THE SICKNESS IS THE SYSTEM
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As Trump spreads Covid to his rally attendees, is his apparent herd immunity strategy just another aspect of billionaire indifference to the lives of common people?- and could all the lives lost or damaged in pursuit of immunity be in vain anyway? Dr. Richard Wolff joins Thom to talk about it.
Will Trump's Supreme Court pick deliver on the investment the billionaires have put into her career and the career of the many young right wing judges Republicans have been stuffing the courts with?
Plus - We listen to Amy K. and other Democratic Senators grilling right-winger Judge Amy in the Senate hearings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome back. |
| 0:18.6 | On the line with us is the economist co-founder democracy at work.info, the author of numerous |
| 0:24.3 | books, including his latest The Sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save |
| 0:29.2 | us from pandemics or itself. |
| 0:31.2 | Professor Richard Wolff, R.D. Wolff, with 2Fs.com, one of his websites, his Twitter |
| 0:35.7 | handle is Prof. Wolff, PR-OF, W-O-L-F. Professor Wolff, let's talk this week about your |
| 0:41.5 | book, The Sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save it from pandemics or itself. |
| 0:47.3 | How is the form of capitalism that we practice here in the United States itself problematic |
| 0:54.8 | in context of trying to provide for the general welfare, the general health? |
| 0:59.1 | Well, I think to be blunt but to be clear, it doesn't work. |
| 1:05.7 | Capitalism is not a way of managing public health and we are just now living through a horrific |
| 1:13.6 | lesson in that truth and let me briefly explain. |
| 1:18.7 | We have in America the companies and the factories and the trained personnel who can make |
| 1:24.2 | masks and gloves and ventilators and hospital beds, everything you need, we have it. |
| 1:31.3 | We also know that viruses are a part of life, they've been with the human race from day |
| 1:36.8 | one. |
| 1:37.8 | We had a terrible 100 years ago, we really know what they can do so we know we need to |
| 1:44.6 | have stockpiled across the United States adequate materials like masks and so on because |
| 1:51.7 | we know viruses are transmitted from one mouth, one face to another. |
| 1:56.8 | We failed to do that. |
| 1:58.7 | The United States with 4.5% of the world's people has 25% of the COVID cases and deaths. |
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