Thom - you mentioned on your show today your upcoming book, "The Crash of 2015" (did I get the title right?).

According to what I've been hearing primarily from Mike Ruppert, if he's right, you're timing may be unfortunate as you may be releasing your book right when the crash is actually ocurring. He's predicting that the crash will come next month, due in large part to repercussions of Fukishima, though the fundamental cause of the decline is Peak Oil. I wrote more about it last month here.

Be that as it may, I love your show, listen to it every day, and find you the most credible and intelligent voice on the radio.

Thank You.

I agree with you that separating social from business interests would work much better. While I'm not very economically inclined, I am philosophically educated. Those who defaulted, under the very rules of capitalism, needed to fall by the wayside. The concern that so many workers could be unemployed is valid, but all those funds could have put workers to work in building America's crumbling infrastructure. Rather than encouraging Wall Street to continue playing games, such a move would have discouraged this errant corporate behavior.

Until we can encourage or incentivise citizens who want to actually "serve", we will keep the system that rewards those who mostly "self-serve". Taking elections and corporate personhood out of this society now is the hard part which Thom seems to think we have time to do. I favor the more revolutionary approach of we the people out in the streets and conducting general strikes to try to force the changes we really do need. By corrected laws, corporations could be forced to comply with equitable laws that protect workers. At the very least they need to Pay for their use of the Commons along with the receipt and profits from OUR collective natural resources. I really did not say anything that you did not say here. Thanks for reading and commenting if you will. Peace, J :o)

It's all over! Yes, it's all over!

For several months now, I have been of the mind that the only objective the republicans have is to defeat Pres. Obama in 2012. They think they can do this by not allowing any legislation , which has to do with creating jobs, to reach the floor. No jobs=no votes for Obama. The lack of knowledge on the part of the voting public will contribute to their victory. Most Americans think that it is up to the President to create jobs which, to some extent , is true. What they fail to understand is that small businesses create jobs and with the banks not loaning to entreprenures there is no money to finance new businesses. The whole thing is a huge conspiracy involving the right wing, Wall Street, and too large to fail banks.

Great Radio Thom --

Great leadership in creating a media forum for education that matters, with insight that helps, heals, and inspires. Thank you for setting the standard for media presence with the courage to face extremely painful and complex realities with both emotional compassion and skill-building intellect. We are extremely grateful, especially as the din of the "high school hallway" that is contemporary media escalates.

One thing cannot be ignored, is ignored by those who wish to raise the minimum wage: Prices. Go. Up.

Usually about 2 weeks after raising the minimum wage, fast food prices rise. This isn't just some conservative rant, I saw it. I was hoping to buy what I buy every once in awhile for a buck. It wasn't a buck anymore, it was $1.30. 30 cents? Not a big deal right? Well, when that hike is spread across grocery stores, etc then it becomes a B-I-G issue.

I'm as big an opponent as any of voodoo economics and tax cuts for the rich, but I'm at the bottom as far as wages go. I don't make minimum, but I barely make above poverty level. This is the view of a man, a husband and father who must provide for his family and do the best he can. A minimum wage hike doesn't benefit me, and screws me when stores raise their prices to "compensate."

If the minimum wage is raised it *must* include a clause that forces prices to remain the same. If not, all you've done is screwed everybody (except the rich) by raising it.

The Republicans are intentionally sabotaging our economy and our country as a whole. They attack the elderly, the disabled, the impoverished and the sick to give to the very rich. They are as obvious as blatant and proud of it. GOP proves this in their attempts to re-write our country's history into a twisted, fascist kaleidoscope of lies from the textbooks of our children to the powers of our Supreme Court, from the judicial & legislative to the executive branches of our government. They hail oppression, inequality and indifference, all this country's Constitution opposes. The GOP's running theme in all their policies is genocide. They are genocidal against our natural resources, economy, our government, our Constitution and indeed our people. They are obvious, they are blatant and they are proud of it. The question is: What are we going to do about it? Anything?

Obama’s Bushism
December 8, 2010
By Michael Hudson

"I almost feel naïve for being so angry at President Obama’s betrayal of his campaign promises regarding taxes. I had never harbored much hope that he actually intended to enact the reforms that his supporters expected – not after he appointed the most right-wing of the Clintonomics gang, Larry Summers, then Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke and other Bush neoliberals.

But there is something so unfair and wrong that I could not prevent myself from waking up early Tuesday morning to think through the consequences of President Obama’s sellout in the years to come. Contrary to his pretense of saving the economy, his action will intensify debt deflation and financial depression, paving the way for a long-term tax shift off wealth onto labor.

In achieving a giveaway that Democrats never would have let George Bush or other Republicans enact, Obama has laid himself open to the campaign slogan that brought down British Prime Minister Tony Blair: “You can’t believe a word he says.” He has lost support not only personally, but also – as the Republicans anticipate – for much of his party in 2012.

Yet Obama has only done what politicians do: He has delivered up his constituency to his campaign backers – the same Wall Street donors who back the Republicans. What’s the point of having a constituency, after all, if you can’t sell it?"

http://michael-hudson.com/2010/12/obamas-bushism/

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Hang on, Thom. You completely missed the nail in the conversation. Ben Shapiro came on the program to complain about discrimination in Hollywood against Conservatives. He then says things like "people on the left are bigots" and that if you were found to have given money to the Prop 8 effort (a conservative effort), that you would likely be passed over for a job in Hollywood. He even states that discrimination should be unacceptable in Hollywood and that conservatives are for equal rights for all, but PROP 8 IS INHERENTLY A BIGOTED, DISCRIMINATORY POLICY! All Hollywood is doing, in this case, is discriminating against the discriminators! Listen, stating that discrimination is not OK and by that logic excluding people with established discriminitatory policies is not, in itself, discriminatory in a bad sense. Ben's entire argument is part and parcel the conservative debate tactic of stating, emphatically, that YOU are but what am I?

Cognitive dissonance at its finest.