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Thomas Frank - The Wrecking Crew

Series: Living Well Show
From: Donna Descoteaux
Length: 00:28:37

This is the most important election of our lives and Time is short! The Living Well Show presents a free PRE-ELECTION SHOW for your listeners: Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas and The Wrecking Crew explains why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich and the havoc those policies have created for us all. Read the full description.
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Piece Description

This is the most important election of our lives and Time is short! The Living Well Show presents a free PRE-ELECTION SHOW for your listeners: Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas and The Wrecking Crew explains why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich and the havoc those policies have created for us all. He examines the blundering and corrupt Washington created by those politicians. Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, deregulating some industries, defunding others, but always turning public policy into a private-sector bidding war. Washington itself has been remade into a golden landscape of super-wealthy suburbs and gleaming lobbyist headquarters - the wages of government-by-entrepreneurship practiced so outrageously by figures such as Jack Abramoff. Nor will the country easily shake off the consequences of deliberate misgovernment through the usual election remedies. Obsessed with achieving a lasting victory, conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state. With the wealthiest 1% now controlling 50% of all the wealth, Mr. Frank talks about the hidden economic issues that control our democracy. This information is not readily available and very important for voters as we approach the most important election of our lives!!

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