NOMADLAND EXPOSES THE MIDDLE CLASS RIP-OFF
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Forty years of Reaganism and trickle-down economics have left America pockmarked with refugee camps and people hanging onto life by their fingernails. We hear from callers, some of whom have joined the growing part of America's poor that live in the cracks left by growing American inequality.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.6 | I wanted to start out with a piece that I published over at HartmanReport.com. |
| 0:21.1 | It's titled Nomad Land, a word that was invented for the movie, exposes the middle-class |
| 0:27.3 | rip-off. |
| 0:28.5 | Louise and I had been meaning to watch this movie for quite a while. |
| 0:32.6 | One, all kinds of wards, Chloe Zau, I believe is how her name is pronounced. |
| 0:37.4 | Put the movie together, directed the movie, just brilliant job. |
| 0:40.2 | Frances McDormann acts in it. |
| 0:42.2 | It is a drama, but it is a drama as in fiction. |
| 0:47.8 | But most of the actors in the movie are actually these people who are living in these |
| 0:52.8 | RVs traveling around the country working at Amazon warehouses and cleaning toilets |
| 0:57.6 | and God only knows what, struggling to survive, basically. |
| 1:01.8 | And Frances McDormann plays Furn, the lead character. |
| 1:06.4 | So it's all based on an actual non-fiction book that was published a number of years |
| 1:11.8 | ago. |
| 1:12.8 | I get to that in just a moment. |
| 1:14.3 | It really hit me personally, and I don't know if any of your growing up had to do with |
| 1:19.1 | this. |
| 1:20.1 | This was sort of my parents' generation. |
| 1:22.3 | My parents came of age in the 1930s and 40s and died in the early 2000s. |
| 1:28.8 | I know that there were a lot of people who were doing the same thing that they were doing |
| 1:32.2 | because I met them every weekend when I was a little kid, when I was like, you know, |
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