and in the late 1980's, thom worked to implement some of the first manatee protection laws. well, this is a four-decade long continuing service of public service. he's demonstrated the importance of looking out for the common good. you know, i just did an interview today in the aftermath of our vote today on what started out to be highly contentious on what we were going to resolve in debt reduction and deficit reduction, with the pending guillotine handing over our head at the default that would occur at 12:00 tonight which has now been averted. and the reporter that was asking me in this interview said well, why is it that everything is so contentious and people are all so wrapped up in their selves and they talk past each other, and they're only looking out for their own, and they don't respect the other fellow's point of view? thom rumberger represents that kind of person who always respected the other person's point of view, so when it was time to draw up the solution to whatever the problem was, then the parties could come together and find that consensus. now, that ha

c-span: thom robb. >> guest: yeah, thom robb -- doomed to failure because america doesn't want an upbeat, happy klan. why would you want an upbeat, happy klan? so thom's idea to give the klan an image makeover and be likable was doomed from the start. but even though they've given up the robes and the hoods, they allow the -- thom allows his members to wear them one day a year, for the annual convention. and one of the klansmen asked me if i wanted to try on his -- his hood and try on his robes. and i said, "sure." so i tried them on. it was so interesting because, you know, as a child, i really did have nightmares of robed, hood guys, you know? and i was having nightmares as i was leading up to spending time with the klan. i mean, obviously, i'm a jewish person. i was thinking, "what if the klan kill me?" so i'd have these nightmares. it was churning up -- on the conscious level, i was ok. i was kind of brave. but on the subconscious level, i was kind of churned up. but that moment i tried on the hood and the robe, it was so -- it was such a demystifying moment. it was just silly cotton

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for example what does it stand for and our last comments tonight is from the message board over at thom hartmann dot com of all often said that a person and a political party's ideology stems from their perspective on the world depends on whether you view the world through a me window as in what's in it for me or how i benefit from the situation or whether you view the world through a wee window as in how will the situation impact the greater good and this viewer asks what's what is the slip makes us one way or the other apart from conditioning it seems is the distinction between selfishness and sharing between caring for all of people as opposed to caring for only a few between empathy and cold indifference for the needy among us it's like the story of the good samaritan what is it that makes one behave in such a way contrary to the group to be it's what they finds what has been historically democratic and today progressive and i think the poster actually meant the democratic to be a capital d. but in any case america was founded as a we society were nation of barn builders i know dani

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but twittering at tom underscore apartment or in the champ room of the message boards or the blog thom hartmann. you can also leave a message on the rant line it by three six fifty three zero six agree disagree sound on it's all welcome to remember that your comments made news on the year. last week billionaire capitalist warren buffett called on congress to stop coddling millionaires and billionaires and raise taxes on people like himself to the same level that his secretary pays asking that the rich pay taxes like everybody else didn't just draw the ire of talking billionaire heads like eric bolling of fox so-called news who apparently missed econ one o one of those called both a socialist he also said a fellow fellow billionaire oil all of our charles. is statement released a right wing media outlets charles koch responded about it by writing i believe my business a nonprofit investments are much more beneficial to societal wellbeing than spend sunday on any more money to washington which makes me wonder of charles koch even knows how he made his billions in america. because you rea

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twitter at tom underscore hartman are in the chat room on the message boards and through the blog at thom hartmann dot com you can also leave a message on our rant line at two two five three six fifty three zero six agree disagree sound off its all welcome or remember that your comments may be used on the air. you know nature hates vacuums and so does government republicans appear to have won the debt limit debate successfully getting trillions of dollars in spending cuts and bringing us all closer to their vision of a miniature sized pocket government but one thing everyone seems to forget is that as government power shrinks something else has to fill that power vacuum. and that something is always historically been the or has always been historically the power of either great wealth of corporations since the birth of our nation corporations have slobbered of the idea replacing government they were hungry for the billions they could skim off the top of privatizing social security or the money they could make from medicare or the massive profits they could make if they don't have to follo

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to give you my take on it one more time that i'd first comment came to us on the message boards of thom hartmann dot com mike wrote i want to run this idea by you so that i can gauge whether it's a viable option to solve our country's problems one reinstate the military draft for eighteen to twenty six year olds of both sexes two thirty mile back to duty required to get a medal for a medical discharge letter from your doctor and three you could buy your son's or daughter's way out of serving for one hundred fifty thousand bucks much like what was done in the civil war divide it avoid having to serve in the war or you think. well mike a i don't know about the bot you can buy your kids out for one hundred fifty grand i mean it kind of work i guess for george w. bush and i don't know if bringing back the draft would solve all of the country's problems but i think you're on to something it would definitely be a major step toward solving america's problem of never ending wars thomas jefferson once wrote to his friend james madison that we should minimize our permanent military establishment

our next your comment is for me thom hartmann facebook page as you've heard me say numerous times on this program one of the greatest threats to our democracy today is the power of corporate personhood that was bestowed on corporations by a supreme court clerk back an eight hundred eighty six and put on steroids by last years that is united decision pushed through by a corrupt contemporary supreme court but paulo posted on facebook with this interesting observation he wrote the union share the same legal person rights as corporations by stripping corporations those rights are doing the same to unions. that's right if we say the corporations can't use their profits to engage in political free speech i frankly have no problem with saying the same thing about unions here's where that would give unions and advantage however unions are democratic institutions they elect their leaders and all the decisions out of the unions are made by a majority vote in the members corporations on the other hand are kingdoms and c.e.o.'s playing the role of kings so both were forbidden from using their mo

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of commerce is up to on the internet i've noticed for years you know on my own message boards over thom hartmann dot com that people have been going to my message boards particularly around the time of elections and posting right wing propaganda i even had one guy admitted this was during the two thousand and eight election cycle after the election that he'd been paid to post by conservative agencies organizations to do it but it appears that the chamber of commerce may be up to something much more nefarious using fake internet identities earlier this year at think progress and to act emails from the defense contractor aid should be federal and suggests that with the help of other security firms h b g f was working with the chamber of commerce to sabotage progressive organizations like think progress in the union as you it appears their strategy was to use fake on line personas complete with fake twitter facebook and. in accounts to infiltrate and gather private data intimidate people who work for organizations critical of the chamber of commerce for example meet holly weber born in one

the oldest who had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy thom bottom party. the art world in georgia result in arms after the director of the country's state affairs who was fired officially the reason given was for xenophobia statements he's alleged to have made but his supporters claim it was politically motivated after he spoke out against president saakashvili as rule takes up the story. all the world's a stage the famous georgian theatre director he saved really brought to life many of shakespeare's works on it has seen fired from his role. in the pride of the georgian theatre. has been removed from east coast allegedly for two methodic remarks but in fact there was a revenge from a political decision who demanded georgian culture minister restored to his position. in comments he made in an interview directing ninth to being outspoken against the government said the president saakashvili being armenian meant he was no sable to understand the needs of the georgian people it was a criticism too far and the government branded him sent a favor

the oldest coup had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy thom barton party. and for more on the birth of modern russia make sure you watch our special report this hour here on r.t. we're also uncovering more hidden history in our series. if you want to talk to. the streets to keep some secrets for instance revealed the soviet files on oxy. it is less than twenty four hours before this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but the actions showing no sign of winning russia's newest fighter jet the still classified t fifty prototype has been the main headliner of the event with its first public display it made another dramatic entrance on saturday with thousands of spectators a looking up in awe our very own rory sushi a is our man on the ground looks like you have a great time. the reality of the two thousand and eleven max international air show the chief if he is it is the james bond of the russian military aviation industry this thing was only unveiled a few days ago no one's allowed inside it it's at the pilot and the techn

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the the beginning to the next coming comes from our message board over thom hartmann dot com thanks to the tea party in the army of young people who support ron paul and the resurgence of iran's philosophy the greed is the highest good libertarianism is now back in the mainstream political debate in america and dominic on our message board had this important question to pose to libertarians a simple question for libertarians who wrote it a libertarian model of governments governance is so great if not perfect why have we never seen a prosperous answer example of this in the history of humanity well really simple it has never worked anywhere it's been tried i mean it was basically libertarianism is a lord of the flies world it's a dog eat dog world there's this fantasy this is libertarian group now and one of the. founders of one of the big web companies says he wants to create a floating island that can be a libertarian community or hate it doesn't work it never has it never will next up is a comment from joseph on my facebook page he had this to say please keep reporting on how people

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oldest cooper to come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy thom bottom party. well it's a mere twenty four hours before this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but the action showing no sign of waning death defying air stance and multibillion dollar deals are just some of the highlights for thousands of spectators watching it all on the ground forces say. archies main man to show. the march two thousand and eleven international as show is in full swing look at this beauty behind me this is the sukhoi thirty four looks more like a topical fighter jet but it's called the bomber and then as we mostly on down the tarmac here we have a couple of sukhoi thirty tactical fighter jets serious piece of russian military aviation hardware right here as we are enjoying the two thousand and eleven international air show the weather is not perfect but yet the crowds are still here to see the shows places called go planes helicopters noises beyond noises here we want to go the french run boys are pulling some radical turns and twists in the

pledge will still prevail log on to thom hartmann dot com to let us know you think the polls will be open until tomorrow morning. coming up the idea that corporations are people is spreading like a bad buyer is among republicans. unfortunately five of the nine members of the supreme court agree so how have corporations managed to wiggle their way in a person who is of the base that. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it through to get it made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. if corporations are really people the rest of us are screwed you may remember last week when mitt romney stepped in it by saying those. and there are various ways of doing that one is we could raise taxes on people that's the way that. corporations are people my friend we can raise taxes and of course they are everything corporations are and also because the people so what do you think it go so.

to the top one percent of americans or no the entire middle class hasn't disappeared yet log on to thom hartmann to tell us what you think hold the opening for tomorrow morning . coming out as it closed for profit town hall meetings where enough republicans have. figured out another way to avoid their constituents and i'm comfortable question i'll tell you how they're utilizing watch lists. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through that sort of been made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery to see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. your congressman may be watching you as the chickens come home to roost that august republicans continue to take drastic measures to avoid tough questions and disapproving constituents at town halls to republican congressman dan webster from florida and tim griffin from arkansas have been caught creating industry being watched lists these lists target constituents who asked the congressman

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observations and i'll try to address them as best as i can my first comment came to us through the forum and thom hartmann dot com loomis asked where can one find raw data about the taxes paid by the top one percent you hear these figures thrown out all the time in aggregate but direct sources are really provided you know where these can be again it's a great question and fortunately information is easily available to the public on the web be congressional budget office compiles all of the raw data about federal income taxes every year and post the internet on their website c.d.o. dot gov once you log on to the c.d.o. website click on publications in the menu across the top of the page then choose special collections from the dropdown menu that appears and click on distribution of federal taxes and this page will give you all the information on tax rates and hundreds of different data sets all available for download as a p.d.f. or excel document knowing the facts is important thanks to resources like the c.d.o. website it's easy to do our next comment is from the viewer rant line from threatening

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