Catastrophe - Dick Morris [0]
How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests Are Transforming…a Slump Into a Crash, Freedom Into Socialism, and a Disaster Into a Catastrophe…and How to Fight Back
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
To Eugene J. Morris.,
98.5 years old and an inspiration to us both
Contents
Introduction: Take Back Our Country
I How Obama is Causing a Catastrophe
II How Congress Causes Catastrophe
10 Stealth Lobbyists: The Former Congressional Leaders Who Secretly Influence Federal Policies and Spending
III How Special Interests Cause Catastrophe
11 The Sheer Chutzpah of Countrywide Financial Executives
12 Pay to Play: No-Bid Contracts Exchanged for Campaign Cash
13 Slow Surrender: How Our Banks and Investment Firms Are Opening the Door to Shariah Law and Muslim Extremist Domination
14 How Bill Clinton Goofed…Costing You $60 Billion
15 Tarmac Hostages: How Airlines Imprison You on the Runway
16 The Silent Catastrophe: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Our Military
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Complete List of TARP Recipients
Notes
About the Authors
Other Books by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
INTRODUCTION
Take Back Our Country
We are today in the middle of the greatest catastrophe—the greatest catastrophe due almost entirely to economic causes—of the modern world.
—JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, 1931
It’s time to take back our country.
Now.
It’s that simple. It’s that urgent.
It’s time to take it back from President Barack Obama, before he fully implements his radical political agenda—one that threatens our liberty, endangers our livelihood, and jeopardizes our very safety and security.
Obama has canceled the war on terror and declared a war on prosperity.
It’s a catastrophe.
Make no mistake about it: We now have a socialist in the White House. Barack Obama firmly believes in government control of our major industries, a hallmark of European socialism. Watch him. First it was the banks, then the auto industry. What’s next? He’ll keep going until the federal government owns or dominates every major American business and sets the salaries for all employees.
Using the global economic crisis as an excuse to revolutionize our economy and institutionalize pervasive and perverse changes masquerading as “reforms,” Obama wants to change our way of living, working, and even thinking.
He’s committed to orchestrating an extraordinary redistribution of wealth, significantly raising taxes on those who make more than $200,000 a year while providing tax credits and other advantages to those who don’t. He intends to create a dual tax system: on one side there will be those who pay an enormous amount of taxes, and on the other there will be those who pay nothing at all but are regularly and directly subsidized by the increased taxes of those who do. Think France.
Obama plans to expand the role, size, and cost of government vastly and to regulate each and every aspect of corporate and commercial conduct. It’s only a matter of time before political correctness, too, will be legislated, and the policing of acceptable personal conduct will become yet another role of the government. Everything is on the table. Remember that both his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, have warned that we shouldn’t “waste” a good crisis like the one we’re in.
“Waste” a crisis? What do they mean? Well, apparently the Obama administration sees the current atmosphere of economic turmoil and uncertainty as a great opportunity to make sweeping changes that wouldn’t otherwise be acceptable to the American public. Changes the American left has been dreaming about for years. So now, under the guise of solving the crisis, Obama can pass and fund just about anything. Just take a look at his nearly trillion-dollar stimulus bill—and all of the outrageous earmarks that were wedged into it by Congress as the price of passage.
And it’s not just the economy: Obama has virtually ended the war on terror. His administration