War on the middle class : how the government, big business, and special interest groups are waging war on the American dream and how to fight back /
Lou Dobbs.
- New York : Viking, 2006.
- x, 276 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.
War on the middle class -- Class warfare -- The best government money can buy -- The politics of deceit -- He says, she says -- The exorbitant cost of free trade -- Exporting America -- Broken borders -- A generation of failure -- Health care: it's enough to make you sick -- The best of intentions -- Taking back America -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Constitution of the United States -- The Bill of Rights -- The Constitution: Amendments 11-27.
The middle class has never been so vulnerable. Its every feature is under assault by politicians and the lobbyists who court them, big-business corporations that are sending their jobs overseas, and a media that relies on sensationalism instead of facts when reporting the news. CNN host and commentator Dobbs looks at every aspect of the decline of the middle class--from a lack of political representation to America's corrupt health-care system--to demonstrate how the gap between America's newest haves and have-nots is no longer merely financial, but instead includes the erosion of education, employment, government, and community. Dobbs proposes a series of measures to resolve each issue and incite people, whose future is being mortgaged to benefit a powerful few, to preserve their rights and dreams.--From publisher description.
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Middle class--Government policy--United States. Middle class--Economic conditions.--United States Pressure groups--United States. Corporate power--United States. Elite (Social sciences)--United States.
United States--Economic policy--2001-2009. United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.