This is the Tom Hartman program.

It's a beautiful day here in Portland.

I guess it's going to rain later on.

A lot to talk about, just FYII I have a new book out the hidden history of the

American dream the demise of the middle class and how to rescue our future I'll be

signing books at the frugal muse in Chicago and Derry in Illinois on October 9th.

You should call them and let them know you're coming.

They're trying to figure out how many people to plan for it.

And at Powell City of Books here in Portland on October 15th.

The UK government, or at least a minister of the UK government, is now blaming Donald Trump

for the United Kingdom's racism crisis.

Which raises, you know, an interesting question, you know, about the fate and future of

multicultural, multi-racial democracy, you know, we'll get to that. And the Federal Trade Commission is suing Big Pharma for inflating insulin prices.

We'll get into that.

Also, US public schools banned 10,000 books in the most recent academic year.

Say what?

Really? We're really going to go down this Nazi path?

Also, there's going to be a national progressive town hall meeting with Congressman Rokana taking your calls just FYI. But to start out, over in the UK they've got a

serious problem with racism and it raises a question that I've sort of struggled

with on this program in the past and somewhat in my

writing my book threshold for example the crisis of Western civilization and that is

is it possible and I believe it is I'll just put this right up front, and in fact I think we're

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