Huffington, Arianna. Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political
Corruption Are Undermining America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003.
277 pages.
Arianna Huffington, a syndicated columnist who lives in Los Angeles,
slings some choice words in this delightful book. The targets of her outrage
include everyone from Wall Street analysts to overpaid corporate kingpins,
and slavish lapdog deregulators in Washington to the lobbyists who make sure
they stay ineffective. This is the book that was written the morning after
that huge bubble of hot air during the nineties, when our lovely corporate
media pushed the line that we'd all get stinking rich, just so long as we
allowed the big stinkers to get even richer.
Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, Arthur Andersen, Global Crossing, Adelphia,
Bayer, Citigroup, Halliburton, Merrill Lynch, AOL, Xerox -- these are a
few of the culprits. Their corporate leaders and lobbyists, and the
politicians eager for the soft money that was stolen from unsuspecting
employees, consumers and 401(k) suckers, come from both parties. It's not
Republican vs. Democrat, but rather it's Tax-Free Unaccountability for
the Rich vs. Minimum Subsistence for the Rest of Us. The next time some
wretched, lying pundit in a nice suit tells you that a rising tide lifts
all boats, stick his head under water and see if he likes it.
ISBN 1-4000-4771-4
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