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Shakedown - The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer (Hardcover)
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Shakedown - The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer (Hardcover)
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As their infatuation with President Obama fades, millions of
Americans anxiously ask, Is this the change we were waiting for?
The current administration represents change, for sure, Steven
Malanga argues - a momentous transformation of the fundamental
structure of American politics. A self-interested coalition of
public-sector unions and government-financed community activists
(like the young Barack Obama) has become our era's characteristic
political machine. In "Shakedown," Mr. Malanga shows how this
machine's single-minded goal is always bigger government and more
public spending. The bill, he says, is now coming due for the
relentless rise of this new political powerhouse. He chronicles how
public-sector unions and the corrupt political hacks beholden to
them have all but bankrupted once-rich states like California and
New Jersey. He details the campaigns to undermine the successful
and popular 1990s welfare reform and to revitalize the failed,
wasteful War on Poverty programs that funnel taxpayer money to the
advocacy groups that are integral cogs in the new political
machine. And he provides a comprehensive summary of how these same
advocacy groups spent decades helping undermine mortgage standards
in the name of helping the poor - in the process enriching
themselves and enabling the housing meltdown. As Americans
anxiously ponder the future direction of their government and their
economy, "Shakedown" explores the questions of who got us in this
mess and why we need change - constructive change - more than ever.
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