It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans
are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure,
comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel
with an eight-track player. That the United States of America
is in danger of becoming a third world nation.
The evidence is all around us:
Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs
that have formed the backbone of our economy for more than a
century; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for
tomorrow’s workforce to acquire the information and training it
needs to land good twenty-first century jobs; our
infrastructure—our roads, our bridges, our sewage and water, our
transportation and electrical systems—is crumbling; our economic
system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone
Wild; our political system is broken, in thrall to a small
financial elite using the power of the checkbook to control both
parties.
And America’s middle class, the driver of so much of our economic
success and political stability, is rapidly disappearing, forcing
us to confront the fear that we are slipping as a nation – that our
children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face
a lower standard of living than we did.
It’s the dark flipside of the American Dream – an American
Nightmare of our own making.
Arianna Huffington, who, with the must-read Huffington Post, has
her finger on the pulse of America, unflinchingly tracks the
gradual demise of America as an industrial, political, and economic
leader. In the vein of her fiery bestseller Pigs at the
Trough, Third World America points fingers, names names, and
details who’s killing the American Dream.
Finally, calling on the can-do attitude that is part of America’s
DNA, Huffington shows precisely what we need to do to stop our
freefall and keep America from turning into a third world
nation.
Third World America is a must-read for anyone disturbed by our
country’s steady descent from 20th century superpower to backwater
banana republic.
From the Hardcover edition.
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