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Catastrophe Hardcover – Unabridged, June 23, 2009
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- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper
- Publication dateJune 23, 2009
- Dimensions6 x 1.21 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10006177104X
- ISBN-13978-0061771040
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2009Courageously written, and only one year after 'Fleeced', 'Catastrophe' is a complete unmasking of Obama's plan to take America on the fastest lane to Socialism. If you became disinterested because you thought there was no big difference between the parties lately, this book will shake you out of your apathy. It will help you understand the real and almost unstoppable dangers we are facing presently, and incite you to act - peacefully - but renounce your inaction to protect America.
Dick Morris reveals the radical agenda of our new president and his hurry to fast-forward U.S.A. so far to the Left that we will never be able to undo his legacy.
Each major policy is smartly exposed in concise chapters, all ending with an Action paragraph, advising on the necessary steps to take to defend America.
How do we fight back? We could wait for the 2010 elections when all House of Representative and a third of the Senate seats become up for grabs, but it may be too late because by then Obama might pass the bulk of his major changes, and we could end up with decades of cleaning up the mess. So, if you want to continue the free market capitalist experiment that made America the best place on Earth, Dick Morris is suggesting to go now after the moderate Democrats in Congress - those who do not feel they must depend on the Democratic Party's financing their future campaigns for re-election. They tend to be the same guys who feel they have some debt to the constituents who entrusted them with the job. To get updates of the fight to protect our way of life, go to [...] and join the peaceful resistance and oppose the destruction of America.
In the first chapter of this book, Dick Morris is pointing to the money parked on the sidelines of the economy. A lot. Between October 2008 and March 2009 the supply of money grew by... 271 %. There is no inflation yet, because the money is 'parked' in coffers of many financial institutions, but it will come out quickly at the first real signs of economic recovery. Then the Fed will need a big mop to clean up the excess liquidity, because too much cash will chase too few products and it will spell i-n-f-l-a-t-i-o-n. I loved the chart of Total Government Spending as a Percentage of GDP. Sweden heads the list at 57% with France following at 54%, the most Socialist in the Western World. United States, still the most capitalist among all stood at 36.4 %. But this will be changed once Obama completes his Stimulus package, Supplemental Appropriations and Health Care spending.
It does not take an expert to figure out that the Stimulus package does not stimulate. Obama is going on the route of his idol, FDR, making the same mistakes by adopting the Keynesian economics. But Obama is more arrogant then FDR so he adds his own mistakes to the classic mix. His trash-talking the economy is like yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater, scaring people into stampeding into a panic-driven recession. He is sending doubts about the currency all around the globe, starts the class warfare between tax payers and tax eaters. Benjamin Franklin's old lament that the only two things you can't avoid are 'death and taxes' no longer applies today, because half of the American population escapes without paying a dime in income taxes.
In chapter 2, we read about the biggest panhandlers: AIG, Citigroup, BOA/Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan/Chase, Wells Fargo/Wachovia, GM, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, etc., about the thirteen steps to doom on how the catastrophe started, and the Obama's plan for government takeover of Banks: get all banks take TARP money, don't let them give it back, make them obey federal regulations, make them pass a 'stress test', make them raise more capital, swap the TARP debt with common stock, use the voting power to run the banks, use the leverage of the banks to run the economy and establish Socialism. As of now, the U.S. financial system is de facto nationalized. The only issue remaining is whether banks and financial institutions should be nationalized de jure. Will Obama clean the banks and sell them off as the Swedes did? Or would he use them as tools to manage an increasingly socialist economy? Our elected officials are not bankers, and if they will stay in control they will get it wrong. Solution? Vote out the Democrats in the 2010 election.
In chapter 3, you could benefit from Obama's mortgage rescue plan only if you can squeeze through the following eligibility standards: your lender wants to participate, if your loan is insured or owned by Freddie or Fannie, if you have a job, if the loan is not worth more than your home, if you are a borrower in good standing and if it's your primary residence.
Chapter 4 may be the scariest one and, you probably guessed it, is about Obama's National Health Care. The only thing that makes the plan possible is rationing of health care. Without enough doctors and nurses to go around the Government bureaucrats will make the decisions, and one of those decisions will be to give care to some and deny it to others. The sure victims of Obama's plan will be the elderly and the sickest. The sure beneficiaries will be: the poor, the newly legalized illegal immigrants and those who will continue to represent Obama's constituency. You will dissipate your reservations when reading the paragraphs on the Canadian system, some of its sordid tales and how Obama will bring it here.
Chapter 5, Obama's Blueprint for Political Domination is breaking it down into four-part plan to create a national political realignment: legalize as many illegals as possible, control the census and cook the numbers of the poor to get extra seats in the House of Representatives and add more blue to the Electoral College, change the unions election rules to make them depend on the Democrats as much as possible, and use the FCC to muzzle conservative talk radio. If you were scared to death of the National Health Care intended changes, the 'political realignment' chapter will make your blood boil.
In chapter 6, Obama declares the end of the War on Terror and nominates his left wing radical friends to head the national security and in chapter 7, he sends a billion dollar of your tax dollars as aide to Hamas! In the second and third part of the book, Dick Morris exposes the corruption of the Congressmen Christopher Dodd and Charles Rangel, the Kennedys, Tom Daschle, Bob Livingston, Matthew Nugen, and what drives them to serve Obama. He continues with the corruption of other politicians and the effects on our own morale and the stress on our military. Not long ago I read Cleon Skousen's 'The 5,000 Year Leap'. I was remembering when John Page wrote to Jefferson: "a spirit of public virtue may transcend every private consideration" or that without virtue and morality the Constitution the Founders had written and the republican system of government which is provided could not be maintained.
A book like 'Catastrophe' could only be written in America, for now. But I start having doubts it will still be possible in a few years...
Reagan was right when he said that the Government was the problem and not the solution to the America's ills. Obama's Government will upgrade the problem to Catastrophe.
With friendship,
Sergio
- Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2009I highly recommend this book (as well as Morris' two prior books)! Here's just a sample of his Food for Thought offerings:
Obama's European Dream [Pgs 68-69]
"Part of Americans' traditional love affair with success - and Europeans' empathy with poverty - comes from their differences over what causes people to move up or down the career ladder. ...the Pew Global Attitudes Project's observation that 'two-thirds of Americans believe that success is not outside their control.' ...'Only 40 percent of Europeans polled agreed.'
"Much of the Europeans' low birthrate stems from their asking that if leisure is 'the purpose of life, why have a child? What good are they really?' ...these low birthrates, well below those necessary simply to maintain Europe's current population, exist in countries 'providing generous child allowances, free day-care centers, and long maternity leaves.'"
"Moving US closer to the European socialist model is a threat to the American way of life. ... Charles Murray 'argues that we must again see:
the American project for what it is: a different way for people to live together, unique among the nations of the earth, and immeasurably precious...Historically, Americans have been different as a people, even peculiar, and everyone around the world has recognized it. I'm thinking of qualities such as American optimism even when there doesn't seem to be any good reason for it. That's quite uncommon among the peoples of the world. There is a striking lack of class envy in America - by and large, Americans celebrate others' success instead of resenting it. That's just about unique, certainly compared to European countries, and something that drives European intellectuals crazy. And then there is perhaps the most important symptom of all, the signature of American exceptionalism - the assumption by most Americans that they are in control of their own destinies. It is hard to think of a more inspiring quality for a population to possess, and the American population still possesses it to an astonishing degree. No other country comes close.'"
Pgs 81-82 have a fair narrative how 'toxic assets' came to be on banks' balance sheets (it all STARTS with government interference into mortgage lending, i.e., loan 'quotas'). Those of you who think 'leveling the playing field' is 'fair,' how about when you realize how pervasive it is and how it undermines YOUR abilities to succeed?
"You can spend more money on health care, but that won't buy you an instant enlargement in the number of doctors to provide it." [Pg 105] Where everyone is entitled to health care, you still have a limited supply, 'so nobody gets adequate care.' INCENTIVE people to go into the medical field; what's so hard about that? Instead Trial Lawyers & Insurance Companies have been allowed to HOBBLE doctors & discourage them out of medicine. Morris provides deeper details to existing arguments; these serve to confirm or emphasize the ineptitude/illogic of today's leftist elites. The Left ignores Root Causes and treats Major Issues with bandaids. WE HAVE EXAMPLES of other countries' handling of bank failures or 'universal' health care; they are worthy of consideration to either emulate or be warned off, but Obama/Dems take the ones that worked AND DO THE OPPOSITE, or the ones that failed AND APPLY THOSE! Repeatedly...
Talk radio - the MSM was/is indeed biased and Americans for decades got only 'one side.' The hunger was there and filled by conservative talk radio which grew and prospered; check the ratings! Now Obama (behind cover of an amendment by Senator Dick Durbin) wants to apply Affirmative Action to FCC licensing so free enterprise cannot work according to public listener demand, but supplies will be divied up according to 'quotas.' How is this contributing to 'diversity' when you once again stack the deck in favor of one-sided perspective? We believe in checks and balances throughout our system, or so I thought. But this is why Talk Radio is marked - socialists know they must control the information you need to make smart choices. Freedom of speech only applies in their minds when it's to allow burning of flags, browbeating and guilt-tripping, NOT political or scientific debate. THIS SHOULD FRIGHTEN EVERYONE TO DEFEND GENUINE 'DIVERSITY' ON THE AIRWAVES, NOT MERELY ONE-SIDED CONTROL OF OWNERSHIP/CONTENT. The MARKET VALUE is what should prevail. This should be a no-brainer, but isn't. So in the name of not tolerating what the public chooses overwhelmingly, YOU WILL HAVE INFORMED CHOICE TAKEN FROM YOU. If this were reversed - conservatives shutting out liberal participation in national discussions - already existing, mind you, via 'publicly funded' NPR & PBS, for example - it would be just as antithetical to FREEDOM. But when has conservatism used political pressure to shut them out? Never! Attack Dog style/Shut Down the Opposition is the Left's MO for they operate on the belief that Guaranteeing Outcome for one-side makes for a less 'informed' populace that is easier to manipulate when challenge is effectively removed.
Eric Holder - another example of dangerous appointments to positions of power. Holder was 'instrumental in persuading President Clinton to pardon a group of FALN terrorists in 2000,' pushing 'some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Dept to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations.' The L.A. Times noted that 'angry lawmakers demanded to know why the Justice Dept had not sided with the FBI, federal prosecutors, and other law enforcement officials who were vehemently opposed the the grants.' Holder 'instructed his staff...to effectively replace the [Justice] Dept's original report recommending against any commutation...' [Pg 137] Well, Hillary Clinton wanted the Puerto Rican vote in NY, so utilize heinous criminals to achieve them. (Check out their criminal activity yourself.) Is someone who plays politics with Americans' SAFETY who we want heading our JUSTICE Dept?! It is no surprise that the Homeland Security report put the spotlight on 'returning veterans' and 'people with right-wing [traditional] opinions' as those to monitor and fear instead of Middle Eastern terrorists! There's plenty of other examples of whose side the Dems/Obama are on, and it's NOT YOUR'S!
We don't have time to gather all the evidence together; we get distracted by cultural events endlessly looped... our critical thinking processes need people like Morris who does gathering for us, and attaches further telling details like icing on the cake. I SAY GOD BLESS HIM!!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2010I have seen Dick Morris numerous times on MSNBC, and Fox News and alot of what people are feeling is expressed in this book. I encourage anyone who is not familiar with politics or the economic situations in our country over the past 10 years, read this book and then please register to vote! Many think that their vote is only one out of many in their district, but people can not complain about Congress or the Senate if you didn't even vote.


