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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Part 1: Moocher Nation
Scenes from Moocher Nation
Chapter 1: A Nation of Moochers
A Moocher Checklist
Chapter 2: Have We Reached the Tipping Point?
Moocher’s Dilemma
Part 2: The Joys of Dependency
Chapter 3: The Rise of Moocher Nation
Chapter 4: The Joys of Dependency
The Kindness of Strangers (A Moocher Manifesto)
Chapter 5: Addicted to OPM (Other People’s Money)
Want —> Need —> Right
Chapter 6: Feed Me
Part 3: At the Trough
I, Piggy Bank
Chapter 7: Harvesting OPM
Moocher’s Dilemma II
Chapter 8: Crony Capitalism (Big Business at the Trough)
Chapter 9: The Two Americas
Part 4: Bailout Madness
Lessons in Moral Hazard
Chapter 10: Mortgage Madness
Chapter 11: Bailouts for Idiots (How to Make Out Big by Screwing Up)
Chapter 12: Walk Away from Your Mortgage!
An Interactive Reader’s Exercise
Chapter 13: No, They Didn’t Learn Anything
Part 5: Middle-Class Suckers
Chapter 14: The Bank of Mom and Dad
Chapter 15: Middle-Class Suckers
Chapter 16: Why Get a Job?
Chapter 17: Mooching Off the Kids
Part 6: What’s Fair?
An Abbreviated History of Mooching
Chapter 18: We’re All from Starnesville Now
Chapter 19: What’s Fair?
Chapter 20: Step Away from the Trough
Notes
Index
Also by Charles J. Sykes
About the Author
Copyright
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