Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
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Clinton ran on jobs. Once he got elected, Clinton seemed to forget how he’d won. He spent his first six months in office responding to the demands of his donors, a group far more affluent and ideological than his voters. Clinton’s new priorities seemed to mirror those of the New York Times editorial page: gun
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being a predominantly middle-class
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or high-income. America
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becoming a country of rich and poor, and the rich were richer than ever. People who once flew first class now took NetJets. Over the same period in which manufacturing declined,
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the crash of the housing market, more than a quarter of all household