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Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Self-Serving Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Forei
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  • 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.




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    fleeced
    Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 
    Although generally informative, this book is heavy reading, maybe because it is somewhat incoherent. The use of GREY areas to enhance items of interest is distracting and makes them hard to read because of the loss of contrast. My beef is not content, but rather presentation.

    another book with few true fact and a lot of ulterior motive
    Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 
    OK, so I didn't expect perfection and did expect a one sided effort, but I did at least hope for mostly honest facts and a real straight forward effort. I didn't get anything like that. Look, it has been proven time and again that there is no such thing as "The Liberal Media" when actual facts and stories are counted up. The largest newspaper in my state is anything but liberal and we are usually considered a Democrat state. Not all, but most quality news is pretty evenly split or unbiased. Even in NY, you have the liberal leaning NY Times and the very Conservative Wall Street Journal. I want, as the expression says, just the facts. That is very hard to get. Everyone has a side they want you to join. Books, have become one of the biggest fronts for this since no "equal time" has to be offered and they are very difficult to respond to. You can give all of the misinformation you want and the book still ends up being piled high in Costco with many people buying it and believing it. Unfortunately this book is part of that group. It is not there alone and I am not picking on this one, but it is just another piece of sensationalism designed to push a point with made up "facts" and make money for the author.

    Richard
    Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 
    I am interested in this side of the political and everyday thoughts as to where we are going as a country. Thru these books we get a good view.

    A Business Does Not A Book Make
    Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 
    We know that Morris and McGann run a consulting business. And Mr Morris is a paid commentator and columnist. The media they create--books and columns and radio and television appearances have more to do with keeping their business healthy than with any ideology. So, this book, as all his books, is written to be a branding tool for the Morris business. As such, it is more ad copy-like than real books. It's put together with a clear brief to be provocative and punchy. Unfortunately, what works for a 350 word column doesn't really do it for a whole book. Or even, actually, a whole chapter. So, what the reader gets here is an extremely superficial view of the effects of the recent rise to power (?) dominance (?) of the Democratic party.
    It's isn't really Morris' fault. Today's media pundit is simply running a business with all the demands on time and intellect and professional services firm has to deal with. It's easy to see how these books and columns get written--at the Admirals Club on layovers, in hotel rooms late at night or dictated back to someone at the office during some down time. The issue for a reader is coming to grips with the what qualifies as a book and what is just the advertising for the author's brand.

    "Egad - no wonder high taxes, inflation, & absolute rampant corruption"
    Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 
    "Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media...Liberals...Lobbyists... are scamming us..." by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann. Harper, NY, 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-154777-5, PB 308/290. Notes 30 pgs., 8" x 5 1/4".

    A bold, albeit somewhat formless compilation of huge, expensive scams at the expense of taxpayers perpetrated by the White House, President Obama and his cronies as they raise our taxes, redistribute our income and expand government health care, promise immigration reform, and erode protection given by the Patriot Act. They give us a cold look at the liberal media downplaying terrorism, of liberals' secret plan to muzzle talk radio (gets scary here), the expensive do-nothing lackadaisical Congress, U.S. companies funding Iran, well-paid turn-coat lobbyists (former Congressmen), and sections on credit card plastic fleecing, why education is failing, origin of the housing scandal, scams in re-building second homes in flood areas, the sub prime loan crisis, poisoning via tainted children's toys, and much more!


    The bottom-line for these politically savvy scam artists is greed, tax evasion and power grabbing, most often via the unwritten pay-to-play rules usually aided by inattention and ineptness of oversight committees, and their rank and affiliations in/to government.

    An informative read, it is timely and well penned by the authors (husband and wife) of seven bestselling books including "Catastrophe". Dick Morris was Bill Clinton's political consultant for 20 year. Unfortunately, the authors attempted to pen too much under a single title that the time sequence and subject matter appear to float uneasily and with loose ends. Dick Morris is capable of much better writing than this one, "Fleeced". Nonetheless, it had to be said, one way or the other.




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