{"product_id":"government-racket-2000-and-beyond","title":"Government Racket: 2000 and Beyond","description":"\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 ","brand":"Martin L. Gross","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51670825500978,"sku":"9780060933944","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780060933944_16b60d42-cf11-4c26-b538-12b3c0c4ef2a.jpg?v=1789752007","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/government-racket-2000-and-beyond","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}