Book Review: This Fight is Our Fight

This Fight is our Fight
By Elizabeth Warren

My Copy


I bought This Fight is our Fight after the 2016 election. I wasn't a political junkie. I became aware of Sen. Warren during the 2016  presidential race.  She speaks up for the ordinary middle class person. I love how she speaks up to Donald Trump, and our congress, and senate. Elizabeth Warren is a progressive that speaks volumes to the middle class, and the poor.She persists!

Her book is not a biography. Instead the book is about the Middle class, and the corporate, and financial world. She discusses the history of the financial system. It starts with FDR's  administration  protection and opportunities for American people.

She talks about her family's hardships. Her mother who worked for Sears and Roebuck. In the 1950's middle class could make it on a livable wage. How she was able to go to college because of the opportunities that were available to her then. The times have changed unfortunately.

The problem right now, is small companies are being eaten by the big corporations.  Now, with only a few corporations are less competitive. The big corporations have self interests. They have special interests in the government called lobbyists. There only interests are lining their pockets. The corporations want de-regulation to save money.

Unfortunately when you don't have regulations. These big corporations take advantage.
The small community banks have been eaten up by the big banks. These banks then play with our money by investing without the knowledge of their bank customers.  The government is not looking over their shoulder any longer. Instead looking out for the big corporations.

In the Reagan administration they reversed the course  FDR promised. Instead of opportunities for all. Reagan's administration promised

              Trickled down economy

Meaning eventually it will come down to you. It was a theory that never came to pass. Because the big corporations were just taking, and taking. Instead of giving to their workers. They were keeping for themselves. Then when President Trump came to his administration. He promised to drain the swamp!, never happened.

Senator Elizabeth Warren stands her ground- She persisted.  She stands her ground to help the American people.  She gives us stories about hard working Americans.Who can't make it.  She talks about Walmart, especially. Where I used to work. She describes it exactly.

Many people think that Walmart is a great place to work. Believe me, it used to be. When Sam Walmart was alive. But, when he's children took it. Things changed.

When I worked for Walmart. You had to fight for hours with co-workers. There wasn't the 40 hour work week for most of us. The workers who were there since 2008, were grandfathered. They could work 38 hours. The hours were based on the sales the store got in the last quarter. If Walmart lost money, your hours were cut down. The co-workers fought for hours with each other. You had to watch your back. There were many employees that worked for Walmart that were forced to apply for food stamps. Because their hours were cut.

 The American people are paying for that. Why the American people are paying for food stamps. It is the responsibility of the big corporations, not the American people. Big corporations are just too greedy.

The book is easy to understand on a very dry topic. Thank you Elizabeth Warren for writing and explaining this very devise topic, and explaining in easy terms. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in politics, and the understanding the reason our country is in the situation it is in, financially.