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ISBN13: 9781576754146 |
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America wasn't meant to be like this. Air America Radio host Thom Hartmann shows that our Founding Fathers worked hard to ensure that a small group of wealthy people would never dominate this country — they'd had enough of aristocracy. They put policies in place to ensure a thriving middle class. When the middle class took a hit, beginning in the post-Civil War Gilded Age and culminating in the Great Depression, democracy-loving leaders like Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower revitalized it through initiatives like antitrust regulations, fair labor laws, the minimum wage, Social Security, and Medicare.
So what happened? In the last twenty-five years, we've witnessed an undeclared war against the middle class. The so-called conservatives waging this war are only interested in conserving — and steadily increasing — their own wealth and power. Hartmann shows how, under the guise of "freeing" the market, they've systematically dismantled the programs set up by Republicans and Democrats to protect the middle class and have installed policies that favor the superrich and corporations.
But it's not too late to return to the America our Founders envisioned. Hartmann outlines a series of commonsense proposals that will ensure that our public institutions are not turned into private fiefdoms and that people's basic needs — education, health care, a living wage — are met in a way that allows the middle class to expand, not shrink.
America will be stronger with a growing, prospering middle class — rule by the rich will only make it weaker. Democracy requires a fair playing field, and it will survive only if We the People stand up, speak out, and reclaim our democratic birthright.
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As Air America Radio Host Thom Hartmann shows, this death is no accident. Like the Founding Fathers, patriots such as Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower knew that economic opportunity and democracy go hand-in-hand. They believed in maximizing the public good and they worked tirelessly to build the strongest middle class the world has ever seen. But now, under the guise of “freeing the market,” conservative and corporate forces are waging a covert war against the middle class, dismantling policies like Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage, and fair labor laws — the very safeguards that foster economic opportunity and citizen engagement. The result is an economic system designed to line the pockets of the super-rich, the impending extinction of the middle class, and a very real, very dangerous threat to democracy itself.
By exposing the systematic efforts to destroy the middle class, Screwed empowers readers to stand up, speak out, and reclaim their democratic birthrights.
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aurelio23, October 16, 2006 (view all comments by aurelio23)
The rape of the Middle Class is nothing new. It is still debatable whether such rape has often been necessary to create the need for change in a given culture. We are aware that rape ?as aptly named by Thom ? has been a constant in most civilizations, beginning with the Sumerians, the Greeks, the Romans and a succession of kingdoms and republics. ?Screwed? presents a fearful review of what is in store for the US. Unless??
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Cheryl Marseilles, September 4, 2006 (view all comments by Cheryl Marseilles)
This is a great book to read for us everyday middle class people, who are trying to stay ahead ,but just can't seems to make it. A very direct book on life in the US, and how we just can't get ahead .
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jasonduerr, August 23, 2006 (view all comments by jasonduerr)
Thom Hartmann's writings range from extrordinary to amazing. In each and every one of his books and articles, readers can expect facts and history that you were unaware of all your life to suddenly illuminate the way you see the world around you.
I find myself with new tools to interprerate and make sense of news items that sould be screaming headlines in a free society.
Though I do not always agree with Mr. Hartmann (we're talking a 99-1 ration of agreement), I am amazed at his ability to frame arguments for the real facts, and even in the face of total disagreement (such as his radio guests sometimes featured in the first hour), he can walk away from an argument agreeing that one's strong feelings stem from a common ground: love for America.
I write this as I place my order for this book. My other books by Mr. Hartmann have been excellent reads, as well as gifts for relatives that didn't expect to agree on so many issues with a professed liberal. Lastly, it has been my personal tradition every year near the 4th of July, to celebrate the meaning of America by re-reading Thom's summary of the Boston Tea Harbor incident from his previous work, "Unequal Protection".
Every interested American, no matter what side of the fence you are on, will find much common cause with Thom's viewpoint.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781576754146
- Subtitle:
- The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do about It
- Author:
- Foreword:
- Miller, Mark Crispin
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- Civics
- Subject:
- Economic Conditions
- Subject:
- Social classes
- Subject:
- Middle class
- Subject:
- Political Freedom & Security - General
- Subject:
- Government - U.S. Government
- Subject:
- Public Policy - Economic Policy
- Subject:
- Civics & Citizenship
- Series:
- Bk Currents
- Publication Date:
- September 2006
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 239
- Dimensions:
- 9.32x6.44x.93 in. 1.20 lbs.
