Lydia Cornell: PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO

Friday, February 23, 2007

PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO - U.S. vs BUSH et al

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This past Saturday February 24, We had the pleasure of interviewing former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega, author of the new bestseller "U.S. vs BUSH" The Case for Impeachment. It was a fascinating interview.

Doug Basham was on Lou Dobbs last week as one of America's "top talkers." Check out Doug's site for a list of all the incredible guests he has interviewed and see what Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, Pat Buchanan, Joe Conason, Daniel Ellsberg, Catherine Crier, Helen Thomas, Caspar Weinberger, Lou Dobbs, Congress people and best-selling authors say about Doug Basham: Basham Radio

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In the sidebar is a YouTube clip of a recent interview with my co-stars from Too Close for Comfort. The editor cut the clip in the wrong place, just after I say, "I had a crush on Jim Bullock and dreamed of him every night." I was the only person on the set who had no inkling he was gay; I was madly in love with him, and held out hope we would be together one day! Guess I was barking up the wrong tree. We still laugh about this, and the Youtube clip starts in a weird place, without this background information. By the way, he still makes me laugh harder than anyone.

BASHAM and CORNELL PROGRESSIVE TALK... Last Saturday, Basham and I taped our first show together (I've been on his show twice before, as a guest.) Please go to our website and click on the link to hear the entire show. Every Saturday we are on live on KLAV or simulcast on the internet at Basham and Cornell Progressive Talk

Join us each Saturday morning live for progressive talk, interviews with Senators, politicians, candidates and best-selling authors. It might be rough, but it’ll be real. Be there.

From Wikipedia & Basham Radio Press release: "Cornell went to Beirut, Lebanon, to a war zone, to visit American troops in the Multinational Peacekeeping Force Christmas Eve 1982. She visited the Marines in underground bunkers as well as sailors and naval officers on several aircraft carriers. Shortly after their departure from Beirut, over 250 Marines of the 24th MAU were killed in one of the first suicide bombings. A truck entered the barracks as the troops slept, killing them all.

Cornell's blog, a double Koufax nominee for best writing, is "a consistently thought-provoking firecracker of pointed socio-political commentary and observant, caustic wit." (Shotgun Reviews) John Conley, a Marine combat vet even sent her his Purple Heart for her courage in speaking out about the war in Iraq and against Ann Coulter's extremism in her Brad Blog article "Death is Sexier than Sex, to Ann Coulter (see sidebar.) Although still active in Hollywood - HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, writing, producing and garnering indie acting nominations - Cornell spends most of her time, creatively speaking, in front of her keyboard. She has several books awaiting publication including the literary thriller The Sylvia Plan, about Stalin's plot to kill Trotsky; a comedy for women, plus several spiritual and political books.

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557 Comments:

I was just listening to the Basham interview from June..........you guys were great.

will there be a replay of the radio interview tomorrow, I really want to hear it but dont think i'll be able to tune it at 9AM tomorrow.

By Mike, at 9:24 PM
I saw Basham on Lou Dobbs last week. He was so focused and so good. Finally a Progressive talker who isn't afraid and doesn't back down.

Congrats Lydia

By James W., at 9:25 PM
James you should go listen to the old interviews from last June, and from 2005, they are excellent.

By Mike, at 9:48 PM
I like Craig Ferguson too, that was a good interview as well.

By Mike, at 10:03 PM
Good to see you'll be able to be listened to. Hope I can catch it!
Cheers!

By Coffee Messiah, at 3:17 AM
Mike - and everyone, the show will be available later on a podcast, later today and in the archives.

By Lydia Cornell, at 8:58 AM
Mike - and everyone, the show will be available later on a podcast, later today and in the archives.

By Lydia Cornell, at 9:00 AM
Lydia, I listened to the show yesterday, and you and Doug were great, you both made some excellent points.

Doug had some amaazing alnalogies to debunk the Neo Con propaganda and rhetoric, i'm going to make a point of catching the show every week, but you guys REALLY need to get what your saying out to the MSM, your points are so strong and your logic so sound the BS of the Reich Wing doesnt stand a chance.

darkness always flees from the light of truth.

By Mike, at 9:03 PM
Mike,tell us what really happened at that comedy club in Vegas when your ex-girlfriend dumped the drink on your head and walked out,never to be seen again?
Was it because you didnt come to her rescue?Did you wimp out?Did you start to cry?Did you pee your pants?
Mike,are you a closet homosexual?Maybe its time to be honest,I'm sure mummy will understand and support her poopsie.

By Anonymous, at 9:39 PM
Hey Rusty YOUR the loser that lives in mommies basement in Seattle...........so much for the big vegas casino mogul, do you clean the basthrooms in that hole in the wall Casino near Seattle and go to the sportsbar when mommie lets you out for the evening........you Moo Moo and TT are some of the biggest most pathetic losers I've EVER encountered.

By Mike, at 10:26 PM
Sorry my website was offline for maintenance since Saturday morning.

We're back up.
Thank you for your patience.

Wasn't it great when Gore was introduced at the Oscars, as the guy who won the election?

By Lydia Cornell, at 12:34 AM
It is estimated that there are well over 1000 soldiers who have returned home from Iraq and Afganistan are literally homeless.

Many soldiers return home from Iraq find they have no place to stay, and no funds to obtain proper housing for their families.

Hundreds of returning soldiers returning from Iraq end up living on the streets with their families.

According to Newsweek, there are over 200,000 veterans living on the streets of America every day.

Returning soldiers of which most have Post StressTraumatic Distress become involved with drugs and excessive drinking, lose their jobs, homes and families and end up on the streets.

There are only 15,000 available beds in VA funded shelters or hospitals, and everyone is taken.

Last week the VA approved $24 million to boost aid for the homeless, of which many will not benefit from.

Many former soldiers living on the streets are young, and have had their lives turned upside down because of the Iraq war.

Smaller cities have no place for homeless veterans to go and they end up drowning in homelessness and drug abuse.

This is yet another indication of the Bush administration ignoring the needs of America's soldiers and their families.

By Larry, at 3:32 AM
George W Bush did not win an Oscar last night and Al Gore did.

George W Bush has won the hearts of 28% of the wealthiest Americans.

That's all the award that George W Bush needs.

By Larry, at 4:59 AM
There have been over 800 civilian contractors killed in the Iraq war.

There have also been 3,300 civilian contractors injured as a result of the Iraq war.

Employees of Haliburton, Blackwater and Wackenhut cook meals, do laundry, repair infrastructure, translate documents, analyze intelligence, guard prisoners, protect military convoys, deliver water to the troops and other dangerous duties.

The U.S has outsourced so many military jobs that there are over 120,000 civilian contractors in Iraq.

As a job needs performed and there aren't enough soldiers to perform the duties, more contractors are brought in to complete the assignments.

The contractors are paid $100,000 or more per year tax free, which is six times what a soldiers makes.

This disparity has brought ill feelings between the soldiers and the contractors in Iraq.

The deaths and injuries of highly paid civilian contractors are yet another cost of the war in Iraq.

By Larry, at 5:12 AM
The percentage of Americans living in severe poverty has reached a 32 year high.

At least 16 million Americans are living in severe poverty, and poverty has increased in 65 of 215 of America's largest cities.

While worker productivity has increased, wages and job growth has decreased which has added to the already bruised poverty level.

One in three of the severly poor are under the age of 17. and two of three are female.

Two of every three people in severe poverty are white(10.3 million) and 4.3 million are black and 3.7 million are hispanic.

In 2006, the average severly poor person in America earned $5,244 per year.

Food banks and homeless shelters can keep up with the rising rate of poor and hurting Americans.

Billions are spent in Iraq each month yet the hungry and hurting in America go unnoticed.

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the world, yet it has failed to take care of their most tarnished group of poeple, the poor.

By Larry, at 5:45 AM
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Friday that the federal debt burden has spiraled out of control.

Health care cost was considered one of the main reasons for the countries financial burden.

The report also painted a different economic picture than what the Bush administration has been saying.

The war in Iraq, Medicare and Medicaid costs are listed as reasons the debt is out of control.

The GAO states that in order to close the deficit, spending cuts and tax increases of 3.6% of the entire economy is needed each year for 75 years.

The GAO also said the crisis is so bleak it is unrealistic to think the economy could grow it's way out of the economic qaugmire.

This is another result of the Bush revolution to dominance.

By Larry, at 6:04 AM
The Washington Post is reporting that documents released during the Scooter Libby trial, show the White House had plans to discredit Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame at least one month before his article appeared in the New York Times.

It looks like there was more of a concerted effort to out Valerie Plame than many thought.

By Larry, at 6:18 AM
Iraqi Vice President injured in bombing today.

Didn't Bush say everything was hunky dorry in Iraq?

By Larry, at 7:01 AM
Possible leak in the Scooter Libby trial among the jurors.

Could it be that something "peculiar" happened to try and get a mistrial???

By Larry, at 7:10 AM
Larry good to have you back!

By Mike, at 7:20 AM
Lydia, Congratulations on getting the show up and running! I look forward to listening to it!

By Carl, at 7:51 AM
Hey, stop reading my blog, Larry! :-)

By Carl, at 7:52 AM
And yes, I confess I Googled Doug to make sure he wasn't the WWE wrestler of the same name... :-)

By Carl, at 7:54 AM
Scooter Libby juror dismissed. Maybe Scooter bought them off?

Just a thought.

By Larry, at 8:03 AM
More likely the Bush Cheney criminal enterprise bought them off, wonder if it was with tax dollars like that 12 billion that just mysreriously disapeared.

But even if he does get convicted the idiot "decider" will just pardon the piece of crap anyway.

By Mike, at 10:02 AM
The juror was a 70 year old lady. She probably needed money to supplement her retirement.

By Larry, at 10:04 AM
Seymour Hersh has more revelations of Cheney's covert operations in Iran, in the New Yorker.

By Larry, at 10:07 AM
The Democrats NEED to Repeal Bush's stupid law that makes it easier for him to declare martial law ASAP...............he's such a foul wanna be dictator piece of crap!

By Mike, at 10:09 AM
Larry did you listen to the radio show Doug and Lydia did Saturday.................we should get Basham to post here, I'm sure he'd have some fun knocking around a few trolls.

By Mike, at 10:11 AM
The martial law change Bush made seems to go unnoticed in the media.

Hitler ruled Germany in his time with the press and now the press is more focused on a bald Britney.

By Larry, at 10:11 AM
Mike:

I did hear Lydia's radio show and thought she did quite well. It's about time she had a voice on the airwaves.

By Larry, at 10:14 AM
I saw a poll today that said Bush still has a 76% approval among Republicans.

I doubt that it is true, but if so I guess it's true they all love war.

By Larry, at 10:18 AM
Rudy and McCain are both skipping the Republican debate in New Hampshire.

They are like Bush and want hand picked audiences.

By Larry, at 10:21 AM
Exactly Larry, Congress NEEDS to break up these media empires that have become nothing more that Repug propaganda machines and are contributing to the dumbing down of America..........just the way the repugs want it, they appeal to the lowest common denominator.

By Mike, at 10:21 AM
Larry said "Rudy and McCain are both skipping the Republican debate in New Hampshire.

They are like Bush and want hand picked audiences"

You dont know the half of that Larry, i'll email you some stuff that happened in my hometown regarding Bush.

By Mike, at 10:23 AM
Wait till the election gets closer Larry, and bush's surge and so called "iraq policy" fails miserably and the econmy is in the toilet, they wont be able to run away from Bush or his war fast enough or far enough.

By Mike, at 10:25 AM
Fox unveiled a new show last night with Michelle Malkin that was to "expose" blogs.

This is supposed to be a weekly thing and of course slanted against liberal sites.

By Larry, at 10:26 AM
Why do soldiers come back and have no place to stay?

Did n't they use their money to buy a home or rent while at work ?

who did this to them ?
Husslain ?

By Oscar Evian, at 10:26 AM
Airlines to stop offering paper tickets.

Guess they don't want older people to fly.

By Larry, at 10:27 AM
Postage costs to rise as a result of the Bush favored oil prices on the rise.

By Larry, at 10:28 AM
Nancy Pelosi will be on Larry King Tuesday night.

By Larry, at 10:32 AM
In fact Larry, I said this over on Kay's blog, I honestly think both the Democrats and some repugs just plan on speaking out against Bush just enough to be able to say i told ya so after his stupid plan blows up.

Same with Iran they might act like they oppose him, but I honestly think they are just going to let him hang himself and the repug party along with him they figure if Bush destroys the military and our economy they can just sit back and snicker while he destroys himself and the repug party and they wont have to risk anything or confront or challenge him directly.

By Mike, at 10:41 AM
60 minutes reported last night a growing group of soldiers fed up with the Iraq war.

This growing group includes many marines.

By Larry, at 10:43 AM
Postage is Going up AGAIN?

They just went up the last two years, its getting to the point where i'm thinking of paying all my bills online rather than spending almost 50 cents a letter.

By Mike, at 10:44 AM
The bad thing is Mike as the Democrats complain but wait for the Bush implosion, more die and the public will view them as doing nothing.

By Larry, at 10:44 AM
Postage is going up because fuel prices keep rising.

Bush doesn't care. He has government paid postage for his illegal transactions.

By Larry, at 10:45 AM
I guess the job conditions are bad if you can get killed handing out candy

old desert proverb :
(its not the strangers , its the local bomber who'll get you !!)

By oscar evian, at 10:47 AM
Larry said "The bad thing is Mike as the Democrats complain but wait for the Bush implosion, more die and the public will view them as doing nothing."

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!

By Mike, at 10:49 AM
MSNBC is reporting that the 70 year old dismissed juror in the Libby case, appeared openly hostile to poor Scooter.

They must have set her up to get rid of a Scooter hater.

By Larry, at 10:51 AM
The United nations reports that the supposed U.S intelligence against Iran is unrealible.

Didn't the say that about Bush's Iraq intelligence?

By Larry, at 10:53 AM
Larry said...
The United nations reports that the supposed U.S intelligence against Iran is unrealible.

Didn't the say that about Bush's Iraq intelligence?

Isn't "Iraq" superfluous here?

By Carl, at 10:57 AM
Mike said...
Postage is Going up AGAIN?

They just went up the last two years, its getting to the point where i'm thinking of paying all my bills online rather than spending almost 50 cents a letter.

Which is part of why postage is going up.

The USPS makes money on your postage. The USPS loses money on spam and catalogs.

But heaven forfend they raise rates on Bush's cronies!

By Carl, at 10:58 AM
Leading economic forecasters say the economy will grow in 2007, at its slowest pace in five years.

The slow growth is being hampered by a worse-than-expected slump in housing.

This was a survey of 47 top economic forecasters.

Bush still wants more tax cuts for the rich.

By Larry, at 10:59 AM
Larry i'll bet oil is over $70 by summer.

Government, particularly the Bush/oil cabal likes high prices since they get 25% of every dollar earned by the oil companies and with the deficits Bush is running he needs every penny he can steal from the working class.

By Mike, at 11:00 AM
So Iran has no nukes ?

maybe just cutout propaganda thingy's ?

By oscar evian, at 11:01 AM
The push to attack Iran is almost a carbon copy of the push to attack Iraq.

By Mike, at 11:01 AM
We are but slaves, gentlemen:

"Worker productivity has increased dramatically since the brief recession of 2001, but wages and job growth have lagged behind.

At the same time, the share of national income going to corporate profits has dwarfed the amount going to wages and salaries. "

We work harder for a lesser share of the pie.

We need more unions.

By Carl, at 11:02 AM
I think oil will be $70 per barrel by Easter.

By Larry, at 11:02 AM
Alan Greenspan the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve just predicted we will have a recession in 2007.

By Mike, at 11:03 AM
We do need more unions and better laws that help workers instead of corporations.

By Larry, at 11:03 AM
oscar evian said...
So Iran has no nukes ?

No responsible person believes so.

Do they have the materials to start to build them? Yes, for the most part, they do.

By Carl, at 11:04 AM
Bush will fight the recession with another war and more tax cuts for the rich.

By Larry, at 11:04 AM
Good point Carl, I hate all the spam mail, they should do SOMETHING to stop that but I dont know that penalizing working class people is the BEST answer.

By Mike, at 11:04 AM
It did my heart good to see the man we elected President seven years ago, Al Gore, win an Oscar.

By Carl, at 11:05 AM
They'll start attacking Gore since he won an Oscar, in case he runs for the job that he will never seek again.

By Larry, at 11:06 AM
Mike,

But hasn't that been the point of the Bush administration all along? Punish the poor and middle class for being stupid enough to support them twice?

By Carl, at 11:07 AM
Larry said "Bush will fight the recession with another war and more tax cuts for the rich. "

he will probably try Larry, but that could make things worse because if he prints money or raises the deficit by cutting taxes that will cause intetrest rates to rise and further slow the economy........ you reach a point sometimes where the medicine that used to help the patient may kill him or worsen the condition and I think our economy is close to that point if the Fed cuts interest rates the dollar plummets, if it prints money the dollar falls and interest rates rise and if it cuts taxes the defits rise and so do long term interest rates.

By Mike, at 11:08 AM
Larry,

Americans owe $8 trillion dollars in debt, roughly equivalent to the current national debt.

No war is ever going to grow us out of that, and in fact, no tax hike is ever going to be sufficient to help us pay all taht back.

There are very few avenues left for us to take. We could start selling off possessions, a kind of garage sale.

I bet we could get a nice price for Puerto Rico.

By Carl, at 11:09 AM
Should iran be allowed to have nukes ?

We need more unions.

Do unions help big government or people ?
Do the chinese have unions ?

Why are their products sooo cheap ?

By evian, at 11:09 AM
They started attacking Gore 6 weeks ago, remember TT, FF and Volt, they got their talking points to attack Gore back then and now that he won the oscar they will redouble their attacks on global warming.

They seem to think if they can discredit global warming they can discredit Gore.

By Mike, at 11:11 AM
I agree Carl, Bush wants more war and the defense companies make a killing as do oil and rubber.

Everyone else loses.

I'm for selling Texas.

By Larry, at 11:11 AM
Wal-Mart was just unionized in China and if they can do it why can't they be union here?

By Larry, at 11:13 AM
evian said...
Should iran be allowed to have nukes ?

We need more unions.

Do unions help big government or people ?
Do the chinese have unions ?

Why are their products sooo cheap ?

Rigid government production rules and regulations, plus price subsidies.

No, China does not have unions. Never needed them. The central government took care of all the planning. There were few rich people in China, but everyone was at about the same level of poverty (like Cuba) so no one cared.

Unions help the people which helps government. Unions are the only organization big enough and strong enough to stand up to big multinational corporations to demand better conditions for their members.

By Carl, at 11:14 AM
Evian, why did you feel the need to change handles?

By Carl, at 11:14 AM
Larry said "I'm for selling Texas."

Hey not my part of Texas LOL :D....................maybe crawshit or what ever its called and the part where Troll Tex lives would be fine also.

By Mike, at 11:15 AM
Wait until Bush slips in the North American Union he is silently working on with Mexico and Canada.

This will make NAFTA look like a cake pan compared to the loss of jobs it will produce.

By Larry, at 11:15 AM
Because he's a stupid troll?

By Mike, at 11:17 AM
I'll be damned! It's not often I'm wrong...

Apparently, China has, except for about 40 years after 1966, had unions since the 1920's.

They were necessary under the capitalist regime of Chiang Kai Shek (no surprise there), but when Mao took over, he continued the unions, but more as cultural institutions than as actual unions.

By Carl, at 11:17 AM
Just sell the part of Texas that harbor the Bush criminals, father and son.

By Larry, at 11:18 AM
Mike,

How about all of Texas except Austin and Molly Ivins grave?

OK...we'll keep Jim Hightower too...

By Carl, at 11:19 AM
Sell Florida also then maybe Jebby can take his rightful place as oart of the Castro family.

By Larry, at 11:20 AM
Of course, perhaps I was right all along....

"The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions maintains the position that the ACFTU is not an independent trade union organisation, and states in its policy:

5. There are differing approaches among ICFTU affiliates and Global Union Federations concerning contacts with the ACFTU. They range from “no contacts” to “constructive dialogue”. The ICFTU, noting that the ACFTU is not an independent trade union organisation and, therefore, cannot be regarded as an authentic voice of Chinese workers, reaffirms its request to all affiliates and Global Union Federations having contacts with the Chinese authorities, including the ACFTU, to engage in critical dialogue. This includes raising violations of fundamental workers’ and trade union rights in any such meetings, especially concerning cases of detention of trade union and labour rights activists."

By Carl, at 11:22 AM
Cause I"m lazy like mike

By evian, at 11:23 AM
Larry said...
Sell Florida also then maybe Jebby can take his rightful place as oart of the Castro family.

I dunno....gonna be hard to unload swamp land for real money...but then again, Bush could probably pull that off...

By Carl, at 11:23 AM
Of course, I say all this tongue in cheek about selling off states.

What's more likely to happen is we start to see the government sell off assets like Yellowstone Park.

By Carl, at 11:24 AM
evian said...
Cause I"m lazy like mike

George Takei has a public service announcement for you...

By Carl, at 11:25 AM
China has a growing manufacturing base and rising wages, much like we did in the first half of the 20th century they have a trade surplus and a rising standard of living, the opposite of our country will our children will not fare as well as we have.

if you want a perfect example go back about a 100 years and we would be Britain and China would be the USA.......china has a growing industrial bae and manufacturing economy and enjoys a huge trade surplus much as we did 100 years ago, while we have a declining manufacturing base and industrial economy as well as deficits and trade imbalances just as Britain did 100 years ago, we make very little here currently, we are also over reaching militarily like britain did when they sought to maintain their empire and hegemony.

By Mike, at 11:25 AM
Hey, Evian!

I see your profile links to a website about Johnny GooGoo's daughter...

I thought you didn't log on during the day, GooGoo?

By Carl, at 11:27 AM
Labourstart has a daily listing of trade union stories in China, including one about the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions, planning on setting up unions at more than 300 companies from the Fortune 500 min Guangdong.

www.labourstart.org

By Larry, at 11:30 AM
Old Bush loyalist John Warner is backing McCain for President.

Guess Warner decided he likes Bush's war after all.

By Larry, at 11:43 AM
I dont know how ANYONE can support McCaine, he will say or do anything and anyone to get elected president...............I dont se how even the repugs can back him.............he has no honor or integrity.

By Mike, at 11:50 AM
I still think Romney is the one to watch. He is slick and sucking up to people McCain won't touch.

McCain is a Bush lapdog.

By Larry, at 11:52 AM
Once the Christian Coalition gets wind that Mormonism is NOT Christianity, watch how quickly he'll plummet in the polls.

By Carl, at 11:56 AM
Brownback is too boring, Rudy is too mob ridden, so how will the Falwell's relate to those choices?

By Larry, at 12:00 PM
Guys I honestly think that after iraq blows up and becomes a REAL disaster far worse than ANYTHING we've seen, and after the economy implodes the repugs wont have any kind of a chance because they will be associated with the war and the recession thanks to GWB.

By Mike, at 12:00 PM
I hope your're right and in the meantime everyone suffers, especially the soldiers and their families.

By Larry, at 12:02 PM
That could be why Bush is trying to pull and end around and declare martial law and annoit himself a dictator.

And I still think attacking Iran is the catalyst to declare martial law.

By Mike, at 12:02 PM
Thats why I think its SO CRITICAL that Congress repeal that law that allows him to declare martial law, all 50 governors are opposing him on this even the repugs, but I think Congress needs to attack this immediately as well and not play dead.

By Mike, at 12:05 PM
I wonder if his replacement will continue this trek since Bush has gotten away with such ease?

By Larry, at 12:06 PM
Congress isn't even talking about eliminating that law it is completely ignored.

By Larry, at 12:07 PM
I know and thats a problem..........one thats causing me to rapidly lose confidence in them and respect for them.......I think worf's right they are soft and afraid of conflict.

By Mike, at 12:10 PM
Love the power but shudder at the thought of using it.

By Larry, at 12:12 PM
Honestly Larry, I wish we had a 3rd party as an alternative.

By Mike, at 12:14 PM
Check out this book, it looks interesting, pretty much what we were just talking about.

Crash-Proof: How to Profit From
the Coming Economic Collapse
A provocative and insightful examination of our difficult economic future and what investors can do to protect their wealth.

The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world’s largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down–and these trends don’t seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients reposition their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt, too-little savings, a declining dollar, and lack of domestic manufacturing. Crash-Proof is an informed and informative warning of a looming period marked by sizeable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, even–as happened recently in Argentina–the possible collapse of the middle class. However, Schiff does have a survival plan that can provide the protection that readers will need in the coming years.

By Mike, at 12:17 PM
Ralph Nader has a new book and he was on CNN over the weekend, saying there is so much money in politics that only a couple from each party stands a chance, because nobody else can raise that kind of funds.

He also said that money has taken the choice away for voters.

By Larry, at 12:18 PM
That book looks pretty good Mike.

By Larry, at 12:19 PM
He's ABSOLUTELY right we need election reform where each candidate is given equal airtime and any other advertising is illegal so money doesnt play such a factor.

we need to let the people choose their leaders not the "Big Money" powers that be.

By Mike, at 12:22 PM
Also election fraud or votor suppresion should be considered treason and include a mandatory 20 year to life sentence with NO parole or pardon.........we need to deter this type of criminal behavior that turns democracy into a a fascist type dictatorship.

By Mike, at 12:25 PM
They need to have public financing and eliminate the wealth factor.

Give each candidate 30 minutes of free TV during the primary and 30 minutes before election day.

By Larry, at 12:27 PM
Now illegal aliens vote freely.

By Larry