Shakedown

Description:

The author chronicles the rise of what he calls the New New Left, beginning with President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s, and lays the blame for the economic meltdown of the early twenty-first century to the bigger government and more public spending agenda of the political powerhouse.

subjects: Government spending policy,  Taxation,  Government employee unions,  Social policy,  Community activists,  Taxation, united states,  United states, social policy,  Labor unions, united states

Places: United States

Times: 1993-