Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do about ItHere's a bit of wisdom on which left and right can easily agree: If you let things go, you'll have to pay for it eventually; and the longer you don't deal with it, the more you'll have to pay. Wait long enough, and you'll pay dearly-when you could have done the right thing all along and at little cost. Take the planet, for example. As ev... |
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Profits before | x |
A Middle Class Requires | 1 |
How We the People Create the Middle Class | 19 |
Democracy Requires a Middle | 62 |
Taxation without | 96 |
James Madison versus the Business | 113 |
FDR and the Economic | 124 |
Governing for We | 145 |
Too Important for the Private | 155 |
Knowledge | 169 |
The Road to Victory | 255 |
GREG PALAST | 281 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 298 |
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