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Thom Hartmann is a Project Censored Award-winning New York Times bestselling author of 17 books, and host of a nationally syndicated daily progressive talk show carried on the Air America Radio network. His most recent book is "Screwed: The Undeclared War on the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It."

Blog Entries by Thom Hartmann

The New Choice for Young People: Live on the Streets or Take to the Streets?

Posted February 9, 2012 | 2/9/12

Young people are screwed.

Only 54% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 are employed -- that's the lowest number ever recorded since tracking began more than 60 years ago.

There's now a 15% gap in employment between young people and all working Americans...

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Why Does a Routine FAA Spending Bill Include Harsh Anti-union Language?

Posted February 8, 2012 | 2/8/12

The Republican strategy on Capitol Hill of legislating through hostage taking worked Monday -- and now unions are screwed.

House Republicans demanded that a routine FAA spending bill include harsh anti-union language that makes it harder for transportation workers to organize.

The change raises the threshold for seeking...

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How ALEC Is Turning our Democracy Into a Corporatocracy

4 Comments | Posted February 6, 2012 | 2/6/12

Our democracy is screwed.

It's been long speculated that Republican state lawmakers are taking their orders from the shadowy right-wing think tank funded by the Koch Brothers and known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) -- and now there's proof.

It was discovered in Florida...

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Mainstream Media Ignores S&P's Attack On GOP Revenue Intransigence

Posted August 8, 2011 | 8/8/11

Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? "We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the...

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A Tea Party Manifesto for Every Child

Posted May 18, 2010 | 5/18/10

California state Sen. Leland Yee (D) has introduced a bill to stop Texas textbooks from getting into California classrooms. Earlier this year, Texas cut Thomas Jefferson out of textbooks and replaced him with the religious right icon John Calvin -- who argued that riches are the sign of god's blessing...

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The IMF Knows How to Help America

Posted May 17, 2010 | 5/17/10

The Financial Times is reporting that leading nations are still piling up debt even though there's technically been an economic recovery. In particular, the IMF is looking at US debt over the next decade and predicting that it'll be unsustainable if we don't do something quick. Of course, what conservatives...

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Halliburton & BP -- Is it time for the Corporate Death Penalty?

Posted May 3, 2010 | 5/3/10

President Barack Obama pretty much stated the obvious when he called the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico "a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster." The oil well pouring a river of crude into the Gulf of Mexico didn't have the normal type of remote-control shut-off switch used in...

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Threats, Violence Against Congress Show Urgent Need for King Records Act

Posted April 4, 2010 | 4/4/10

Co-authored by Lamar Waldron

Sunday, April 4, 2010 marked the forty-second anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. The recent spate of violence and threats directed at members of Congress evoke all too well the tumult of the 1960s. Seeing a hero of the Civil Rights movement like...

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Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies

Posted February 8, 2010 | 2/8/10

Globalization is killing Europe, just as it's already wiped out much of the American middle class.

Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are paying for...

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Medicare Part E - "Everybody"

Posted September 10, 2009 | 9/10/09

The President yesterday morning admitted on national television that he lost control of the message with health care. It's time to reboot -- and use a very, very, very simple message so all Americans can understand it.

Let's use Medicare, which nearly every American understands. Just create "Medicare...

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Want to Stimulate the Economy? Lower the Retirement Age to 55 Now!

Posted August 24, 2009 | 8/24/09

One of the most powerful forms of stimulus we could apply to our economy right now would be to lower the current Social Security retirement age from the current 65-67 to 55, and increase the benefits back to where they were in inflation-adjusted 1960s dollars by raising them between 10...

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Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

Posted August 18, 2009 | 8/18/09

Dear President Obama,

I understand you're thinking of dumping your "public option" because of all the demagoguery by Sarah Palin and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their crowd on right-wing radio and Fox. Fine. Good idea, in fact.

Instead, let's make it simple. Please let us buy into Medicare.

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Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks

Posted July 27, 2009 | 7/27/09

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that "Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the US. Highly paid employees received nearly $2.1 trillion of the $6.4 trillion in total US pay in 2007, the latest figures available."

One of the questions...

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The Great Tax Con Job

Posted July 21, 2009 | 7/21/09

Republicans are using the T-word -- taxes -- to attack the Obama health care program. It's a strategy based in a lie.

A very small niche of America's uber-wealthy have pulled off what may well be the biggest con job in the history of our republic, and they did it...

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Fox News Military Analyst Continues to Blame the Troops

Posted July 21, 2009 | 7/21/09

Yesterday on Fox News TV Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said,

"I want to be clear. If, when the facts are in, we find out that through some convoluted chain of events, he really was captured by the Taliban, I'm with him. But, if he walked away from his post and...

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Obama Drinks Friedman's Kool-Aid

Posted July 14, 2009 | 7/14/09

Our economy has gone into the toilet over the past 30 years, and President Obama and his advisors think "free trade" is the solution. Like Bill Clinton and both George Bush's, he's so enamored of it he's even recommending it to poor African nations.

Yet "free trade" is a guaranteed...

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After 45 Years, a Civil Rights Hero Waits for Justice

Posted June 12, 2009 | 6/12/09

A great miscarriage of justice has kept most Americas from learning about a Civil Rights pioneer who worked with President John F. Kennedy. But there is finally a way for citizens to not only right that wrong, but bring closure to the most tragic chapter of American presidential history.

After...

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Will Obama Reboot Capitalism Anew?

Posted April 23, 2009 | 4/23/09

Over six million people are now out of work, and unemployment figures released today show that now-record number is continuing to climb. Meanwhile, still-profitable American corporations manufacture goods for American consumption using Chinese labor and pay virtually no income tax by keeping their profits offshore.

A hundred years ago, Republican...

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Thom Hartmann speaks to Donald Trump

Posted April 16, 2009 | 4/16/09

Donald Trump explains to Thom Hartmann why working people shouldn't be allowed to retire early and why he 's furious about paying taxes in New York. He also talks about his new book "Think Like a Champion: How to Succeed in Business and in Life."

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The Real Boston Tea Party was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770s

Posted April 15, 2009 | 4/15/09

CNBC Correspondent Rick Santelli called for a "Chicago Tea Party" on Feb 19th in protesting President Obama's plan to help homeowners in trouble. Santelli's call was answered by the right-wing group Freedomworks, which funds campaigns promoting big business interests, and is the opposite of what the real Boston Tea Party...

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