I was Scammed by De-Regulation
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 October 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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I was scammed by de-regulation. Climate change on the chopping block? How Living near a Forest keeps your brain healthier. The uninsured... we are going the wrong way.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.0 | So Tim, what provoked you to start this website? |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, well, that's a good question. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm just a normal guy like you pretty much, and I needed a job in 2001 and I got hired a company in Nevada and I moved from |
| 0:38.0 | Sterling, Virginia. |
| 0:40.0 | I needed to find a moving company so I went online and I found one and they gave me what I thought was a reasonable price. |
| 0:46.0 | So I put down a deposit and hired a company and they came and loaded up all my things like they said they were going to do but once they had all my belongings |
| 0:55.2 | they closed the door and put a lock on the truck and said that my 1,800 dollar move was going |
| 1:00.0 | to cost me 5,200 dollars. |
| 1:02.1 | Wow that's similar to what happened to us, only it wasn't that large difference. |
| 1:06.0 | And it varies on the company. |
| 1:08.2 | But you did the same story. |
| 1:09.5 | Once they got your stuff, the price goes up and you lose track of who's helping you, they don't call |
| 1:15.4 | you back. They told me it would take seven to ten days and ended up taking six weeks. And even |
| 1:22.0 | when it did show up, I had damages and I never did get my $1.00 price I had to pay, |
| 1:27.8 | the extorted amount, and there really wasn't anybody to turn to. |
| 1:31.0 | So with the background in the internet internet programming I put together a website and |
| 1:35.9 | started telling people about my experience and it just kind of ballooned from |
| 1:38.9 | there. So we've been doing this for |
| 1:45.0 | that matter. |
| 1:49.0 | for over 15 years now. |
| 1:50.0 | In 1986, we moved our entire family to German, |
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