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Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America's Free Economy [Hardcover]

Charles Goyette
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March 15, 2012

New York Times bestselling author of The Dollar Meltdown.

In his New York Times bestseller The Dollar Meltdown, Charles Goyette showed how increasing government debt is destroying the dollar and the wealth of the American people. But the problem goes much deeper: the country is heading for financial ruin because our leaders are ideologically bankrupt. The time has come for a dramatic solution.
 
We need look no further than the Obama White House to find the culprits of America’s crippled prospects for recovery. They’ve forced the adoption of bailouts and unnecessary spending programs that do little but destroy wealth and drown the government in more debt and ever increasing red tape while engaging in undeclared wars at the expense of the people and their prosperity.
 
But this isn’t just a Democratic problem. The Bush administration was no better, with its unending and bankrupting elective war and the largest bailout in our nation’s history. It’s time for a solution that goes beyond politics as usual from the same old Red or Blue.
 
Goyette explains how the growth of federal power and its costly warfare and welfare spending are bankrupting America and strangling our prosperity.  The incredible $1.2 trillion a year we spend on state security is leading us straight down the road to ruinous debt. Transfer payments and social spending are equally unsustainable financial time bombs. The time has come to release the stranglehold of excessive government spending and ineffective over-regulation and let the free economy function as it was originally intended.
 
Career politicians continue to pointlessly argue without enacting real and effective change. No wonder a feeling of disenfranchisement is growing. Their destructive agenda needs to be exposed and stopped before it does us any more harm. Goyette reveals:
 
  • How increasing government debt and inflationary manipulations will bring down the dollar, which is already in decline.
  • How the longstanding practice of crony capitalism—the strong ties between bankers, corporate executives, and their buddies and former colleagues in high government posts—strangles our economy.
  • Why we need to reign in overseas spending and end American interventionism, before we meet the same fate as The Roman Empire, Napoleon’s France, the Soviet Union, and every other empire in history.
  • Why freedom works and why the state doesn’t. Left to flourish on their own, spontaneous, self-organizing systems can and will restore our prosperity.
 
Red and Blue and Broke All Over couldn’t be timelier. In the face of the American government’s reckless spending, invasive social programs, unnecessary warmongering, and ill-advised, ineffective financial manipulation, it’s time to face the facts: we can’t continue along the same destructive path if we’re serious about turning our country around


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“Another eye opening, jaw dropping, blood boiling and fantastic book by Charles Goyette. Loved it!”
(-Robert T. Kiyosaki, bestselling author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad)

“There are two paths forward for America: towards fascism and poverty, or capitalism and prosperity. I don't need to tell you what route we are presently taking. But thanks to national treasure Charles Goyette, we now have a handbook for fixing what ails us: Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America's Free Economy. Read it for yourself and your family. Then pass the word to your neighbors and friends. This book can change our future. And how desperately we need that.” 
(-Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Chairman and CEO, the Ludwig von Mises Institute)

Red and Blue and Broke All Over tells you everything you need to know about the fix America is in and what to do about it. Deftly interweaving history, economics, and political philosophy, Goyette provides a relentlessly interesting explanation of the true factors driving us toward fiscal collapse.”
(-Thomas E. Woods, Jr., author of Meltdown)

How did a country as prosperous as ours get “broke all over”?  Charles Goyette makes a clear and compelling case that it is the result of a change in American ideals.  The good news is it can be fixed.  Highly recommended!”
(-Barry Goldwater, Jr. United States Congressman 1969-1983)

“Charles Goyette is a real treasure. For years he has delighted radio and TV audiences with his unwavering devotion to the values of small government and sound money and personal freedom. In “Red And Blue And Broke All Over”, he has given us a funny and irreverent examination of ‘only in America’ tales of government excess and stupidity. If you have a crazy Big Government loving brother-in-law who needs a dose of reality, read this book and you will win every argument you have with him. And if you just want to know how the government has stolen freedom and property and enriched itself, Charles has it all here for you.”
(-Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Anchor, �FreedomWatch�, Fox Business Network)

About the Author

Charles Goyette is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dollar Meltdown.  A former Phoenix radio talk-show host, he appears on many national television talk shows.  He has contributed to LewRockwell.com, The Daily Reckoning, and AntiWar.com, and has written for the American Conservative, CNBC.com, WorldNetDaily.com, and TheStreet.com.  He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. 

Visit charlesgoyette.com.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Sentinel HC (March 15, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1595230823
  • ISBN-13: 978-1595230829
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Red and Blue Is Worth Its Weight In Gold April 18, 2012
By Son
Format:Hardcover
A Review of Charles Goyette's Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America's Free Economy

By Tim Kelly

The United States of America in 2012 exhibits the characteristics of a nation in terminal decline. Her capital city is a den of iniquity and a seat of corruption. The economy continues to wilt under a barrage of bewildering regulations, corporatist manipulation, rent seeking, and reckless government spending. Washington's finances are in a shambles and the only way it can pay its bills is with money it conjures out of thin air. Comparisons to the last days of Rome are common.

Charles Goyette surveys this mess in his new book, Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America's Free Economy. The book's title pretty much sums up the author's analysis of 21st century America. According to Goyette, the country's bankruptcy has been a bipartisan effort. Goyette writes:

The inescapable conclusion is that both parties are to blame. Einstein's oft-cited observations that no problem can be fixed from the same consciousness that created it applies to the deflating promise of America. The restoration of the American dream will not occur as long as the political discussion remains constrained by the old voices of the Republicans and Democrats who marched us into our present economic morass.

Goyette's previous book, The Dollar Meltdown, a New York Times best seller, was primarily concerned with increasing government spending and how it is destroying the purchasing power of the dollar and thereby impoverishing the American people. In Red and Blue Goyette tackles the broader issue of long term economic decline, arguing the country's financial problems are a symptom of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of its political establishment. Goyette avers, "Mesmerized by state authority, and blinded by their own partisanship, few authors, analysts, and commentators active in the public debate realize that both parties worship in the same statist church and share obedience to same economic priesthood."

Red and Blue's message is freedom works and statism doesn't. If left free and unmolested, people will establish spontaneous, self-organizing systems which create prosperity. This is the theory of human action which asserts people naturally seek to improve their circumstances and they don't need to be regulated, monitored, or whipped into shape by bureaucratic overseers. Goyette writes, "Only by understanding the bankrupt philosophy of statism and replacing it with the philosophy of freedom will a return to prosperity be possible."

Political partisans may be bothered by the author's iconoclasm, for in making his case, Goyette smashes cherished idols of both the left and right. Hawkish conservatives will likely take exception to Goyette's criticism of the warfare state and his description of the United States as a "military empire." Bleeding heart liberals will take umbrage at his criticism of the domestic welfare state and his support for a genuine free market, which the author contends is the only true path to prosperity.

Goyette does not pull any punches in his criticism of the current economic system. He even uses the F-word: fascism. The fascistic nature of the U.S. economy has been obvious to keen observers for decades although most have preferred not to use that word.

In a section of the book called "The Wormhole Express", Goyette details the revolving door relationship between Goldman Sachs and the U.S. Treasury. That such an arrangement is a conflict of interest is obvious but when Goldman Sachs is the beneficiary of multiple decisions taken by high level government officials who are former employees of that well-connected firm, the system's utter corruption is laid bare.

This is not a Democratic or Republican problem. The continuity between the Bush and Obama administrations proves as much. The Bush administration waged bankrupting elective wars and arranged for the largest corporate bailout in our nation's history. The Obama White House has pushed through its own series of corporate bailouts and continued to wage undeclared and unnecessary wars. As the rock group The Who sang, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Goyette writes:

"If Americans are serious about restoring their prosperity, they will have to take a realistic look at Republicans and Democrats, who have been managing (or mismanaging) our political and economic affairs for generations now. Economic orthodoxies have been held in common by both parties. These doctrines have advanced in Republican and Democratic administrations and prevailed despite the control of Congress and being handed back and forth.

The problem is the continual growth of the warfare/welfare state. The country's sprawling national security apparatus costs more than $1.2 trillion per year, much of it financed by debt. The federal government's myriad social program and transfer payment schemes are equally unsustainable and will end one way or another. In the meantime, out of control government spending stifles economic growth by wasting scarce resources and piling on more debt which is rolled over through the inflationary mechanisms of the central banking system. The whole system is based on perpetual inflation and debt.

Red and Blue is an ambitious effort, covering such varied topics as economics, history, philosophy, economics, foreign affairs, and politics. The reader is never loaded down with monotonous statistics nor is he bored with long-winded pontifications. The commentary is sharp, concise, and at times, funny. Perhaps this is where the Goyette's previous career helps. He was a successful radio personality who hosted his own drive time show until he was fired for not toning down his criticism of the George W. Bush administration. Like his late radio show, the book is informative and entertaining. It's a veritable goldmine of witticisms such as Goyette's quip that the term "`jobless recovery' falls into the same class as a lifeless resuscitation: the operation was a success, but the patient died."

Goyette provides no political solutions in Red and Blue which is consistent with overall theme of the book. There are no political quick fixes to problems that have been decades in the making. Expecting the current crop of politicians to come up with a solution is naďve if not delusional. Government can't be the solution when it is, indeed, the problem. Goyette urges his readers to simply embrace freedom. This means rejecting the State and all of its empty promises. That is the only solution.

* This review was first published at Conservative Action Alerts. Go to the American Breaking Point blog to see more of Charles Goyette's work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars For everyone who cares about liberty! April 18, 2012
Format:Hardcover
I always find it refreshing when I come across a new book that clearly and adequately explains the positions and principles that those of us in the liberty movement work so hard to promote and defend. With publishers releasing one shallow political title after another, it is a rare experience when I actually find a book that deserves an endorsement on my blog.

Red And Blue And Broke All Over by Arizona's own Charles Goyette is the most recent addition to my collection that is a must read for everyone who cares about freedom and liberty. While many of the topics are very familiar to the seasoned liberty activist, Goyette approaches them at different angles and sprinkles in lots of fresh insight and a writing style that keeps the pages turning.

The end result is an intelligent, easy to understand primer on personal and economic freedom and the basics of what the philosophy of liberty is all about. Goyette puts particular emphasis on private property rights, fascism and crony capitalism, the blessings of liberty, and (one of my favorite topics) the broken window fallacy.

Those who appreciate the writings of Thomas E. Woods Jr., Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Peter Schiff and Ron Paul will definitely want to add this important work to their library.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars No sacred cows left off the table. April 9, 2012
Format:Hardcover
After listening to an interview of Charles Goyette, I decided to download this book to my Kindle. This book is divided into predictable chapters namely central planning,property rights etc but the meat of the book comes at the end when it deals with the enemies of prosperity, the dollar endgame and twilight of the empire. It is within these chapters that this author leaves no sacred cows untouched. He is very clear in describing the death of the dollar reserve system, our fiat monetary system which is engineered by the Federal Reserve and our farcical military, foreign policy and empire. Rarely do you see our wars and 9/11 ripped in such a clear manner.

The message of "Red and Blue and Broke All Over" is that we are near an exogenous event which will tip the scales as to whether this country will choose Liberty or a Centrally Planned Fascist State. The timing is my mind points to the election of 2012 in which I offer even odds that it may be suspended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good info
This book is very good. Unfortunately, for me it is the second or third book I read with the same message.
Published 1 month ago by Wendell Nutt
5.0 out of 5 stars True
Bravo Goyette! I have been a listener and now a reader. Precise analysis explaining the current state of the country. Read this book!!
Published 3 months ago by Edward D. Nelson
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
The author presents a very convincing explanation for our current economic mess and also provides answers/understanding as to how we get out of it.
Published 5 months ago by fw4golf
5.0 out of 5 stars All American
Red Blue and Broke All Over is an enlightening account by Charles Goyette
that definitely lives up to its expectations. MUST READ!
Published 6 months ago by M. Zoratti
5.0 out of 5 stars REd and Blue and Broke All Over
When it comes to the economy, Mr. Goyette hits the nail on the head. It traces how we as a nation have been betrayed by those who control the fiscal and monetary policies, to the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Big Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important books of modern times.
I know how difficult it is to raise one's head, to pull one's nose back from the grinding of the wheel, hypnotized by the turning to make a living, seeing only the left and right... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Tom Seaman
5.0 out of 5 stars A Standing Ovation
Mr Goyette is neither Republican nor Democrat. Refreshing. His Libertarian views -- with criticisms of both major parties -- are spot-on. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ronald L. Newton
5.0 out of 5 stars This is not your father's country
Charles Goyette's 230-page treatise on the fiscal and political situation in this country is a must read for those who wish how we got to the place we are now with TSA checkpoints... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Efrem Sepulveda
4.0 out of 5 stars Accurate Assessment Of Our Financial Mess
Charles Goyette, in "Red and Blue and Broke All Over" gives an accurate description of the underlying causes of the debt problems facing this country. Read more
Published 12 months ago by J. Hagg
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