This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class | 
pickThis is what I was reading in the lead up to the election and while they were trying to figure out who had won. Elizabeth Warren is sort of famous for not holding anything back. She's also the first female Senator from Massachusetts. She's pretty fierce.
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pickI‘ll be voting in November for whomever the Democratic candidate is, and after reading this, I‘d be delighted if that person is Elizabeth Warren. Here she gives a history of economics in the US and how policies have either helped or harmed the average American. She‘s smart, knowledgeable, organized, thoughtful, calm, measured…basically everything you know who isn‘t. Good book, great on audio, read with passion by the author.
My hold for this one came in today, great timing after yesterday‘s miscarriage of justice. Warren‘s passion, anger and knowledge are a balm as she reads this book into my ears. I‘m not very far along, but I‘m really appreciating this capable, competent woman.
pickI‘ve read a lot with #ReadTheCandidates, but Warren is the first that I went back for a second book. She does a great job of laying it all out here, both her ideas & what shaped them. What we‘ve done right, where we went off track, & the forces steering the decisions. Her past as a teacher shines through here, explaining things in a great, easy to understand way. This book is so good and stark, but filled with determination and hope to make..⤵️
I watched the Sunday shows again today (This Week & Meet the Press) and the cable networks after the debate and again I heard about how she‘s too liberal/left or else they talk about Biden, Bernie, and Buttigieg and don‘t even mention her name.... but for me, watching them all and reading a bunch of them this year with #ReadTheCandidates I think she has more widespread appeal than they are giving her credit for. Some Trump voters voted for ⤵️
^This was written before the tax cut bill was passed, but I‘m guessing since they controlled all 3 branches of government at the time, that it‘s fairly close to what actually passed. Either way 🤦♀️
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...”and destroying our environment, they would have lost by double digits. This is plain old bait-and-switch, now dressed up in its new gold-plated Trumpian version.”
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“...brought in people with experience in the financial industry. When I built the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I had Wall Street professionals on my team. They were good people, and I appreciated the work they did. But they had other, non–Wall Street experience too, and they were surrounded by coworkers who had never been steeped in Wall Street culture and were highly skeptical of business models that rely on cheating people.” ⤵️
It‘s not just Goldman, or the Trump administration, this lobbying section is absolutely disgusting. Whether it‘s govt people going to work for lobbying groups, or corporate people being appointed to govt in droves, as she points out it‘s a revolving door back and forth, with the purpose of making sure the industry has insight and hands at the wheel in any decision that might effect it, execs working for “govt” and ex-govt people working for it!🙄
Sigh 😔
This book is so good and so stark....she does a great job of laying it all out. What we‘ve done right, where we went off track, and the forces steering the decisions. I definitely recommend the whole book, just because her past as a teacher shines through here, explaining things in a great, easy to understand way.
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The stuff that you didn‘t know about, but when you find out about it...is just really, totally depressing...🤦♀️
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“But to keep the system functioning and keep depositors from losing any money, U.S. taxpayers laid out about $132 billion. Yes, $132 billion. Stop for a minute and think about that pile of money: in 1995, when the last S&L was shuttered, the federal government had funneled more to these financial institutions than it had spent on education, job training, veterans‘ benefits, social services, and transportation combined.”
And this “bailout”. ...⤵️
“in the words of Ronald Reagan, rely on the “magic of the marketplace” to create “spectacular broad-based economic progress.”
Ooh, magic marketplaces. No need for rules or regulators—just put your faith in giant corporations.”
Again sounds very familiar: big tax cuts for the top that will trickle-down “eventually” and more lax regulations leading to wealth of health/environmental issues. (I‘m thinking of vaping deaths and lead levels in water)🤔
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#TIL about the birth of the modern day conservative movement‘s to influence government. I knew it was happening, but I just assumed it was individual self interest that led us here.... Nope, we can all think Lewis Powell, who went from working for big tobacco “His work for tobacco company Philip Morris included signing off on the company‘s annual reports touting the health benefits of cigarettes, ... ⤵️
Shaking my head here....the more I read about history, shocking the more familiar these fights and name calling labels seem to become.
Way too familiar.🙄
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...”tectonic shift in American law and the American economy. By the 1930s, the idea began to take root that without basic rules, markets won‘t work. Government—the people working together—could pass strong laws and enforce those laws to level the playing field; this, in turn, would give consumers, investors, shopkeepers, and small farmers a fighting chance to build their own economic futures.”
I‘ve been thinking about this part of history often⤵️
For a book I picked up for #ReadTheCandidates she does a great job in this chapter breaking down America‘s capitalist system of cyclical booms and busts, what we‘ve done in the past to steady things, and explaining why things go so off track so fast when we don‘t. (Post 2 of 2)
Make anyone think of the more recent bank bailouts for housing market speculation?
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For a book I picked up for #ReadTheCandidates she does a great job in this chapter breaking down America‘s capitalist system of cyclical booms and busts, what we‘ve done in the past to steady things, and explaining why things go so off track so fast when we don‘t. (Post 1 of 2)
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“The point I‘m making is blindingly obvious. America could do a lot with the money taxpayers spend to keep afloat people who are working full-time but whose employers don‘t pay a living wage.”
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Ok..back to #ReadTheCandidates for my next #NFNov read
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My “Women‘s Power” graduate students! So glad I got all 21 hats finished!
pickElizabeth Warren is the most inspiring politician I have encountered in ages. This book is a grim portrait of economic disparity and injustice but, most importantly, it is a call to arms, a call to action. Warren dreams big and fights hard. 2020 is right around the corner. Persist!
pickThis book was inspiring. Since i started this goal of reading all of the books of the deomcrats that are seeking the nomination, (of which this is book 2 of... I dont know how many) this book spoke to the understanding of hiw bad economic policy since the years of Regan has underminded the middle class.
Elizabeth Warren is intelligent and has a clear understanding of what economic policies should be implemented.
pickAn insightful, meaningful, concisely and thoughtfully argued book by a v intelligent woman. I knew almost nothing about her going in and have a lot of respect for her now. I‘ll read lots about other candidates when they‘re announced too, but I feel like the free world would be in good hands with this one. The epilogue made me cry in the bath (partly cause brexit is beating me up in the news today, partly cause I‘m exhausted from work :/)
Not my dream thing to read at 6.50am as I head for work early 😨
Big event at work today meaning I have to get to London for 8 and I feel like a zombie
I‘m up super early for work tomorrow and im not too happy about it - I just have 3 days left of working extra hours but somehow 1 extra hour a day really really exhausts me. Trying to get an early night but spending some quality time with Elizabeth Warren first
I‘m reading some heavy stuff rn but I find it motivates me more and makes me feel happier that in my few private minutes I‘m educating myself on big stuff as much as I can
Lunch with Elizabeth Warren 💪
quoting FDR:
On the Saturday before Election Day, he kept his sights trained on those moneyed interests, declaring, “They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred.”‘
Four for you FDR! You go FDR!
The written style isn‘t the best but I don‘t judge politicians on their sentence structure and she has a lot of other stuff going for her! Will have to read up on other candidates before I commit myself to anything tho
When Elizabeth Warren announced she was running for president I realised I knew very little about her. I‘ve seen bits and pieces on the news but it‘s always more what Trump is saying about people than a detailed look at peoples actual history and beliefs. I thought this was a good starting point for my research about presidential candidates
Just downloaded this after I saw Elizabeth Warren had announced her presidential run. I know very little about her but I want to make sure I‘m as informed as I can be for the 2020 election.
2019 is shaping up to be a horrible year for Britain, and I don‘t see an improvement in our politics in sight. I hope things in America look up, at least there‘s a sense of something to fight for there! Although maybe thats just grass is always greener.
The second best news to start the New Year: #ElizabethWarren2020
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1. Bunny thinks the mini trampoline is her napping throne. #dogsoflitsy Sunday afternoon I went to the Secret Garden of Siegfried & Roy with my parents & 5 year old. This morning I made a turkey craft at the kindergarten assembly. And I made chai orange cranberry sauce!
2. Exactly nowhere.
3. Reading my book!
4. My tee shirt.
5. Warren wrote this after the 2016 election. It‘s a call to arms but not a lot of concrete plans as of yet.
Thank you @callielafleur for your generous give away- those are all interesting books on your pile!! The best book I have read this year has been This Fight is our Fight by Elizabeth Warren. There‘s still time to enter the giveaway, Littens- but not much so get your entries in! #clearingtheshelves3
Finished this book tonight. Interesting read, and I really like Elizabeth Warren, but while she had a lot of info about one party- she had nothing to say about the questionable deeds of the other. I was looking forward to some of her insights and opinions at least on the hot topics, but she wasn‘t talking. Still...it was interesting and informative. #bookly #thisfightisourfight
Thank goodness for libraries! Didn‘t find all the books I looked for, but I found these :)
pickthe things I admire most about Warren: her positivity and belief that people should be more important than corporations. Throughout this book, she introduces us to everyday people, the struggles hardships they face because of bigbusiness. book is about Warren, but she shows us who she is by ability to relate to people on individual basis.
Warren never forgot the struggles of her parents, growing up Middle Class.This gave me hope. Recommended!
I've always really liked Elizabeth Warren
50 pages in, and I like her even more.....
In honor of the holiday, I‘m reading a red, white, and blue book but which one should it be?
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Took a break from reading to do some homework on the election next week. Hoping for some upset at the local level to protect our National Parks. Make sure you vote, if you haven't already in your area.
pickEveryone needs to read this book. In no uncertain terms, Warren lays out the reality of most hard working Americans and how we are all getting screwed by a rigged system. This is a history lesson, a crash course in economics, a primer on Congress, and an honest assessment of our broken system, all wrapped up in a call to action. We need to understand what we are fighting against.
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Probably only read for maybe 30 minutes this weekend. (I honestly didn't even attempt this readathon. Between my baby girl having a traumatizing injury and my husband having to work all Saturday, there was no point. I'm too distracted to focus on reading.) Still, I'm plugging away in hopes that I will finish this book by the end of the month. #Resist #Persist #nastywoman #Americanpolitics #MakeAmericaNormalAgain
