Thursday 04 August '22 show notes

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Thursday 04 August '22 show notes

Aug. 5, 2022 8:41 am

By SueN

Big Rail Has Been Cutting Cost to the Bones & Workers Are Fed Up! - Dennis Pierce, President - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET).
The New GOP Scheme To Do Away With Social Security & Medicare Unveiled
Joe Walsh's MAGA warning: If Trump is indicted, expect "major violence" - Rep. Joe Walsh, Host, "White Flag w/Joe Walsh" (on Apple podcasts / Former U.S. Congressman (R-IL, 8th District) & former Presidential Candidate / Author, "F*ck Silence: Calling Trump Out for the Cultish, Moronic, Authoritarian Con Man He Is" / Former Republican, now an Independent
The GOP Plan to Purge Un-Loyal Civil Servants Is Going to Be YUGE in 2024
Was the Pentagon, corrupted by Trump, Part of the Jan 6th Coup?
Will These Republicans Go Down In Flames Because Of Abortion?

Thom's blog

How to Fight the New GOP Scheme To Kill Social Security & Medicare

Let's take the first small step rolling back Reagan's neoliberalism by making "incomeâ€ from Social Security, unemployment benefits, and tips tax-free once again!

It's The Ronald Reagan Memorial Competition: which Republican can make the rich richer and the poor poorer the fastest?

This week, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin wants to one-up Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida in this perpetual GOP contest over who can most effectively screw working people.

Johnson wants Congress to vote every year whether or not to continue funding both Social Security and Medicare, while Scott says it should only be every five years.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Big Rail Has Been Cutting Cost to the Bones & Workers Are Fed Up!
- Dennis Pierce, President - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET).

Article: "Rail companies have been cutting costs to the bone, and workers are fed up" by Laura Clawson.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

The New GOP Scheme To Do Away With Social Security & Medicare Unveiled

Article: "How to Fight the New GOP Scheme To Kill Social Security & Medicare " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ronald Reagan and Social Security Taxes" by EconomIntersect.

Article: "Taxes: What people forget about Reagan" by CNNMoney.

Article: "COVID-19 Tax Relief Added to Increasing Share of Households Paying No Income Tax" by Garrett Watson.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Forbes 400 Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Many Ordinary Americans" by Julia Cusick.

Article: "61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020, Tax Policy Center says" by Robert Frank.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Just Proposed a Massive Overhaul of Social Security" by Sean Williams.

Article: "Wandering Tax Pro Remembers The Tax Reform Act of 1986" by Peter J Reilly.

Article: "Ron Johnson calls for subjecting Medicare and Social Security to annual budget talks" by Bill Glauber.

Article: "Service Charges Gain as Tips Are Taxed" by NYT.

Article: "An 11 point plan to rescue America" by Rick Scott.

Article: "Leaked video puts Romney campaign on defensive again" by Philip Rucker.

Article: "Four current, former Louisville police officers federally charged in Breonna Taylor's death" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, Sonia Moghe and Hannah Rabinowitz.

Article: "Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years in Russian prison after conviction on drug charges" by CBS/AP.

Article: "DeSantis Suspends State Attorney Who Vowed to Not Enforce Florida Abortion Law " by Brian Hamacher.

Article: "Amtrak" by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of rail transportation in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Acela" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antitrust in the Reagan administration" by Willard F. Mueller.

Article: "Biden Elevates Fight Against Monopolies as Next Step in Economic Revival" by Sasha Abramsky.

Article: "Ron DeSantis is drawing Democrats out of the equation in Florida" by Paul LeBlanc.

Article: "Florida governor signs law to make ex-felons pay fines before voting" by Orion Rummler.

Article: "Charlie Crist" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nikki Fried" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Doing the Math on the Inflation Reduction Act" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Vivian Giang, Stephen Gandel, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and David F. Gallagher.

Video: Senator Elizabeth Warren talks inflation reduction and avoiding political catnip.

Article: "Warren: Biden 'should be running' in 2024" by Brady Knox.

Hour Two: Joe Walsh's MAGA warning: If Trump is indicted, expect "major violence"
- Rep. Joe Walsh, Host, "White Flag w/Joe Walsh" (on Apple podcasts / Former U.S. Congressman (R-IL, 8th District) & former Presidential Candidate / Author, "F*ck Silence: Calling Trump Out for the Cultish, Moronic, Authoritarian Con Man He Is" / Former Republican, now an Independent

Article: "Joe Walsh's MAGA warning: If Trump is indicted, expect "major violence"" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "Eschatology" (end times) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Armageddon" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Article: "Kyrsten Sinema" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Killing of Jayland Walker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Murder of Laquan McDonald" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of killings by law enforcement officers by country" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country" by Wikipedia.

The GOP Plan to Purge Un-Loyal Civil Servants Is Going to Be YUGE in 2024

Article: "Scoop: 2024 GOP hopefuls back Trump's plan to purge civil servants" by Alayna Treene.