Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do about It
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:
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
Thom Hartmann is the award-winning, best-selling author of fourteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages on four continents. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed and abused children, and has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools, and communities for orphaned or blind children in India, Uganda, Australia, Colombia, and the United States.
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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: FDRs 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: What Do We Do About It?
