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What the Progressives are doing and why it is against our Consitution and Heritage, August 9, 2010
This review is from: Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life (Hardcover)
This is a perfect book for the times. Terrence Jeffrey clearly explains what Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are trying to accomplish and demonstrates why their policies, actions, and legislative tactics are against our Constitution, our heritage as a nation, and the will of the majority of Americans. (Of course, I hope we correct this in 2010 and 2012.)
Chapter One shows how Obama, our disgraceful transportation secretary Ray LaHood (a nominal Republican from Illinois) are using the force of government to manipulate markets to force us out of our cars and even our homes to live in the "high density" housing environments they preferred we would inhabit. You see, they are not about enabling us to fulfill our dreams and live in freedom and liberty, but as far as they are concerned we exist to allow them to fulfill their dreams and visions.
The second chapter focuses on the lies that were used to create social security and why it is collapsing today. Mr. Jeffry shows why would all be better off caring for our own retirement and how to do it than allowing the control freaks to keep ripping us off. And no, none of this is about breaking our promises to those in or near retirement. The rip offs have gone on from the beginning. Did you now that Ida May Fuller, the first recipient of social security, retired at 65 after paying a 1% tax on her $900 salary as a secretary. She had paid in $49.50 from 1937 until her retirement in 1939. By the time she died in she had collected payments from 1940 until 1975. By her third check she had recouped everything from her "trust fund" and when on to collect a total of $22,888.92 of other people's money.
We next explore the way our Federal Constitution has been tortured and ignored by Congress, abetted by "living Constitutionalists" in the judiciary to accomplish an expansion of government to intrude into every aspect of our lives. "Freedom, what freedom? We just want the illusion of security! No matter if we ruin the country as long as I get mine!" is what too many of seem to be saying with our votes and inattention to what our government is really doing to us. It cannot and won't go on, my friends. Not much longer, anyway.
I found the chapter on the perversion of "public use" into "public purpose" and an analysis of the "Kelo" decision by the Supreme Court to be most interesting and useful. I think you will to. This is a huge threat to our lives and property. Of course, the Left doesn't much like the idea of Private Property. To them, everything belongs to the state and they allocated it as the 535 demigods in Congress, the Chosen One in the White House, and the 9 great priests in the Supreme Court see fit. What was it the Declaration says about government existing to protect our natural rights and what we should do if the government fails to protect us in our rights?
The chapter on the way the Left strives to control political speech is exasperating and yet we know from what we see on the news and read in the paper that it is absolutely true. They act as if our Founders wrote the First Amendment to protect pornography rather than political speech. Another chapter on health care and our right to life is also a very important read. Obama pretends that the notion of when life begins is "above his pay grade" when he is a candidate, but when he is in office as a state legislator, a federal Senator or our President, no one is more pro-Abortion than he. Wait until some bureaucrat decides you aren't worth the healthcare sources they would have to allocate to treat you. Even if you have your own money, they will withhold it from you. We have to fight this, folks. Seriously fight it and repeal it.
Which leads us to the culture war the Left wants to fight while preventing the opposition (you and me) from resisting their efforts to "fundamentally transform" our culture and our nation.
An excellent book and you will find you can read it quickly while getting good information you can look up and verify if you want to.
Please get and read this book.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Saline, MI
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39 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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All devoted Americans must read this book or suffer consequences, August 1, 2010
This review is from: Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life (Hardcover)
I have read this book completely although I noticed Amazon displays more of this book than others online so one can see practically every chapter(I assume they really don't want people to buy it instead read the summary) This book is a must read for all Americans who choose to keep our country free and prevent BIG government from telling us what to do in every aspect of our lives. This is a wake up call and notice not one sign of this book mentioned anywhere in the press ,except it was reviewed by Mark Levin on his show thank goodness for people like him. What is happening to our beloved America? Read this book and find out, do not take all this lightly as this IS where we are headed. Stop listening to the movie star lies out there being told by our Democratic so called leaders. They should be ashamed of the money they are spending to control us hard working Americans. Wow what a wake up call and thank the author for an excellent book that really is understandable and says it all. If you read the excerpts here you will surely enjoy the book. Terry Jeffrey is a true American.
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80 of 105 people found the following review helpful:
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I haven't read the book either, July 27, 2010
This review is from: Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life (Hardcover)
I haven't read the book, but it's obvious the other reviewer hasn't either. Since he gave it a one-star review, I guess I'll give it a five-star review to offset his. This is a great book. This book says everything a book should say in the manner in which books should say it: with words. Words that bind (because the book is bound). Words that influence (because it influences jackasses who haven't read the book to put up a one-star review, just so the book will have a one-star rating). Words that stand the test of time (because it's time someone took these idiot liberals to task). There! I did it! I created my own positive review of the book without ever reading it! Now I can be just as disingenuous as a liberal.
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