Third World America - Arianna Huffington [94]
80 According to defense analyst Lawrence Korb: Lawrence Korb, “Spending Freeze Must Include Defense,” 27 Jan. 2010, www.thinkprogress.org.
81 In fact, as Katherine McIntire Peters reported: Katherine McIntire Peters, “Defense Budget Portends Difficult Trade-offs,” 12 Aug. 2009, www.govexec.com.
82 To quote then Illinois: Barack Obama, “Against Going to War with Iraq,” 2 Oct. 2002, www.barackobama.com.
83 fewer than one hundred members: Joshua Partlow, “In Afghanistan, Taliban Surpasses Al-Qaeda,” 11 Nov. 2009, www.washingtonpost.com.
84 According to the Los Angeles Times: Doyle McManus, “The Kandahar Gambit,” 4 Apr. 2010, www.latimes.com.
85 Berkeley professor Ananya Roy: Robert Greenwald, “Rethink Afghanistan,” video, 21 Apr. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
86 And Representative Barney Frank: Diane Francis, “Knife Military Spending: Kill the Deficit,” 4 Feb. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
87 For example, according to the NPP: National Priorities Project, “Federal Budget Trade-Offs,” www.nationalpriorities.org.
PART 2: NIGHTMARE ON MAIN STREET
1 As Newsweek’s Nancy Cook pointed out: Nancy Cook, “Foreclosures Spread to Middle Class,” 28 Oct. 2009, www.newsweek.com.
2 “Amongst the novel objects …”: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 8th ed., trans. Henry Reeve (Cambridge: 1848), 1.
3 “Democratic laws,” he noted: Ibid., 241.
4 “I know it when I see it”: Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (U.S. Sup. Ct. 1964).
5 “Is a $30,000-a-year doctor …”: Testimony of Paul Taylor, executive vice president, Pew Research Center, to the Senate Finance Committee, 26 Mar. 2009, www.pewresearch.org.
6 According to the Pew Research Center: Pew Research Center, “Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life,” 9 Apr. 2008, www.pewsocialtrends.org.
7 But behind this assertion: Ibid.
8 At the same time, a third of those: Ibid.
9 For purposes of its research, Pew defined: Ibid.
10 In dollars and cents, that meant: Ibid.
11 From 1945 to the 1970s: Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, “Long-Run Changes in the Wage Structure: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing,” 2007, www.brookings.edu.
12 From factory employees to chief executives: John Cassidy, “Who Killed the Middle Class?” 16 Oct. 1995, www.newyorker.com.
13 By the end of the 1980s: Paul Krugman, “The Great Wealth Transfer,” Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2006.
14 They had, but rather than Ponce de León: Ibid.
15 Alfred Marshall, one of the founding fathers: Alfred Marshall, “Some Aspects of Competition: The Address of the President of Economic Science and Statistics of the British Association,” Nature XLII (1890): 497.
16 There is a reason Adam Smith’s: Amartya Sen, “The Economist Manifesto,” 23 Apr. 2010, www.newstatesman.com.
17 Given how close we were in 2008: David Herszenhorn, “Senate Acts on Credit-Rating Agencies,” 13 May 2010, www.nytimes.com.
18 “[The Bush] administration made …”: Jo Becker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, and Stephen Labaton, “White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire,” 20 Dec. 2008, www.nytimes.com.
19 Even Alan Greenspan: Andrew Clark and Jill Treanor, “Greenspan—I Was Wrong About the Economy. Sort Of,” 24 Oct. 2008, www.guardian.co.uk.
20 “Wall Street got drunk”: Jo Becker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, and Stephen Labaton, “White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire,” 20 Dec. 2008, www.nytimes.com.
21 stubbornly refused to dip below thirty-two million: U.S. Census Bureau, “Table 23. People in Poverty by Nativity: 1993 to 2008,” www.census.gov.
22 soup kitchen or food bank hit twenty-six million: “Who Are the Hungry?” California Agriculture 48, 7 (Dec. 1994), www.californiaagriculture.ucanr.org.
23 with more homeless children: National Center on Family Homelessness, “Homeless Children: America’s New Outcasts,” 2009, www.homelesschildrenamerica.org.
24 In early 1996, after forty thousand AT&T workers: James Cramer, “Let Them Eat Stocks,” New Republic, 29 Apr. 1996, 24–25.
25 their corporate cronies from Enron and Halliburton: Frank