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Book : War On The Middle Class How The Government, Big...

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-Titulo Original : 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

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Penguin Books

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Lou Dobbss bestselling expose of the silent assault on the living standards of ordinary Americans Millions of TV viewers have known Lou Dobbs for years as the Walter Cronkite of economics coverage, and now the anchor has become the preeminent champion of the common man and the good of the national interest, who tells uncomfortable truths in a voice that cant be ignored. In this incendiary book, he presents a frontline report on the betrayal of Americas middle class by interests that range from rapacious corporations to an out-of-touch political elite. The result is not only lost jobs but also dysfunctional schools and unaffordable health care. But War on the Middle Class also outlines a bold program for change. As essential as it is infuriating, this book furnishes the talking points for the national debate on income and class. Review His refreshing prose, like his on-air persona, combines seemingly unmixable ingredients [and] thanks to Dobbs passion and charisma [War on the Middle Class] succeeds in sounding an alarm that cannot be ignored. -The New York Times Book Review [Dobbs] manages to shine a powerful spotlight on many outrages. -Seattle Post-Intelligencer [Dobbs is] a refreshingly bold thinker who refuses to be intellectually pigeon- holed. -Publishers Weekly, starred review About the Author Lou Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight. He writes for Money and U.S. News & World Report and manages the Lou Dobbs Money Letter. He has received the Peabody Award, the Luminary Award by the Business Journalism Review, the Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans, as well as an Emmy Lifetime Achievement award. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1I cannot imagine what the men who wrote these words would think of America today: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. I dont know about you, but I havent consented to much of what government has done in the past twenty years.Our declaration states unequivocally that all men are created equal, and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Our country was founded with the intent that class distinction and rigid social structure were things left behind in the old world and had no place in the new. The American Dream was, from the beginning, the promise of political democracy, a wide range of civil liberties, and the opportunity for economic prosperity...for each and every citizen.The men who signed our Declaration of Independence were a mixture of the wealthy and the poor, the well educated and the uneducated. Revisionist history would have us believe that our nations founders were uniformly elitists, wealthy and entitled men who were the only individuals capable of grasping the enormity of what it took to govern a new country. This was born of a very European notion that the aristocrats were born, or entitled, to public service. They point to Thomas Jefferson, a landowner with extensive holdings. Or John Hancock, who inherited one of the largest estates in the colonies. Or Samuel Adams, owner of a brewery. They rarely cite the fact that Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children of a candle maker, and spent much of his youth as an indentured printers apprentice and clerk. Or that George Taylor worked in an iron mill. Or that William Whipple was a merchant seaman. Or that George Walton was an orphan who apprenticed as a carpenter.The fifty-six men who signed the declaration were a diverse group, consisting of doctors, lawyers, soldiers, farmers, and merchants. Their backgrounds were varied. Some were born in o
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