The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

There is a new book out today by Matt Taibbi called :

 

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Everyday we hear about the '1%' versus the '99%',  thanks to the Occupy movement, but here Matt Taibbi refers to it as the 'Gap'. Be it called a chasm, gap, grand canyon, or a rift- the topic here is the uncrossable barrier between us and them.  The rich don't get punished -the poor do. The banks are untouchable, too big to jail, while someone lies on a loan application and goes to prison.  According to Matt, he taught himself about the financial industry, and has become somewhat of a legend to the thousands of foreclosure warriors in social media. His prior book, Griftopia, about bankers and politicians, was on the New York Times Bestseller list.  In his latest book, The Divide :

          "Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice—the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs".

He also delves into another disturbing trend in America ",  Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights.

“These are the stories that will keep you up at night. . . . The Divide is not just a report from the new America; it is advocacy journalism at its finest.”—Los Angeles Times

I look forward to staying up at night and thank Matt for exposing the corruption at the core of our country. MM   buy the book here : http://www.amazon.com/The-Divide-American-Injustice-Wealth/dp/081299342X