The American Class System: Divide and Rule - Hardcover

Paul, Kalra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0964717352 ISBN 13: 9780964717350

Publisher: Antenna Pub Co, 1996

Synopsis

According to "Book News", "Kalra commits the American heresy -- he not only identifies the structure of the class system, but he goes on to show how it controls income, taxes, savings, subsidies for education, healthcare, and the "American" way of life. Thoroughly researched and clearly written for a wide audience."

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About the Author

Paul Kalra is a Systems Analyst with a background in economics and marketing. He obtained a MSEE degree in Control Systems from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked for major employers such as Westinghouse, Bechtel and Kaiser Engineers for 25 years. Paul has decided to channel all his energies into research and writing. The American Class System is likely to be followed by other works analyzing various aspects of American social and economic history.

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What others are saying about The American Class System

"A powerful assessment -- and accurate, sad to say." - Henry B. Gonzalez, Member of Congress

"Kalra commits the American heresy -- he not only identifies the structure of the class system, but he goes on to show how it controls income, taxes, savings, subsidies for education, housing, healthcare, and the 'American' way of life. Thoroughly researched and clearly written for a wide audience." - Book News

"A brilliant exposure of the class society" - The Statesman

"After a sustained period of relative stability in the inequality of distribution, I glimpse some signs towards increasing instability." - Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize winning economist

"Powerfully written and challenging" - Amartya Sen, Economics Professor Harvard University

"A useful corrective to shake out complacency and passivity and promote a healthy skeptical inquiry of public issues." - West

"Offers a road to social maturity -- By exercising responsible self-interest, we can each of us become a force for change."- SPEX

"A very illuminating book for every student of the social sciences. - Currents

"Artificial inequality, caused by the class system and its globalization, is increasingly visible in America today." - The Spotlight

"Well-written, enlightening, educational and sobering -- recommending reading for every American today." - Valerie J. Hendrix, Author

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U.S. PRESIDENTS ON THE AMERICAN CLASS SYSTEM John Adams -

The great functions of state should be reserved to the rich, the well born and the able.

Thomas Jefferson - Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

James Madison - The most common and durable sources of faction, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.

Theodore Roosevelt - We keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life with which we surround them.

Franklin Roosevelt - We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

John F. Kennedy - If a free society cannot save the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Lyndon Johnson - Even the greatest of all past civilizations existed on the exploitation of the misery of the many.

Ronald Reagan - What I want to see above all is that this remains a country where someone can always get rich.

George Bush - Class is for European democracies or some-thing else - it isn't for the United States of America. We are not going to be divided by class.

Bill Clinton - We need a national strategy to create a high-wage, high-growth, high-opportunity economy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Antenna Pub Co
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964717352
• ISBN 13: 9780964717350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348