LET'S SEAL UP THE CRACKS AND PROVIDE A SOLID FLOOR FOR ALL AMERICANS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Why is free money a good thing for the children of wealthy white kids but free money to poor people or minorities is a terrible social ill that damages those young people for life? Callers debate the Rittenhouse "self-defense" claim.
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| 0:46.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:50.9 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:55.1 | My op-ed today is kind of a recap of my interview with Newt Gingrich earlier in the week, |
| 1:00.8 | where, you know, and it's titled Breaking Now, the tragic plight of the children of wealthy people |
| 1:06.5 | exposed. You know, where I basically said, newt, it's terrible to give people free money right, |
| 1:11.6 | so that they don't have to work so that they can just kind of goof off for the whole rest of their |
| 1:14.9 | lives. This is why you guys oppose welfare and things like that. And he was like, yeah, you know, |
| 1:19.2 | Franklin Roosevelt said, you should give people a job, not welfare, and we don't want to create |
| 1:23.3 | permanent dependency. And so then I said, well, then why don't we tax rich people, or at least |
| 1:28.5 | tax the money when they die, tax the money, the unearned income that falls into the lap of their |
| 1:34.2 | children. And at that point, he was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm like, |
| 1:39.8 | no, you're saying the giving, giving kids free money makes them crazy and lazy. Shouldn't we be |
| 1:45.3 | protecting these wealthy children or the children of wealthy people? There's an actual real issue |
| 1:50.9 | here. And it's one, it's the one that I brought up with Jennifer Stefano. And that is the |
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