Outrage: How Illegal Immigration, the United Nations, Congressional Ripoffs, Student Loan Overcharges, Tobacco Companies, Trade Protection, and Drug Companies Are Ripping Us Off . . . and
by Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann
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Author: Dick Morris, Eileen McgannEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-01
ISBN: 0061373931
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Book Reviews of Outrage: How Illegal Immigration, the United Nations, Congressional Ripoffs, Student Loan Overcharges, Tobacco Companies, Trade Protection, and Drug Companies Are Ripping Us Off . . . and
Book Review: Not for the feint of heart or politically correct
Summary: 5 Stars
Synopsis
We live in a time in American history when our moral values, our convictions, and the safety of our nation is threatened by the law of the politically correct. Everything you see on the news, read in the newspaper and hear on the radio has been filtered in some form or fashion by the "PC" sieve. That is what makes a book like Outrage stand out like a pink elephant at a cocktail party.
Critics have labeled the book a "rant," and for the most part, it is - at least that's the way you would feel if you hold the PC ideology near and dear. The subject of the book is U.S. politics and in it Morris presents a long list of topics sure to touch a nerve and stir a sense of, well, outrage.
The list includes:
*Immigration - the borders are not the primary problem, it is an accountability issue
*The United Nations - a worldwide scandal ignored
*The ACLU - American hypocrisy personified
*The U.S. Congress - we pay, they play
*The Patriot Act - PC vs. Common Sense
*Teachers Unions - Bad teachers getting paid to stay home vs. merit pay for performance
*Pharmaceutical Companies - profits over public health
*Fannie Mae - the Democratic Enron
*The bankruptcy bill - not what it used to be
*Government student loans - robbery without limits
*Insurance scams - the media left town when the floods receded - A little help here?!?
*Tobacco Companies - 21st century shell game
*Crooked politicians - American friends or foes?
*Trade Protection and Special Interests - the public is not smart enough to notice . . .
Morris names the crooks, both Democrat and Republican, and lets the heads fall where they may.
My Two Cents Worth
Dick Morris is not the kind of guy you want living next door. He has a VERY large list of VERY powerful people who would probably prefer that he would quietly just go away.
As a former advisor to Bill Clinton for 20 years, Dick made a living of irritating conservatives. After a public shunning from the Clinton administration, he has turned his attention to irritating the other half of the political nation, the liberals, with equal success. He has remarkable audacity, leading one to believe he must also have a remarkable security detail following him 24/7.
Dick doesn't simply expose the corruption, he names names. Lots of names. Regardless of your political persuasion, he makes you mad. He makes you want to look up the phone number or email address or your congressman or senator and do a little venting of your own.
The thing that keeps this book from being just another political "rant" is the way Morris offers plausible and common sense solutions to each of the atrocities he mentions. Whether his proposed solutions would actually work is subject to debate, but at face value they make sense. That is more than you can say for the convoluted and frustrating solutions we have recently witnessed in the congressional "bailout" legislation.
I am not a big fan of Mr. Morris when he spars with Bill O'Reilly of FOX News fame, but you have to admire his perspective. After all, I have yet to hear any of the people named in this book mount a serious rebuttal to his claims.
I liked the book and I found it refreshing to read copy that isn't at all concerned about being politically correct. Call a liar a liar and a crook a crook - if you are wrong, you will most certainly be contacted by an attorney. I particularly liked the Notes section that corresponds with the chapters of the book as a sort of bibliography. It's almost 50 pages in length and adds to the credibility of the copy.
I can't wait to share this with some selected friends.
Hardback, 303 pages, 2 1/2 hours
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Summary of Outrage: How Illegal Immigration, the United Nations, Congressional Ripoffs, Student Loan Overcharges, Tobacco Companies, Trade Protection, and Drug Companies Are Ripping Us Off . . . and
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann are outrage-and you should be, too!
- Half of all illegal immigrants came into this country legally-and we have no way of knowing they're still here!
- Congressmen are putting their wives on their campaign payrolls!
- The UN is a cover for massive corruption!
- Drug companies pay off doctors to write scrips-whether we need them or not!
- Teachers unions block the firing of bad teachers-and battle against higher education standards!
- Katrina victims are being stiffed by their insurance companies!
- Special interests cost our consumers $45 billion through trade quotas that save only a handful of jobs!
Unaware of these abuses? It's not surprising since the mainstream media don't talk about them. Too many powerful people are working very hard to cover them up. But in Outrage, New York Times bestselling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann give you the cold, hard facts you won't read about anywhere else-and offer tough, common-sense proposals on how to fight the special interests of the left and right . . . so we can start making these outrageous inequities things of the past!
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