Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/17/19 - American billionaire fantasy that we can have a country without a government runs up against economic reality as the Trump shake down continues.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom says American billionaires may be giddily imagining that the shut down will result in federal employees never returning to their jobs, derailing democracy and moving us towards an oligarchic state. Marxian economist, Professor Richard Wolff explains how the government shutdown increases economic instability and that the longer it lasts the worse it will affect the economy as a whole. Mark Pocan- the Progressive Superstar Congressman- drops in to answer listener calls including charges that the Progressive Caucus has been compromised by corporate Dems- he shows it's not true, and explains the real human issues progressives are concretely working towards. Thom continues the conversation with some of his more interesting callers. Bob Ney gives the Talk Media News update on the government shutdown and the accidental GOP unanimous consent vote.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:17.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, |
| 0:24.5 | Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:25.5 | The Where's Mitch meme is rolling along. |
| 0:29.7 | Here is Alexandria Acasio Cortez in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:32.8 | They're doing this. |
| 0:33.5 | Where is Mitch thing, you know, looking high and low for him? |
| 0:37.2 | The surge of Mitch McConnell. |
| 0:38.6 | He's not in the cloakroom. |
| 0:39.8 | He's not in the Capitol. |
| 0:41.0 | He's not in the Russell Building. |
| 0:42.4 | He's not in the floor of the Senate, and |
| 0:43.7 | 800,000 people don't have their paychecks. |
| 0:45.9 | So where's Mitch? |
| 0:47.3 | So she's got that down. |
| 0:48.3 | I mean, she has that down. |
| 0:50.3 | Meanwhile, I shared this with you yesterday or the day before, the story that was published in the Daily |
| 0:55.6 | Coller where a right winger basically just comes right out and says, |
| 1:00.0 | you know, we don't want anybody coming back to work. This shutdown is just fine with us. |
| 1:05.0 | He was characterized as a senior official in the Trump administration. That's true. I think it's probably Stephen Miller. |
| 1:10.0 | He wrote, we do not want most employees to return because we're working better without them. |
| 1:14.4 | Now that we're shut down, not only are we identifying and eliminating much of the sabotage and waste, |
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