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A Nation of Moochers: America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing
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ISBN 9780312547707
REGISTERED: 11/17/17
UPDATED: 08/15/25
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A Nation of Moochers: America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing

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  • A Nation of Moochers America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing available on July 11 2024 from BiggerBooks for 19.01
  • A Nation of Moochers: America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing available on November 06 2014 from Amazon for $13.88
  • ISBN bar code 9780312547707 ξ2 registered July 11 2024
  • ISBN bar code 9780312547707 ξ1 registered November 06 2014
  • Product category is A Nation of Moochers America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing, 9780312547707, Book, Textbook Book
  • Manufacturered by St. Martin's Press

  • # 9780312547707N

  • Product weight is 0 lbs. 

     

     

     

     
 

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    ^  (2012). A Nation of Moochers: America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing, St. Martin's Press. Amazon.  (revised Nov 2014)
    ^  (2014). A Nation of Moochers America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing, St. Martin's Press. BiggerBooks.  (revised Jul 2024)

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When I picked up this book I was afraid it was going to be a tirade against what we traditionally think of as the welfare state - aid to the poor. However, I was pleasantly surprised by Sykes's book. Yes, he does address the traditional welfare underclass in the first part of the book, but the vast majority of the book and its major argument is that a mooching culture is becoming entrenched in every economic class. He seems particularly upset with the mooching of corporations and the middle and upper cla..
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Parents who grew up during the Depression and WWII were always saying that they did not want their children to be deprived like they were. Dr. Spock's theories were timely for changing the ideas about discipline and beginning the "lets reason with the upset child and talk to him/her as if we are addressing an adult." Opponents issued warnings that spoiled, selfish children would become materialistic, ego-driven adults without self discipline. What used to be called character would disappear.Well Sykes is ta..
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This book didn't tell me much that I didn't already know but having it in black and white, one chapter after the other is a very distressing commentary about the condition our nation is in. Fortunately, the chapters have sub-divisions that allow you to read smaller portions and briefer time frames. Otherwise you will get so upset it will likely raise your blood pressure. Corporate bail-outs, welfare, TARP, flood insurance abuses, green subsidies,school breakfast lunch and dinner programs, mortgage foreclosu..
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