Lionel D. Lyles

Neoliberalism Economic Policy and the Collapse of the Public Sector (eBook, ePUB)

How the Jindal Administration Allowed It to Happen-2008 to 2016

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

My book demonstrates how classical liberalism was the foundation upon which Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and others wrote the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and the Bills of Rights; however, it was rolled back by 1980 and replaced with neoliberalism, which was championed by the Reagan Administration. In short, this ideology has one main aim, and that is to shrink government, cut the budgets of social programs, and give away billions of taxpayer dollars to private business in the form of tax breaks. During the Jindal administration and by the end of its first term, more than $7 billion worth of tax breaks had been given away to private business. A surplus of $1 billion left in the Louisiana treasury by outgoing governor Kathleen Blanco after Hurricane Katrina was given away by the end of the first two months of its first term. Today, the Louisiana legislature is currently facing a $650 million fiscal cliff, and no doubt, more budget cuts are in store for the Louisiana public sector.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781532051968
• Artikelnr.: 53694277

Autorenporträt

I earned my Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1977 with an emphasis on historical, economic, geographical, and urban problems. For more than 40 years, I have been engaged in socio-economic and political research. During this period, I have championed the working man and womans position in our class society. He or she will be excited to learn someone is aware of their social and economic challenges, and he/she will be happy to learn that the economic system does not always work on their behalf. My voice is not the conventional, stuffy, and routing apologetic one of conservatism, but, to the contrary, he or she will gain new insight into the inner workings of state government, namely, how it purports to solve his or her problems without much results. I retired in 2012 having achieved the rank of full professor.