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URGENT: Stop conservatives before they kill again...
Conservative economic policies are eating middle-class Americans alive - and killing us, too. For any society to work, people's basic needs have to be met, whether they have a job or not, and whether the economy is in an upswing or a downswing. As FDR laid out in his Second Bill of Rights, those basic needs include things like access to food, healthcare, housing, education and gainful employment. Unfortunately, thanks to 34 years of failed Reaganomics policies, the ability of Americans to meet those most basic of needs has all but disappeared.
A new report out from the Center for American Progress (CAP) highlights just how big a hit America's middle-class families have taken from conservative economic policies. As CAP points out, for a typical middle-class married couple with two children, the combined costs of healthcare, day care, housing and savings for college and retirement increased a staggering 32% between 2000 and 2012.
As result, it's become next to impossible for middle-class families to do some of the most basic of things, including having a place to call home. Housing costs have increased 28% over the past 12 years, meaning that fewer and fewer families can afford to purchase a home and build equity in it in preparation for retirement. And, Americans' are also unable to buy a home and take on a mortgage because they're taking 20 years to pay off the mountains of student loan debt they're graduating college with.
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Beyond the climate march...what's next? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Need to Know: Why the founders would have dumped ALEC- America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio 
Screwed: ISIS...product of Libertarian economics?- Austin Petersen, The Libertarian Republic
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The Best of the Rest...
Beyond the climate march...what's next?- Julian Boggs, Environment America
Daily Take: Stop conservatives before they kill again
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The Daily Stack 
Hour One: Thom talks ISIS and climate week with America's Lawyer- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Hour Two: The GOP plot to ambush the midterm elections- Kevin Jackson, The Blacksphere
Hour Three: How climate change may affect your health- Dr. Kris Murray, EcoHealth Alliance Brad Blog threatened by GOP operative- Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog Quote: "I am not a member of any organized party - I am a Democrat" - Will Rogers". |
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Death by "Drive-by Doctoring"
Another Day, Another Company Ditching ALEC
The Good - The Bad - And the Very Very Levisomnously Ugly!
The Black Ice Threat to the Arctic...
Lone Liberal - How Factions are Hurting Democracy
Lone Liberal - Austerity economics is fueling global terrorism...
Isn't It Time to Declare Neoliberalism Dead?
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Full Show 9/24/14: Reaganomics Is Fueling Islamic Extremism
Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" discusses Obama's ISIS speech at the UN, how Boehner's lawyer is backing out of the Obama lawsuit and the right wing media's attack of Sunday's massive climate change march. Thom talks the UN Climate Summit with Mary Sweeters and John Deans of Greenpeace USA and how companies are ditching ALEC over climate change with Labor Economist Jane Carter. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how we need to take the profit motive out of our health care system.
How the GOP Plans to Ambush the Midterm Elections
Papantonio: Eric Holder Resigns, Hallelujah!
Climate Change Discussed at Clinton Global Initiative...
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Is it over for ALEC?
Milton Friedman Started the Syrian Civil War...
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