Product ReviewsThrow Them All Out : How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison by Peter Schweizer (2011, Hardcover)

Behind the curtain look at the games those in DC play => not for our benefi

I heard an interview with the author and this expose' of the problem which we have in DC, a huge center of wealth and power, scares me. I purchased this book and Extortion to not only read, but to lend out because I feel that some of each of the large corporations, big union, wealthy people and politicians have a great game going playing the IDIOTs (In Denial Intensely Obscuring TRUTH from oneself) against each other. We are not in a "whose team is the least harmful contest" when we see ObamaCare closing down small doctor's practices and Dodd-Frank barring small banks because they are incapable of allocating the resources which it takes to comply. There is a moat of regulation/compliance around those who already have it made and the small business is not capable of fording the Moat Of Regulation/Compliance.
My goal in buying this book was to try to take some of The American Puppet Class' eyes off of the bright, shiny object by exposing them to that which they refuse to recognize, but the challenge which I recognize that I face is summed up in this excerpt from the interview of Yuri Bezmenov, KGB defector, in 1985 interview with G. Edward Griffin – “The result? The result you can see. Most of the people who (reeducated) in the sixties, drop outs or half-baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in te Government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated, They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black you still cannot change the basic perception and illogical behavior. In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To get rid society of these people you need another twenty or fifteen years to educate a new generation of patriotically-minded and commonsense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of the United States society.” and “(10:51) The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already. For the last twenty-five years, actually it’s over-fulfilled because the demoralization now reaches such areas where previously not even comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such a tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures. Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him concentration camp he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom. When the military boot crashes his, then he will understand, but not before that. That’s the tragic of the situation of demoralization.”
‘‘You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy ...until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.’’ ~...~ Nikita Khrushchev ‘First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-1964’.
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Great Title and on the money. Very educational, should be read by everyone

Fantastic! A real eye opener, unless you're blind and unwilling to open your mind.

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Nice Book. Thank You.

Nice Book. Thank You.

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Everyone needs to read it!!

Great!! Our government is made of crooks!! Good information!!

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Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely!

Required reading for anyone interested in draining the SWAMP

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Great book

Really good reading

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Good review of government practices

Book content is very good. Quite small text printing, to make the book smaller, I suppose.

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Highly recommend!

Very interesting and well written. I really enjoy and highly recommend the writings of Peter Schweitzer.

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Politicians exposed!

Information you don't get anywhere else.

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Great Book

I like to read about all the c rooks in congress

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