Government Racket

<p>In 1992 Martin L. Gross shocked the nation with his New York Times bestseller The Government Racket: Washington Waste A to Z after whcih he testified before Congress five times on hidden catastrophic waste. Now he has returned to the scene of the crime and found that things have gotten even worse.</p><p>He shows how the claim that the era of a big government is over is a blatant lie. With 2 percent inflation federal spending rose 7 percent and is now more than $2 trillion annually. The Social Security fund is empty and $1.2 trillion in debt while its FCA surplus is squandered on everything except the aged.</p><p>In this provacative follow-up volume the author outlines an encylcopedia of new wastem shows what happened to his previous suggestions to cut costs and lays out a blueprint for governent reform that could stop Washington's dysfunstional behavoir . In thirty-six chapters he gives scores of examples of giant new waste and abuse including: </p><p><ul><li>Duplication and overlap cost us billions in 154 different failing job-training programs and 127 different teenage bureaucracies nine alone in Department of Justice.<li> Billions are rountinely wasted on ludicrious Washinton projects from golf courses for congressman to large cash pensions for hyperactive children.<li>While the taxpayer pays Washinton subsizes General Motors Intel Pillsbury and scores of gaint firms to the tune of $75 billion a year.<li>The Defense Department regualry flies members of Congress around the world with spouses for freebie holidays on liquor-loaded planes. </ul> </p>