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| Outrage: How Illegal Immigration, the United Nations, Congressional Ripoffs, Student Loan Overcharges, Tobacco Companies, Trade Protection, and Drug Companies Are Ripping Us Off . . . And | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (80 reviews)
Sales Rank: 65726
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061195405
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9780061195402
ASIN: 0061195405
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
Release Date: June 12, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
Great Beach Reading August 7, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Dick Morris's personality really comes out in this book. He is a nice guy who is just fed up. The book puts alot of scams, boondogles and pork barrells into perspective. Dick tells which pork has rubbed off on the liberals and which has tainted the conservatives.
In addition, Mr. Morris gives us a number of common sense remedies you won't see in Washington - remember I said Common Sense!
I read the book while sipping iced tea at The Don Cesar on St. Pete Beach. If you have some spare time, buy the book, stay at the Don, get a tan and eat outdoors. Try the Sunday Brunch too! The book will go well with your summer vacation!
This has to be the year's best equal-opportunity "gotcha'"! August 4, 2007
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
All right, so you don't agree with all of Dick Morris and Eileen McGann's outrages. Too many! But there is enough tomfoolery going on "out there" today that deserves a good public skewering, so certainly the list must have a few that everyone would rousingly cheer on. Since the skewers fly out all over the political and social spectrum in "Outrage," the book has to be the year's best nonpartisan "take that, Scoundrel" award. The research is good enough to at least admit that the authors always have a point. In the end, the authors probably want us readers to go do some more digging for ourselves. A minor weakness of the book is that the authors needed a slightly more thorough editor. An incomplete sentence, which is a no-no, no matter how small, shows up in one of the later chapters. Often one senses a slight shift in style, making it obvious that the primary author has changed. These are not killing problems, just minor distractions.
The piece-de-resistance, of course is a long listing of almost-crooks from both parties in Congress: why let them continue in office? Why indeed. There are other chapters showing us little-known information, such as the financial shenanigans of Germany's Gerhard Schroeder and France's Jacques Chirac. Also, there are some of the more unknown, but serious details about the lax United Nations oversight, or rather the lack of it built into the organization in the first place. Then there are the largely unpublished shady workings of Fannie Mae and the scoundrels helping themselves to the taxpayers' gravy train.
Other chapters cover more widely known things, but more information is fleshed out, such as the Oil for Food scandal at UN, teachers union hamstringing of public education, tobacco companies and the uploading of extra nicotine into their products, and Congress' naive dealings with the Patriot Act.
On a personal note, some things do not seem like good outrage material (student loans, the ACLU - interesting but minor, and drug companies). Nevertheless, the authors made a good case, and presented more evidence for it than most polemicists do. Buy it. Read it.
 Details how Congress really works for special interest cash at the expense of those who elected them... August 3, 2007
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
A real eye opener that gives the details of those in Congress working for themselves and grabbing the cash that special interest groups provide in return for their vote. A vote which in many cases negatively impacts the very constituents who put them in office. Details what a corrupt and arrogant bunch of jerks represent us.
Outrage August 1, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Great book which exposes how various groups are ripping of Americans for their own self-interests. This should have been written a long time ago. Both political parties have become one and are on the verge of total disregard for the U.S. Constitution and representation of the people. Its time Americans get educated in politics and put an end to these abuses by voting the long timers and these abusers out of office.
OUTRAGE July 27, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I knew Washington was in bad shape but....as a country we have to do something to eliminate lobbyists and PACs. When you see some of numbers congress is being paid by these people you'll be amazed, or maybe you won't. I was. If that wasn't bad enough, how about members of your family who are those PACs and lobbyists. Congress is being sold to the highest bidder and the hell with us. Hypocrisy knee deep. Congress gets rich and so does every member of their family.
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