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The Hartmann Report

A SOCIETY THAT TAKES CARE OF ITS PEOPLE

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, Economics, Climate Change, America

4.38 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Economist Richard Wolff joins Thom on the state of the economy and the likely impact of the ongoing Covid crisis. Bernie Sanders is calling for America's corporations to get off welfare by paying a living wage rather than relying on the government to feed and house many of their employees- is America capable of taking care of our own?

Plus - defining what socialism really is...the history of the right-wing crackpots who took over the Republican Party- how far have they dismantled our government? Are Trump and his followers- from the White House to the Fed- salting the fields and poisoning the wells before Joe Biden can become president?


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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:17.9

And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers and

0:22.7

peace, freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you.

0:27.5

Bernie Sanders reached out to the government accountability office and members of the Senate

0:33.0

can do this.

0:34.0

They can go to the GAO and they can say, I'd like you to research something for me and

0:39.6

the GAO does.

0:41.4

And so the question that Bernie asked was, we know that there are a number of businesses

0:47.0

in America whose business model basically is to pay their employees such low crappy wages

0:54.7

that those employees actually qualify for food stamps or housing assistance or Medicaid

1:01.6

so that we don't have to pay them a better salary.

1:04.4

We don't have to cover their health insurance.

1:06.6

This is why the minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour, federally it hasn't been raised

1:11.2

in a long, long time.

1:14.2

But this is an actual business model.

1:16.5

To have your employees, you pay $7.25 or whatever you pay for your employees and then the federal

1:21.8

government, you and me, the taxpayers.

1:24.4

We pick up the rest so that they can eat, so that they can have housing, so that they

1:27.9

can have medical care.

1:29.3

So Bernie said, who are the companies who are doing this?

1:33.1

Which companies are doing the most of this?

1:36.8

And the GAO, the title of the report that they issued was titled, millions of full-time

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