WHY ARE THE WEALTHY TAKING FOOD STAMPS AND MEDICAID FROM CHILDREN?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Why Do The Wealthy Want to Throw Children Off Food Stamps & Medicaid? ~ Seattle Council member Kshama Sawant is angered by Amazon trying to buy the election on Seattle City Council with $1.45m spent to swing the election. She claims that Amazon and Jeff Bezos are using Seattle as a test-bed to see how they can influence moving politics to the right. Big corporations vs socialism are becoming a real issue. Corporate activity in elections is rife, despite there having been laws to try and prevent it over the years. ~ Book Club reading "Building New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable" by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Foreword by Bernie Sanders. ~ Thom considers with callers the GOP storming of the closed door hearings.
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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, |
| 0:21.0 | believers, and peace, freedom freedom and the American way |
| 0:23.8 | down I'm here with you a lot on our program today why do the wealthy want to |
| 0:28.7 | throw children off food stamps and medicaid this is actually more than just a snarky commentary. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm going to dig into this. |
| 0:37.0 | Is war on the menu for the 2020 elections? |
| 0:39.6 | We talked about this briefly yesterday. |
| 0:41.6 | My piece is up over at Salon and Common Dreams and |
| 0:44.4 | alternate and Ross story a whole bunch of places we'll be talking about that some |
| 0:47.4 | more. Should Ernst and Young in our third hour be held accountable for trying to |
| 0:51.4 | quote fix women. |
| 0:53.2 | But I want to start with city council member, |
| 0:56.4 | sham a SWAT, Seattle council member representing the third district, |
| 0:59.6 | a member of the Socialist Alternative Party in AFT 1789. |
| 1:03.4 | Shamma Swan, it's about K-S-H-A-S-A-W-A-N-T |
| 1:08.0 | is her website. |
| 1:09.2 | Vote Swan, V-O-T, E-S-A-W-A-N-T is the Twitter handle. |
| 1:14.0 | And Council Member Swat, welcome back to the program. |
| 1:16.6 | It's been, Jesus, seems like a year or so since we've talked. |
| 1:19.8 | Yes, thank you so much for having having me and please call me Shama. |
| 1:23.0 | Okay, Shama, it's great having you back on the program. |
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