by Lou Dobbs
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The bestselling author of War on the Middle Class looks at the critical issues and challenges of the 2008 election
In Independents Day, Lou Dobbs examines the public policy choices over the past thirty years that have eroded individual liberties, disenfranchised the middle class, reduced worker rights and pay, and led our nation into social and political division at home as well as into conflict around the world. Dobbs lays out the folly of continuing to follow existing domestic and foreign policies that have enriched and entrenched the elites, and burdened to the breaking point the rest of America. He posits a determined course for both prosperity and the survival of the American dream in a society that is desperate for new leadership and new ideas. Most important, Dobbs explores how we must and can restore the fundamental national value of equality of rights and opportunity for all Americans.
Independents Day is an independent populist’s view of the critical issues and challenges that confront the presidential candidates and American voters as we approach the 2008 election.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Meet the Press has a new host., 2008-10-01
After reading the book I think we have found the new host for Meet The Press. The perfect un-biased host. As Tim Russert did, he leans a little to the left, but has a very un-biased opinion on both sides of the coin. Wouldn't it be nice.
Howard Smith
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Reporting the Problems, 2008-08-22
Lou Dobbs is a journalist and TV reporter. The cover says Big Business and the government is at war against working Americans and democracy. One front is the massive debt to burden taxpayers for future generations (bonding taxes the many to benefit the few), the other is the attack on "good jobs at good wages", increasing health care costs, and the educational system ("dumbing down" students). Small businesses have been attacked since WW II. Big Oil attacked cities to disperse people, eliminate local agricultural farms, and create a dependency on oil. Dobbs says the twin-party system has failed America. But this has been going on since the late 19th century. Matthew Josephson wrote "The Politicos" to explain how financiers and manufacturing capitalists conquered the Republican and Democratic parties to become their masters (like Mark Hanna). The controlled media and the educational system have fooled generations who know little of history and economics. The devaluation of the dollar after 1971 was followed by higher prices for oil and other products. This was a stealth tax that continues to the present day.
The `Introduction' lists the faults of those who control the government. "Their arrogance now threatens the future of our nation, and their elitist sense of entitlement has reached such heights that our leaders are now openly dismissive of the will of the people" (p.1). Dobbs says the problem of illegal immigrants and open borders is a symptom of this class warfare. Its purpose is a further attack on working Americans. The corporate media ignores the real issues (p.3). Dobbs lists the problems created by out "elite" (p.6). Dobbs asks important questions on page 7. Why are we the world's leading debtor nation? Why can't we defeat the insurgency in Iraq? Why do we have consecutive trade deficits since 1976 (p.7)? Why are we dependent on other nations for oil and consumer electronics? Can we believe the elites in politics, business, academia, and the media in allowing NAFTA and the World Trade Organization to control America? Dobbs says the twin-parties are incapable of serving the people (p.9). Dobbs believes the participation of citizens in politics and government will effect a change. But only if they form a united movement. Dobbs is dead wrong in saying no political apparatus or party machine is needed. Only a united movement of the people can effect a cure for the politics of the "elite". Howard Jarvis' book sketched the organized movement needed to put Proposition 13 on the ballot in California. That took 16 years! Dobbs should have used a fact checker for this book. My recollection of history differs from this book. Look up the Yazoo Land Fraud of 1799 for "scandals and corruption" (p.21).
The chapters on hidden lobbies that are tax-exempt is particularly informative ("Shadow Governments"). Chapter 8 doesn't tell how Big Corporations have controlled and influenced major religious bodies. Chapter 9 tells of the economic harm from illegal immigrants. It imports poverty and increases costs for public benefits. The class warfare against ordinary Americans is listed in Chapter 10. Is schooling less effective because of what is on TV (p.174)? [Is there a need for censorship?] Chapter 11 tells of the increase in drug use in America. Is it caused by TV advertising? Is the residue contaminating our water supply? Can we win the war on drugs? Chapter 12 examined the madness in the media. Does junk news distract people from the real news? Do they serve the public? Is it the fault of Big Corporations? Why aren't other journalists free to speak out (p.205)? Chapter 13 summarizes this book. Does it convince you that our present condition is a form of political repression?
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Very fine work by our friend, Lou Dobbs..."Let's Get To Work"!, 2008-05-06
CNN's Lou Dobbs, who has exposed such little
charlatans as Morris (gag,swallow) Dees and
other maggots, clears the air on why the Dem-
opublican and the Republicrats really are the
'The Evil of Two Lessors' and should be avoided
like the plague! If only he'd quit beleiving in
the 'hoax of the twentieth century' and stop us-
ing the incorrect word'democracy' (folkes, he re-
ally means 'Constitutional Republic'. But these
are small complaints when he screams on his show
five night a week at that 99-i.q idiot at Penn.
Ave. "You Go Lou"!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent book, 2008-04-06
This book was very enjoyable, but scary. What will happen to our country if our leaders continue in this manner? I agree with Lou Dobbs and he is not afraid to say it like it is.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Dobbs book could've been more, 2008-03-31
Lou sometimes says goofy things on his CNN show. But I acredit that to his being on live. I figured his book would be more calculated and thought-out. It was, but at the same time a lot of the book could've been culled straight from the show. Though I often agree with his criticisms, I still wish Dobbs would provide more s'far as alternatives go. Give us some more details!
Still, it's an enjoyable read. And despite what it lacks, it is moving in the right direction as I see it. It'd be good to break down excessive government and to secure our borders. But we also need to restructure the immigration process so that it's more easily within the reach of those would-be-immigrants who choose to enter the U.S. legally.
Personally, I like Dobbs last book better.
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