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| Outrage: How Illegal Immigration, the United Nations, Congressional Ripoffs, Student Loan Overcharges, Tobacco Companies, Trade Protection, and Drug Companies Are Ripping Us Off . . . and | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Misuse of Power June 16, 2007
27 out of 34 found this review helpful
There was a lot about this book that I didn't really like, and I still gave it 4 Stars. Here's why.
Yes, this is another rant book, which seems to be a new and popular US literary genre, but this book goes way beyond the rant by popping the lid on the names of the "wrongdoers", providing very specific behind-the-scenes information, and proposing myriad ways to fix what's broken. Many of the authors' suggestions seem doable and would correct the specific misuses of power that this book reveals. In addition, and this is the amazing part, the authors give the names of individuals involved in the "outrageous" behavior covered in this book and very specific details. You will not have to read between the lines with this book. So, it's kind of a Rant/Tell-All book, which redeems the rant aspect of this book for me. I can't help but wonder whether the politicians mentioned here will be elected again next year, and what hoops they'll have to jump through to undo the damage that this book will cause them. And the next time you're shopping for homeowners insurance, whether the information in this book will affect your decision. And so on. Let me say, I hope so. Even with internet access, much of the information revealed in this book is not available to most of us, and therein, for me lies a huge part of the value of this book. This is information Americans need to make better decisions in the future.
This is an unusual book, in that there may be a lot you won't like about what the authors have to say, but you will learn a lot of valuable insider information about the way the cookie crumbles here in the US and why. In addition, OUTRAGES may well pave the way for legislative changes that will correct these particular abuses.
 Finally, Hannity's friends are criticizing corporations June 13, 2007
24 out of 117 found this review helpful
It's good to hear a friend of Sean Hannity's, Dick Morris, criticizing some corporations for corrupting our government and ripping off consumers. A much more potent study of Big Business excess is available from the DVD The Corporation.
Also, the best way to curb illegal immigration is to advocate for Fair Trade. Instead of NAFTA, CAFTA, the FTAA and other welfare programs for corporate executives, we need more freedom for workers to organize across borders. The only way to counter transnational conglomerates is for civic organizations to become transnational (it's already happening. See groups like "Global Exchange").
"The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor - these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small-businessmen, the investments set aside for old age - other people's money - these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in. . . Thoughout the nation, opportunity was limited by monopoly. Individual initiative was crushed in the cogs of a great machine. The field open for free business was more and more restricted. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, June 27, 1936
 Balanced Ranting with Facts, unlike Liberals June 19, 2007
24 out of 50 found this review helpful
Poor Preston, He's bought ALL the liberal lies and propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Thank goodness for a book like this from Morris that espouses BALANCED rant, rather than the normal liberal rant whether it's true or not; and, without backing up their rant with facts ..... which Morris does!
Outrage--An angry diatribe only a conservative could love.... June 19, 2007
24 out of 58 found this review helpful
It's great to hear Sean Hannity's BFF (best friend forever) whining and moaning about corporations and corruption in congress like a bloody liberal...
Makes me want to stand up and cheer!
He writes with a furious passion about things liberals have been screeching about for years. But because Morris is Hannity's BFF, conservatives are finally sitting up and listening...
Morris' list of grievances:
--Congressman accepting bribes from defense contractors and drug companies.
--The UN.
--Illegal immigration.
--The Clintons--honestly, Morris's bitterness is positively ex-wife-ish.
--Insurance companies who refuse to pay out to policy holders affected by Katrina. A classically liberal complaint.
A top reviewer mentioned Morris' solutions? Sorry, but I didn't see any valid, realistic solutions. I think Morris went a little PC at that point. His assertions seem to indicate one solution only....Vote out the incumbent-no matter what the party... But Morris doesn't go there.
Though I did appreciate Morris' outrage toward BOTH sides of the aisle.
So why not four stars? P*ss poor writing. He's spitting mad--and the organization of the book is spitting *all over the place*.
 Pathetic Kludge, Incoherent, Largely a Waste June 26, 2007
24 out of 72 found this review helpful
I can imagine the conversation that led to this "book."
Dick: I'm broke. Clinton's won't help me.
Agent: Throw together a book that slams the liberals, panders to the right, and is full of emotional issues you can kludge together.
Dick: Great. Eileen, have that kid at the local community college google for 12 hot issues, throw something together.
Three months later: "the book."
Yuck. See my review of Lawrence Goodwyn's The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (Galaxy Books), and the other books listed below, for more serious thinking.
I read a lot. I think strategically and am in the process of developing a holistic approach to the ten high-level threats to humanity, the twelve policies needed to deal with them, and the eight challengers (all with huge populations). It is in that context that I see this book as a hysterical, incoherent, badly written kludge of hot button issues summarized from Internet searches and Op-Eds. I went through the footnotes and while I may have missed one or two, I could not find a single BOOK--not a single one. This is hyped out of context garbage.
This is incomplete, inauthentic, and incoherent. It does not propose solutions. This author cannot add and is incapable of putting together a balanced sustainable budget. See the list below for more thoughtful books.
On pharmaceuticals, the author rails against the industry's successful lobbying that prevented the US Government from negotiating for reduced prices, but completely misses the larger context: that health care is a four-part solution of lifestyle, environment, alternative or natural cures, and--last and least--medical remediation. He is also evidently unaware that units that sell for $600 in the US and $60 in Canada sell for $6 everywhere else, and we can eliminate the forecasted unfunded future obligations for Medicare overnight.
He lists Cuba as a sponsor for terror. As I reviwed this book I thought to myself, "fired by the left, pandering to the right." This is not a pretty piece of work, and it is almost pathetic in its ranting.
There is no mention in this book that I could find of the two issues that really matter: restoration of the Constitution, and electoral reform to restore We the People as sovereign.
The author(s) try to end on the cute note that Outrage is better than Cynicism, but I find nothing in this book that contributes to a more measured strategic executable program.
This book is second-hand hype, and largely worthless to any serious discussion. I have put it away, never to be looked at again, and washed my hands after doing so.
See my lists on democracy and on transpartisanship for more serious reading. A few books that are head and shoulders above this one:
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love
The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics
Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
Escaping the Matrix: How We the People can change the world
Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All
THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest
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