THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
How will the economic stimulus plan protect the most vulnerable self-employed workers and those in the gig economy who can't file unemployment because they never officially had a job? Will this stimulus plan be enough to save the economy? Progressive leader Mark Pocan answers challenging questions as to what is really going on in the halls of Congress.
And, Thom debates the conservative thinktank Heritage Foundation's Jason W. Snead on their organization's stance against federal funding of vote-by-mail. Even with the threat of Covid-19 disrupting the November presidential election, why would anyone be opposed to helping more people vote?
Why won't Donald Trump use the powers of the Defense Production Act to stop price gouging and to jumpstart emergency production of respirators? Thom's caller asks if right wingers' desire to 'thin the herd' is partly behind the government dragging its feet to respond to or even study the crisis?
Plus we hear about the new procedures postal workers are following, and some details on the German stimulus plan.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, back in 1980, Republican |
| 0:25.3 | strategist and Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Wehrick famously said to a |
| 0:30.8 | group in Dallas of Reagan activists, |
| 0:34.4 | he was saying, what about these people who say good government? |
| 0:36.4 | They want everybody to vote. |
| 0:37.5 | He says, I don't want everybody to vote. |
| 0:38.9 | Elections are never won by the majority of people |
| 0:41.2 | and they never have been in the history of our country. |
| 0:44.1 | In fact, quite candidly, our leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populace goes down. |
| 0:51.2 | Well, we've got something here that's going to drive down the voting |
| 0:53.2 | populace. You've got a bunch of states. I believe it's 17 states in which you |
| 0:57.2 | essentially have to have permission to cast an absentee ballot and in many |
| 1:00.6 | cases you have to have a doctor's note. It's not easy. Congress is trying to fix that so that we can all vote by mail in the November election. |
| 1:08.0 | Jason Snead is with us. He's the executive director of the Honest Elections Project. |
| 1:12.0 | He's a former senior policy |
| 1:13.6 | analyst with the Heritage Foundation. The website is honest elections.org and you can |
| 1:18.7 | tweet him at Jason W. Sneed, S and E.N. E. A.D. or at Honest Elections. |
| 1:23.5 | Jason, welcome to the program. |
| 1:25.2 | Why is it that you guys don't think that every state in the union |
| 1:29.3 | should do what we do here in Oregon and have done successfully |
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