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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1576754634
ISBN-13
9781576754634
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57189191
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Screwed : the Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- and What We Can Do about It
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American Government / General, Civics & Citizenship
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Political Science
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom's great work, it helps show us the way forward." --Paul Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen and The Impossible Will Take a Little While "Once again, Thom Hartmann hits the bull's eye with a much needed expos of the so-called 'free market.' Anyone concerned about the future of our nation needs to read Screwed now." --Michael Toms, Founding President, New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network and author of A Time For Choices: Deep Dialogues for Deep Democracy "If we are going to live in a Democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class. Thom Hartmann shows us how the 'cons' have wronged this country, and tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American." -- Eric Utne, Founder, Utne magazine "Thom Hartmann's book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con's war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet." -- Peter Coyote, Actor and author of Sleeping Where I Fall "The powers that be are running roughshod over the powers that OUGHT to be. Hartmann tells us what went wrong -- and what you and I can do to help set American right again." --Jim Hightower, National Radio Commentator, Writer, Public Speaker, and author of the bestselling Thieves in High Places "Hartmann speaks with the straight talking clarity and brilliance of a modern day Tom Paine as he exposes the intentional and systematic destruction of America's middle class by an alliance of political con artists and outlines a program to restore it. This is Hartmann at his best. Essential reading for those interested in restoring the institution that made America the envy of the world." -- David C. Korten, author of The Great Turning and When Corporations Rule the World
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
Introduction: Profits before People Part I: A Middle Class Requires Democracy Chapter 1: There Is No "Free" Market Chapter 2: How We the People Create the Middle Class Chapter 3: The Rise of the Corporatocracy Part II: Democracy Requires a Middle Class Chapter 4: The Myth of the Greedy Founders Chapter 5: Thomas Paine against the Freeloaders Chapter 6: Taxation without Representation Chapter 7: James Madison vs. the Business of War Chapter 8: FDR and the Economic Royalists Addendum: FDR's 1936 Speech Part III: Governing for We the People Chapter 9: Too Important for the Private Sector Chapter 10: Democracy Requires a Well-Informed Citizenry Chapter 11: Social Security is an Anti-Poverty Insurance Program Chapter 12: Medicine for Health, not Profit Chapter 13: Setting the Rules of the Game Chapter 14: Leveling the Playing Field Conclusion: The Road to Victory Afterword Notes Index Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Hartmann argues that the middle class is not the natural consequence of a free market based economy, but rather, the intended result of policies put into place to maximize the public good. Unfortunately, he maintains, the American middle class is on its deathbed., 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 government to work 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? Air America Radio host Thom Hartmann shows that over 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 both Republicans and Democrats to protect the middle class and have replaced them with policies that favor the only the privileged few. But the middle class is the very thing that makes America great. Thomas Jefferson himself believed that our very democracy depends upon our ability to play referee to the game of business, protecting labor and the public good. It is both our right and our responsibility, Jefferson wrote, to control "overgrown wealth" from becoming "dangerous to the state." We must not stand by while our democracy becomes a corporatocracy, serving an elite group of billionaire CEOs. There is another way. Thomas Jefferson knew how to build a middle class. Franklin Roosevelt knew how. We've done it before and we can do it, again. Following Hartmann's commonsense proposals, we can recreate a prospering middle class that will ensure that our public institutions are not turned into private fiefdoms, meet people's basic needs--for education, health care, a living wage--and keep America strong,, 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. Hartmann shows that it's not too late to return to the America that our founders envisioned. Democracy requires a fair playing field. It will survive only if "We", the people stand up, speak out, and reclaim our democratic birthright. This updated and expanded paperback edition will contain new information on reframing the immigration debate, what the results of the 2006 midterm elections mean for the middle class, and showing how the middle class is paying dearly for our dependence on "cheap" oil., 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 government to work 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? Air America Radio host Thom Hartmann shows that over 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 both Republicans and Democrats to protect the middle class and have replaced them with policies that favor the only the privileged few. But the middle class is the very thing that makes America great. Thomas Jefferson himself believed that our very democracy depends upon our ability to play referee to the game of business, protecting labor and the public good. It is both our right and our responsibility, Jefferson wrote, to control "overgrown wealth" from becoming "dangerous to the state." We must not stand by while our democracy becomes a corporatocracy, serving an elite group of billionaire CEOs. There is another way. Thomas Jefferson knew how to build a middle class. Franklin Roosevelt knew how. We've done it before and we can do it, again. Following Hartmann's commonsense proposals, we can recreate a prospering middle class that will ensure that our public institutions are not turned into private fiefdoms, meet people's basic needs-for education, health care, a living wage-and keep America strong,, Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class'a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book asks: How did this happen? Who's benefiting? And how can we stop it?
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