The
American middle class is on its deathbed. People who put in a solid
day's work can no longer afford to buy a house, send their kids to
college, or even get sick. If you’re not a CEO,
you’re probably screwed.
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.. |
Screwed
The
Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It
by
Thom Hartmann
Berrett-Koehler
Publishers,
2006
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