The runaway New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller!
The facts
At least 50 of the 425 terrorists released from GuantÁnamo have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops.
Barack Obama has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years—and dressed them up as tax cuts!
Up to a quarter of all state pension funds in the United States are invested in companies that are helping Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the Sudan—for a total of nearly $200 billion.
Big business, big government, big labor, big lobbyists, and their self-serving agendas are doing nothing to help the ever-increasing number of American people who are losing their homes and their jobs.
In this hard-hitting call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American taxpayers are routinely fleeced—by our own government, by foreign countries, by Washington lobbying firms, by hedge-fund billionaires, and by the president himself—and offer practical agendas we all can follow to help turn the tide.
This 337 page book is a glaring testament to irrational ideas & policies that are hurting our country across the spectrum of politics, economics, social, & commercial issues. This book is a warning not a tirade.
He bashes both Republicans & Democrats, & Liberals & Conservatives with equal gusto. It should be noted that he has worked for folks of both parties as a political consultant, so those who accuse him of being a "right or left wing nut" are just showing their own idealogical biases.
He hits President Bush, the Supreme Court, the whole Congress, crooked lenders, lobbyists working for foreign countries, credit card companies, hedge fund billionaires who are getting tax breaks from the IRS, Halliburton's war profiteering, & John McCain, Hillary Clinton, & Barack Obama for not showing up for their day jobs. He asks a poignant question as pertains to Congress. Why do they get $167,500 a year when they often don't even address the problems & issues facing the country?
His take on the attempts of terrorists in the USA that have been stopped since 9/11/01 was intriguing. One of these men that was released from Gitmo was a Taliban leader who went back to fighting the USA in Afghanistan.
He is also very concerned about the large numbers of teachers leaving their profession, while education is getting far less money than healthcare. Which is likely to remain the case for the foreseeable future since the baby boomers are or are near retirement age. All in all a very detailed & eye opening book.
Ironic that the authors attack Barack Obama when the developments they decry started with President George W. Bush. During his administration government spending has increased by $1 trillion and our debt is at all time high. David Friedman, an economist at Santa Clara University and son of Nobel-winning economist Milton Friedman, observes: "Bush was elected on a pro-market, small government platform and proceeded to expand the size of government to the largest in our nation's history." Any effort to understand our problems and how to fix them has to begin with a critique of the Bush years and how to correct what went wrong under his administration.
This book has a nearly equal number of '1 star' and '5 star' ratings and it seems - to me at least - that most of these contributors have rated it based on their political preferences and biases.
To be sure it's thought (and invective-) provoking, and it ranges from topics on too-early Guantánamo prisoner release, to the socialist bend of those who seek to implement incremental taxes in the next decade.
My personal favorite topic is the concern about "there are too many conservative talk radio stations" meaning one needs "equal time" for left-wing programming. That subject alone desevers a book!
My vote is that Dick Morris + Eileen McGann did a nice job here, politics be damned, and for that reason I give them a '5-star' ... but FWIW it would have been a '4.5 star' because I disagree with their analysis on companies doing business in Syria, North Korea, etc. For that subject they need more concrete data to support their conclusions methinks.
