When Democracy Failed - 2005: The Warnings of History by Thom Hartmann

[mwb970]

Today, as we face financial and political crises, it's useful to remember that the ravages of the Great Depression hit Germany and the United States alike. Through the 1930s, however, Hitler and Roosevelt chose very different courses to bring their nations back to power and prosperity.

Germany's response was to use government to empower corporations and reward the society's richest individuals, privatize much of the commons, stifle dissent, strip people of constitutional rights, bust up unions, and create an illusion of prosperity through government debt and continual and ever-expanding war spending.

America passed minimum wage laws to raise the middle class, enforced anti-trust laws to diminish the power of corporations, increased taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals, created Social Security, and became the employer of last resort through programs to build national infrastructure, promote the arts, and replant forests.

To the extent that our Constitution is still intact, the choice is again ours.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0222-22.htm

[benburch]

1. You can find an archive of ALL of Thom Hartmann's radio shows...

exclusively at http://www.WhiteRoseSociety.org/

[Demeter]

2. I See Boatloads of People

headed to Germany for their lives.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Thanks for posting this here. I posted it in GD-P last night, when

I got Thom's newsletter (which was the piece) and was about to head over here and post it, too. You might want to help me keep it kicked in GD-P, title is "Do you know the significance of February 27?" It's such an important piece, I want to get everyone to read it.

And if anyone reading this doesn't know, Thom's newseltter list is worth being on!

[emanymton]

4. In The Valley Of The Blind ...

the one eyed man is king.

But eventually, the masses killed the one eyed man because they could not stand to be shown to be wrong all the time.

Abandon all hope, he who enters... We too will be the first against the wall when the time comes.


Bush Lied, People Died, The Media Cheered.