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    No Money!: The Surviving Middle Class American
    No Money!: The Surviving Middle Class American
    No Money!: The Surviving Middle Class American
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    No Money!: The Surviving Middle Class American

    By Rick Martin

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    After writing over 500 patents and providing legal advice for American entrepreneurs since 1986, author Rick Martin set out to write No Money: The Surviving Middle-Class American, a cartoon-illustrated collection of essays outlining the death of Americas middle class. The small business start-ups that he assisted are heralded as the heart of Americaproviding over half its jobs. Today, with home equities gone and credit tight, Martin feels Americas small business and the entire middle class are on the endangered species list.

    Martin has read literature from leading left-leaning and right-leaning economists, and one common theme evolvedAmericas decline started when the first Toyota arrived without a balance of trade agreement with the Pacific Rim countries. This work explores the many reasons and ways in which the middle class is suffering and suggests ways that the American people can save themselves.

    No Money: The Surviving Middle-Class American attempts to encourage Americas traumatized middle class to do something, anything, to revitalize itself before it is too late.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateDec 28, 2011
    ISBN9781466906297
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      No Money! - Rick Martin

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      © Copyright 2011 Rick Martin.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-0629-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011916231

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      Overview of No Money

                 The author has given legal advice to over 3000 entrepreneurs since 1986. These small business startups are heralded as The Heart of America – providing over half the jobs. Today with home equities gone and tight credit, the author feels America’s small businesses and the entire Middle Class are on the endangered species list. The author read leading left leaning and right leaning economist’s books. One common theme evolved. America’s decline started when the first Toyota arrived without a balance of trade agreement with the Pacific Rim countries. This cartoon illustrated economic book attempts to encourage America’s Middle Class to do something, ANYTHING, before it is too late.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Chapter I No Money For America’s Middle Class

      Chapter II A Two Class America

      Chapter III Tax The Poor, Loophole The Rich

      Chapter IV The Left And The Right Leave A Big Hole In The Middle

      Chapter V Global Fascism

      Chapter VI www.Pigsandoil.Com

      Chapter VII The Fed

      Chapter VIII Prophecies Old And New

      Chapter IX When The Dollar Crashes

      Chapter X Conclusion And 2012 Economic Forecast

      Chapter XI China

      Chapter XII Government/Market Inter-Relationship

      Cartoon’s Page

              Value of Obama Dollar

              Survival of Middle Class

              Corporate U.S. Senators Devour Middle Class

              Rich Don’t Pay Taxes

              Job Fair

              Rep vs. Dem

              Illegal Eviction

              Circle of Death

              Year 2030

              America What’s That

      Introduction

      by Rick Martin © 2010

      You can do a quick read of this book’s content by flipping to the cartoons noted in the contents. Then you can choose to read the text or use this copy as a big cigar lighter!

      I am now 67 years old raising our two daughters ages fifteen and six with joint custody of an eighteen year old (former) soccer jock. I never used to look back. Forward ho brings youth eternal. But times have changed. I’ve lost my mom; the eighteen year old has changed from a spotlight in my life to a flicker. Who won? That’s great son.

      Many wars have past by, both shooting type and mental anguish type. Vietnam for one, which I didn’t get shipped to, but from which a third of my Marine Corp unit never returned. Fourteen moves keeping a career alive for twenty years. Suing the head of the South Florida Democratic Party, Mayor Lomelo, for fraud to start my legal career. Stepping into the shoes of an apparent suicide victim to run for U.S. Congress with the ink on my law license barely dry (where is Congress anyway, Maryland? I asked). Jousting a socialist draft dodger out of politics and landing in prison for five months, and still carrying a convicted felon label. Be sure to read Victor Hugo’s Le Miserable if you read one last book.

      Dealing with three divorces (two to the same woman) while trying to raise six kids, two of them not mine by birth. Five years of weekend police violence, enough for an entire new book maybe someday. The terrible shootings in India carried out by ten guys in a raft were something we expected from Cuba every night on patrol in the 1980’s in South Florida.

      Never look back, never look back. Bad dreams can weaken your resolve to carry on. I heard a survey of 100 year olds resulted in one similar regret. This one regret among centenarians was not having dared to take a chance. A chance to love, to fight, to move to another land, to risk more.

      I will not look back very often. In a 100 mile per hour car chase you must look forward, no time to dream. We’re going where shots are fired. If you look back, it may be your last look. But now I am truly worried because I carry two young girls’ futures with me at every turn, and this country of America is not the land of opportunity for our kids anymore. Upward social mobility? In 2009 twelve thousand lawyers lost their job, having seven years of college!

      Several intellects have told me they are sending their kids to another country for an education; Canada, Australia, Ireland, maybe even China. What is left in America may be only to clean up the body fluids of our rich in a low paid nursing job. There will always be military, police and nursing jobs. What a future!

      A progressive economist, Dean Baker, notes in the Conservative Nanny State, that America’s doctors earn $180,000.00 compared to half that in Europe. Everybody knows some American lawyers earn millions billing out at $600.00 per hour plus a bonus if they steal your patent and send a job to China. (See Microsoft, Wal-Mart, IBM, lawyer Hall of Fame).

      Dean Baker notes that doctors, lawyers, journalists and a few other high paid services career groups have limited their supply by controlling government licensing for their trades. One international doctor or lawyer bar exam would allow millions of non-Americans to compete for your cold check up or divorce lawyer. Prices would plummet just like the fruit pickers, janitors, and dishwasher salaries we let go to twenty million illegals, by government inaction.

      Now let’s get this right. If I have eight years of medical training I can’t look at your swollen tonsils unless I repeat my education in America and pay my dues to the American Medical Association (AMA). But if I want to wash dishes I can walk across the border and drive the labor rates to the basement for millions of laborers. This Nanny State drives money upscale only if you begin the game with enough money to go to an American doctor or lawyer college in the first place. This system of catering to money

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