THERE IS A DEEPENING SCARY GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS COMING SOON
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Executive Director-Social Security Works, Alex Lawson explains the threat to medicare revealed. Medicare -DCEs, Medi-Gap vs. Medicare Advantage / Medicare for All - movement towards? state of Social Security - will retirees get a raise? (Plus, will Congress raise the retirement age again?) Biden officials are scrambling to limit the damage from fast-spreading food shortages sparked by Russia’s war in Ukraine, but they face complex political and logistical challenges. Professor Richard Wolff reports that Deutsche Bank is forecasting a recession for next year.
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| 0:49.2 | And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:51.6 | We have a death cult alert, Fox so-called news talked about ivermectin 300 times, |
| 0:56.4 | and then ignored a new study on its ineffectiveness and also a deepening and frankly scary food crisis |
| 1:03.9 | coming for the world. And why are Republicans blocking efforts to do something about it? |
| 1:09.0 | We'll get into that also in this hour. Professor Richard Wolfe is going to drop by about Deutsche Bank |
| 1:13.8 | forecasting a recession for next year. But I want to start out with the threat to Medicare |
| 1:22.0 | revealed. We have had pieces of this conversation over the years. |
| 1:26.5 | Let's check in with Alex Lawson, our old buddy and occasional villain host for me on this show. |
| 1:31.5 | He's the executive director of SocialSecurityWorks, the website SocialSecurityWorks.org and |
| 1:37.4 | strengthensocialsecurity.org and on Twitter its SS works or a law 202 as in Alex Lawson. |
| 1:47.7 | Alex, welcome back to the program. Give us an update. |
| 1:50.7 | First of all I'm curious, whatever happened with Trump's efforts to basically destroy Medicare |
| 1:56.4 | by putting an anti-medicare guy in charge of it essentially. And where is Medicare at right now |
| 2:01.6 | and then going forward, what are the challenges to Medicare? Tom, thanks for having me. |
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