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Throw Them All Out: How Politicians And Their Friends Get Rich Off Of Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, And Cronyism That Would Send The Rest Of Us To Prison (2011)

by Peter Schweizer(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0547573146 (ISBN13: 9780547573144)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: The overall theme of the book is about crony capitalism and I agree with the premise that it is legal corruption. There is at least one example early in the book of a congressman benefiting from insider information that is not only false, but a patent misrepresentation of the facts. It is such an egregious error that it lowered my rating on the book and casts discredit on all of the other examples on which I do not have the facts. I know it is false because it is about the company that I lead and which I co-founded.The book is worth reading if you're sick of the way congress behaves. Politicians from both parties are castigated, so don't be overly concerned about it being criticism from either the right or left. When will we ever get leadership in our government that will... more bring some morality and "public service" back to Washington!?
review 2: A superb look inside the "cronyism" that Washington, DC has become. Members of the elite permanent political class (i.e. "the Establishment) trade on insider information that is influenced by their own actions. Mr. Schweitzer takes to task members of BOTH political parties in Congress for "mammon knoweth no party label" when it comes to the personal enrichment of the "people's representatives". A new spoils system has replaced old ones. Mr. Schweitzer's insightful investigations reveal what many Americans had sadly always suspected to be the case-- that our political leaders and the institutions they occupy are at the end of the day, thoroughly corrupt. At it's core, the scandalous and shameless self-enrichment are done at the expense of sound public policy.In many ways this book is not just an indictment and wholesale condemnation of these institutions and the actions of its politicos; it is a call to action to reform an overgrown federal government. In "Throw Them All Out", Mr. Schweitzer, whether he intends to or not, makes the overarching argument for complete political reform of our institutions of government. Only a federal government that has become a bloated leviathan where a small, elitist and arrogant political class turns its nose up at the governed can pose such a dire threat to our constitutional system.If Anger & Cynicism are not your reactions to the Avarice & Corruption after reading this excellent compendium of cronyism then you are simply and sadly, asleep at the wheel when it comes to caring about this nation. less

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