Yeah Right: This Economy Is Strong and Other Tall Tales

Yeah, Right is the definitive collection of short-sighted and out-of-touch claims made by the head cheerleaders for the Bush economy. It delivers a powerful indictment of leading Republican politicians and their corporate supporters, using nothing more than their own words and the striking juxtaposition of those words with the grim facts facing most Americans today.

Throughout Yeah, Right, Republican rhetoric about "record homeownership," "rising wages," "steady job growth" and "fiscal discipline" is seamlessly interwoven with contemporaneous news reports and economic charts revealing the actual reality of the past eight years — record foreclosures, falling incomes, slow job growth, rising inequality and unprecedented debt.

The first step to changing our economic course is reaching the same national consensus we did in the 1930s — that Republican trickle-down economics is, quite simply, a joke. Yeah, Right thoroughly exposes that cruel joke, and it is an indispensable resource for every American who is concerned about our economy.

"Yeah, Right is an essential handbook for every American concerned about the economy. It's a timely and devastating indictment of trickle-down economics, and it fully exposes the double-talk that prevailed for so long in Washington and on Wall Street." —Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian

Jim Oleske is a former labor attorney and experienced legislative aide. He most recently served as chief of staff to the Oregon Senate Majority Leader and previously served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Democratic Leader.

Prior to his work in the political arena, Jim represented the National Labor Relations Board in the federal courts of appeals. He has also taught and published in the area of church-state law, and he began his career as a federal appellate law clerk. Yeah, Right is his first book.