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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"With the ever-growing influence of corporate CEOs and their right-wing allies in all aspects of American life, Hartmann’s work is more relevant than ever. Throughout his career, Hartmann has spoken compellingly about the value of people-centered democracy and the challenges that millions of ordinary Americans face today as a result of a dogma dedicated to putting profit above all else. This collection is a rousing call for Americans to work together and put people first again."
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"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."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
Bernie has a lot of good ideas and experience but nothing will change unless we elect progressives in both houses, otherwise we'll just see more obstruction and propaganda from Republicans and the media they control.
More people need to register to vote to make that difference.
I hope so, both are right answers actually.
Actually both! Hi Thom I spoke to you last week on your show. Through my Facebook page BERN It UP I was able to reach out to over 80,000 people to contact CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC to tell them they better start paying attention to Bernie. As I told you on your show I have also been posting info about your show, Brunch with Bernie and Free Speech TV in general. I'm 62 years old, on a fixed income and went through bankruptcy two years ago causing me to lose a home and my business. I'm also a ham N3BBI. Thank you and keep up the good work Thom. Mike Pandolfo
Give up on the notion that the two well-financed parties, an exclusive duopoly sharing power from 1853-present is something more than an ideal control mechanism for the ruling class. I say ideal because their money can have the greatest effect now that the career politician project and its attendant gerrymandering leaves very few competitive districts with the swing votes that matter with any legislative proposal. 30,000 K Street lobbyists can work over that small element of Congress, and also quite easily with the carrot or the stick. Before I hear about spending or taxes, I'd really like to see honest accounting ("generally accepted accounting principles") replace the inaccurate and misleading accounting that brings us the on-budget/off-budget shell game and things like so-called trust funds to support social benefit programs that don't meet the legal, accounting, or fiduciary definition of a trust. They're accounting gimmicks that don't mean a thing when cash accounting on one side of the budget isn't being reconciled with accrual accounting on the other side. This chaos is deliberate; when only cash is being accounted for in the open, unaccountable federal land grants, mining rights and timber rights created great fortunes in the 19th century and the concentrated wealth that was able to land the Big One. With the creation of the Federal Reserve, 100% privately-owned by its private member banks, the power to create money was assigned to a small and private group of powerful men. Their two-party toy is all about spin, a tool for the Harry Truman maxim: "If you can't convince them, confuse them."