Red and Blue and Broke All Over : Restoring America's Free Economy

by Goyette, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781595230829
• ISBN10: 1595230823
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: Sentinel

Summary

A call to action from the bestselling author of The Dollar Meltdown. Bestselling libertarian pundit Charles Goyette's new book makes a timely and eloquent argument for why a free economy produces wealth. The growth of federal power and its costly warfare and welfare spending have become the engine of America's runaway debt and are strangling our prosperity. We spend an incredible $1.2 trillion a year on state security, leading us toward inevitable bankruptcy, while transfer payments and social spending are equally unsustainable demographic time bombs. Both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for the creation of the welfare/warfare state. While libertarians are frequently accused of antigovernment diatribes, Goyette's description of the reckless policies of both parties is sober and accurate. Goyette highlights the dangers of increasingly centralized national economic planning and crony capitalism. He argues that restoring the American dream requires resolving our debt issue, renewing our failing monetary system, and ending the empire.

Author Biography

Charles Goyette is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dollar Meltdown.  A former Phoenix radio talk-show host, he appears on many national television talk shows.  He has contributed to LewRockwell.com, The Daily Reckoning, and AntiWar.com, and has written for the American Conservative, CNBC.com, WorldNetDaily.com, and TheStreet.com.  He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. 

Visit charlesgoyette.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction: America Crosses the Line	p. 1
Liberty	p. 11
Wealth and Prosperity	p. 13
The Blessings of Liberty	p. 31
The Free Economy	p. 53
Property Rights	p. 69
The State	p. 85
Central Planning	p. 87
Fascism and Crony Capitalism	p. 107
The Enemies of Prosperity	p. 133
Dead Ahead	p. 159
The Dollar Endgame	p. 161
Twilight of the Empire	p. 185
Last Thoughts	p. 201
I, Pencil	p. 219
The Broken Window Fallacy	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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