SHOULD A HANDFUL OF BILLIONAIRES OWN MORE WEALTH THAN THE BOTTOM HALF OF ALL AMERICANS?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Is our economy here to serve average Americans, or are we here to serve those who own and control most of the money flowing through our economy? Also Professor Richard Wolff explains the (so-called) bipartisan retirement proposals of the new omnibus bill.
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| 0:47.2 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, |
| 0:52.8 | freedom and the American way, Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:57.2 | We got a lot on the program today. |
| 0:59.0 | Our one guest will be professor Richard Wolff, the economics professor on the so-called bipartisan |
| 1:05.3 | retirement proposals. I also want to get into this question, should a handful of billionaires |
| 1:10.3 | own more wealth than the bottom 50% of all Americans? |
| 1:14.6 | How new car repossession and fascism get together or go together? |
| 1:20.8 | And also the Republican Party wants you to believe that a woke army is coming for America rather |
| 1:27.0 | than white supremacists, seriously. And it is just a very, very, very strange time here in America. |
| 1:39.7 | So to begin with, my opening, my daily take, my rant over at HarbinReport.com, |
| 1:47.2 | his title should a handful of billionaires own more wealth than the bottom 50% of all Americans. |
| 1:54.3 | And I start out by pointing out that senators, Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio have |
| 2:01.9 | endorsed and blessed and apparently play a role with a new think tank that is going to be |
| 2:11.1 | trying to change the Republican Party's messaging. |
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