Downsizing the U.S.A.Naylor and William argue that our government, our cities, our corporations, our schools, our churches, our military, and our social welfare system are all too big, too powerful, too intrusive, too insular, and too unresponsive to the needs of individual citizens and small local communities. They propose specific strategies for decentralizing and downsizing virtually every major institution in America, including America itself. The authors audaciously call for the peaceful dissolution of the United States through secession and provide a thoughtful game plan for achieving this controversial objective. |
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Contents
The State of the Union | 9 |
The Meltdown of Corporate America | 28 |
Urban America ModernDay Tower of Babel | 48 |
Rural America Our Last Hope | 76 |
Digitizing Americas Schoolkids | 94 |
The Crisis in Higher Education Metaphor for America | 122 |
Give Me That OldTime Religion | 137 |
Our Moribund Welfare State | 155 |
Mighty Morphin Superpowers | 182 |
Our States Toothless Paper Tigers | 203 |
Dissolution Not Devolution | 237 |
Empowering the Powerless | 259 |
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References to this book
Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic John De Graaf,David Wann,Thomas H. Naylor No preview available - 2002 |