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The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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So Texas kids continue to sleep on office floors, get handcuffed to desks, and trafficked out of state while Abbott & his GOP buddies bask in the votes of “concerned” white evangelical voters. Plus Prof. Richard Wolff joins Thom to explain the debt ceiling and what will happen is the GOP forces the government to default.

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This is the Tom Harbin Program.

0:46.0

And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice, believers, and peace

0:52.0

freedom in the American way, Tom Harbin here with you.

0:55.3

So back in the 1950s, when the Republicans started this whole, oh my god, oh my god, we can't have

1:01.8

too much national debt and deficit in our election.

1:04.8

And they put into law that there was a ceiling to the public debt.

1:10.8

This was not something that's like in the constitution or anything.

1:14.4

And then they've used that as a club basically to beat up Democrats with over the years,

1:18.9

repeatedly, Democrats tend to ignore it.

1:21.2

And now they're threatening to do it again, to shut down the government over the debt ceiling.

1:26.8

And if they do, it could have some serious consequences.

1:29.9

So let's check in with Professor Richard Wolff, the economist and co-founder of Democracy

1:34.4

at Work.info, the author of numerous books is latest.

1:37.0

The sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself,

1:43.1

also available now as an e-book, rdWolf.wattu.com, two Fs, also.

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