Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at Tom Harbin.

This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers

in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Tom Hartman here with you live from Portland, Oregon. And I hope you had a wonderful Christmas or Hanukkah

or whatever your holiday may be.

I hope it was a fine time.

We had a wonderful time.

19 family members over on Christmas.

It's just amazing.

Anyhow, today I want to, at least in the starting point here, I want to get into some of the issues that we understand

and misunderstand about taxes, money, wealth, and how the very, very morbidly rich in the United States

have seized not only virtually complete economic power in this country, but also virtually complete

economic power. They're damn close and they're doing absolutely everything they can

to nail it down so that they never lose it.

And all over the country you've got you know

individual Democrats running for office to pry those nailed down boards

back up but anyhow some some concepts the first is a

concept of money and this is actually a brilliant piece Conrad Shaw

he's a writer, actor, filmmaker,

a lapse engineer is how he describes himself, wrote this piece for medium.com

titled Money Isn't Money. And he makes two important points so they just want to stick in your head here.

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