IS THIS HOW DEMOCRACY DIES?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Alex Lawson from Social Security Works joins Thom, to ask if Medicare should be paying for everything.
We are in the endgame of the billionaires takeover of the Republican Party and the subsequent destruction of America. As Steve Bannon said, their goal is to “deconstruct the administrative state,“ and taking down Social Security under the guise of helping the states is perhaps their biggest shot at that.
For the Book Club Thom reads from "When the Tea Party Came to Town: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History" by Robert Draper.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
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| 0:19.0 | I think I've exhausted my Spanish vocabulary leftover over from studying it in second grade with Cinco de Mayo. |
| 0:28.4 | Another amazing day here. |
| 0:30.1 | We've got a lot on the program today. I want to talk about the death of democracy and how much |
| 0:34.7 | is a human life worth what Andrew Cuomo was talking about on his daily fireside chat thing. It's a huge issue that really needs to be discussed and I'll |
| 0:46.4 | tell you my opinion on all that I have a very strong opinion on that I'll |
| 0:49.5 | share all and what do you do and a whole bunch of other news as well. |
| 0:53.0 | But I want to start out with this, you know, how much is a life worth? |
| 0:57.0 | Andrew Cuomo came out and said this on television and Louise and I've had this conversation a couple of times in fact she just brought it up yesterday again |
| 1:06.0 | of how are they you know making these decisions in the White House and in governor's offices and whatnot |
| 1:12.0 | because we actually do make these decisions |
| 1:15.1 | all the time how much is a life worth you know Ralph Nader busted GM and Ford |
| 1:20.9 | over this back in the 70s because they concluded that if somebody died |
| 1:25.3 | because of the side saddle gas tanks and the Chevy trucks or or because of the |
| 1:29.2 | Pinto on the Ford you know the gas tank in the dies, well, you know, it's going to cost |
| 1:34.4 | us about a quarter million dollars or half a million dollars. |
| 1:36.8 | I forget what the number was. |
| 1:38.0 | I think it was a quarter million dollars or $200,000 was their settlement. |
| 1:41.7 | And now keep in mind, that would be two million dollars in |
| 1:43.4 | today's dollars but they were like you know that's what that's what it's going |
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