Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America’s middle class?a war that’s reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book asks: How did this happen? Who’s benefiting? And how can we stop it?
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Briliantly Weaves History and Constitutional Vision with Contemporary Politics and Economics Thom Hartmann has hit another grand slam homerun. This book nails the truth about how the right wing– in both parties– have been screwing the American people, except for the one hundredth of one percent who earn over $6 million a year.The book walks through so many of the big lies (taxes, big government, trickle down economics) of the faux conservatives– which he calls, so appropriately– “Cons.”As a publisher of a progressive website, I kept reading stretches of chapters and saying to myself– “Wow, that would make a great article.” While the book is a non-fiction book, it started off in the first two pages touching my heart, bringing tears to my eyes. (watching inconvenient truth brought tears too.) It is a very fast, smooth read. You do have to put it down every now and then, to deal with outrage build-up.As usual with Hartmann’s books (amazingly, Amazon lists over 200 results in a search for Thom Hartmann) he offers great solutions as well as unique, insightful perspectives on the problems.I’m recommending this to my readers (300,000 unique visitors a month) at opednews dot com as the best book they’ll see this year.
Another great book from Thom Hartmann I’ve read a few of Thom’s books, and I’m about half way through with his latest one, Screwed. As usual with Thom’s books, it’s great, well written and researched, and the type of book you can’t put down. the only down side is that as far as I know Thom didn’t put out a Books on Tape version, which I would prefer as I spend more time driving during the day then I have time to read.I’m also a big fan of his radio program, for 3 years now, and I’ve yet to hear Thom say that “a living wage” would be the equivalant to 18 bucks an hour. He has demonstrated that if you stimulate demand you improve the health of the economy, thus why the unemployment rate has dropped every time we’ve raised the minimum wage, short of those times when we had serious oil shortages, like in the 70′s.Even if we did raise it to 18 bucks an hour, the wage/productivity ratios at your average McDonalds would be still be better than 1:1, meaning McD’s would still make a profit. As it is, it’s a 1:4 ratio (meaning one week of sales pays for a month of labor), which was the same wage/productivity ratios in domestic industry immediately prior to the Republican Great Depression.For anyone wanting to read a fine book, and to get familiarized with Thom Hartmann and his ideas, this couldn’t be a better place to start….although What Would Jefferson Do? is great too.