(From the book): The Happy Pill: Portrait of a Middle-Class Homeowner During the Fallout of Economic Meltdown takes a revealing tour along the road to global economic failure. This illuminating elixir of stories told by a former homeowner and small businessman travels from KFC-infused Kentucky to incense-rich Oman, and from coffee farming communities to the cafes of New Zealand to illustrate the common thread shared by neocons, rednecks, politicians, angry turtles, Trustafarians, mass media and real estate agents-they all lend a hand in destroying the middle class. These stories provide the obvious, but mysteriously missing link between the low-interest prescription pill ploy to the bogus micro-histories that initiated irresponsible spending on wars and the resulting downgrading of America's credibility. The conclusive fiasco from the era of corporate fascism is that only the top one percent can now get ahead. In this bubble of megalomaniac media madness, as Americans vicariously attach themselves to notions of false wealth and false enemies, will we fail as voters to initiate real change? The Happy Pill delivers a special blend of narrative, political satire and media analysis to speak from a wide perspective about a modern tale of Good vs. Evil. (Publisher's note): The Happy Pill uses a creative, narrative style to convey the realities about the past 12 years of the decay of American culture and the resulting financial meltdown fiasco in a way that wealthy, mainstream, popular media figures still refuse to do. The book offers a critical examination of the forces behind the huge transfer of wealth that was executed by the same non-progressive politicians who are still hard at work in their ongoing efforts to impoverish Americans while we sit idly ignoring the numbers behind the nation's debt and expenditure miasma. The Happy Pill focuses not only on the author's personal journey as a squashed real estate investor caught in the drama of a corporatized government's manipulation of an economy, but also on the demise of the middle-class lifestyle and the resulting penalties that financial meltdown imposes on real people. From this real world perspective, the telltale, firsthand stories reveal the truth about how cheap interest and non-progressive politics have done damage to America and the global economy."