Lunch With David Sirota at Montana Festival of the Book

Live Blogging: Montana Festival of the Book

By Kerry McMannis, 9-29-06



	Sirota, left, answers questions from Brian Kahn. Photo by Matt Cochran.

Brian Kahn grilled David Sirota on his book Hostile Takeover over a lunch of chicken primavera. Around forty people gathered in the Wilma Parkside for lunch and a show. Sirota stayed cool as he defended his stance on the corporate takeover of our government. He asserts that the U.S. government has become nothing more than a tool of giant corporations. Those corporations, he asserts are undermining democracy and stealing from the American public. Subsidies that go to giant pharmaceutical companies for example, use taxpayers’ money to help with drug development, and then turn around and price gouge the very people who are paying for those subsidies. Click here to hear the full interview with Brian Kahn and David Sirota.

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