Killing the Middle Class; How the Corporatocracy Sets the Rules of the "Game" To Create Peons

by Thom Hartmann

Excerpted from Thom Hartmann's newest book, Screwed; The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It

One of the most pernicious claims the corporatocracy makes is that business flourishes best in a perfectly "free" market. And when business flourishes, they say, all of society does better. It's the old trickle-down philosophy that inevitably produces a nation of peons.

Always get suspicious when you see the words free market. Let's go back to the story of Mrs. Flores, whom you met in chapter 2-- the woman who lost her job at Levi Strauss when that venerable American company closed all of its factories here in the USA and moved them overseas.