Daily Take: A Nation Without Empathy Is Just a Crime Syndicate With a Flag
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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While billionaires warm their hands over tax breaks, Dwayne LaBrecque — a diabetic father of five in Maine — wonders how he’ll survive the winter without toes, heat, or help…
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| 1:00.2 | A nation without empathy is just a crime syndicate with a flag. Dwayne LeBrock, a diabetic who lost |
| 1:08.9 | several toes and part of his foot to infection, |
| 1:12.5 | will be severely impacted by cuts to the low-income fuel oil heating program, LIHEAP. |
| 1:21.0 | The Congress started in 1981 and Trump and Musk just put on the chopping block. |
| 1:26.3 | After losing his job as a shipping manager, Dwayne's income plummeted, making it difficult to support his fiancé and five children in rural Maine. |
| 1:34.3 | He expressed grave concern about surviving next winter without this assistance, stating, |
| 1:39.4 | if the president turned around and did away with that funding, I have no idea how we'd survive in the winter. |
| 1:45.3 | But Donald Trump and congressional Republicans don't care. The budget Trump just released, |
| 1:50.2 | and they're endorsing, kills off Lahi. Empathy is the ability to experience what another person |
| 1:57.0 | is going through is a real sensation, a genuine emotion, or even a physical reaction in the |
| 2:02.4 | body and mind. It's what causes us to flinch or look away when we see a dog getting hit by a car |
| 2:08.0 | or a fellow human experiencing real trauma. Early on in my years, rostered as a psychotherapist in the |
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