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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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ISBN: 0805449574
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.973
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Publication Date: July 4, 2009
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 A New Contract With America? July 16, 2009
kodewords.com (Seattle, WA USA)
33 out of 38 found this review helpful
Saving Freedom, by Republican Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina, is chock-full of arguments for conservatism, capitalism, and free markets. The book does a fine job of laying out a coherent conservative philosophy, much as Mark Levin's Liberty & Tyranny did earlier this year. What separates Saving Freedom is its positive tone and its proposal for an affirmative agenda that, should Republicans pick it up and run with it, will give them an opportunity to clearly distinguish themselves from the Democrats' agenda of big government, big spending and big taxes. Where Liberty & Tyranny was a fighting manifesto that clearly defined the sides in the battle for the future of our country, Senator DeMint has laid out a plan that could do for 2010 what Newt Gingrich did in 1994: provide a unified voice and message for Republicans that will allow them to turn sleepy, mid-term elections into a loud, powerful national campaign.
The main value from the book lies with Senator DeMint's action plan, which proposes freedom-based, market-based reforms for education, personal and corporate income taxes, health care, Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. These are some of the biggest issues facing our country over the next half a century, and this plan increases personal and economic freedom, it puts people in charge of their destinies as opposed to enslaving ourselves to the federal government, and it will free money fromt he private sector for entrepreneurship and investment to spur economic growth.
This is solid. This is, as the Senator calls it, a freedom plan. Conservatives should read this book, understand the arguments, understand the plan, and communicate to others the reasons why this is a better choice for the future of our country than what the current administration and Congress are proposing. We should rally around Senator DeMint and his plan, because it truly offers a real alternative to the far-left Democrats in 2010 and 2012.
 SAVING FREEDOM. July 9, 2009
S. Riner (Houston, Tx)
15 out of 133 found this review helpful
And there are times when I think the Bible doesn't make sense!I can understand a 2000 year old book with as many permutations having difficulty shedding as much light as it did even a century ago, but there is truth in it still. "SAVING FREEDOM", on the other hand, written by one of Reagan's own, proves just because a work is penned chronologically near certain events that it can lack insight and fall short by not having any real substance. Demint proves he is clueless by putting pen to paper, and we worse off for having read the "new" and "unimproved" version of Reagan's "communism" and "lower taxes" diatribes. To be more accurate, we truly, as a nation, are stupider. So many American's have quit thinking for themselves, or caring about others and let the so called conservatives decide what is right or wrong. Sure Mr Demint, socialism is the problem, not your kind. After all, you ran for office, won and served your country. Hey, thank you for giving us the benefit of all that wisdom you gained in the advertising business. Oh, and I should thank Rush Limbaugh for telling so many people what to think, after all he certainly must know so much more than us. He, like you, has so much experience, and education, than the rest of us...he surely earned the right to speak ill of Jack and Bobby's brother Teddy. Rush just pointed out that Teddy sounded like he was drunk because it would have been wrong of Teddy to drink alcohol while working. Rush did this so well as he took and sold narcotic pain killers, until his arrest. Rush, like you, is a conservative, so he can "tell it like it is", even while he is a drug addicted narcotics dealer. Oh, did any of that cross your mind when you quoted Ted's brother in your book. Yeah, who would have thought that Teddy might have brain cancer causing his speech to slur. Certainly not us conservatives, you, Rush, Hannity, and so many other great ones like you all didn't tell us to think that...
Just new to seriously following politics... July 3, 2009
F. Vigil (Spartanburg, SC)
59 out of 67 found this review helpful
Saving Freedom by Jim DeMint is a MUST read. While I am in my mid-fifties and a Vietnam-Era Veteran, I have never seriously followed politics...until now. I am all too aware that this country is going downhill fast! I find myself wondering what "I" can do to stop the direction the country is moving in.
Senator DeMint effectively explains to novices like me, what "freedom" looks like in the realm of politics and federal programs. He also explains what we can do as individual citizens to save freedom.
As I said before, I am a novice when it comes to politics. To that end I am grateful for the guidance Senator DeMint's book gives me.
What is right! July 2, 2009
Kimberly R. Terashita
20 out of 31 found this review helpful
"Saving Freedom" is not an easy book to read. It demands action and what is right isn't always easy. The longer we wait, easy won't matter. It is time to do something for the side you choose.
Exposing the corrupt leviathan that is the federal government July 2, 2009
JSBM (San Diego, CA)
35 out of 43 found this review helpful
While it may seem contradictory for a U.S. Senator to write about an over-sized government, Jim DeMint makes a great case for limits on his employer by revealing the absurdities in the current Nanny State system and attempting to instill fear in the reader for the impending socialism. In fact, it is DeMint's experience that as a Congressman that makes his condemnation of the institution so powerful.
Through parables and personal anecdotes, the Senator tries to convey common sense about government: democracy doesn't create liberty, liberty creates democracies; if you trade your freedom for security, you'll lose both; the individual is the only avenue to freedom; community organizations are vital to preserving liberty; and we shouldn't be bailing out corrupt companies when they fail after letting them sneak away with profits when they win.
DeMint gives serious lip service to being critical of both major political parties (he clearly critiques "Bush 2"), but he is a Republican after all, and he is clearly biased. Some of the points he brings up are valid, but DeMint clearly puts much of the blame for the slide toward socialism on the shoulders of the Democrats and fails to adequately critique the continued loss of liberty while both houses of Congress and the president were Republican. Also, his logic is flawed at points: "Why is socialism a threat to America? Because it doesn't work." Here the author fails to show what America is in the first place, then contrast that with socialism. Also, he could have made it clear that socialism isn't a left-wing ideology as opposed to fascism, which is a right-wing ideology. The far right IS the far left, not opposite it.
For the most part, DeMint is right on and everyone needs to assess the ideas in this book. "Freedom is on the decline in America" and we must act now to stop this trend. Over 20 percent of the country works for the federal government and over half receive a substantial amount of income from government. Because of that, there's a lot of vested interest in big government, but DeMint believes that everyone treasures freedom, and that we shall overcome the magnetic but self-destructive pull from socialism.
JSBM
Author, "Surviving the Second Great Depression"
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