Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/11/19 - On the 75th anniversary of the 2nd Bill of Rights, Thom reflects on FDR's vision versus Trump's reality. Thom discusses with listeners what a state of emergency would mean for America, and what is the reality now for unpaid federal employees.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Thom reflects on the 75th anniversary of FDR's 2nd Bill of Rights of considers that vision versus the conditions of today and more news stories. Thom holds a spirited discussion with thoughtful listeners while discussing that Trump lied on TV and made no real effort to compromise with Congress. Professor Richard Wolff shares his insight on what chance Democratic proposals to require pharmaceuticals to limit their price gouging have of passing. Thom discusses with listeners what a state of emergency would mean for America, and what is the reality now for unpaid federal employees. A reading from 'Notes on a Nervous Planet' by Matt Hague. Luke Vargas from Talk Media News updates Thom on the military's mixed command signals on the pull out from Syria and the implications of the Huawei executive arrested in Poland on spying charges.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way here on the Tom Harbin program. |
| 0:25.1 | We were brainstorming new names for the weekdays the other day |
| 0:29.9 | just because it's the Trump era, right? |
| 0:32.4 | So it would be Martial Law Monday, Toxic Tuesday, |
| 0:35.4 | worst case scenario Wednesday, |
| 0:37.1 | Thought Control Thursdays and Effed Up Fridays. |
| 0:40.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:41.8 | Today is the I believe 70th anniversary? It's got to be more than that. |
| 0:46.9 | 75th anniversary. Thank you Sean. |
| 0:49.2 | Franklin Roosevelt rolling out his second bill of rights, his new bill of rights, which includes, it's |
| 0:55.0 | amazing to think about this. 75 years ago today the president of the United States |
| 0:58.5 | said that education for all, including college education, should be a right and not a privilege. Health care for all should be |
| 1:08.9 | a right and not a privilege and a job that pays well enough that you can actually raise a family without going |
| 1:15.9 | into debt should be a right and not a privilege and that all of these rights should be |
| 1:21.6 | guaranteed by virtue of government action. |
| 1:25.9 | And you know for 75 years, billionaires and right-wingers have been fighting this tooth and nail |
| 1:31.4 | and so far have held it off. There's a number of things in the news too. I just |
| 1:35.8 | want to bring you up to date on a few things here and then we'll pick up your phone calls. |
| 1:39.7 | A historian from Yale University, Timothy Snyder, this was almost a year ago back in May of 2017, |
| 1:46.6 | well half a year ago. Timothy Snyder is the author of Black Earth, The Holocaust |
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