Cancer in American Democracy!
The Causes and the Cures
by Frederick Parker
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Pub Date Nov 25 2015 | Archive Date Feb 12 2016
Description
This book describes how money in politics corrodes every aspect of our lives and our economy.
Each chapter deals with how the "cancer" is progressing and has a prescribed "cure" that the reader will find comforting.
Listed below are the subjects covered in each chapter:
Money in Politics and Decline of Democracy show the corruption in Congress and the effect that money has in our election processes. Instead of one man one vote we have one dollar one vote.
The Constitution deals with how politicians sometimes misinterpret the intentions of our founding fathers in order to push their own agendas.
The Supreme Court deals with how judges inject their own prejudices into our lives and how that affects mainstream Americans.
Political Parties, and the Presidency deal with our convoluted election processes, and show how gerrymandering distorts our elections.
The 2008 Financial Crisis, the Economy, and Deficits and Debts deal with the economic impact of our fiscal mismanagement.
Inequality deals with the disturbing trend of the rising gap between the wealthy and our middle classes.
Social Programs and Health Care deals with the impact that our lawmakers have on our welfare system and how we could improve those programs.
Foreign policy paints a picture of how our past and present policies failed and what would be the correct policy in the future.
The role of Government deals with how much Government interference can be too much or too little.
Technology and Solutions for the Future will leave the reader with an optimistic view of the world benefiting from new technologies, and describes a utopian view of how we could reform our political systems.
Each chapter deals with how the "cancer" is progressing and has a prescribed "cure" that the reader will find comforting.
Listed below are the subjects covered in each chapter:
Money in Politics and Decline of Democracy show the corruption in Congress and the effect that money has in our election processes. Instead of one man one vote we have one dollar one vote.
The Constitution deals with how politicians sometimes misinterpret the intentions of our founding fathers in order to push their own agendas.
The Supreme Court deals with how judges inject their own prejudices into our lives and how that affects mainstream Americans.
Political Parties, and the Presidency deal with our convoluted election processes, and show how gerrymandering distorts our elections.
The 2008 Financial Crisis, the Economy, and Deficits and Debts deal with the economic impact of our fiscal mismanagement.
Inequality deals with the disturbing trend of the rising gap between the wealthy and our middle classes.
Social Programs and Health Care deals with the impact that our lawmakers have on our welfare system and how we could improve those programs.
Foreign policy paints a picture of how our past and present policies failed and what would be the correct policy in the future.
The role of Government deals with how much Government interference can be too much or too little.
Technology and Solutions for the Future will leave the reader with an optimistic view of the world benefiting from new technologies, and describes a utopian view of how we could reform our political systems.
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About the author:
Frederick Parker was born in Hungary and escaped from the communist regime in 1949. He immigrated to Australia where he obtained his engineering degree. Subsequently he moved to the United States and lived here since 1958. He rose through the ranks of corporate ladder to become General Manager of a large hi-tech international company in Silicon Valley, before he retired.
Parker learned early in life that communism does not work and he became a staunch capitalist believing in free markets and the principle that hard work leads to just rewards. He believes in fiscal discipline but also social consciousness.
One of his hobbies is economics and during his post-graduate studies Parker took courses in macro and micro economics. He observed the polarization of American politics and the corrosive influence of how money affects our lives. His research into the causes of this phenomena resulted in writing this book.
Parker considers himself to be a renaissance man, with many interests. He wrote and published a book about duplicate bridge “Win at Duplicate Bridge” and another on Manufacturing Management titled “Strategy and Teamwork=Great Products”. This book “Cancer in American Democracy” is his latest and deals with his observations of the decline of democracy in the American political system the causes for this and suggested cures.
Parker lives in San Diego with his wife and has two sons and three grandchildren who will hopefully benefit if our politicians adopt some of the suggested “cures”.
Frederick Parker was born in Hungary and escaped from the communist regime in 1949. He immigrated to Australia where he obtained his engineering degree. Subsequently he moved to the United States and lived here since 1958. He rose through the ranks of corporate ladder to become General Manager of a large hi-tech international company in Silicon Valley, before he retired.
Parker learned early in life that communism does not work and he became a staunch capitalist believing in free markets and the principle that hard work leads to just rewards. He believes in fiscal discipline but also social consciousness.
One of his hobbies is economics and during his post-graduate studies Parker took courses in macro and micro economics. He observed the polarization of American politics and the corrosive influence of how money affects our lives. His research into the causes of this phenomena resulted in writing this book.
Parker considers himself to be a renaissance man, with many interests. He wrote and published a book about duplicate bridge “Win at Duplicate Bridge” and another on Manufacturing Management titled “Strategy and Teamwork=Great Products”. This book “Cancer in American Democracy” is his latest and deals with his observations of the decline of democracy in the American political system the causes for this and suggested cures.
Parker lives in San Diego with his wife and has two sons and three grandchildren who will hopefully benefit if our politicians adopt some of the suggested “cures”.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781457543517 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
