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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
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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With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
From Screwed:
"Once again, Thom Hartmann hits the bull’s eye with a much needed exposé of the so-called ‘free market.’ Anyone concerned about the future of our nation needs to read Screwed now."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Thom Hartmann is a creative thinker and committed small-d democrat. He has dealt with a wide range of topics throughout his life, and this book provides an excellent cross section. The Thom Hartmann Reader will make people both angry and motivated to act."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
It's really gross, America, has become a Klectocracy.
Martha Steward went to jail on one little lie, how come trump and family are still walking around. America should be outraged, and mad as hell, and go after the liars.
In the 1980s I heard, to make money invest in health care products and services. I asked myself how can a moral person make money on the unfortunate health experiences of others? Since then I have learned there are many immoral people and CEOs.
I have no problem with property rights of which, capitalism is one expression. What is obscene, it seems to me, is that by incremental democratic process over the past 40 some years "We the People" have for one, allowed a few to gain absolute control over the communications megaphone. Now in control of the medium these few, shaping the message and collective thought to their super minority ends.
Responding to their anti-regulatory, anti-tax message, the message of the #billionaireclass expressed through their republican minions "We" have permitted restraint against irresponsible corporate behavior as well as the tax obligation of real and for the moment corporate persons to be reduced to almost negligible or one might even say negligent propotions.
The upshot being that while we live seemingly free, free to dress as we please, to associate with whom we please, to speak our minds, to travel; when viewed through an economic frame I ask, who is free that must labor sun up to sun down for compensation that bears no reflection to fair share of the wealth of our individual and collective labors, the volume of wealth we have produced? The answer is no one.
When viewed through this economic frame I ask further, how is our present reality any different from that of the worker of 250 years ago, the pre-revolutionary worker? It isn't; only the labels have changed. The masses labor to the benefit of a few.
For the first 150 years or so following the American Revolution, little changed. Then came the final insult, the crash of 29. Finally, Americans expressed the truly revolutionary promise of our revolution that in throwing off the shackles of monarchy "We the People" unlike the past wherein the only response to tyranny was violence, "We", the masses were now able to assure each could access or build a path to accessing fair share of the wealth of our labor; the vehicle, democratic process. By democratic process, we could insure that the apex alpha class of our society paid tax in proportion to their wealth, income and profits.
That my friends is the truly revolutionary outcome of our revolution, the masses for the first time in history could tax the property owner, thereby maintain the greatest portion of wealth in circulation and accessible. This reality is obscured in the question polled here and is moot when and if the the "People" exercise their democratic authority "...to promote the general Welfare".
#Taxthebillionaireclass
America is fat, lazy, and getting old; that's why Clinton lost, and the opposite as it seems.
TxPeon, Judy Blue Eyes, and CharlesN have done a great job explaining the truth about what is going on. They are examples of people who are awake. They know that people have up to 3 jobs, trying to keep up with the bills.
Thomm has done a great job on the radio telling how people over 65 are LITTERALY DYING on the job. They have to pay bills too, and retriement money isn't enough these days.