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Thom's blog
Does hard work really pay off anymore?
For most of our lives, we've been taught that hard work pays off, but most of the super-rich didn't make their money by working hard. According to a new analysis by Paul Buchheit of UsAgainstGreed.org, those at the top make most of their money by betting against the American people. The wealthy elite makes a fortune by speculating on rising food prices, which means that they profit by making it harder for people around the world to afford to eat.
As if that isn't evil enough, the super-rich also bet against mortgages, so that they could make a profit when Americans could not longer afford to stay in their homes. And, once millions of Americans found themselves out on the street, the private equity firms swooped in, bought up the foreclosures, and rented them back to the very people that they swindled out of their homes. The super-rich rake in even more by gambling on Wall Street, screwing over Main Street, and buying off the politicians that help make it all possible. The only hard work that the billionaires face is walking the fine line between so-called investing and criminal activities like bribery, fraud, and manipulating the market.
Our nation used to really value hard work, and that work was rewarded with a better life and brighter future. But, for the last three decades, the super-rich have rigged the system, and managed to convince many of us that we're just not working hard enough. The time has come to stand up, speak out, and fix this broken system while we still have a chance. We work hard, we play by the rules, and we need to fight for an economy that pays off for more than the top one percent.
(What do you think? Tell us here.)
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Drugs, Lies and Big Pharma (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice... frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
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In for Thom tonight, please welcome America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Need to Know: Drugs, Lies and Big Pharma- David E. Haynes, The Cochran Firm DC.
Screwed: Politics & Pitchforks- Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future 
The Best of the Rest...
What you don't know about surgical mesh can hurt you- Mark Fleischman, Corporate Action Network.
Daily Take: Darrell Issa...modern day McCarthy
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
In for Thom today, Leslie Marshall, host of the nationally syndicated Leslie Marshall Show.
Hour One: Women on birth control...destroying America?!- Pastor Steven Anderson, Faithful Word Baptist Church.
Bible: 1 Timothy 5:14-15 " I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some are already turned aside after Satan." Bible: John 8:7. " Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.."
Hour Two: Bundy Ranch, Militias, Oath Keepers...oh my!- Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center
Hour Three: Tea Party...still relevant? Bible: Matthew 6:6 " But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you". |
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
In for Thom today, please welcome Leslie Marshall, host of the nationally syndicated Leslie Marshall Show.
Hour Two: GOP kills minimum wage hike...now what?- Jesse Lessinger, 15 Now Campaign
Hour Three: Anything Goes Friday
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Tonight
May 2 - Portland, OR 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, First Unitarian Church. details
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Thom's Poll
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Full Show 5/1/14: CEO Pay Going Up, Up and Away!
Guest host Mike Papantonio is in for Thom Hartmann tonight and discusses CEO pay with The Labor Institute's Les Leopold, America's love affair with Wall Street with Author Nomi Prins and consumer rights with American Association for Justice's Julia Duncan. Mike takes viewer video questions and phone calls in "Your Take, My Take Live" and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how we're all lab rats of the chemical industry.
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