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Stanley Kurtz

Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities Hardcover – August 2, 2012

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When Barack Obama told “Joe the Plumber” that he wanted to “spread the wealth around,” he wasn’t just using a figure of speech.

Since the 2008 campaign, Stanley Kurtz has established himself as one of Barack Obama’s most effective and well-informed critics. He was the first to expose the extent of Obama’s ties to radicals such as Bill Ayers and ACORN.

Now Kurtz reveals new evidence that the administration’s talk about helping the middle class is essentially a smoke screen. Behind the scenes, plans are under way for a serious push toward wealth redistribution, with the suburban middle class—not the so-called one percent—bearing the brunt of it.

Why haven’t we heard more about policies that will lead to redistribution? In part, of course, because controversies over Obamacare, unemployment, and the exploding budget deficit have taken the media spotlight. But the main reason, according to Kurtz, is that Obama doesn’t want to tip his hand about his second term. He knows that his plans will alienate the moderate swing voters who hold the key to his reelection.

Drawing on previously overlooked sources, Kurtz cuts through that smoke screen to reveal what’s really going on. Radicals from outside the administration—including key Obama allies from his early community organizing days—have been quietly influencing policy, in areas ranging from education to stimulus spending. Their goal: to increase the influence of America’s cities over their suburban neighbors so that eventually suburban independence will vanish.

In the eyes of Obama’s former mentors—followers of leftist radical Saul Alinsky—suburbs are breeding grounds for bigotry and greed. The classic American dream of a suburban house and high quality, locally controlled schools strikes them as selfishness, a waste of resources that should be redirected to the urban poor.

The regulatory groundwork laid so far is just a prelude to what’s to come: substantial redistribution of tax dollars. Over time, cities would effectively swallow up their surrounding municipalities, with merged school districts and forced redistribution of public spending killing the appeal of the suburbs. The result would be a profound transformation of American society.

Kurtz shows the unbroken line of continuity from Obama’s community organizing roots to his presidency. And he reveals why his plan to undermine the suburbs means so much to him personally.

Kurtz’s revelations are sure to be hotly disputed. But they are essential to helping voters make an informed choice about whether to reward the president with a second term.

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STANLEY KURTZ, the author of Radical-in-Chief, is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He has written for many publications, including National Review, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, and The Wall Street Journal. He has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard.

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Publisher : Sentinel; 1st edition (August 2, 2012)
Language : English
Hardcover : 240 pages
ISBN-10 : 1595230920
ISBN-13 : 978-1595230928
Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #446,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Robert Righetti

Required reading for every patriot!

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2019

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Read this book if you really want to understand how Barak Obama and his administration lit the fuse to destroy this country!

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Harley

Just one of many evil doers

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2019

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Don’t like this man are many of his evil friend he’s plotting with. Just a book to add to my collection of evil doers. I don’t need to read because I know all about his evil doing.

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Mississippi Patriot

Wake up America

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2020

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Kurtz work takes a deep dive into the socialist identity our America's worst President in history. One determined to destroy American dream and subjugate the basic tenet of local independent governance and local education. Wake up America! The stealthy incremental regionalist policies of antisuburbanism is designed to redistribute wealth, deny Americans freedom of movement and restrict mobility of capital.
Thankfully American voters are more intelligent than the socialist democrats give them credit. The decline into socialism myst be fought daily as evidenced in the current climate of class division and warfare brought about under the ruse of building one America by use of stealth language and patently unconstitutional laws and policies.

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What Obama Means by 'Change'

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2015

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Kurtz exposed Barrack Hussein Obama, his friends, their ideological basis and their quest to transform America into a nation of quibblings dependent upon a ubiquitous Levianthan federal government. The Affordable Health Care architect Gruber said it best when he admitted they packaged and sold a tax hike to an electorate too stupid to recognize what they were cheering for. This book is for everyone still harboring doubts about BHO's true ambitions. Kurtz reveals BHO's definition of 'Change.'

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RK174

Completely wrong

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2020

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This is propaganda not reporting. Kurtz completely distorts and in some cases inverts reality. He looks at efforts to strengthen and rebuild older suburbs and to promote genuine diversity and inclusiveness, and presents them as an attack on suburbs. So what's really going on? Kurtz is trying to pump up support for Trump by stoking racism. Period. In the false narrative he is promoting, city = black, suburb = white, Obama and other blacks are coming for us white folks. Kurtz puts in just enough factual material so those unfamiliar with this history believe him. I am very familiar with this history and the work of the people and organizations he names, and I know with 100% certainty that he completely distorts goals, actions, and outcomes. It's significant that with one exception, the news media ignored him and his book. The exception, of course, was Fox news, which treated his book as gospel. Anyone who values truth and honesty should avoid this book except as an example of the thin veneer of fake intellectualism supporting contemporary white supremacism.
Postscript August 2020. The Trump campaign is reviving this fear campaign with BLM and Biden and the new enemy. Fortunately the message is failing.

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LARRY

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2013

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When Barack Obama told "Joe the Plumber" that he wanted to "spread the wealth around", he wasn't just using a figure of speech. Kurtz, the author of this book reveals new evidence that Obama's administration's talk about helping the middle class is essentially a smoke screen. Behind the scenes, plans are under way for a serious push toward wealth redistribution, with the suburban middle class & not the so-called 1 percent. Reading this book gives me chills and it is some scary stuff for I am in the middle class and I live in the suburbs for a reason...to avoid the crime, high taxes and other crap in the adjacent city...Get this book for yourself and you decide .

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JOHN KOESTER

Great expose as usual by Stanley Kurtz

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2015

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Great expose as usual by Stanley Kurtz. Like with Radical-in-Chief, leaves you with a lot to think about. Also gives you the chills when you really get to know who BO and. His pals are and what they are up to. Only problem is that it is so hard for most to believe that this kind of radical is now our Preisdent. What will it take for reality to truly sink in and will it be too late by that time Regardless, SK is indispensable in exposing exactly who these people are Nd what they intend for the country. And it ain't good. God help us.

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Mary

Beware Your Local School Taxes are Due to Be Redistributed!

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2014

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Parents and taxpayers beware that Obama plans to redistribute your local school taxes to other school districts. Your local control of your schools and funding are about to come to an end with this administration. Stanley Kurtz's book is very important to read, study and share with parents, taxpayers, school administators.

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