I have tried to put the connections together for many of you.
Video so have sound on: Democracy Now! |

A 38 minute listen to if you have Adobe 8 or higher. David Cay Johnston on How the Rich Get Richer : NPR

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And if this isn't enough read this short piece.

December 7, 2007
David Cay Johnston's New Book, Free Lunch
David Cay Johnston's next book, Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill), will be released on December 27, 2007. Here is the publisher's description:

How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing how today’s government policies and spending reach deep into the wallets of the many for the benefit of the wealthy few.

Johnston cuts through the official version of events and shows how, under the guise of deregulation, a whole new set of regulations quietly went into effect—regulations that thwart competition, depress wages, and reward misconduct. From how George W. Bush got rich off a tax increase to a $100 million taxpayer gift to Warren Buffett, Johnston puts a face on all of the dirty little tricks that business and government pull. A lot of people appear to be getting free lunches—but of course there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and someone (you, the taxpayer) is picking up the bill.

Johnston’s many revelations include: TaxProf Blog: David Cay Johnston's New Book, Free Lunch

How we ended up with the most expensive yet inefficient health-care system in the world
How homeowners’ title insurance became a costly, deceitful, yet almost invisible oligopoly
How our government gives hidden subsidies for posh golf courses
How Paris Hilton’s grandfather schemed to retake the family fortune from a charity for poor children
How the Yankees and Mets owners will collect more than $1.3 billion in public funds
In these instances and many more, Free Lunch shows how the lobbyists and lawyers representing the most powerful 0.1% of Americans manipulated our government at the expense of the other 99.9%. With his extraordinary reporting, vivid stories, and sharp analysis, Johnston reveals the forces that shape our everyday economic lives—and shows us how we can finally make things better.

Now if your interested and want to buy it at 1/3 of what I paid or just stop complaining about the govt., the rich and how you are paying more for anything, please! As I have tried for months to make each of you aware and but for a few not one has bothered to gain insight. NoI am sorry do continue a sit will mean I need not spend my time here as long or as offen. And I can attented to my life and stop worring about yours. I thought w ewere close but now I feel so far from each here. Your just debaters and posters, thats all.

Amazon.com: David Cay Johnston: Books

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

Bitch, bitch, bitch.

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You meet the same folks on the way up as you do on the way down.

Huh?

I'm going to move this into American Politics since it doesn't have anything to do with Forum Announcements. It's a good post, though, mlurp.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

NMo I am a male you might see differently than me. lol But my point i sto open som eeyes. So why not just try to see from anothers point of view for once?

And note I won't be seeing you on the way down! If your that hard headed you get what you buy. Som epeople try hard to direct others to a sale or better quality can't you see that. I don't make a thing off the book And I took a chance having so many pages on line yet you read not one word.
Go ahead vote for Obama, Hillary or the old guy. loooool Best of luck... And do I berate your posts? bitch, bitch, bitch.......... take it anyway you want.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

I just would like in this so important election year to have people to know the truth. Why is it so much after we make a mistake to realize it? And we as a nation don't have that many more political mistakes to make.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

1. I am also a male.

2. My eyes are, for the most part, open, and have been for some time. The rich keep getting rich, with the military contractors first in line at the trough. (The little people? Fock'em--let them eat cake.) The media, from MSM to the lowest bloggers, are not helping, and their job is made much easier by a self-centered, intellectually lazy audience that places the importance of Britney's newest tattoo above their congressman's whoring with lobbyists. On your dime.

3. Hard headed? Not me. Cynical, yes, but hey, I ain't the one who was late to the prom.

4. POTUS election. There ain't no Silver Bullet, so put down the remote control. Our mastodon of government barely moves, and if a candidate, their supporters or even their detractors say radical change is on the way, they're pulling your leg to get your money/vote. The most you can hope for is a slight course correction, and one or two Supreme Court appointments. This isn't the drive-up window at Burger King. Unless, of course, America wants to throw them all out of Washington and start anew, but that sounds like a lot of work that may cause us to miss "Dancing With The Stars".

You can take this any way you want--enjoy your moment of Zen.

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You meet the same folks on the way up as you do on the way down.

That's the problem with truth. It's only for the "other guy" and the idiot sheep won't pay any attention unless it inconveniences them.
And with the help of the politicians, it's even easier to get the masses to ignore what is right under their noses. Now, they can blame the liberals/conservatives for all the ills in the world and realize none of it is their fault.
And if the whole thing comes crashing down, they'll STILL blame the "other" side anyway.

That truth has been there for a long time. So have idiot sheep. Bad combination.

Good OP though.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

"If the Good Lord did not want them to be shorn, He would not have made them sheep."
--Caldera, the bandito jefe in The Magnificent Seven.

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You meet the same folks on the way up as you do on the way down.

Glad you have an opinion, thanks Annie.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”