Screwed the Undeclared War Against the Middle Class (36 page)

2. Bernard Bailyn,
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
(New York: Random House, 2003).

3. Forrest McDonald,
We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965).

1.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
, 15th ed., s.v. "Boston Tea Party."

2. Bob Herbert, "Let Nike Stay in the Game,"
New York Times
, May 6, 2002,
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/nike/herbert_let_nike_stay.html
.

1. Rush Limbaugh, "Liberal/Media Action Line Fails on All Fronts," February 17, 2006,
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com
.

1. Naomi Klein, "Baghdad Year Zero,"
Harper's
, September 2004,
http://harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html
.

2. "Iraq's Future Still Going up in Smoke,"
Observer
, January 15, 2006,
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1686490,00.html
.

3. Jamie Wilson, "Iraq War Could Cost US over $2 trillion, Says Nobel Prize–winning Economist,"
The Guardian
, January 7, 2006,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1681119,00.html
.

1.
http://www.goarmy.com/benefits/money_basic_pay.jsp
.

2. Michael Scherer, interview by the author,
The Thom Hartmann Radio Program
, Air America Radio, May 4, 2004.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Neil Mackay, "Private Contractors Implicated,"
Sunday Herald
(Scotland), May 9, 2004.

6. Human Rights Watch, "Iraq: U.S. Prisoner Abuse Sparks Concerns over War Crimes: Investigation Should Probe Role of Superiors, Private Contractors," May 30, 2004,
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/04/30/iraq8521.htm
.

7. Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich,
The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy
(San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2005).

8. Christian Parenti,
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
(New York: Verso, 2000).

9. Gary E. Johnson, "Bad Investment,"
Mother Jones
, July 10, 2001.

10. Vince Besser, "How We Got to 2 Million,"
Mother Jones
, July 10, 2001.

11. Johnson, "Bad Investment."

12. Besser, "How We Got to 2 Million."

13. Van Jones, interview by the author,
The Thom Hartmann Radio Program
, Air America Radio, January 3, 2006.

14. Lynn Landes, "Two Voting Companies and Two Brothers,"
Online Journal
, April 28, 2004,
http://www.onlinejournal.com
.

15. Lynn Landes, "Lynn Investigates . . .",
http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm
.

16.
Washington Post
, January 13, 1997.

17. Bev Harris,
Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century
(Renton, WA: Talion Publishing, 2004).

18. "Senate Contest Tightens: Cleland Clings to Lead over Chambliss,"
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, November 2, 2002.

19. Cox News Service, November 7, 2002.

1. Randi Rhodes,
The Randi Rhodes Show
, Air America Radio, December 15, 2005.

2. I have written a number of books on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), arguing that children with this "diagnosis" do not have something wrong with them but just learn differently.

1. Geeta Anand, "The Big Secret in Health Care: Rationing Is Here,"
Wall Street Journal
, September 12, 2003.

2. D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler, "A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal,"
New England Journal of Medicine
320 (January 12, 1989): 102–108.

1. Associated Press, "Bush: Social Security Trust Fund 'Just IOUs': President Says, 'There Is No Trust Fund,'" April 6, 2005,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7393649/
.

2. Martha Irvine, "Big Voter Turnout Seen Among Young Adults,"
USA Today
, November 8, 2004,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-11-08-under30_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
.

1. A useful table in an online article of the
Christian Science Monitor
, "Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.: How Many Are There?" shows that reliable estimates of the number of illegal immigrants range from 7 million (U.S. Immigration Services) to 20 million (Bear Stearns),
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0516/p01s02-ussc.html
.

2. "Unauthorized Migrants: Numbers and Characteristics," Pew Hispanic Center, June 14, 2005,
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/46.pdf
.

3. "Remittances Reach US$20 Billion in 2005," February 1, 2006,
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/miami/16816.html
.

4. NPR,
All Things Considered
, June 14, 2006.

5.
Hindustan Times
, "Illegal Indians in US Growing Fast," August 19, 2006,
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1772116,00050001.htm
.

6. Spencer S. Hsu and Kari Lydersen, "Illegal Hiring Is Rarely Penalized," June 19, 2006,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800613.html
.

1.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/http://www/poverty/threshld/thresh04.html
.

2.
http://www.parentsaction.org/act/family-sick-leave/key-facts
.

3. Stephen Franklin and Barbara Rose, "Work 2 Jobs, Have 1 Weary Life,"
Chicago Tribune
, September 4, 2005.

4. Jerome Martinez and David Coss, "Higher Pay Good for Santa Fe Workers, Economy,"
ABQjournal.com
, September 28, 2005,
http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/guest_columns/393734opinion09-28-05.htm
.

5.
http://www.faireconomy.org/press/2005/EE2005_pr.html
.

1. ES&S, the second-largest electronic-voting-machine company in the United States, is owned in part by American Information Systems (AIS), which was primarily funded with money from Howard Ahmanson, who also helps finance the Chalcedon Institute, a group which "mandates Christ's dominion over the world." Research provided by Lynn Landes, available at
http://www.ecotalk.org/Voting Security.htm
.

2. Thomas B. Edsall, "GOP Figure Behind Greens Offer, N.M. Official Says,"
Washington Post
, July 12, 2002.

3. Matthew 25:31–40, the parable of the sheep and the goats, is the one place in the New Testament where Jesus says, essentially, "This is what you have to do to get into heaven"—and he says nothing about hating gays or killing off welfare programs to feed the hungry.
http://www.biblegateway.com
(accessed April 20, 2006):

31
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.
32
All the
nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33
He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34
Then the King will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
35
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
36
I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

37
Then the righteous will answer him, "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
38
When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
39
When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?"

40
The King will reply, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

4. Paul Rogat Loeb,
Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).

Abramoff, Jack

Abu Ghraib

Activism.
See also
Road to victory

Actors

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

Adams, Samuel

ADHD

AFL-CIO

Age of Reason, The
(Paine)

Age warfare

Air-traffic controllers strike (1981)

AIS

Alarm, The
(Rusticus)

Alpha males

AMC Theatres

AMEC

American Dream

American fascism

American Founders.
See
Founders

American Information Systems (AIS)

American wages

Amistad case

Amoco

Anand, Geeta

Anderson, John

Annual savings rate

Archer Daniels Midland Company

At-will employees

AT&T

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Australian electoral system

Baby boomers

Bailyn, Bernard

Balance of payments debt

Bankruptcy reform legislation

Battle of Britain

Battle of the Viaduct

Beard, Charles A.

Beard, Mary

Bechtel

Bernanke, Ben

Besser, Vince

Black Box Voting
(Harris)

Blanco, Kathleen

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-conservative
(Brock)

Bloch, Ernest

BLS

Border fence

Boston Port Act

Boston Tea Party

Brock, David

Brown, Michael

Buchanan, Pat

Buckley, William F., Jr.

Budget deficit

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Burke, Sir Edmund