{"product_id":"9781101561010","title":"Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America's Free Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York  Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dollar  Meltdown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Dollar Meltdown\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoyette 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCareer 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e    \u003cli\u003eHow increasing  government debt and inflationary manipulations will bring down the dollar, which  is already in decline.\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003eWhy 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.\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003eWhy freedom works and  why the state doesn’t. Left to flourish on their own, spontaneous,  self-organizing systems can and will restore our  prosperity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed and Blue and  Broke All Over\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128103780592,"sku":"9781101561010","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101561010_p0.jpg?v=1763687973","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101561010","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}