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
by Lou Dobbs
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Author: Lou DobbsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-09-25
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Lou Dobbs is an Incorrigible Truth Writer About What Is Going On
Summary: 5 Stars
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 lists and adds credible support to each subject: How American workers are breezily replaced by pennies a day foreign workers, our frightening health care situation : "American citizens who need health care assistance shouldn't need a post-college education to figure out how to enroll in Medicare," how big pharma reaps the lion's share of dollars which change hands, fleecing American taxpayers, while middlemen lobbyists dish out pharma goodies to "our" out-of-touch, "Who, me? I only work here" Congress, who are obsessed with pocketing extortion dollars to finance their TV re-election ads, thus again placing the American Middle Class citizen last on any help genuinely earned, deserved and needed. Lou Dobbs writes of how, when the Clinton Administration presented a health care proposal, "More than $100 million was spent to convince the American public that the proposed reform was a bad idea." WOW! I did not know that! Did you?
Outrageous costs of insurance, payments for medical necessities and the newly acquired poverty families with catastrophic illness must suffer block honest citizens from daring to dream any American Dream.
I could not reveal the book to you if I tried and I did not try. There is much, much more.
We are reminded how corporations are becoming the kings of life and death for Americans. You may wonder, "how can these things be?" And maybe, after reading "War On The Middle Class", you will want to keep Congress in "a state of constant gooseflesh" (Dr. Spock's immortal phrase).
Very few genuine Americans do not have a work ethic. Yet, too many middle class jobs have been outsourced. A reasonably paying job, holding family life together, has all but morphed into mist.
Mr. Dobbs writes the details of firms and people comprising and compromising today's America.
Because of the massive content of this brief, "easy-read" book, I have only reviewed some of its wealth, summarizing Mr Dobb's appraisal of the catastrophy of US health care, i. e., who IS captain of this ship of too many machines and prescriptions with sometimes questionable outcomes?
His coverage of other disasters are: the government's glut of lawyers, the Iraq disaster, "When Congressman John Murtha (D-PA), a decorated Marine Corps veteran, stood up on the floor of the House of Representatives to call for an orderly withdrawal of our troops from Iraq, the Senate and House Democratic leadership (and the rank and file)were silent." To a thoughtful reader, this silence on the Bush/Cheney rush to preemptive war, (Sen Byrd's wise eloquence on even considering such an undertaking was reflected by a few others in Congress, the lone Republican, Ron Paul, is included. Byrd's far-reaching wisdom was brushed aside like a pesky summer housefly,) my own opinion. Mr. Dobbs writes on this hot button subject that there is "still no demand for an accounting of the Pentagon's general staff for what has now been a three-year failure to defeat the insurgency."
Also painstakingly covered are the suicidal (my words)trade deals, the frightening dive of our educational system, the lack of adequate inspection of each container which comes into our ports and the needed manpower and will to safeguard our Mexican and Canadian borders.
In short, Mr. Dobbs outlines what a grown-up, mentally developed person's use of taxpayer money would be, in contrast to how a drunken sailer and his cronies are trashing our money supply, not their own, (my words, not Mr. Dobbs's.)
How did Lou Dobbs ever find so many revelations? I have heard that he is a reporter!
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Summary of 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
Prominent CNN host and commentator Lou Dobbs unleashes his manifesto on the vanishing American dreamThrough his nightly CNN show, Lou Dobbs Tonight, his syndicated radio program, and his monthly magazine column, Lou Dobbs has become one of America?s most visible, popular, and respected voices on business and financial matters. Now, with War on the Middle Class, Dobbs takes an impassioned and rousing stance on the all-out class war that is turning the American dream into a nightmare.
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. In a sweeping analysis, 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. War on the Middle Class is provocative, incendiary, and bound to be widely discussed?the perfect book to establish the terms of debate in this year?s midterm elections.
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