Screwed the Undeclared War Against the Middle Class (37 page)

Bush, Jeb

Bush, Prescott

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

     addicted to oil

     budget proposal (2007)

     CAFTA

     classical economics

     cleaning up toxic waste

     fighting the evil empire

     gays

     government spending

     Hurricane Katrina

     international treaties

     money to churches

     smaller government

     Social Security crisis

     trade deficit

     tuition vouchers

CACI International

CAFTA

Cargill

Carnegie, Andrew

Carnegie Steel Company

Carr, Rick

Carter, Jimmy

Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)

CEO compensation

Chalcedon Institute

Chambliss, Saxby

Change to Win

Chávez, César

Cheney, Dick

Chertoff, Michael

Christmas Carol, A,

Chrysler

Churchill, Winston

Civilian Conservation Corps

Classical economics

Class war

Clean Water Initiative

Cleaning up toxic waste

Clear Skies Initiative

Cleland, Max

Cleveland, Grover

Clinton, Bill

Cold War

Commodity Supplemental Food Program

Common Sense
(Paine)

Compassionate conservatism

Congressional representatives

Conradt, L.

Cons

Constitutional Convention

Contacting your congressional representatives

Contractors (Iraq)

Coors, Joseph

Corporate income taxes

Corporate personhood

Corporate pollution

Corporate right to free speech

Corporate tax rate

Corporatocracy

     cons' straw-man arguments

     corporate tax rate

     defined

     feudalism

     income/wealth inequality

     monopoly

     Paine, Thomas

     pre-WWII Germany

Correa de Serra, J.

Correctional system (prisons)

Coss, David

Coventry Health Care Inc.

Crawford, William H.

Crime rates

Davis, J. C. Bancroft

de Tocqueville, Alexis

Dean, Howard

Death tax (estate tax)

Declaration of Independence

Delco Auto Parts

"Decree on the Protection of People and State" (Hitler)

DeLay, Tom

Democracy

     American dream

     Founders

     middle class

     Paine, Thomas

     primary function

     requirements for survival

     rules of the game

     workplace

Democracy in America
(de Tocqueville)

Democratic Party

Dickens, Charles

Diebold

Divide and conquer

Dobbs, Lou

Du Pont de Nemours, E. I.

Dubie, Brian

Dukakis, Michael

East India Company

Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, An
(Beard)

"Economic Report of the President" (2006)

Economic royalty

Economics

Edison, Thomas

Edsall, Thomas B.

Education

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Elderly poverty rate

Electoral system

Electronic media

Electronic voting

Emerging Republican Majority, The
(Phillips)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Employers, illegal

Employment at will

Energy prices

Energy self-sufficient America

Enron

Environmental cleanup

"Escalating Health Care Spending: Is It Desirable or Inevitable?" (Altman et al.)

ES&S

Estate tax

Executive compensation

Fair Labor Standards Act

Fairness Doctrine

Falklands War

Family fortunes

Fascism

FDIC

FDR.
See
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Feudalism

Flores, Mrs.

Fluor Corporation

Ford, Henry

Ford Motor Company

Foreign-owned companies

"Fortune of the Republic, The" (Emerson)

Fossil fuels

Foundational con theory

Founders

     Beard's thesis

     Constitutional Convention

     democracy

     McDonald's thesis

     middle class

     rights to self-determination

     welfare

Fox in the Henhouse, The
(Kahn/Minnich)

Framers of Constitution.
See
Founders

Frank, Barney

Franklin, Benjamin

Franklin, Stephen

Free market

Free-speech zones

Free trade

Free-trade agreements

French Revolution

Frist, Bill

Gates, Bill

GATT

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

General Motors

George, William W.

George II, King

George III, King

Georgia 2002 senatorial election

GI Bill

Gilded Age

Giles, William B.

Gillespie, Ed

Global warming

Golden Age of the middle class

Goldwater, Barry

Gore, Al

Gould, Jay

Government

     rule-making function

     services

     size

Government socialism

Government spending

Grange Movement

Grassley, Chuck

Great Depression

Greed

Greenhouse gas

Greenspan, Alan

Greenspan Fraud, The
(Batra)

Gubernatorial election (Vermont, 2002)

Guest workers

Hagel, Chuck

Halliburton

Hamilton, Alexander

Harris, Bev

Hartmann, Carl

Hastert, Dennis

Haymarket riot

Head Start

Health care

     Clinton plan

     failure of

     HMOs

     Medicare

     privatization

     rights vs. privileges

     single-payer system

     socialized medicine

     VA system

Health insurance companies (HMOs)

Heath insurance

Helmsley Building

Help America Vote Act

Herbert, Bob

Heritage Foundation

Historical overview

     America's first middle class

     Boston Tea Party

     Constitutional

     Convention

     FDR.
See
Roosevelt

     Franklin D.

     Founders.
See
Founders

     Gilded Age

     Golden Age of the middle class

     Jefferson.
See
Jefferson, Thomas labor unrest

     limiting corporate power

     Marshall Plan

     New Deal

     nomination acceptance speech (FDR, 1936)

     Paine.
See
Paine, Thomas

     Republicans of 1872

     robber barons

     
Santa Clara
headnote

Hitler, Adolf

HMOs

Hobbes, Thomas

Holocaust

Holt, Rush

Honest vote movement

Hoover, Herbert

Hospitals

Household income

Hsu, Spencer S.

Hubbard, L. King

Hubbard's peak

Hurricane Katrina

Illegal employers

Illegal immigrants

Incarceration rate

Income inequality

Inheritance tax

Instant run-off voting (IRV)

Insurance companies

International game of business

International treaties

Internet

Invisible hand

Iraq

     contractors

     privatization

Iraq War

Iroquois Confederacy

IRV

Irvine, Martha

It Can't Happen Here
(Lewis)

"It's your money" lie

Jack Abramoff scandal

Jaiyeola, Muyiwa

"Jeff in Denver"
See also
Road to victory

Jefferson, Thomas

     bankruptcy

     family powerhouses

     idealism

     letter to Correa de Serra

     letter to Crawford

     letter to Giles

     letter to Kercheval

     letter to Madison

     letter to Milligan

     life, liberty and happiness

     Louisiana Purchase

     monopolies

     overgrown wealth

     progressive taxation

     pseudo-aristocracy

     rules of business

     tariffs

     University of Virginia

     welfare

     yeomanry

John Hancock Insurance

Johnson, Gary E.

Johnson, Lyndon

Jones, Van

Kahn, Si

Katrina (Hurricane)

Kercheval, Samuel

King, David

Kirk, Russell

Klein, Naomi

Knight, Phil

Knights of Labor

Krugman, Paul

Kucinich, Dennis

Labor movement

Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, The
(Hartmann)

Lee, Thea M.

Letters to the editor

Levi Strauss

Leviathan
(Hobbes)

Lewis, Ann

Lewis, Sinclair

Limbaugh, Rush

Lincoln, Abraham

Lockdown America
(Parenti)

Loeb, Paul Rogat

Louisiana Purchase

Luntz, Frank

Lydersen, Kari

Madison, James

Manufacturing jobs

Marijuana laws

Marshall, George

Marshall Plan

Martinez, Jerome