|  | Authors: Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann
Publisher: Harper
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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Pages: 384
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ISBN: 006177104X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.932
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 Too expensive June 24, 2009
Timothy Crosby (Hagerstown, MD USA)
8 out of 64 found this review helpful
Let me know when it comes down to $9.99. Morris has a lot to say, but I will not buy Kindle books over $9.99.
 His heart is in a good place but he's wrong 90% of the times June 24, 2009
Winston (Canada)
24 out of 122 found this review helpful
Why does an author whose predictions are 90% wrong all the time sell so much book? Most of his predictions are incorrect and his analysis is outdated. I am puzzled, are you not?
 America's Path to Catastrophe and How to Get out of It June 23, 2009
C. Tang (Stillwater, OK USA)
135 out of 174 found this review helpful
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann have presented a chilling view of America's free fall to socialism. This book documents how President Obama has essentially suspended the war on terrorism and shifted to the war on prosperity, which undermines the vitality of American private enterprises. Having facts and figures presented with their arguments, I find that their warnings are valid and urgent. It is indeed, as the authors have asserted, "no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness," but "a time for action." I personally find it fascinating how a former political adviser to President Bill Clinton can make such a compelling case against the policies of the current Democrat-run White House and Congress.
If true this is scary stuff..... June 23, 2009
Robert Busko (Waynesville, NC USA)
233 out of 293 found this review helpful
I'm not necessarily a fan of Dick Morris, but he does know how to write a book. At nearly 360 pages, Catastrophe is an interesting read and certainly thought provoking. If only half of what he and Eileen McGann say is true, then the middle class really is in danger of losing the country. As someone who has been on the right side of center on the political continuum, I've become leery of both the left and the right in recent years. As an American I'm distrustful of the government, whether red or blue and believe that the less government we have the better off we are. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I love this country and I'm a devoted citizen.
As Morris and McGann point out, the United States' economy is sliding (slipping might be a better term) into socialism, something, by the way, that is fairly obvious to anyone who learned and retained anything from their freshmen Economics in college. That the government is taking over the banking, insurance, and auto industries is pretty obvious. The next target is the healthcare system and no one seems to be able to stop what seems to be inevitable. All of this, by the way, is unconstitutional but no one, outside a few conservative voices, and I mean no one, is pointing that out.
Chris Dodd, Teddy Kennedy (senior and Jr.) Charley Rangel, and Bill Clinton are all singled out for attention by Morris and McGann. But others are mentioned as well, such as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
One disturbing surprise for me in Catastrophe is the idea that American courts may become influenced by Shariah Law. This phenomenon has been reported in various sources as already happening in several European countries, but the idea that the American justice system would make this mistake is mind boggling, and unacceptable. Certainly Constitutional Law will continue to be the only law practiced in the courts in the United States. Shariah law is fine in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc. but, respectfully, that's where it should stay.
Perhaps the most serious mention in Catastrophe is the fact that ACORN will be involved in collecting data for the 2010 census. If this doesn't scare you, nothing will. ACORN has already been called to task about questionable voter registrations in several cities and also have refused to let auditors look at their books. Why would we let them count the population? Scary!
There are some claims made by Morris that I have a hard time understanding. For example, that Obama wants the current banking system to fail so that he can nationalize banking entirely. I have a hard time understanding how anyone will benefit from this, liberals or conservatives. Further, Morris makes the claim Obama wants to dismantle the war on terror. Again, I can't see how anyone benefits from this, other than our enemies.
Dick Morris knows how to stir the pot. He's certainly stirred up a hornets nest with Catastrophe. Like him or not, he does raise some thought provoking ideas, some of which are quite alarming. However you view the world you should enjoy the book.
Excellent Overview With A Little Partisanship June 23, 2009
Sandy Winnich (Arlington, TEXAS)
67 out of 90 found this review helpful
If an author can be right on without being completely objective, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann have done it in "Catastrophe." In the business of helping people with their finances, this book is clearly of interest. First by going over the "stimulus" package, which the authors show to be nothing more than a boondoggle to enrich special interests ($2 million for "Swine Odor and Manure Management Research in Iowa, anyone?) that won't even take effect until 2015 for some instances. Please tell me how the money is supposed to stimulate the economy when it won't even be spent for another 6 years. Just looking at the pages upon pages of government stimulus programs was dizzying. I haven't seen that many zeros in all the tax forms I've ever seen.
The authors then go on to critique the bailouts, which I believe were a worse afront to the American way. They show how Obama intends to "socialize" the banking system (step 2 was: even if banks try to repay the TARP money, don't let them; that was already seen in the stress tests that "allowed" banks to repay government funds). Unfortunately, Morris is too partisan on this issue. The bailouts were passed under Bush, who championed them. There was very little mention of this--where's the criticism of Bush?
Morris and McGann go on to describe the corruption in Illinois, ear marks, , Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and, peculiarly enough: Shariah law being infused into the elite ranks of the economy.
This book is a deecent read if you can get past the partisanship and it compliments nicely Surviving the Second Great Depression (with some unconventional techniques on benefiting in this economy and Meltdown (with a comprehensive look into the bigger picture of what got us into the mess), books that more succinctly describe what got us into this economic mess (and no, it wasn't Obama's fault, though, as Morris makes plain, he is turning a crisis into a catastrophe). But, as the authors tell us, Obama is our president, not our dictator. We can still do something to prevent the chipping away of liberty.
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