the 'right' to be unhealthy? - Baylen Linnekin, Keep Food Legal
Hour Three: FINALLY...some good news about fracking! J. David Hughes, Post Carbon Institute
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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From Screwed:
"The powers that be are running roughshod over the powers that OUGHT to be. Hartmann tells us what went wrong — and what you and I can do to help set American right again."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
So is greed to selfishness as anger is to hatred--that is to say, in each pair is the former an action, and the latter an attitude?
A certain amount of selfishness is good. Even Mother Theresa had to make sure to have food, clothing and shelter for herself, or she wouldn't have been able to help anyone else.
Excessive selfishness, or greed, on the other hand, is practically the definition of evil. Greed is a lack of egalitarianism, a habit of unfairness in one's own favor.
So we have a difference between fair selfishness and unfair selfishness. Greed is the unfair sort.