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lectual property and keep waterways safe so they can deliver their made-in-China supplies to us. This formidable book brings to light of day important new information regarding how the Corporate manipulators are destroying our country.
Dollar Democracy is a riveting read: the text, defiantly disturbing. Mathews' writing style passionately grounded in integrity and reality. The conclusions of his detective work fit together like sword and scabbard. He gives his reader so much juicy informa- |
feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will dis-appear and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution. Crony politicians have made decisions that led to outsourcing good middle class jobs, dismantling our public education system, kindergarten through college and university; deteriorating health care that leaves Americans in danger, sick and broke; the destroying of our environment and lives; the polluting of our food through deregulation of big agribusiness, pesticide |
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tion, a veritable tsunami of corporate skullduggery. He doesn't mince words and he doesn't hold back when identifying the cauldrons of chaos they have created. He exposes these and others among the secret corporate power elite as the cooly vicious orchestrators of wars and grand-scale theft. Mathews also details the mind-boggling sums of money their CEOs reap
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(Mathews) exposes these and others among the secret corporate power elite as the cooly vicious orchestrators of wars and grand-scale theft. Mathews also details the mind-boggling sums of money thier CEOs reap from the proceeds of their crony capitalism. |
use and proliferation of Genetically Modified (GMO) foods; the crash of Wall Street and the Great Recession from which the bottom 99% of Americans have not yet recovered; while the super wealthy are doing better than ever.
Mind-blowing from the beginning, Mathews' book takes an even more astounding contemporary turn when he declairs their |
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from their crony capitalism. And what's interesting is that the fortunes of corporations are totally delinked from the fortunes of the rest of the world. The 2008 financial crisis devestated hundreds of millions of people, but the following year Wall Street revenue hit (US)$60 billion, a historic high, thanks in part to the massive injection of public money they received. Average wages in developed countries have dropped since the crisis, but the median pay for CEOs in the US now exceeds $10 million. A CEO now makes about 357 times more than the average worker's salary in the U.S., up from 181 times in 2009 and 40 times in 1980. The divide between the have-nots and have-yachts is getting worse really, really fast. In 1980, the top 1 percent controlled about 8 percent of U.S. national income. The bottom 50 percent shared about 18 percent. Today, the top 1 percent capture about 20 percent; the bottom 50 percent, just 12 percent. But the problem isn't that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that the inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a
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efforts over the past thirty years have succeeded. The middle class democracy that made America great is in seemingly irreversible decline. Mathews clearly shows how the Corporations and their crony politicians have hoodwinked America by separating speech and thought.
But wait! Mathews is a political pugilist, ready to lob a whole arsenal of answers on how we can reverse these trends and return middle-class democracy. He pro-poses comprehensive, bold, visionary solutions to restore America's formidable democracy and make this country great again. Can the truth change the course of history? If the truth can heal, then this book is a prescription for accountability. It is a must-read for anyone who believes that following our constitution must be mandatory for the pursuit of good government and that our once vibrant and powerful democracy is not for sale to the highest bidder and the too-clever-for word machinations of the Corporate Pollution Politics. Dollar Democracy is really a blueprint for Americans that have had enough. And that means 99% of us. |
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