The Return of Thrift: How the Collapse of the Middle Class Welfare State Will Reawaken Values in America

By Phillip Longman

Often lost in the hue and cry about problems with welfare in the United States is the abysmal state of the country's entitlements for the middle class. Yet, as Phillip Longman points out in this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684823004
• ISBN13: 9780684823003
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

He knew it before everyone else

I picked this book up at the library on a whim. Everything he predicted is coming true. We are seeing the collapse of the middle-class welfare state. He is one of the few commentators that has been honest about the overwhelming debt obligations and promises of our government and how it is unsustainable. The bubbles are bursting and there are none left to inflate and philip candidly spells out in the book the looming issues that everyone knew for years and is happening TODAY. Read it if nothing else, to understand how tragically all this could have prevented.