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- Subject: RESOURCE: Some More Books for Activism (autopost)
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- "The Politics of Rich and Poor," by Kevin Phillips,
- published by Random House, New York, 1990; 263 pages.
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 12:53:48 CST
- Reply-To: Jon Harder <jon%kracken.uci.com>
- Subject: The Politics of Rich and Poor
- To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L <ACTIV-L@UMCVMB>
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- Kevin Phillips is one of the Republican Party's most articulate writers
- and has served as chief political analyst for the Republican presidential
- campaign of 1968. His current book criticizes the administrations of
- Reagan and Bush for favoring the rich at the expense of the poor:
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- 1. Cuts in the top rates of the federal income tax structure, corporate
- tax rate reduction and liberalization of depreciation benefits have
- favored the rich. At the same time Social Security taxes have increased.
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- 2. Reagan spending policy favored the rich. Doubling of military
- expenditures and tripling interest payments on government debt benefited
- upper income people. At the same time low-income housing expenditures
- were reduced in the interests of "economy."
-
- 3. Government regulations were relaxed during the Reagan years. Stock
- market manipulators, and officers of S&Ls benefited as a result.
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- 4. Monetary policy favored the rich at the expense of the poor. High
- interest rates caused by the $3 trillion national debt favors the owners
- of government bonds, but hurt those who borrow money to buy homes or cars.
-
- Unfortunately, the poor remain apathetic at the polls. "The actual
- lever-pulling electorate was disproportionately Buick-owning and
- Book-of-the-Month Club. Seventy-five percent of the citizenry voted in
- Pacific Palisades, 25 percent in the South Bronx."
-
- [From "On My Desk" in 28 February Mennonite Weekly Review.]
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- For more information in this subject, use the GET command (see bottom)
- RESOURCE: with any of the following files:
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- ECONOMIC STATS Stats show regressive wealth redistrib 1980-1990
- REGRESSV LOC-TAXS Study shows: state & local tax laws regressive
- POPULIST ECON-1 _New Patriot_: "Wealth & Poverty in Bush's U.S."
- POPULIST ECON-2 Stats show "smash-and-grab raid on the treasury"
- POLITICS RICHPOOR Republ. pundit's book,The Politics of Rich & Poor
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- also of interest:
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- HEALTH INSURANC General overview cites studies & stats.
- ANALYSIS NHI Good followup re National Health Insurance
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- and
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- MILITARY ECONOMY Its Pathology;need for conversion(Seymour Melman)
- FED-BDGT PRIORITY Dramatic chart: program cuts & milit. increases
- WAR-TAX.ANALYS92 Fiscal '92: what % of your taxes go to war-relatd
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- Subject: NEW BOOK: _Unreliable Sources_ (Media Bias, self-censor. etc)
- Summary: "A Guide to Detecting Bias in the News Media"
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- H o w a n d W h y t h e A m e r i c a n N e w s M e d i a
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- A r e D i s t o r t i n g C u r r e n t E v e n t s - -
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- Unreliable Sources: A Guide to
- Detecting Bias in News Media
- by Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon
-
- "Unreliable Sources gives a rundown of some of the
- most important news stories you didn't hear about over the
- past decade...stories that were effetively made unavail-
- able to the average citizen..
-
- "Today, when the media are as big a part of the story as
- the story itelf, you're not truly informed unless you're up
- on the media as well. This book is an excellent place to
- start." -- from the Foreword by Edward Asner
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- "A worthy addition to the library of any student of
- American news media, social structure and political science."
- -- Washington Post
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- "An invaluable service to those convinced that an uncritical approach
- to the media is more hazardous than it is comfortable."
- -- Pat Aufderheide, In These Times
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- "Committed, eloquent writing that plumbs the psychological and
- political complexities of mass-mediated experience."
- -- San Francisco Chronicle
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- "An essential text."
- -- Utne Reader
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- "A much-needed consumer's guide for people who find the standard news
- detached from the events and issues that reflect their needs."
- -- Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly
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- Martin A. Lee is the publisher of Extra!, the joumal of FAIR (Fairness
- and Accuracy in Reporting) and author of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and
- the Sixties Rebellion. Norman Solomon, a FAIR advisory board member,
- is co-author of Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience
- with Atomic Radiation. Hardcover, 320 pages. Illustrated with news
- photos, headlines and captions. Only $19.95. Carol Publishing
- Group/A Lyle Stuart Book
-
- To order by Visa or MasterCard, call 1-800-447-BOOK
-
- Or write,
- Carol publishing Group, Dept. IN, 120 Enerprise Avenue, Secaucus, NJ 07094
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