| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780976062127 | | Publisher: Polipoint Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 202004211 | | Item#: R4VWRT | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.5L x 0.5T | | Pages: 128 |
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| | | Social Security is facing the most serious, well-financed, and determined threat to its existence since its inception in 1935. For Americans to make sense of the barrage of conflicting messages on the subject, it's necessary to understand who is behind the campaign to "reform" Social Security, what the campaign aims to achieve, and how it misrepresents its goals. Best-selling author Joe Conason exposes why and how this is happening. "The Raw Deal explores the Right's privatization goals, Bush's hard-fought privatization campaign (built on a stacked "study"), the corporate interests behind the plan, the media campaign to undermine confidence in Social Security, and how the swindle can be stopped. Conason's no-apologies, no-nonsense approach clears up the myriad misperceptions surrounding this important, confusing issue and gets to the truth about the big Social Security bluff.
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Examining President George W. Bush's plans for reforming the Social Security system, investigative journalist Joe Conason predicts dire consequences and uncovers what he sees as ulterior motives. Privatization, asserts Conason, is a veiled term for turning the system over to special interests that align politically with Bush's conservative agenda. Conason backs up his claims with a wealth of information and research, while explaining just how the complex system works--going back to its beginnings, in 1935, under President Franklin Roosevelt. He accuses Bush of provoking a crisis, and names groups from the right who, under the guise of grassroots populism, are mounting well-funded "Astroturf" campaigns. The tenor of Conason's argument can be called combative, as he asserts that "In both style and substance, the Bush plan resembles a massive consumer fraud."
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