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The Hartmann Report

America Has a Billionaire Problem

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Isolation, poverty, and anxiety are crushing the lives of so many of our neighbors. So why have America's propaganda-funding billionaires decided that our most crucial problems are teaching black history and trans kids wanting to be recognized for who they are? The answer is thousands of years old.


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Why do billionaires fund anti-trans and anti-black history political movements?

1:02.8

It's a reasonable question, right? I mean, what's in it for them?

1:08.3

There's a popular meme going around the internet right now that says, and I quote,

1:13.6

say you're at a room with 400 people, 36 of them don't have health insurance, 48 of them live in

1:18.0

poverty, 85 are illiterate, 90 have untreated mental illness, and every day at least one person is

1:23.4

shot, but two of them are trans. So you decide ruining their lives is your top priority.

1:30.4

End quote. This is America, right? And this is your GOP actually. Right now, almost 30 million

1:39.9

Americans lack health insurance altogether, and 43% of Americans are so badly uninsured that any

1:46.8

illness or accident that cost them more than $1,000 will wipe them out. Almost 12% of Americans,

1:53.3

over 37% of us live in dire poverty, 12%. Only 5% of Italians work at low wage jobs, and

2:02.4

those Italians work at low wage jobs, they have free health care and free college.

2:06.9

More than one in five Americans, 21% are illiterate. By fourth grade, a mere 35% of Americans,

2:14.4

children are illiterate at grade level, as a result of a two decade long attack by Republicans

2:20.4

of both state and federal levels on our public schools. Fully a quarter of Americans, 26%

2:26.6

suffer from a diagnosable mental illness in any given year. Over half of them, 54% never get

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