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Title: The Fifteen Biggest Lies About the Economy
Subtitle: And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America
Author: Joshua Holland
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-12
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Economics
Publisher's Summary:
AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economy.
Taxes kill growth. Labor unions hurt their members. Government regulation destroys jobs. These are just a few of the biggest lies in the web of misinformation spun by conservatives and the chamber of commerce. Holland's book dissects each malicious fiction to show how the Right is just plain wrong on the economy, wrong on jobs, wrong on the deficit, wrong on taxes, wrong on trade.
With the economy set to be the driving issue before and after the 2010 midterm elections, The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy sets the record straight on every part of the conservatives' economic agenda.
Members Reviews:
Good fodder for arguing with conservatives.
The full title of this book is "The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy and Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America," which, I'm sure you will agree, is something of a mouthful. Written by a senior writer-editor at Alternet, this is a solidly Leftist book.
Which is fine by me.
The lies, in order, each given a chapter, are:
...that limited government means anything would be better for you, personally.
...that America is still the land of opportunity.
...that modern markets exist without government.
...that tax cuts are a magic bullet for the economy.
...that there is a budget apocalypse just over the horizon.
...that women choose motherhood over work (or vice versa).
...that we have, or had (pre-Obamacare), the greatest health care in the world.
...that those poor oppressed corporations need saving from that socialist Obama.
...that environmental activist want to ruin the economy.
...that more progressive governments are always on the brink of bankruptcy.
...that a border-crossing Mexican stole your job.
...that the U.S. economy is a postracial meritocracy.
...that organized labor is corrupt, lazy, and an artifact of a different age.
...that corporations want fewer rules and everyone else is an isolationist Luddite.
This last one is fascinating; Holland shows in detail how "Free Trade" agreements are bad for both developed and developing economies. Actually, they're all fascinating, and together they debunk a lot of the crap the Right's noise machine puts out daily.
It's readable, fairly dense with examples and numbers, and thoroughly feetnoted. I recommend it to anyone with a "conservative" friend. (Note: this book is five years old; some of its facts need updating before use in argument.)
A must-read for all frazzled liberals and the dwindling middle class
If you are tired of listening to your plumber rant on using Rush Limbaugh's or FOX news lies-repeated-so-often-they-become-facts, this book will give you all the ammo you need to know to counter any verbal onslaught. Tackling every aspect of life in the USA using historical perspective, compact analysis, precise statistics, and wry wit, this easy to read paperback will refresh your spirit and give you the big picture you need to make important political decisions.
