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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

Lou Dobbs
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 commentator 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.--From publisher description
Print Book, English, 2006
Viking, New York, 2006
Nonfiction
x, 276 pages ; 25 cm
9780670037926, 9780143112525, 0670037923, 014311252X
70775778
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