The American Dream is alive & well in China. The GOP and the Blue Dogs will tell you that it’s just not possible here anymore, but why? Thom reveals that before he was a justice, Brett Kavanaugh voted to allow foreign agents to interfere with United States elections. Bob Ney reports on Trump's gamble that he can deliver a health care promise with his 2020 campaign roll out and more.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Why is the American Dream disappearing here, yet due to American policies coming true in China? Housing, health care, education... what happened to the middle class? - Thom reads from The Mueller Report page 94 - Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump's most controversial Supreme Court pick, voted to allow foreign agents to interfere with United States elections by interpreting the law in a way that would let foreign nationals get away with electioneering! Did Kavanaugh save Trump and doom Democracy? - Thom reviews "They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1933-45" by Milton Mayer - Patreon Ask - Bob Ney Talk media news report.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom freedom and the American way |
| 0:23.7 | Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:25.8 | Wow, so much going on. |
| 0:28.7 | Her federal government is hiding information |
| 0:31.4 | from Donald Trump about our infiltration of the Russian power system, really? |
| 0:37.3 | The American dream is alive and well in China. |
| 0:41.2 | Trump is in a fury thinking he's going to lose his re-election which is his only |
| 0:44.7 | chance to stay out of jail to run out the statute of limitations on the crimes |
| 0:49.1 | that he committed in this first couple of years in office. It's piling higher and higher and higher. this is |
| 0:55.0 | you know, |
| 0:58.0 | genuinely, startlingly American |
| 1:02.0 | disintegration it seems. This is a piece by Marshall |
| 1:06.3 | Hourback from the Independent Media Institute over at Truth dig. Homeownership has |
| 1:10.8 | been called the quintessential American dream, he writes, yet today fewer than |
| 1:14.8 | 65% of American homes are owner-occupied, and more than 50% of the equities in those homes |
| 1:21.5 | is owned by the banks. |
| 1:24.0 | So basically half of all equity in homes in America are owned by banks. |
| 1:29.0 | And only 65% of American homes are occupied by people who own them. |
| 1:35.0 | Now how does that compare with China? |
| 1:39.0 | In China, 90% of families in the country own their own home, giving China one of the highest |
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