Rebooting the American dream : 11 ways to rebuild our country
Publication Information
San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2010.
Physical Description
228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
At the core of each is a call to reclaim economic sovereignty and to wrest control of democracy back from the corporate powers that have hijacked both America and her citizens. What's particularly unique about Hartmann's solutions is that all have been proven to work. Every single one of his 11 steps either was historically part of what built Americars's greatness in the past (such as enforcing the Sherman Act and breaking up big corporations or returning to a tariff-based trade policy), or has worked well in other nations (like a national single-payer healthcare system--Medicare Part "E" for "Everybody"--or encouraging the growth of worker-owned cooperatives like the $6 billion Mondragon cooperative in Spain). Hartmann's solutions are essentially nonpartisan. Virtually all have been promoted at one time or another in American history by both political parties, although today most (but not all) fall into the realm of "progressive solutions." From addressing the problem of a warming globe to the death of America's middle class to the loss of our essential liberties, this book shows how America can reclaim the vision of our Founders and the greatness we held both at home and abroad for over a century.
Notes
"A BK Currents book."
Contents
- Back to the future
- Bring my job home!
- Roll back the Reagan tax cuts
- Stop them from eating my town
- An informed and educated electorate
- Medicare "part E," for everybody
- Make Members of Congress wear NASCAR patches
- Cool our fever
- They will steal it!
- Put Lou Dobbs out to pasture
- Wal-Mart is not a person
- In the shadow of the dragon
- Tag, you're it!.