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Summary
Ehrenreich's second work of satirical commentary reflects on one of the cruelest decades in memory--the 2000's--in which she finds a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty. Full description
Table of Contents:
- CHASMS OF INEQUALITY. This land is their land
- "Miami Vice": the class analysis
- Home Depot's CEO-size tip
- Going to extremes: CEOs vs. slaves
- Banish the bloated overclass
- The heating bill from hell
- Got grease?
- Class struggle 101
- Minimum wage rises, sky does not fall
- Could you afford to be poor?
- Desperately seeking stimulus
- Smashing capitalism
- MEANNESS ON THE RISE. Pension or penitentiary?
- Where the finger's pointing
- The cheapskate warfare state
- Are illegal immigrants the problem?
- The shame game
- The new Cosby kids
- What America owes its "illegals"
- STRANGLING THE MIDDLE CLASS. Freshpersons, welcome to debt!
- Party on
- Fastest-growing jobs of '06: are you handy with bedpans and brooms?
- Your local news: Dateline Delhi
- That sinking feeling
- Recession: who cares?
- What's so great about gated communities?
- HELL DAY AT WORK. Circuit City slaughter
- JetBlue's corporate meltdown
- Blood in the chutney
- Workplace bullies
- Big (box) brother
- Invasion of the cheerleaders
- Fake your way to the top!
- Challenging the workplace dictatorship
- Gap kids: new frontiers in child abuse
- Wal-Mart licks its wounds
- French workers refuse to be "Kleenex"
- DECLINING HEALTH. We have seen the enemy, and surrendered
- Gouging the poor
- The high cost of doing without universal health care
- Health care vs. the profit principle
- Children deserve veterinary care too
- Our broken mental health system
- What causes cancer: probably not you
- A society that throws the sick away
- GETTING SEX STRAIGHT. Fear of restrooms
- Let them eat wedding cake
- Opportunities in abstinence training
- Owning up to abortion
- How banning gay marriage will destroy the family
- Do women need Viagra?
- A uterus is not a substitute for a conscience
- Who's wrecking the family?
- Bonfire of the princesses
- FALSE GODS. The secret of mass delusion
- Who moved my ability to reason?
- All together now
- The faith factor
- Follies of faith
- Is it safe to go back to church?
- God owes us an apology
- Flee America.