Republicans are Fueling Inequality
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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How has deregulation of the banking industry lead directly to large-scale homelessness in American cities? Plus- Thom reads from 'Moving Forward: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind'.
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| 0:48.4 | We have a homeless crisis here in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:53.2 | There's parts of this town that you just don't go in because there's people camping on the streets |
| 1:00.0 | and pooping in the streets and and mugging people in the streets. |
| 1:03.6 | And in the neighborhood where we live, we've had multiple break-ins, people being attacked. |
| 1:09.6 | My own wife, Louise, was attacked twice by homeless people, chased down the streets, |
| 1:14.0 | screaming at her, throwing one guy through a bottle at her, nearly hit her. |
| 1:18.3 | We had somebody try to break into our house. |
| 1:20.5 | And then the police come through and they sweep out the homeless camp and suddenly the crime |
| 1:24.4 | goes away and then a few weeks goes by and boom, they're back. |
| 1:29.6 | And I'm saying this not by way of trying to vilify homeless people because I realize that |
| 1:36.0 | virtually all of these homeless people are either |
| 1:39.8 | people suffering from mental illness and there should be |
| 1:44.4 | treatment for that, there should be facilities for that, mental illness or drug addiction. |
| 1:48.5 | And we don't have those. I mean, you know, Reagan shut down the mental hospitals and Republicans |
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