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The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back
Acclaim for The Global Class War "You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and how we need to go about reclaiming a democracy that serves ordinary people. This book should transform public discourse in America." -Robert Kuttner, founding coeditor of the American Prospect and a contributing columnist to BusinessWeek "Jeff Faux's astonishing story of how class works will scandalize the best names in Wall Street and Washington-especially the much admired Robert Rubin, who along with other elites colluded behind the backs of ordinary citizens in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The most cynical Americans will be shocked by the sordid details. This really is an important book." -William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism and Secrets of the Temple "Globalization is a cover for American imperialism, but the beneficiaries are not the American people at the expense of foreigners but corporate executives at the expense of working-class and poor people wherever they may be. Jeff Faux offers a comprehensive and devastating analysis." -Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire.
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The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing: Common Sense Rantings from a Raging Moderate
With the sacred cows of American politics practically begging for someone to puncture their pomposity, Will Durst hits them in the funniest places. In The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing, this equal-opportunity offender swats both partisan political piñatas from both sides of the spectrum upside their heads. From the utter incompetence of the Bushies and Dick Cheney’s destruction of the Constitution to the spineless antiwar posturing of the Congress and Hillary Clinton’s unmatched ability to play fast and loose with the truth, everyone takes their licks. Claiming to represent only those 60 percent of Americans in the middle, Durst attacks the fringe for its lack of common sense and Starbucks-like semantic corruption: he agrees that marketing a small as “tall” and a medium as “grande” is a great way to sell coffee, but having politicians chase “venti”-sized vote totals by appealing to the extremes is hardly a good way to run a country. .
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A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina (Report 109-377)
The Select Committee identifies failures at all levels of government that significantly undermined and detracted from the heroic efforts of first responders, private individuals and organizations, faith-based groups, and others. House Report 109-377. Union Calendar No. 205. Tom Davis, Chairman of the Select Bipartisan Committee. Tells the story of inadequate preparation and response in evacuations, medical care, communications, and contracting. Concludes that the government's best efforts, at all levels of government, were not good enough. The writers hope that their findings will prompt the changes needed to make all levels of government better prepared and better able to respond the next time. .
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The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret Behind American Prosperity
The 1990s were an era of unexpected and, in some ways, unprecedented prosperity. Economist Paul A. London examines the history of America's economy over the last several decades and the sources of our recent success, and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it. London argues that prosperity in the 1990s was the result of political struggles over several decades that opened up markets and increased competition within them, rather than the changes in monetary or tax policy that most economists focus on. Competition, not the Federal Reserve, ended inflation by making it impossible for businesses to raise prices; competition, not tax cuts, spurred investment by forcing companies to make investments that enabled them to cut costs and expand. The Competition Solution contrasts the vibrant, competition-driven American economy of the 1990s with the oligopolistic, inflation-prone one of the 1970s. London uses anecdotes and examples to show how both Republicans and Democrats helped bring down the oligopolies and monopolies by backing open trade, supporting antitrust, and ending price fixing in key industries. He tells the story of how the courts and politicians helped competitors challenge the Big Three auto companies and the United Auto Workers; Big Steel and the steelworkers union; airlines and their unions; AT&T and the Communications Workers of America; the trucking companies and the Teamsters; the established eastern financial institutions; and even powerful local retailing interests. Our future prosperity, London argues, will require political leaders who are willing to take on these kinds of fights. Just as the prosperity of the 1990s was driven by more intense competition, London argues that future prosperity will depend less on tax cuts and monetary policy than on having the political courage to maintain competition where it is strong and expand it in industries with still-rising costs, such as health care and education. Local monopolies dominate these two industries, making it hard to apply "the competition solution," but London suggests ways to promote competition in both..
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Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 - Law and Explanation
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The Election After Reform: Money, Politics, and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (Campaigning American Style)
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