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The Hartmann Report

REAGAN DUMPED AMERICAN VALUES FOR GREED

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Climate Change, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Democracy, Debate, Economics, America, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The GOP has become a rotting corpse, politically... infested with maggots and defended by wealthy vultures. It has only one true principle- greed, and is determined to reinvent America in greed’s image. Can we take our country back?

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

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The Reagan Revolution changed America's values to greed is good.

0:52.5

Can we take them back, them being the values?

0:56.1

Start out by pointing out that many Americans looking at the Republican party's position

1:00.0

on the issues find themselves confused. Seriously, consider this for a moment.

1:04.0

Why would the party claim to be the last bastion of reverence for life in America?

1:10.5

Also be the party that supports 50,000 American gun deaths every year, the leading cause of death

1:15.2

among children, and more than, more than those of every other developed country in the world

1:20.2

combined. Why would they support anti-abortion laws that don't even contain

1:25.2

exceptions for the life of the mother? Why do they fight so hard to keep health care out of the

1:30.1

reach of low income working class Americans? 12 Republican controlled states still refuse to

1:36.5

expand Medicaid, which is 90% paid for by the federal government. Why?

1:42.2

Why would the party that claims patriotism and the flag as their logo work so hard to make

1:47.0

it difficult for people to vote? Why would they vote against supporting our veterans during their

1:51.6

time of need? Why would they support authoritarian Russia and vote against democratic Ukraine?

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