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Praise for THE BIG RIPOFF

"Politicians like to say that government is on the side of the little guy. But with impressive documentation and persuasive examples, Tim Carney shows how government power and regulation are typically used to assist the powerful."
-Paul A. Gigot Editorial Page Editor, the Wall Street Journal

"Exposes the dirty little secret of American politics: how big businesses work with statist politicians to diminish the prosperity and freedom of consumers, taxpayers, and entrepreneurs. Carney employs top-notch writing ability, passion for liberty, and understanding of economics to demolish the myth that big business is a foe of big government. Everyone who seeks to understand who really benefits from big government should read this book, as should anyone who still believes that the interventionist state benefits the average person."
-Congressman Ron Paul U.S. House of Representatives, 14th District of Texas

"Small entrepreneurial businesses are the backbone success of our great economy. They are the biggest job and wealth creators. Is that why big corpocratic behemoth firms collude with big government for a liberal agenda of higher taxes and overregulation that will punish the small risk-takers? Tim Carney's new book describes how anti-business big business can be."
-Lawrence Kudlow Host of CNBC's Kudlow & Company

"Tim Carney explodes the myth that big business and big government are natural opponents. All too often, as he points out, they're both engaged in a common enterprise: picking your pocket."
-Ramesh Ponnuru Senior Editor, National Review

"A romping tour de force of the love affair between big business and big government from Teddy Roosevelt and the Robber Barons to Enron and the Kyoto Treaty. Indispensable for understanding how government regulation really works."

-Donald Devine Grewcock Professor of Political Science, Bellevue University

"Every CEO in America should read this book today, issue new directives to their bureaucrat-appeasing Washington lobbyist tomorrow, and join in the fight for economic liberalization."
-Fred L. Smith, Jr. Founder and President, Competitive Enterprise Institute

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Tim hits the point that most people miss.......2007-09-25

There is a misconception by many that:

- Big business wants free markets
- Government protects us from big business
- Government regulations are intended to restrict big business
- Big business is more aligned with the political right than the political left

This book meticulously chronicles the mechanism by which big business partners with government in order to:

- subsidize its operations
- create its own government customers, both foreign and domestic
- eliminate the free market, and replace it with a corrupt one
- tilt the playing field so that small business has no change
- control who wins elections

By the end, you realize that the government's primary function is to redistribute wealth from the middle class to the corporate class. You also realize we don't actually live in a free market. In a free market, the businesses that succeed are the ones who customers decide are providing value. In our system, the businesses that succeed are the ones who effectively suck money from taxpayers via the government, regardless of what they provide to the health of society.

This book is important because its message is unique. It is not the same tired old republican theories about trickle down economics or left-wing theories about the evils of the market. Thank you, Tim Carney, for advancing the debate past the usual left/right myths.

I suggest everyone should read this before they vote in the next election........2006-11-01

Many times I complain when I see a large portion of my paycheck stripped of income. Occasionally I declare in a frustrated tone, "where is my money going?". As shown in Timothy P. Carney's book The Big Rip off, our money lands in the pockets of big business from our government through our tax dollars.

Before reading The Big Ripoff, I discovered the largest supporter of the Kyoto Protocol was Enron. I began wondering if this was good for our environment, or was it just making a select few rich. But not having the time to research the subject I let my curiosity simmer.

Carney has taken time to research the age old question "what does the government do with my tax dollars?". Carney will open your eyes to many corporate welfare programs and abuses of eminent domain by politicians for the benefit of companies. Furthermore, you will learn that big companies are the most adamant supporters of more government regulation because it restricts smaller less powerful companies from entering their field.

I suggest everyone should read this before they vote in the next election. You will learn that the piles of cash the government gives to big corporations is not determined by the political party, but by the political system itself.

If you wish to discover how and why your hard earned tax dollars are sent to these large companies, you need to read this book. You will be shocked in what you learn. You will also be delighted to find a bibliography helping you discover resources for your own research.

Frightening collaboration between government and Big Business.......2006-08-22

I was drawn to this book becauase I saw Robert Novak's Foreword. I was blown away how honest and fair Carney was in The Big Ripoff. One thing is apparent after reading this book. People for big government will not like this book because he calls for an end to government regulation of businesses. Carney's thought process can be illustrated like this: less gov't= better business practices. I loved his points that show a blatent intent to profit by businesses by supporting government regulations or protocols. For instance, Enron supporting the Kyoto protocol because it would give them a chance for more business. Then business lobbyists working with Congress. Dare I say Jack Abramahoff.

Carney also attacks the myth that Republicans are the party of the rich. Carney accomplishes this by facts and scenarios outlining contributions. Carney also shows that both parties deal with Big Business. The only reason Republicans have been in the news more goes back to who is in power.

The rest of the book shows some interesting ties between certain companies and big business. If you want a book that shows the truth and also makes you feel helpless then get the Big Ripoff. His stories of the companies are enough merit to purchase this one.

Great Book. It gets close to hitting the target........2006-08-21

I've read the book and it's hard hitting and very close to the truth. Today I saw Tim Carney with CSPAN's book review. Very interesting and this is a book that should be on your reading list for the month. However, Tim is dealing with the obvious SYMPTOMS of corruption and collusion on the part of government and big business. The real CAUSE is deeper. As a companion book to this I would HIGHLY suggest reading G. Edward Griffin's: Creature from Jekyll Island. Then you will find out the cause. But congratulations to Tim for helping expose "The Ripoff" to the American Taxpayer. Nothing like using the middle class to have CEO's Million Dollar salaries subsidized by the overtaxed American worker, including small business owners. After the reader has read these two books they need to start asking some deep questions and take action. That means getting involved politically and sadly it's not with our two, bought and paid for political parties anymore. Wait until the reader finds out this coupe occured almost a hundred years ago and is now beginning to strangle the nation economically, morally and now imperils our civil liberties.

A wake up call.......2006-08-11

An important book, particularly before election time. Carney uncovers the millions (maybe billions) of dollars that go directly to big business, compliments of our elected officials (of both flavors), and how big business lobbies government to protect its interests at the expense of smaller business and individuals. It's one thing for government to tax people to provide for the needy, but I don't see how Boeing can ever be described as "needy." Maybe government gets too much money from taxpayers, and politicians need a reminder that they are there to serve and protect -- individuals. Not to take our money to give to the likes of Boeing and ADM and other big companies! You will be shocked, as we all should be. Hopefully this book will inspire some action on the part of voters.

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The English Revolution of the seventeenth century was driven by lawyers. The struggle between the monarchy and Parliament was legal in its character and impact. The Rule of Law explores this central theme in early modern history. This book measures contemporary attitudes to the law, within and outside of the legal profession. The author examines how 17th century Englishmen defined the role of law in their society and what their expectations were of the law. He looks at how these expectations helped shape the political debate and ultimately determined political decisions over the course of a very turbulent century. For readers interested in British history.

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In Vitro Culture of Higher Plants presents an up-to-date and wide-ranging account of the techniques and applications, and has primarily been written in response to practical problems. Special attention has been paid to the educational aspects.
Typical methodological aspects are described in the first part: laboratory set-up, composition and preparation of media, sterilization of media and plant material, isolation and (sub)culture, mechanization, the influence of plant and environmental factors on growth and development, the transfer from test tube to soil, aids to study. The question why in vitro culture is practised is covered in the second part: embryo culture, germination of orchid seeds, mericloning of orchids, production of disease-free plants, vegetative propagation, somaclonal variation, test-tube fertilization, haploids, genetic manipulation, other applications in phytopathology and plant breeding, secondary metabolites.

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This highly illustrated volume traces the evolution of shipping through the drama of shipwrecks.

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Finest Kind.......2005-04-17

Although there are now many books extant on shipwrecks and shipwreck lore this work stands out head and shoulders above the rest. It's area of provence is that of the Approaches to New York, an area that also includes a huge graveyard of ships long known to sailors as the New York Bight. This area of the coast is home to many a maritime disaster running the gamut from vessels lost to storm and tempest, to those lost in collisions and to other misfortune, and also the many victims of the U-Boat campaigns of WWI and WWII. Tugboats, tankers, freighters, warships and submarines, they are all here to the delight of many a shipwreck diver and reader.

Many fantastic and historic wrecks, such as the famous Grand Dame of the Sea the Andrea Doria and the WWI Battlecruiser San Diego are discussed in detail here.

Author Bradley Sheard's outstanding effort spans two centuries of maritime history as it thouroughly and entertainingly documents the fate of numerous shipwrecks. The book contains a beautifully written textual history supported by outstanding photographs taken by the author along with a good mix of well researched archival material. There are also many carefully and accurately done drawings illustrating the wrecks themselves as they now rest on the sea floor.

The author has obviously gone the extra mile to combine exhaustive research with first hand diving experience to provide the reader with a type of description that brings these shipwrecks to life with many amazing stories of ships and their people that is high drama as only as disaster at sea can be. Bradley Sheard was a member of the legendary Atlantic Wreck Divers and is also one of wreck diving's most skillful and articulate practioners.

I close by saying that I have dived some these shipwrecks and the book enriches my own memories wonderfully and I am compelled to say to Mr. Sheard, in the terms of an East Coast Waterman, well done and "Finest Kind!"

Another of New York's Finest........2002-02-09

"Two centuries of Shipwrecks in the Approaches to New York" it says on the cover - and that just about says it all. They include HMS Culloden - lost off Long Island in 1781 and the USS San Diego - a four-funnelled armoured cruiser and the only major US Warship lost during WW1. There are tankers and freighters and even one or two U-Boats that sank some of them. There are Cruise Liners from the earliest days of passenger travel, right up to the Andrea Doria - still so sleek and beautiful, it really is hard to believe she was lost in 1956 - almost 50 years ago already.

Lost Voyages is paperback measuring approx. 11½ in x 8½ and filled with over 200 pages of detailed information, historic photographs, underwater photographs, sketches, maps and sectional drawings. Expertly crafted, the book is laid out from the earliest days of America - as a fledgling nation, at Sea right up to the present. With chapters dedicated to; Wooden Warships, Sailing Merchant Ships, the Ascendancy of the Steamship, Ships that ran Aground, the 1914-1918 War, Between the Wars, WW2 and the Era of Modern Navigation, this is a fascinating voyage through the Shipwrecks of time in this one small corner of the world.

The layout, and combination of historic and up-to-date information have been engineered in such a way as to provide the reader with a fascinating insight into the maritime casualties off one major American seaport.

From a Scuba Diver's perspective, these shipwrecks are easily "New York's finest" making this an essential addition to any bookshelf. Once read by any diver - even if you don't live in New York, you just know you will "have" to dive some of these wrecks - someday...

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Lost Voyages.......2000-01-06

I think this has to be one of the best shipwreck books I have ever read. Not only does it give detailed accounts of the events leafing up to and including the sinkings, it's packed full of maps, photos, evn drawings of the present state of the wrecks. I think this is probably a must-read.

LOST VOYAGES, TWO CENTURIES OF SHIPWRECKS IN THE APPROACHES TO NEW YORK

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LOST VOYAGES, TWO CENTURIES OF SHIPWRECKS IN THE APPROACHES TO NEW YORK
Bradley Sheard
Manufacturer: Aqua Quest Publications
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Title: The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness: Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature.(Book review)
Author: Elizabeth D. Blum
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72 Issue: 2 Page: 524(2)

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