End Legalized Bribery: An Ex-Congressman's Proposal to Clean Up Congress [Paperback]

Cecil Heftel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998

In this insider's view of a corrupt system and his proposal to clean up campaign finance, Heftel cites examples of irregularities, names names in a non-partisan manner, and takes to task the automobile, defense, health, and environmental industries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Seven Locks Press (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929765591
• ISBN-13: 978-0929765594
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,726,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Every American should read this book!, May 20, 2000

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Stephen C. Coyle (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: End Legalized Bribery: An Ex-Congressman's Proposal to Clean Up Congress (Paperback)

Cecil Heftel spent 10 years in congress representing the people of his district, however he found like many congressmen and senators before him that not ALL Americans are supposed to be represented. Only those who donate large sums of money to congressmen, senators and presidents get represented in our nation's capital. If you try to represent the American people you'll never get on a committee and you'll never recieve any funds from your party for re-election. Large corporations and multi-million dollar lobbying groups rule this country. They write legislation, buy senators and congressmen, they destroy the careers of honest law-makers, alter the tax-code to suit their own selfish needs and keep useful products off the market, so that their own inferior products wont have any competion. The American Automotive industry even got a law passed that exempted them from being prosecuted if they built an unsafe or dangerous product. Why are your taxes so high? Because large corporations with millions or even billions of dollars in profits pay little to no taxes on those profits! These and other corrupt practices are heavily documented in this book. Your government is for sale and YOU can't afford it! YOU are not represented in the nation's capital and your congressman doesn't care about you. He cares about the NRA, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglass, General Motors, Northrop Grumman and General Electric. Buying this book won't stop the corruption, but I think that every American should at least know how corrupt the system is AND what it it costing them personally.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for any American voter., October 30, 1998

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Paul A. Kagan "pakinmd" (just outside the Washington beltway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: End Legalized Bribery: An Ex-Congressman's Proposal to Clean Up Congress (Paperback)

This is not a tawdry "kiss and tell" book, nor is Mr. Heftel "holier than thou". Heftel describes the shameful "government for sale" system that has perverted the wonderful system planned by the Founding Fathers. This book is a laundry list of incidents of "abuse-of-power for pay" and a well reasoned plea for returning American government to the voters, the people. I think he is writing down what most of us know in our guts. Read it and vote!