Tuesday 04 May '21 show notes

  • Nomadland Exposes the Middle-Class Rip-Off - Forty years of Reaganism and trickle-down economics have left America pockmarked with refugee camps and people hanging onto life by their fingernails.
  • What Will the GOP Look Like in 5 Years?
  • Please Explain Why Cutting Taxes on People Making Less Than $75,000 and upping taxes on those over $400,000 is not a good idea? - Dan J. Mitchell PhD, Co-founder - Center for Freedom and Prosperity & Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation
  • Crazy Alert - Melinda Gates/Dr. Fauci Romance?!
  • How Do We Vaccinate the World? - Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Trade Watch
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Nomadland Exposes the Middle-Class Rip-Off
Thom plus logo Forty years of Reaganism and trickle-down economics have left America pockmarked with refugee camps and people hanging onto life by their fingernails.

The award-winning movie Nomadland is every bit as brilliant as the reviews, but it's also, for this era, a hell of a wake-up call.

Chloé Zhao's film is a brilliant drama centered around a central character named Fern (with a stellar performance by Frances McDormand), struggling to survive after the loss of her husband, job and home.

In addition to it being a great movie, at an only slightly deeper level it raises vitally important questions about how we've structured our economy and social safety net in America.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Tuesday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: Nomadland Exposes the Middle-Class Rip-Off - Forty years of Reaganism and trickle-down economics have left America pockmarked with refugee camps and people hanging onto life by their fingernails.
Article: "Nomadland Exposes the Middle-Class Rip-Off" by Thom Hartmann.
Movie: "Nomadland".
Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.
What Will the GOP Look Like in 5 Years?
Tweet: "The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system." by Liz Cheney.
Article: "Nelson Rockefeller's Last Stand" by Richard Norton Smith.
Article: "Goldwater's 1964 Acceptance Speech", 1964. "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Article: "All The World's A Stage" by Dennis Weaver.
Book: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Article: "Andrew Mellon" by Wikipedia.
Article: "History of Federal Income Tax Rates: 1913 - 2019" by Bradford Tax Institute.
Quote: "As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped" - Marriner S. Eccles.
Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Arthur Laffer" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Please Explain Why Cutting Taxes on People Making Less Than $75,000 and upping taxes on those over $400,000 is not a good idea?
- Dan J. Mitchell PhD, Co-founder - Center for Freedom and Prosperity & Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation @CFandP @danieljmitchell
Article: "National Debt" by U.S. Treasury.
Article: "Economic history of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Social Environments for World Happiness 2020" by World Happiness Report.
Article: "The Richest People In America" by Forbes.
Article: "French Revolution" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo.
Article: "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.
Crazy Alert - Melinda Gates/Dr. Fauci Romance?!
Article: "Biden's Racist Presidency" by Joseph Klein.
Article: "Biden vs. Biden on 'Is America a Racist Country?'" by Patrick J. Buchanan.
Book: On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
Quote: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" - attributed to John Steinbeck.
Book: The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin.

Hour Three: How Do We Vaccinate the World?
- Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Trade Watch @politicalbrief
Article: "The US and EU must waive the patents" by Lori Wallach.
Article: "Congressional Budget Office Scores Medicare-For-All: Universal Coverage For Less Spending" by Adam Gaffney David Himmelstein Steffie Woolhandler.
Article: "Declaration of Independence". "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

he United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976
Site: "Voqal".
Article: "Polio eradication" by Wikipedia.
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