Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class WarCrown, 24. jún. 2008 - 288 síđur Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. He writes of: • His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced • The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt • The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn’ t get it • Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England |
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... doctors and professors are losing " control of their work day " ( although to earn over a grand a day , most of us would be happy to relinquish quite a bit of control ) to HMOs and university administrations , and the " hollowing out of ...
... doctors and professors are losing " control of their work day " ( although to earn over a grand a day , most of us would be happy to relinquish quite a bit of control ) to HMOs and university administrations , and the " hollowing out of ...
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... Doctors tell us that we have blood in our cholesterol , and the cops tell us there is alcohol in that blood . True ... doctor thought the pressure device was broken . And she is slowly going blind to boot . Trouble is , insurance ...
... Doctors tell us that we have blood in our cholesterol , and the cops tell us there is alcohol in that blood . True ... doctor thought the pressure device was broken . And she is slowly going blind to boot . Trouble is , insurance ...
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... doctor . Every Sari Indian had national health care , but the American crapping his guts out behind their shacks , a man who made fifty times their annual income , could not even afford health insurance in his own country because I was ...
... doctor . Every Sari Indian had national health care , but the American crapping his guts out behind their shacks , a man who made fifty times their annual income , could not even afford health insurance in his own country because I was ...
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