Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 02/20/19 - Today, a detailed meditation on The Green New Deal. Thom makes the case that this plan would return the Democratic Party to it's FDR-era roots, while making our country stronger financially and socially. A discussion with someone opposed and with callers across the country ensues.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The science suggests that climate chaos is an impending disaster, and that we must implement policy that hugely cuts the amount of carbon we produce. But, by reforming the way we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, health insurance billionaires, and other malarkey, and by educating Americans and putting them to work in Green industries, we can ultimately come out ahead. -------- Thom debates Elaine Parker of the "Job Creators Network Foundation", a group that objects to using taxes to fund the Green New Deal because it's 'socialism'. If we're going to strip socialism out of America, would she want to start with the Fire Department or Social Security first? -------- Callers look at all the angles and opportunities in the Green New Deal. -------- Ellen Rattner of Talk Media News has
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers, and peace, freedom, and the American way. Tom Arbin here with you. |
| 0:24.0 | The Green New Deal is, you know, it's before Congress, |
| 0:28.0 | actually it's just a resolution that says, |
| 0:31.0 | you know, we kind of like to do this it would be kind of cool convert the nation |
| 0:34.0 | to renewable energy sources rather than fossil fuels build an energy efficient |
| 0:38.9 | smart grid upgrade buildings to become more energy efficient, repair and upgrade the nation's |
| 0:44.6 | infrastructure, invest in drawing down greenhouse gases, a variety of ways to do that, |
| 0:49.9 | most have to do with agriculture actually, and make the US a major exporter |
| 0:54.2 | the world's number one exporter of green technology. I think this is just an |
| 0:58.2 | extraordinary opportunity for America and you know it's it's an extension it's just a new iteration frankly |
| 1:05.6 | of what Dwight Eisenhower did of what Franklin Roosevelt did and what |
| 1:10.1 | Linen Johnson did and in each case it built this country, it made America. I mean it |
| 1:15.7 | jumped, it catapulted us those things ahead of every other country in the world. |
| 1:20.9 | So Senator Sanders dropped by and proclaimed as candidacy for president. |
| 1:25.0 | Basically what I'm seeing right now is the Democratic Party returning to its roots, |
| 1:30.0 | returning to the core of the Democratic, the modern day Democratic Party, the last |
| 1:34.9 | century of the Democratic Party, which was established by FDR and was expanded and |
| 1:40.3 | built by LBBJ, setting aside the Vietnam War and now it's time to go the next step |
| 1:47.0 | right and you know whether it's Bernie or whoever it may be we've got some great |
| 1:50.7 | progressive candidates there. |
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