Unstoppable (29 page)

2
. “Audit: U.S. Lost Track of $9 Billion in Iraq Funds,” CNN, January 31, 2005,
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit
.

3
. “Defense Inventory: Opportunities Exist to Save Billions by Reducing Air Force's Unneeded Spare Parts Inventory,” GAO-07-232, Government Accountability Office, April 27, 2007,
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-07-232
.

4
. Howard Dean,
Let's Drive Over the Fiscal Cliff
(video), Big Think, August 14, 2012,
http://bigthink.com/videos/howard-dean-lets-drive-over-the-fiscal-cliff
.

5
. Robert Pollin, “Making the Federal Minimum Wage a Living Wage,” University of Massachusetts, 2007,
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/other_publication_types/Pollin_May_2007_NLF_Column--Making_Federal_Min_Wage_a_Living_Wage.pdf
; “Letter from 100 Economists in Support of $10.50 Minimum Wage,” Time for a Raise, July 2013,
http://www.timeforaraise.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Economists-Petition-for-10.50-Minimum-Wage.pdf
.

6
. John Boehner, “A Plan for America's Job Creators,”
Greenville Daily Advocate
(NC), June 11, 2011,
http://www.johnboehner.com/news/plan-americas-job-creators
.

7
. David Corn, “Reagan: Morning After in America: Why the Gipper's Tax-Cut Guru Is Aghast at Today's GOP,”
Mother Jones
, February 4, 2011,
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/reagan-anniversary-david-stockman
.

8
. “Tax Revenue Is at Its Lowest Level Since 1950,” Center for American Progress, June, 2011,
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/pdf/low_tax_graphs.pdf
.

9
. Corn, “Reagan.”

10
. Phillip Inman, “EU Approves Financial Transaction Tax for 11 Eurozone Countries,”
Guardian
(London), January 22, 2013,
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jan/22/eu-approves-financial-transaction-tax-eurozone
.

11
. Katrina vanden Heuvel, “Stop Coddling the Big Banks,”
Nation
, February 12, 2013,
http://www.thenation.com/blog/172842/stop-coddling-big-banks
.

12
. George Will, “Too Big to Maintain?,”
Washington Post
, October 12, 2012,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-10-12/opinions/35501753_1_banks-andrew-haldane-systemically-important-financial-institutions
.

13
. Ryan Grim, “Dick Durbin: Banks ‘Frankly Own the Place,”
Huffington Post
, May 30, 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193010.html
.

14
. Ian Wilhelm, “Start-Ups of New Charities See No Slowdown in Bad Economy,”
Chronicle of Philanthropy
, April 18, 2010,
http://philanthropy.com/article/Great-Recession-Generates-Many/65102/
.

15
. David McCullough,
John Adams
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 53.

16
. Ibid.

17
.
Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Win
, 131 S. Ct. 1436 (2011).

18
. A link to the full report is available in the press release “What Works? A Review of Auto Insurance Rate Regulation in America,” Consumer Federation of America, November 12, 2013,
http://www.consumerfed.org/news/720
.

19
. “Reelection Rates Over the Years,”
Opensecrets.org
,
http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.php
, accessed October 25, 2013.

20
. Theresa Amato,
Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
(New York: New Press, 2009).

21
. Theodore J. Lowi, “Toward a More Responsible Three-Party System: Deregulating American Democracy,” in
The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
, ed. John C. Green and Rick Farmer, 4th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 376.

22
. James T. Bennett,
Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties
(New York: Springer, 2008), 7–8.

23
. Jeff Gamet, “Apple Joins Digital Due Process Coalition,”
Mac Observer
, September 23, 2011,
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_joins_digital_due_process_coalition
.

24
. “House Vote 412: Rejects Limits on N.S.A. Data Collection,”
New York Times
, July 24, 2013,
http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/412
.

25
. “Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Plan for ‘Corporate Global Governance,” interview with Lori Wallach on
Democracy Now!
, June 15, 2012,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101734628
.

26
. Jeffrey D. Clements,
Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It
(San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2011), 23.

27
. Ibid.

28
. Russell Kirk, “Ten Conservative Principles,” The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal,
http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/detail/ten-conservative-principles
, adapted from
The Politics of Prudence
(1993).

29
. Ben Stein, “On Buyouts, There Ought to Be a Law,”
New York Times
, September 3, 2006,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/business/yourmoney/03every.html
.

30
. Ibid.

31
. David B. Resnik,
Owning the Genome: A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting
(Albany: SUNY Press, 2004), 2.

32
. Martin Teitel and Kimberly A. Wilson,
Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature
, updated and expanded 2nd ed. (Rochester, VT: Park Street, 2001).

33
. David Dagan and Steven M. Teles, “The Conservative War on Prisons,”
Washington Monthly
(November/December 2012).

34
. Dan Merica and Evan Perez, “Eric Holder Seeks to Cut Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences,” CNN, August 12, 2013,
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/politics/holder-mandatory-minimums/
.

35
. “Prison Reform: An Unlikely Alliance of Left and Right,”
Economist
, August 17, 2013,
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21583701-america-waking-up-cost-mass-incarceration-unlikely-alliance-left-and
.

36
. “Prohibition Is Finally Coming to an End,” The Drug Policy Institute, December 20, 2012,
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2012/12/full-page-new-york-times-ad-thursday-paper-80-years-after-end-prohibition-prohibition-f
.

37
. George F. Will, “Seeking Sense on Sentencing,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, June 13, 2013,
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/06/seeking_sense_on_sentencing_ge.html
.

38
. Peter Viereck, “Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status,” Political Education, Conservative Analysis: Politics, Society, & the Sovereign State—Website of Dr. Almon Leroy Way Jr., n.d.,
http://www.proconservative.net/pecapoliticalphilosophyconservatismviereck.shtml
.

39
. Russell Kirk, “Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists,”
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans), September 20, 1971.

40
. John Gray,
Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment
(New York: Routledge, 2013), 122.

41
. John R. E. Bliese,
The Greening of Conservative America
(Boulder: Westview, 2001), x.

42
. “The Pentagon and Climate Change,”
Monthly Review
, May 1, 2004,
http://monthlyreview.org/2004/05/01/the-pentagon-and-climate-change
.

43
. Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, “Letter: More About Health, Less About Care,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 18, 2008,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122956383633516883
.

44
. Roger Cohen, “The Beauty of Institutions,”
New York Times
, October 24, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/opinion/25iht-edcohen25.html
.

Chapter 6

1
. William Greider,
Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 281.

2
. Stephen Slivinski, “The Corporate Welfare Budget: Bigger Than Ever,” The Cato Institute, Cato Policy Analysis No. 415, October 10, 2001,
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-415es.html
; Brian M. Riedl and John E. Frydenlund, “At the Federal Trough: Farm Subsidies for the Rich and Famous,” The Heritage Foundation, November 26, 2001,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2001/11/at-the-federal-trough-farm-subsidies-for-the-rich-and-famous
.

3
. Arthur C. Brooks, “Obama Says It's Only ‘Fair' to Raise Taxes on the Rich; He's Wrong,”
Washington Post
, April 22, 2011,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-04-22/opinions/35230666_1_tax-code-budget-rhetoric-fairness-argument
.

4
. Ed Crane, e-mail message to author, 2011.

5
. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, “Pro Bono Work: Good News and Bad News,” Address to the 1991 American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Pro Bono Awards Luncheon, August 12, 1991. Excerpts reprinted at the Nader Page,
http://nader.org/1991/09/20/justice-oconnor-speech-need-for-legal-services/
.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Matthew Mosk, “O'Connor Calls Citizens United Ruling ‘A Problem,'” ABC News, January 26, 2010,
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/oconnor-citizens-united-ruling-problem/story?id=9668044
.

Chapter 7

1
. Herbert Agar and Allen Tate, editors,
Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence
, with a new foreword by Edward S. Shapiro (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 1999).

2
. Edward S. Shapiro, “A Forgotten American Classic,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, ix.

3
. Ibid., xiv.

4
. Ibid., xviii, xix.

5
. David Cushman Coyle, “The Fallacy of Mass Production,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, 27.

6
. Lyle H. Lanier, “Big Business in the Property State,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, 38.

7
. John C. Rawe, “Agriculture and the Property State,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, 71.

8
. Ibid., 65.

9
. Lyle H. Lanier, “Big Business in the Property State,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, 30–31.

10
. Ibid., 31.

11
. Allen Tate, “Notes on Liberty and Property,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, 122, 125.

12
. Lanier, “Big Business,” 44.

13
. Ibid., 50.

14
. Ibid., 47.

15
. Ibid., 53, 61.

16
. Herbert Agar, “But Can It Be Done?,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, 130.

17
. Ibid., 131.

18
. Ibid., 132.

19
. David Cho, “A Skeptical Outsider Becomes Bush's ‘Wartime General,'”
Washington Post
, November 19, 2008.

20
. Mary Shattuck Fisher, “The Emancipated Woman,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, 401.

21
. Ibid., 408.

22
. Ibid., 410, 411.

23
. T. J. Cauley, “The Illusion of State,” in Agar and Tate,
Who Owns America?
, 376, 377.

24
. Ibid., 367.

25
. Jesse Eisinger, “As Banking Titans Reflect on Errors, Few Pay Any Price,”
New York Times
, August 2, 2012,
http://query.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/few-repercussions-in-the-conversion-of-a-former-wall-st-titan/
.

26
. William D. Cohan, “Rethinking Robert Rubin,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, September 30, 2012,
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-19/rethinking-robert-rubin
.

27
. Shapiro, “
Who Owns America?
,” 44.

28
. Franklin Roosevelt's Address Announcing the Second New Deal, October 31, 1936, FDR Library, Marist College,
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/od2ndst.html
.

29
. Shapiro, “
Who Owns America?
,” 43.

30
. Aliteracy is the state of being able to read but being uninterested in doing so. This phenomenon has been reported as a problem occurring separately from illiteracy, which is more common in the developing world, while aliteracy is primarily a problem in the developed world.