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Hyperion
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
224 pages ISBN: 1401323782 EAN: 9781401323783 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The middle class, where the greatness of this nation is
rooted, is under siege by an increasingly unethical system,
managed by economic vampires who are sucking the lifeblood
out of the American family and ripping the heart out of
democracy itself. Big money-and the politicians who are
swayed by it-play both parties against each other, using
this false battle to distract most of us from the real war,
which is a war against the American family. This is it, folks . . . the moment of truth. This will be
the moment historians will look back upon and either say it
was the moment this great ship of state corrected its
course, or the moment it sailed completely away from its
democratic ideals. To succeed, we have to reach back and rediscover our
greatness. Progress may not come as fast as we, in our
impatience and impertinence, demand. But if we are patient
and persistent, it will come. All good things in life require a heavy lift, so roll up
your sleeves. We are not done yet. --from Killer Politics According to a 2008 Pew Report, more than half of all
Americans self-identify as middle class-but the actual
number of Americans with middle-class incomes is declining.
The middle class is going away. As increasing numbers of
Americans are faced with obstacles to education, health
care, jobs, and equity, the middle class as a financial
bracket is being replaced by the middle class as little more
than a state of mind. The richest Americans are growing
exponentially wealthier, while the rest of us struggle to
bear the financial and emotional burdens of an increasingly
broken system. In Killer Politics, Ed Schultz pulls the wool back from our
eyes, shows us what the state of the middle class really is,
and gives us the tools we need to fight back.
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