{"product_id":"9780060933944","title":"Government Racket : 2000 and Beyond","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGovernment Racket\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Martin L. Gross\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Martin L. Gross shocked the nation with his New York Times bestseller , The Government Racket: Washington Waste A to Z, after whcih he testified before Congress five times on hidden catastrophic waste.  Now he has returned to the scene of the crime and found that things have gotten even worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe shows how the claim that the \"era of a big government is over\" is a blatant lie.  With 2 percent inflation, federal spending rose 7 percent and is now more than $2 trillion annually.  The Social Security fund is empty and $1.2 trillion in debt, while its FCA surplus is squandered on everything except the aged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provacative follow-up volume, the author outlines an encylcopedia of new wastem shows what happened to his previous suggestions to cut costs, and lays out a blueprint for governent reform that could stop Washington's dysfunstional behavoir .  In thirty-six chapters he gives scores of examples of giant new waste and abuse, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuplication and overlap cost us billions in 154 different failing job-training programs and 127 different teenage bureaucracies, nine alone in Department of Justice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Billions are rountinely wasted on ludicrious Washinton projects, from golf courses for congressman to large cash pensions for hyperactive children.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhile the taxpayer pays, Washinton subsizes General Motors, Intel, Pillsbury, and scores of gaint firms to the tune of $75 billion a year.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Defense Department regualry flies members of Congress around the world, with spouses, for freebie holidays on liquor-loaded planes. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060933944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41019403600078,"sku":"9780060933944","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060933944","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}