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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 /

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 commenta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dobbs, Lou
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2006.
Subjects:
Middle class > Government policy > United States.
Middle class > United States > Economic conditions.
Pressure groups > United States.
Corporate power > United States.
Elite (Social sciences) > United States.
United States > Economic policy > 2001-2009.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.
Table of Contents:
  • War on the middle class
  • Class warfare
  • The best government money can buy
  • The politics of deceit
  • He says, she says
  • The exorbitant cost of free trade
  • Exporting America
  • Broken borders
  • A generation of failure
  • Health care: it's enough to make you sick
  • The best of intentions
  • Taking back America
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • The Constitution of the United States
  • The Bill of Rights
  • The Constitution: Amendments 11-27.