WHY DO WE LET THE RICH RIP US OFF?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Author Leah Stokes has been watching what should be a major bribery scandal over keeping unprofitable Ohio coal plants burning. What is Trump's involvement?
Why won't the Republicans call a vote on the HEROES act passed weeks ago by the House of Representatives? And why doesn't the excuse Trump-humpers give for denying the unemployed the continued $600 per week apply to the very wealthy who don't have to work because of all the money they make off the back of the rest of us?
Plus- putting money into gold or euros?.. Let's go sailing on the NRA's high security yacht!.. Reaching the people who don't care... And- remember when unemployment lasted two years?.. Remember when you could really live on Social Security?..
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:19.0 | Well, greetings my friends, |
| 0:21.0 | patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, |
| 0:25.8 | and the American way. |
| 0:27.6 | Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:29.4 | Big greed and big money have been taking down America for years and years. We had the tobacco |
| 0:33.6 | industry lying to us for decades about the toxicity of their product. Before |
| 0:37.7 | that it was the asbestos industry, the fossil fuel industry lying to us |
| 0:41.9 | about their products and basically lying to us about climate |
| 0:46.0 | change all for money all to make profit and it turns out that it's even worse than that |
| 0:52.1 | they're not only willing to kill us and destroy the planet It turns out that it's even worse than that. |
| 0:52.6 | They're not only willing to kill us and destroy the planet, |
| 0:55.0 | but now apparently the entire big pieces of industries |
| 0:59.4 | that are associated with the fossil fuel industry |
| 1:01.3 | are themselves knee-deep in bribery and scandal. |
| 1:05.7 | On the line with us is the assistant professor at the Department of Political Science |
| 1:09.4 | at the Brenn School of Environmental Science and Management, Professor Leah Stokes, this is the Environmental |
| 1:14.6 | Studies Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a surrogate for Climate Power |
| 1:18.3 | 2020. |
| 1:19.3 | Leah Stokes.com or Climate Power 2020. 20.org the websites. |
| 1:24.0 | Her Twitter handle is LEAH-S-T-O-K-E-S-L-E-S-L-E-S-Lia Stokes. |
| 1:28.0 | Professor Stokes, tell us about this multi-billion, |
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