Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It

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Here are the facts:

The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantanamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they're fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years—and dressed them up as tax cuts!

Mainstream Media has been given marching orders from the Society of Professional Journalists: never refer to "Islamic terrorists" or "Muslim terrorists." And they are obeying! Whenever our brave agents disrupt a terror plot, The media dismisses the culprits as a gang of idiots—lulling us into a false sense of security.

If the liberals win the 2008 election, they will cripple talk radio—forcing stations to give equal time to left-wing programs, and insisting that liberals play a key role in station management.

Up to a quarter of all state pension funds in the United States are invested in companies that are helping Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the Sudan—for a total of nearly $200 billion.

The Do-Nothing Congress is still doing nothing—and the worst offenders are the presidential candidates Clinton, Obama, and McCain, who never show up for their day jobs as senators . . . except to pick up their $165,000 paycheck!

Is it any wonder that Americans feel fleeced at every turn?

As more and more critical problems develop that need national attention, the White House and Congress appear to be AWOL.

Who's calling the shots instead?

Big business, big government, big labor, and big lobbyists. And their self-serving agendas are doing nothing to help the ever-increasing number of American people who are losing their homes, paying credit card interest rates higher than 25 percent, and finding their jobs increasingly outsourced to foreign countries.

In this hard-hitting call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American tax-payers are routinely fleeced—by our own government; by foreign countries like Dubai that are gobbling up American interests and spending millions to influence government decisions and American public opinion; by Washington lobbying firms that are pushing the agendas of corrupt foreign dictators on Capitol Hill; and by hedge-fund billionaires collecting huge tax breaks courtesy of the IRS.

With their characteristic blend of sharp analysis and insider insight, Morris and McGann call offenders of all kinds on the carpet—and offer practical agendas we all can follow to help turn the tide.

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5 out of 5 stars

Spot on Dick Morris. June 24, 2008
369 out of 518 found this review helpful

Let me start out by saying I'm not convinced Dick Morris is a right wing anything. After all he served President Clinton during his administration. I suspect that what is happening is that individuals are aligning themselves as Conservatives and Liberals regardless of party names.

Fleeced is an indictment of large government and idiotic ideas and not a lambasting of democrats or petting of republicans. Whether it's a Congress who can't or won't get anything done or a government that is so grid locked that neither sides wants to give in first, Fleeced deals with the problem in an even handed way. Dick Morris is a consumate insider in Washington. I find his reasoning to be dead on.

Morris contends that 425 terrorists have been released from Gitmo and that 50 of those have been retaken or killed in Iraq. I heard that the figure was close to 100. I suspect the time lag is at work here, but the fact of the matter is that many of the detainees are infact combatants...perhaps all of them.

Is Fleeced a right wing manifesto? No. Morris is very even handed in his criticism. He indicts McCain for not showing up for his day job just as hard at he slams Clinton and Obama. He goes after all of Congress, Democtat and Republican.

I still have some reading to do to finish Fleeced. I've bounced around from chapter to chapter. Suffice it to say that if you're not upset after reading Fleeced I can't imagine why.

I highly recommend Fleeced to anyone who cares for this country.

Peace always

5 out of 5 stars

Ignore the 1 stars June 25, 2008
120 out of 175 found this review helpful

Look at the problems those with 1 star reviews list: Dick Morris isn't a socialist liberal. They never find a valid fault with the book, only the man who wrote it. They ignore the fact Mr. Morris has worked with both Republican and Democrat candidates (President Clinton for example).

Now onto the book. Fleeced is very well researched, and very entertaining. The book focuses on multiple issues without spending too much or too little time on any individual topic, and none of the topics lack adequate research. I highly recommend this book to those who are unsure on whether or not to vote for Obama, as well as those who just enjoy educating themselves on modern politics.

4 out of 5 stars

HE KNOWS THE NUANCES OF OUR SYSTEM. July 15, 2008
104 out of 146 found this review helpful

This 337 page book is a glaring testament to irrational ideas & policies that are hurting our country across the spectrum of politics, economics, social, & commercial issues. This book is a warning not a tirade.
He bashes both Republicans & Democrats, & Liberals & Conservatives with equal gusto. It should be noted that he has worked for folks of both parties as a political consultant, so those who accuse him of being a "right or left wing nut" are just showing their own ideological biases.

He hits President Bush, the Supreme Court, the whole Congress, crooked lenders, lobbyists working for foreign countries, credit card companies, hedge fund billionaires who are getting tax breaks from the IRS, Halliburton's war profiteering, & John McCain, Hillary Clinton, & Barack Obama for not showing up for their day jobs. He asks a poignant question as pertains to Congress. Why do they get $167,500 a year when they often don't even address the problems & issues facing the country?

His take on the attempts of terrorists in the USA that have been stopped since 9/11/01 was intriguing. One of these men that was released from Gitmo was a Taliban leader who went back to fighting the USA in Afghanistan.

He is also very concerned about the large numbers of teachers leaving their profession, while education is getting far less money than healthcare. Which is likely to remain the case for the foreseeable future since the baby boomers are or are near retirement age. All in all a very detailed & eye opening book.

1 out of 5 stars

Would be better if Morris wasn't so hugely biased against Liberals July 20, 2008
72 out of 131 found this review helpful

This would have been a much better book had Morris stuck to the facts--what he's always been good at. However, he opens the book with a hugely speculative chapter on how an Obama presidency would ruin this country by taxing everyone who earns over $100,000 (which would, curiously, put Morris in that category--no wonder he's terrified). He uses the word "liberal" and "democrat" freely whenever he wants to point blame at the system, but he never uses the word "Republican" or "conservative" when it's so obviously a Republican who's at fault. Here's an example. He cites a lazy (Democrat-led) congress for blame for the credit card disaster that's put so many millions of average Americans into a ton of debt. But he doesn't lay the blame where it should be laid. First of all it was Republican Senator Phil Gramm who engineered in the 1990s (along with a Newt Gringrich-led, Republican dominated Congress) the rise of the credit card industry by outlawing usury laws and making it easier for ANY bank to offer credit cards, not just the five or six highly capitalized banks that had the monopoly for years. Gramm and Gingrich both got congress to deregularize the entire credit card industry, thus allowing now for rates that most scholars think fall into the category of usury: rates of 20% to 30%. That Congress during the Bush administration hasn't acted to correct this situations puts the blame at THEIR feet, not the feet of the democrats.

He also says that the "Bush Recovery" has worked with banks and corporation profits soaring during this decade (profits up about 49%) and he so fears a rise in taxes not only for the wealthy but for corporations. He clearly doesn't want to tax capital. He says nothing about where taxes will have to come from: labor and wages. That's us. You and me. Most Republicans don't like capital taxed (they claim it's necessary for growth and business). But it's okay for wages and labor to be taxed because they are mostly Democrats and of the middle or lower classes. This is complete Republican thinking. Tax wages, don't tax capital.

What Morris hasn't the courage to do is to put the blame where it squarely lies: on BOTH the shoulders of the Republicans AND the Democrats. The Republicans for being greedy; the Democrats for being complicit and lazy. He never ONCE suggests that the political donor class--which is mostly, though not entirely, Republican--is the cause of the easy laws in congress or that the Bush tax cut has been catastrophic for this country. Mostly, Morris fears the taxes that are going to HAVE to be raised during the next administration. He fears it and his extraordinary venom toward Democrats belies the truth: Bush drained so much liquid capital from the economy though his tax giveaways (and a trillion dollar war that he's refused to pay for on his watch) that there isn't any real money to run the government (payment on the interest of the debt will be 10% by the middle of the next decade--a fact that Bush created and that Morris doesn't seem have any interest in reporting). This will be the Republican rallying call during this next administration. When Obama (or congress) raises the social security tax ceiling to (perhaps) $150,000 (from the $91,000) where it's at now, watch how the Republicans shout bloody-murder about tax-and-spend liberals robbing from the rich to give to the poor (or give to themselves). Morris says nothing about the borrow-and-spend mentality of the Bush administration (and the Republican congress) or the extraordinary debt we've accrued that will have to be paid off eventually--and no economist, Republican or Liberal, believes that we can "earn" our way out of the debt we've piled up. Business can't do it alone. (But there isn't a Republican anywhere in this country that believes that.)

There's a lot of nastiness in this book and sheer vitriol for all things Democrat and all things liberal. But he does get many of his facts in the other areas right. But both Democrats and Republicans are to blame, and THIS Mr. Morris doesn't have the courage to suggest. It's all to be laid at the feet of the liberals.

5 out of 5 stars

Fleeced is Dick Morris' most inportant book!!!!!!! June 24, 2008
70 out of 122 found this review helpful

WOW Fleeced is Dick Morris' (and Eileen McGann's ) best book by a long shot. And This may be a shot heard across the world. hear is a man who us a Moderate democrat who is seeking to set the record straight. There is so much hear I don't know where to start; but I will press on, lets start with Guantanamo, and how important it has been in protecting the USA Morris shows us how 50 (plus) of the prisoners who have been released whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops. Proving that we have the right people. This doctrine of treating the prisoners as combatants goes back to WW II where after Germany surrendered some German citizens continue to fight us the US in China. Of course most people in the USA don't know this, its not taught in History anymore.

Morris goes on tot talk about Barack Obama (The DNC's Nominee) and Hillary Clinton (now former presidential contender) both swear they're fiscally responsible. But each has called for $[...] trillion in tax increases over the next ten years, then they have the audacity of hope to claim there cutters.

Morris also find the smoking gun of the a press conspiracy to defend the terrorists, he shows how the Mainstream Media is following the lead of the Society of Professional Journalists: who state at their web site that a reporter should never refer to "Islamic terrorists" or "Muslim terrorists. and also to belittle any terror plot that is stopped before it is carried out, by defining the people as inapt etc., this is mocking our law enforcement and is downright dishonest and even dangerous. remember they way they talked about the shoe bomber, if he succeed 100's would of been dead.

Morris also talks about how the Liberals (becoming more fascistic) want to shut up conservative talk radio with the so called fairness's doctrine, the liberals hate free speech. Just lie their fascists predecessors.

Morris does not just take on Liberals he shows how Big business, big government, big labor, and big lobbyists have both parties in their back pocket and how the American people are being fleeced. He also shows how the speculators are driving up the oil prices and much much more.

This is an important book and I Highly Recommend it to everyone.

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