Yes! Let's stand up for our teachers and cops and firefighters and janitors - Roll back the Reagan tax cuts!
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No! Hands off the Wall Street executives who got bailed out and paid themselves billions of dollars.
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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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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Screwed:
"I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom’s great work, it helps show us the way forward."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
Follow the money. Wall Street engaged in predatory lending on our states pention funds. They sold them ETF's with bogus AAA ratings. When the housing bubble burst (because it wasn't real) those pention funds were hit hard. Why aren't there bankers/brokers in prison and why aren't these banks being fined in-order to replenish the funds they depleted?
Banksters should be held responsible for their actions through the tax code and the penal code. Give th banksters a fair trial but a jury of OUR peers then imprison them for a fair amount of time, 10-20 years is fair. Prison prevents offenders from repeat offenses and deters similar criminal actions in the future.
Carry on the fight!
Get rid of the monetary system altogether! Check out: www.thevenusproject.com and www.zeitgeistmovie.com
No! Why slow their descent into hell?
Why this question is not even being discussed in the national media, in the New York Times, in the corridors of government... is simply obscene. Why instead of immediately going to the most vulnerable parts of our population, the ones who already shoulder the major burden of keeping this government on track, taking one more thing (bargaining rights) from them, and not even looking at the paper trail that leads back to Wall Street, the crooks, banksters, billionaires and money lords, makes it hard to conclude that justice, or anything under that name, reigns in this country. And unless somebody, Obama, perhaps?, begins to take this matter seriously, the tinderbox of righteous fury created by the insanity that has come to govern this country could detonate any moment. It's time the Walkers, the Boehners and the other rich riffraff who run this country from the golf courses get their due.