Author: Kristin Tate
Publisher: Center Street
ISBN: 1455566225
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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With humor and a modern perspective, young conservative journalist Kristin Tate points out what's broken in our government and shows readers how they can fix it. Do you really think you're "free?" #LOL. D.C. politicians ship our friends and family overseas to fight in wars we shouldn't be fighting. They monitor our emails, record our phone calls, and peer into our snail mail. They spend our hard-earned cash on things no disciplined family would buy. They tell us who we can marry and what we can put in our bodies. They throw us in overcrowded prisons for smoking pot. They take lavish trips around the world, staying in five-star hotels. . . and it comes straight out of our paychecks. This isn't freedom. Government Gone Wild is a brash, bold ride through the carnival of absurdities that our broken system has become. This isn't about Democrats vs. Republicans. . . it's about inspiring hard working Americans to give a damn so we can take our country back. This is your wakeup call. You're not anywhere near as free as you think you are -- but you can be. We're not as prosperous as we once were -- but we can be.
Author: Benjamin Robert Sill
Publisher: Pendragon
ISBN: 0997264640
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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There is a battle raging between Wall Street and the Government to see if Wall Street can be greedier than the government can be stupid. It’s a close race. When your government encourages debt and favors investors and speculators over working people, things can’t end well. Make no mistake, it was the government and its supposed arm’s length lackey, the Federal Reserve, who made the rich richer and our country a shadow of its former self. Even though governments many times start out with good intentions, they gradually end up serving their own needs and protecting their turf. The main thrust is to get reelected and protect their power and wealth. Instead of serving the people, the people are manipulated. It seems as though the government could get some of these things right. There’s the question of Inflation, Inequality, foreign policy (Stick our nose in other peoples’ business. Creating wars, catering to the Military Industrial Complex, Immigration, spending out of control, poor educational policies, a broken welfare system, bank favoritism, and getting involved in abortion and gay rights (what’s that all about?)
Author: Victoria Laurie
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101185589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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New in the national bestselling series Psychic M.J. Holliday finds herself in a witchy situation... When M.J. and her friends travel to a small town near Edinburgh, Scotland, to film the first installment of their new cable TV show Ghoul Getters, they find plenty of spooky action in a series of supposedly haunted caverns. But when they discover the body of a maintenance worker, the cause of death is reminiscent of an old legend involving a witch's wrath...
Author: Michelle Malkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621571017
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild is Michelle Malkin's unrestrained and uncensored exposé of hate-mongering Leftists. With wit, wisdom, and a bullet-proof vest, Malkin ruthlessly and raucously skewers the myths of liberal tolerance, peace, and civility while responding to the incendiary insults and vile slurs directed at her and other conservatives. With infuriating details that are not for the faint of heart, Malkin chronicles the bizarre world of foaming-at-the-mouth Leftists in their natural habitats: the mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, and Washington.
Author: Stephen Slivinski
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Kristin Tate
Publisher: All Points Books
ISBN: 1250169666
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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"We all know the government taxes our income. Federal, state, and local taxes are withheld by employers, as are Social Security payments. But what about the many other ways the government covertly drains money from our wallets? Have you studied your cell phone bill? Customers in New York State pay an average of 24.36% in combined taxes on their wireless bills. They’re also charged for obscure services they didn’t ask for and don’t understand, like a universal service fund fee, an FCC compliance fee, a line service fee, and an emergency services fee. These aren’t taxes, strictly speaking. The government imposes these administrative and regulatory costs, and your wireless provider passes them along to you. What about your cable bill? Your power bill? Your trash bill? The cost of groceries, a gallon of gas, a cab ride, a hotel stay, and a movie ticket are all inflated by hidden fees. How much of what you pay at the grocery store, pump, airport, or the box office is really an indirect tax? In a series of short, pointed, fact-laden, humorous chapters, Kristin Tate exposes how up to half of your income is siphoned straight into federal, state, and city government coffers--and also where these hidden taxes and fees come from."--Dust jacket.
Author: Max Barry
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 140007634X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever. "Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast." --The New York Times Book Review "Wicked and wonderful.... [It] does just about everything right.... Fast-moving, funny, involving." --The Washington Post Book World Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye of the legendary Jennifer Government. A stressed-out single mom, corporate watchdog, and government agent who has to rustle up funding before she's allowed to fight crime, Jennifer Government is holding a closing down sale--and everything must go.
Author: George F. Naryshkin DMD BS
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 172831903X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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We are being screwed over by our health-care system, and it’s all our fault! Did you know? - High blood pressure did not exist as a medical diagnosis until pharmaceutical companies invented medicines that can lower it and convinced physicians to sell it to their patients. - There are two kinds of breast cancer: one that will kill you no matter what you do and one that won’t. Yet a breast cancer diagnosis will have your physicians ready to cut you open, radiate you, and pump chemicals into your body—all so they can “save” you. - The health-care industry, aka the medical industrial complex, is the largest industry in the US and is doing everything they can to make you a lifelong customer. And they are in bed with big government to stay no. 1. How did America get itself into this mess? Well, we, the people, are partly to blame!- We don’t question our physicians, consuming their “cures” to make us live longer and fix all our problems with a simple pill or procedure. - We buy into the media’s reinforcement of the above solutions. - And we allow our politicians to take money from the medical industrial complex to get reelected while making the healthcare industry the fourth largest economy on earth! Do you want to live the life you deserve—enjoying your friends, family, and hobbies? Or do you want to deplete your emotional and financial capital and your time bank worrying about every little thing that the media, the government, and your physicians say can kill you? If you answered yes to the former question, read Healthcare Gone Wild. (If you answered yes to the latter, you should read Healthcare Gone Wild immediately; stop living in fear and depriving yourself of happiness now!)
Author: Rich Trzupek
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594036306
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Environmental regulations aren’t always about environmental protection. Today, more than ever, regulations seem to have been designed by activists, rather than scientists. Regulators Gone Wild is the shocking inside story of how the green movement and big government have united to stifle American productivity and hamstring American innovation, not by design, but as the inevitable consequence of pursuing a utopian vision of environmental purity. As a respected scientist and consultant, Rich Trzupek has seen the EPA lose its focus on cleaning up the environment, turning instead to mindless bureaucracies and sweeping policies with negligible environmental impact. Meanwhile, the green industry continues to exploit bad science to sell the public on their aggressive agenda. The result, Trzupek reports, is a plethora of regulations that have warped incentives and thwarted American industry’s ability to create long-term wealth. With these forces now focused on climate change and initiatives to reduce fossil fuel use, the march to castigate and control industry, Regulators Gone Wild contends, is entering an unprecedented and dangerous phase that could put the economic fortunes of the country in peril for generations. This enhanced ebook features the bonus video "The EPA's Green Tyranny".
Author: Greg Palast
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963646
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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‘Razor sharp research ... shows why every US citizen should be quaking in their boots’ Metro, Books of the Year ‘Bill Hicks with a press pass’ The List Award-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about the haves and have-mores who rule our world ... America. Here he reports from behind enemy lines to reveal just how bad it’s got in a dangerous regime: how elections are bought and free speech comes at a price. How citizens are ruled by fear. And how our brave new globalized world means the poor get hammered, while corporations silently buy up the planet. It’s not pretty – but it’s all true ... ‘Palast is one of the few journalists writing who has both the anger and the wit to offer himself up as a persuasive – and more importantly, readable – voice of the left’ Observer ‘A rollercoaster ride from Baghdad to New Orleans and Osama bin Laden’s cave to the back rooms of the Pentagon’ Big Issue ‘Very funny ... For anyone who thinks that no-one from the US knows what’s going on, Palast is the perfect riposte’ Guardian
