Daily Topics - Thursday July 9th, 2015
By shawnt56
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Our newest video is here! Watch RESTORATION - plus check out CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners
Hour One: Brunch With Bernie - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: The Bush Family Wants You To Work MORE Hours...!!
Hour Three: Why doesn't Cruz Blast SCOTUS for Stealing 2000 Election?
Comments
#2
I can't get it down to five words either, but here's my best: Democratic socialism is strong governmental protection of the middle class.
Alice has been looking for a replacement for capitalism. We could include mandatory co-op structuring of businesses, and I'd throw in forbidding non-dividend stock.
#3
Gerrymandering could not have affected the gubernatorial race in Florida, but I had been unaware that Rick Scott didn't get a majority and beat Charlie Crist 48.1%-47.1%. Who knows how it would have turned out if Florida required a run-off when there's no majority?
#4
Thom said the law should make financial companies answer "Are you a banker or a brokerage house?"
So maybe the banksters should be called brokesters. Seems appropriate, since they made (and make) a lot of people broke.
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So, Bernie has been on the cutting edge on so many issues. I'm wondering: Has he (and has Thom) seen Cowspiracy, & would he be willing to endorse veganism as the most efficient route to restoring the planet?