thom hartmann here on the news you need
to know this if you thought the paul
ryan plan to privatize medicare was bad
wait until you see what republicans have
up their sleeve today publicans the
house they will vote on their plan to
raise the debt limit which includes a
balanced budget amendment to make sure
the government can't close loopholes on
rich people in the future and can't
spend any money beyond a certain
threshold even if emergency spending is
needed to fight off a recession or some
other crisis the balanced budget
amendment will require a 25-percent
spending cut in every single government
program Social Security to Medicare to
veterans benefits return government
spending to its low levels lowest level
since nineteen sixty six when the United
States population stood at 100 million
fewer people than it is today no
president has ever supported a connie
spending cut and structural changes this
massive republicans feel that with our
nation in a great depression and real
unemployment above sixteen percent that
now is the perfect time to blockade
government spending just like herbert
hoover did what we're seeing unfold the
house today is the final step in ronald
reagan starve the beast economics
republicans are successful the nation is
screwed return of the Robo sinus eight
months after banks promised to stop
using fake signatures on foreclosure
documents to kick as many Americans out
of their home as possible they're right
back at it again so far this year least
three states have discovered fraudulent
this foreclosure documents for example
in Massachusetts over 1,300 documents
have been attained that were all signed
by the same person named Linda green but
they were all signed in different
handwriting styles under new titles
banks acting acted so irresponsibly
during the housing boom they can't even
track down people's real mortgages today
that's why they have to create fake ones
with fake signatures no the housing
market has gone bust just to cover their
own butts in each fake signature means
another American family getting kicked
out of their homes and put onto the
streets wall streams Wall Street's crime
of the century continues in the best of
the rest of the news reformer doc
appeared before the UK Parliament today
to get a tongue lashing from lawmakers
both he and his son as well as recently
arrested news international
second Rebekah Brooks a question about
their roles in and what they knew about
the phone hacking scandal that's gripped
Britain's media over the last few weeks
and now it's looking more and more
likely that Rupert Murdoch himself will
bite the bullet but into a CNBC report
facing a wave of new investigations here
in the United States Murdoch is
considering stepping down as CEO of his
media empire News Corp even if Murdoch
leaves though don't expect things to
change much at fox so-called news
network has become so entrenched with
the Republican Party and corporate
interests that it really is the GOP TV
it was envisioned by roger ailes when he
worked for nixon in 1971 and with or
without murdoch at the helmets agenda
will remain the same so meet the new
boss same as the old boss so much for me
Republicans halfway one day after
President Obama gave in to Republicans
and nick's the ideas of Elizabeth Warren
heading the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau instead nominated Ohio
Attorney General Richard Cordray for the
top job publicans the Senators still
promising to block confirmation 44
Senate Republicans vowed to filibuster
the confirmation of Cordray until major
changes are made the new watchdog agency
in charge of making sure that people
aren't screwed over by the banksters
again by major changes Republicans want
to completely dismantle the new agency
and basically let the banksters run wild
again but the Foxes guard the henhouse
yet another anti middle-class stance
taken by the Republican Party wholly
owned by millionaires and billionaires
President Obama has been warned the
presser chant change campaign committee
or PCCC delivered a petition with the
signatures of two hundred thousand
donors to president obama's reelection
headquarters last week warning the
president that if he gives in to
Republicans and cuts entitlement
programs he can kiss their money and
help goodbye in 2008 the p triple c
raised 17 million dollars president
obama's campaign that same sort of help
might not be around 2012 as a p triple c
spokesman says it's not a question of
who they're going to support for
president they're gonna vote for barack
obama it's a question where their time
and money is going to go make sure the
president will face a mountain of
corporate cash standing between him in
the White House and you will need all
the help you can get to climb over it so
the president doesn't forget the people
who put him in office three years ago
but the Wisconsin season
recall season beginning today voters
will weigh in on the first of a series
of general election recalls that will
see six Republicans and three Democrats
fighting to keep their seats in today's
contest Democrat Dave Hansen is up for
recalling Green Bay they shouldn't be
too worried a public policy polling
survey shows in with a 28-point lead
over Republican challenger dave van der
leest a guy who is charged with
bankruptcy and domestic abuse
allegations Wisconsin's history only two
lawmakers have ever been recalled Ty Lee
unlikely we'll see a recall today when
the republicans face voters in their
recall contests over the next few months
in wisconsin then were likely to see
some history made and a new democratic
democratically controlled state senate
installed to put the brakes on radical
Governor Scott Walker's anti middle
class agenda crazy alert Mickey Mouse
has a chance right residents the town at
tower hill north carolina are hitting
the polls today to elect a new bear and
three city commissioners the problem is
the ballots are blank it's because no
one bothered to register have his or her
name's put on the ballot so voters will
simply be writing in the names of their
preferred candidates in the blank spaces
considering the Tar Heel North Carolina
only has 117 people on take too much for
someone to vote win and given voters
propensity for writing an absurd choices
for elective office Mickey Mouse could
be the front-runner the or the dark
horse candidate Alfred E Newman and
that's the way it is today tuesday july
nineteen twenty eleven i'm tom hartman
on the news
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