How the Rich Took Everything and Left You Nothing! Hidden History Of the American Dream Part II - Thom Hartmann

[Rhiannon12866]

The rich are planning to take everything the middle class has left... Thom Hartmann has the inside story of how they did it... - 11/28/2024.

[ancianita]

1. I've collected Hartmann's Hidden History series, and when it comes to historical facts, he knows what he's talking about

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I agree, plus he's a long time member of DU.

[ancianita]

3. Did not know that!

[Rhiannon12866]

7. He's talked about DU. He once talked about EarlG's "Pic of the Moment" and that he once had lunch with EarlG

[burrowowl]

4. I did

And when FDR signed social security into law they tried to get General Smedley Butler who also wrote war is a racket to lead a coup against FDR, I also recommend reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States also learn horror the U$ of A bombed Veracruz and other Mexican cities at the of the last century and the Mexicans say so close to the U$ of A and far from god. Also. I could that bush and Raygun should have been prosecuted for the war crime of killing 200,000 to 250,000 Guatemalan Indians during Iran Contra, father was witness to this, how American smelting and refining company captured Indians in Mexico to work in it’s mines so that they couldn’t farm or hunt to feed their children how when their children died ams forced them to buy the wooden campel soup to give their children a Cristian burial, my uncle witnessed this in the1930s to 40’s, I could go on. And why I got for Bernie and Elizabeth in the primaries.

[orleans]

5. bookmarked. hopefully i'll get a chance to watch this tomorrow. k&r nt

[Rhiannon12866]

8. This looks like it's a three-part series by Thom Hartmann. Here's Part 1, if you missed it:

The Real Reason the Middle Class Was Left to Die! Hidden History Of The American Dream Part I - Thom Hartmann
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132250827

[orleans]

9. thanks. listening now. nt

[orleans]

10. i listened to all three. then i posted them on fb. thanks again! NT

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Thanks! Glad you enjoyed them, he's very good.

And did you know that Thom Hartmann is a long time member of DU? I listened to one show where he was laughing over EarlG's "Pic of the Moment," and he mentioned that he'd once had lunch with EarlG.

[orleans]

12. how nice. i wouldn't mind having lunch with either of them

(yes, i know he's a duer; proud/happy to have him here. he mentions du on his show every once in awhile too. i remember posting something he said and was getting shit in the thread about his stint at RT and that crap and trying to defend it. ugh. if i didn't finally say he was a duer and don't bash duers i certainly should have!)

[Farmer-Rick]

6. I've seen once lucrative jobs disappear or get overtaken by corporations

Thom Hartmann's series is very helpful in understanding the war on the worker. Also Richard Wolff has some free lectures that help describe how capitalism allows the filthy-rich to do this.

What has always struck me as strange is that when a new tech, food or media first comes out, it makes everyone money, not just the rich corporations. But after awhile all that wealth gets captured and sucked up by the filthy-rich.

Like when CPUs first became a thing. All you had to do was learn a computer programming language and you could bring in money hand over fist. But then the corporations come in and capture all that money for themselves, like Gates, Zuckerberg, Apple. They bring in cheap labor and take away the once lucrative pay. You can sometimes still make money off it just not life changing money.

I saw it happen with books before the electronic books came out. Writing a popular book or 2 could make you good money. Now they blame it on the failing industry but it became just another middle income generator long before the book industry became digitized.

It happened with organic foods. If you farmed carefully, without all the poisons and petroleum based fertilizers, you could get a good customer following and make some money.

But then the USDA got in on it. They set very high standards and charged more and more money for their organic certification. Small farmers could meet the requirements but it was difficult But it was very easy for the big corporations to meet those standards.

Here's the thing, if corporate farms can easily meet organic standards, why weren't they doing it all along? Organic farming requires less inputs, less insecticides, less weed killer, less artificial fertilizers. The small farmer likes organic because it saves money on input costs.

Take those organic certifications for corporate foods with a grain of salt.