Full Show - 11/23/11. How Wal-Mart killed the "Mom & Pops"

Thom talks about how small businesses are falling at the mercy of giant transnational corporations and how legislators on Capitol Hill need to reinforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to preserve the lifeline of "mom and pops" businesses.

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News & Politics

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• Small Business Saturday
• Payroll Tax Cut
• Big Picture
• Thom Hartmann
• theBigPictureRT
• RTAmerica
• RT America
• RTTV
• Anti-Trust Act
• Sherman
• Wal-Mart

[tomaalimosh]

who said "People who are willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither, and will lose both" ? ... Someone important I think...

[decentwork4decentpay]

hey thom i liked this show , keep up the great job.

[dontblockmedk]

@g Don't get me wrong, free market is BS. I am in agreement with Thom, Kucinich and people like that more than these so-called conservatives Thom debates, who are so ignorant and arrogant they don't add anything to the show.

If Thom debated Lew Rockwell, Paul Craig Roberts, Max Keiser, Ron Paul or people like that the show would be much more interesting.

And if Thom invited Peter Joseph that would be better than all those. Check out this vid v=4Z9WVZddH9w.

[miketv]

@baalisgod666 yeah, the mom & pop stores didn't learn. They joined the rat race, determined to make money off a store front. Then a bigger store comes & beats them. Sucks, but it happens. It's business. I wanted to be an astronaut but the smarter guy got the job. And I'm not crying for laws to protect the moderately-intelligent from discrimination in space job hiring.

You can't turn back the clock & enforce some feudal community setup. There's too much money, power, & population out there.

[g4macdad]

@dontblockmedk

Care to name a few of these "Ron Paul like republicans"?

If you are talking about followers of Koch Industries front groups like Von Mises, Mercatus or Cato, we'll pass on their typical spin.

[megagagnon1]

@skullandbadbones Standard Oil and the Northern Pacific railroad were both run by men who were incredibly good at being efficient and keeping expenses low. Both companies were dominant in their industry because customers liked their low prices. It wasn't the customers who complained about these companies, it was their competitors who couldn't match their prices and service. Yes, crony capitalists screamed for the Sherman Anti-Trust - which led to higher prices, by the way.

[spystyle]

The Jews were disarmed in Nazi Germany

Can we learn from history ?

Apparently not :(

They will brainwash you until you hate guns .

[spystyle]

Guns keep law abiding citizens safe. if you ban guns they only take the guns away from law abiding citizens. So what is left ? Criminals have guns and cops have guns and government has guns. Meanwhile law abiding citizens are left as prey.

ALL rapist and burglars LOVE gun control.

ALL dictators LOVE gun control.

Disarm us then conquer us. Slowly they are succeeding. YOU have been BRAINWASHED to hate guns, the very objects that can keep you safe.

America was won using GUNS.

[skullandbadbones]

@megagagnon1 you are wrong on this one man. No way would the crony capitalists ever volenteer to bust up the companys they own.

[skullandbadbones]

@spystyle yes he does know the FED is privatly owned. And no he is a real Talk show host not just a talking head like msnbc or FOX/GOP so called Journalists.