Unless you are aware of just how and why the richest 1% in America are directly responsible for the nation's declining quality of life, ...you will probably benefit greatly from the facts and analytical perspectives offered in this book.

Some of the issues covered in the book are listed below:

• why the number of American billionaires suddenly doubled in 1986, quadrupled by 1987, and by 1990 was nearly eight-fold!!...while at the same time, the number of soup kitchens and street beggars increased dramatically throughout the country
• how and why the richest 1 (one ) percent have come to own more wealth than the combined wealth of the bottom 90 (ninety) percent
• why the elected Congress continues to pass discriminating tax shelter laws that make the rich richer and the poor poorer
• why and how voters have been left with less influence than lobbyists
• why so many of America's politicians can openly break the law ...but remain virtually immune from prosecution
• why Wall Street has been preoccupied with leveraged buyouts and mergers, and how they are fleecing the country
• why the price of housing has increased to the extent that owning a home is no longer an expectation for many
• why workers' wages are steadily dropping, and why America's manufacturing plants continue to close down
• why the baby boomers may not have a pension when they retire
• why the education system is graduating functional illiterates
• why 200 American banks and 226 Savings and Loan thrift institutions (S&L's) failed in 1988 alone
• why and how the media is being used to misinform the public
• why the American government befriends so many dictators
• why the American Dream of the 50's has turned into the American Nightmare of the 80's
• why the defense budgets are so huge, ...but still get passed
• why a Hollywood actor and a small-town peanut farmer were elected to the highest office
• why America has sold military weapons to both Iran and Iraq
• why the Allies have helped Israel to forcibly eject Palestinians from land that they (the Palestinians) had occupied for at least the past two thousand years