Robbing Us Blind The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America
by
Steve Brouwer
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Edition: paper, 304 pages
Dimensions: 7.5x9
Steve Brouwer is on of the nation's best front-line reporters from the ongoing class war. You won't find any academic evasions in this book. The operative terms are "robbery" and "piracy," and the message is, "Wake up America, and reclaim your country before it is too late!"
-Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
In this blazing attack on the fiscal policies of both Bush presidents, Steve Brouwer lays bare the robbery behind the rhetoric in Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America.
From the tax cuts for the rich to the deadly health care policies for the pharmaceutical companies, Brouwer details the damage-not just from George W. but from his father as well. Packed with statistics yet woven into a gripping story, Brouwer tackles the central question head on:
Can We Really Call Them Robbers?
Showing exactly how the Bush Gang is a throwback to the "Gilded Age," Brouwer delineates the devastating evidence: The share of the national income that goes to the bottom 90% of the American people shrank from 67% of the total in the late 1970s to about 52% twenty years later. Almost all of the missing income was redistributed to the very richest Americans, the top 1%. Their take of the loot-already a robust 9.3% in 1979-had more than doubled to 20.8% by 2000. And that's before George Jr.'s tax cuts...
Yet Brouwer takes on a further question: Why blame this on "The Bush Gang?"
From 1981, when George Sr. became Reagan's vice president, through 2004, the Bush family has effectively been at the helm of our country most of the time-16 out of the last 24 years. If George Jr. gets re-elected, asks Brouwer, how much of our national income will be left in the hands of the people by 2008?
Author bio
Steve Brouwer has been writing books about economic inequality and the rightward shift in American politics for more than fifteen years. His Sharing the Pie: A Disturbing Picture of the U.S. Economy (1998) has won acclaim as a concise introduction to provocative issues in contemporary economics. He lives in Carlisle, PA.
