This is the Tom Hartman program.

Well, greetings my friends,

patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Tom Harbin here with you.

You know, we are living in one of those moments of history

that people read about, you know, you read about the

black plague in Europe and you know, in the 1300s or 14th century.

You read about the influenza pandemic in 1918 and here we are.

It's just it's just extraordinary and yet in some ways this whole coronavirus thing

is really highlighting and I think for many hopefully

many voters it's showing for the first time in a real way the consequences of

Reaganism and neoliberalism and trickle-down economics and brutal

the brutal kind of capitalism that we practice here in the United States as opposed

to Europe. For example, let me just give you a couple of

data points here. The Fed since March 11th, now we're not talking about Congress here. I'm talking about the Fed. The Fed since

March 11th has increased our money supply and distributed that money to basically big corporations by buying their

you know corporate bonds the the Fed has started buying stocks and bonds to

support the stock market and in particular they're buying bonds of companies that are in trouble so that those

companies you know keep these companies going. They have done this to the tune of 2.26

trillion dollars since March 11th. If you divide 2.26 trillion dollars by

130 million American families. That's how many American families, you know, have a member who is working

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