Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life [Hardcover]

Terry Jeffrey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 27, 2010

Liberals control congress and the White House. Next on the agenda: your life.

If the Obama administration has one overriding objective—tying together health care “reform,” non-stop meddling in the economy, and hard-Left Supreme Court appointments—it is that big government should make decisions for you. When it comes to how you live your life, Washington bureaucrats know best.

Or so they tell us.

Nationally syndicated columnist Terence P. Jeffrey tells a different story. Jeffrey reveals how liberals are trying to transform America from the limited government of the Founding Fathers into the unlimited government of liberal control freaks.

Jeffrey dissects the relentless liberal attack on every freedom the Founders fought to secure for us, from where and how you live, to your right to criticize your representatives, to what you believe and teach your own children. Provocative—and thoroughly researched and documented—Control Freaks sounds the alarm that Barack Obama and the liberal establishment are stealing our liberties—and shows why we need to wake up and do something about it while they can still be stopped.

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Liberals control congress and the White House. Next on the agenda: your life.

If the Obama administration has one overriding objective—tying together health care “reform,” non-stop meddling in the economy, and hard-Left Supreme Court appointments—it is that big government should make decisions for you. When it comes to how you live your life, Washington bureaucrats know best.

Or so they tell us.

Nationally syndicated columnist Terence P. Jeffrey tells a different story. Jeffrey reveals how liberals are trying to transform America from the limited government of the Founding Fathers into the unlimited government of liberal control freaks.

Jeffrey dissects the relentless liberal attack on every freedom the Founders fought to secure for us, from where and how you live, to your right to criticize your representatives, to what you believe and teach your own children.

In Control Freaks Jeffrey exposes:

* How the Obama administration wants to limit your freedom of speech—especially your right to political speech
* How Obamacare sets the stage for a fed eral takeover of the economy
* Why Obama is putting the power of life and death into the hands of federally funded scientists
* How liberal judges are deciding that the government has a right to indoctrinate your children
* Why Obama believes traditional American self-reliance is passéand you need to be shepherded by bureaucrats
* How Obama and his liberal friends in Congress, running annual deficits that exceed a trillion dollars, think they can plan your retirement better than you can

Provocative—and thoroughly researched and documented—Control Freaks sounds the alarm that Barack Obama and the liberal establishment are stealing our liberties—and shows why we need to wake up and do something about it while they can still be stopped.

From the Back Cover

Praise For Control Freaks

“If you needed a two-word description of a liberal, ‘control freak’ would do it. Terry Jeffrey has done the Republic a great service by exposing the left’s radical agenda to control every aspect of your life. A great book, and a great reminder that the Constitution and the Founding Fathers stand in direct refutation of Obama, Pelosi, and Company and their control freak agenda.”
—Mark Levin, bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host

“Terry Jeffrey has it right. The left aims to crush America’s pioneering spirit and make government dependents of us all. In Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life, Terry explains how they seek to do it and the two great obstacles in their way: the values of the Founders and the principles of the Constitution.”
—Michael Reagan, author and former nationally syndicated radio host

“Men flourish when they are free. In Control Freaks, Terry Jeffrey continues the fight he has long been engaged in, to keep that Founding vision of the United States alive, at a time when too many government agencies are slouching left-ward, toward Europe. Buy Control Freaks, pass it around, and feel free to have tea with it, too.”
—Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review

“In Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life, Terry Jeffrey lifts the curtain on the machinations of the left. He explores the history of our earliest government to extract the principles the Founders expected us to protect—and which the left denies in their agenda to take over every aspect of our lives. In the process, Jeffrey reminds us of why we must protect our freedoms from those who have lost the Founders’ vision.”
—WilliaM J. Bennett, Washington Fellow, The Claremont Institute

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition (July 27, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596985976
• ISBN-13: 978-1596985971
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,257 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-Opening October 6, 2010

By Dan The Man

Format:Hardcover

I really enjoyed reading this book. I especially liked the parts about FDR & his court-packing plan, which essentially made liberal judicial activism the law of the land for a generation. I highly recommend this book.

53 of 69 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars What the Progressives are doing and why it is against our Consitution and Heritage August 9, 2010

By Craig Matteson HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER

Format: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

83 of 112 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I haven't read the book either July 27, 2010

By DougA

Format: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.