The Republican War on Public Schools
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
There is no more powerful urge humans can experience than to protect and defend our children. For most people it beats hunger, sex, and money… Are Republicans cynically exploiting human instincts to get cheap votes?
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| 0:42.6 | This is the Tom Harbin program. |
| 0:48.6 | It's a beautiful day here in Portland. |
| 0:50.4 | The sun finally cracked out, although it's supposed to rain again this afternoon. |
| 0:54.2 | I hope things are going well where you are. |
| 0:57.8 | Can we stop the Republican War on public schools? |
| 1:01.3 | Jim Hightower's piece, he's got a sub-stake newsletter as well, |
| 1:05.2 | is all about the right-wing billionaires who are funding the destruction of public schools and the move to private schools. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm taking a little more wide angle perspective on this and putting it in a historical context. |
| 1:18.0 | I was six years old when Sputnik went up in 1957. |
| 1:21.7 | The first satellite in space. |
| 1:24.0 | And I remember my dad taking me out in the backyard and we tracked this little dot of light |
| 1:28.8 | moving across the sky that was Sputnik. |
| 1:31.1 | My best friend's father was a ham radio operator and he had a shortwave radio and we listened to it. |
| 1:35.8 | It was going ping, ping, ping, ping. |
| 1:38.4 | Is it went overhead? |
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