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Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, And Line Their Own Pockets (2013)

by Peter Schweizer(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0544103343 (ISBN13: 9780544103344)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Recommended by a friend and business colleague, I wanted to educate myself about our political system. It is that, walloping my ideas of how money moves in Washington, with our representatives pulling the strings and being mostly self-serving, not serving the greater good. Teeth gnashing, and i'm not sure the entrenched interests will ever do anything to change this system--they themselves would have to vote to change the system that enriches themselves.
review 2: I don’t have a lot of faith in politics. I'm not surprised when there's a scandal. Friends will often point to a dirty politician from my party. I don’t have a reaction. I have zero expectation that these guys are going to be paragons of goodness. By all means, read this book and be outrage... mored. Schweizer goes after democrats and republicans alike. The problem is systemic. Politics has evolved in such a way that favors, bribery, and yes extortion, are simply the way things get done. I'm not convinced Schweizer's solutions will work. I'm cynical that way. Any time you have people in power and people in need of power, corruption is just too great a temptation. When I was growing up, there was still some residual "stick it to the man" sentiment from the 70s and the aftermath of Nixon. Today, I'm often surprised at the trust and confidence people have in government. Government can do good, and in America I think it does quite a bit of good, but I encourage us not to look to politicians as saviors. less

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