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Indlæser... 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 Backaf Lou Dobbs
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Lou Dobbs in angry. It comes out in his voice which is more like and bark and it is in his prose. Basically, the middle class is being screwed by our politicians who are being bribed by the lobbyists. The middle class are too fat and lazy to do anything about it. Or they lower middle class is working too hard to stay afloat finacially and are not sophisticated enough to see through the Bush veneer of being a good christian who lives by his christian values. Bush and his cronies live by the $ which is how they make decisions. The lobbyists are in the Bush camp to make corporate America even richer while sacrificing the middle class. While this was an interesting book to listen to it was discouraging and offered little in the way of antidote to the poison of lobbyists and the Bush administration. I do disagree with Dobbs view of illegal immigration as he supports the building of a fence (even 700 miles). Fences create both physical and intellectual barriers that would destroy our relations with Mexico and South America. Interesting book but we need an action plan. While Dobbs' work borders on being overly preachy in spots, it raises some excellent points that may prompt some defenders of existing domestic policies to rethink their stands. Of particular interest is Dobbs' assessment of trade policies. One interesting nugget: Dobbs blames "pitiful leadership" at Ford and GM for the problems U.S. automakers are facing. He concludes that domestic car companies must embrace some of the quality control measures that Japanese automakers have implemented. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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