Screwed : the undeclared war against the middle class : and what we can do about it
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Screwed : the undeclared war against the middle class : and what we can do about it
（A BK currents book）
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2007
1st pbk. ed
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Includes index
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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?
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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
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