Russia Today: The Big Picture With Tom Hartmann: 'Will EU Nations Turn Over Tax-and-Spending Sovereignty to Germany?'

Source:Russia Today- The Big Picture With Thom Hartnann, courtesy of Vladimir Putin.

"Thom Hartmann will be leaving The Big Picture TV show (on RT TV and Free Speech TV) at the end of September. We’ve had a great run with The Big Picture and earlier this summer we decided to discontinue that evening show so we could focus more directly on our daily 3-hour midday show, The Thom Hartmann Program. 

Having complete editorial control over a TV show syndicated internationally into more than 700 million homes was a great (and rare) opportunity.  We worked hard not to do "sports" or "soap opera" when covering politics, and instead focus on issues; we believe we accomplished a lot in that regard.  We're grateful to RT for the opportunity, and for fully honoring our contractual independence at all times.

You’ll still be hearing and seeing me on The Thom Hartmann Program, which is growing weekly in the noon-3 PM ET daypart." 

From Thom Hartmann 

"Hartmann hosted a one-hour daily TV show at 7 pm. ET Monday to Friday, The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, which was editorially directed by his wife and was broadcast from the Washington, D.C., studios of the RT America news network. The show featured many conservative guests who routinely sparred with Hartmann. Hartmann co-produced the program with RT, who provided studio and carriage, while Hartmann retained full editorial control of his programming. The RT network aired the program via Dish Network, DirecTV, and on selected local-origination and public-access television cable TV channels globally.[31] After hosting the program for seven years, Hartmann announced his departure as host on September 29, 2017." 

From Wikipedia

Europe is currently learning the weakness's of socialism whether it's democratic or anything else. When you rely on big government to do so much for its people for them and you run into an economic downturn, whether its continental or global and you aren't producing the economic growth and tax revenue to finance your welfare state, you start to run out of money. Especially the people you tax so heavily. And then you run into a situation where you either have to reform or cut or both. Germany seams to be the only Euro State thats figured this out and has already adapted. 

This post was updated 10/12/2023.