Give Me a Break
- Autor: John Stossel
- Narrador: John Stossel
- Editora: HarperCollins USA
- Duração: 5:41:12
Sinopse
Ballooning government? Millionaire welfare queens? Tort lawyers run amok? A $330,000 outhouse, paid for with your tax dollars? John Stossel says, "Give me a break."
When he hit the airwaves thirty years ago, Stossel chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers.
But along the way, he noticed that there was something far more troublesome going on: While the networks screamed about the dangers of coffee pots, worse risks were ignored.
In Give Me a Break, Stossel explains how ambitious bureaucrats, intellectually lazy reporters, and greedy lawyers make your life worse even as they claim to protect your interests. Taking on such sacred cows as the FDA, the War on Drugs, and scare-mongering environmental activists -- and backing up his trademark irreverence with careful reasoning and research -- he shows how the problems that government tries and fails to fix can be solved better by the extraordinary power of the free market.
He traces his journey from cub reporter to 20/20 co-anchor, revealing his battles to get his ideas to the public, his struggle to overcome stuttering, and his eventual realization that, for years, much of his reporting missed the point.
Stossel concludes the book with a modest proposal for change. It's a simple plan in the spirit of the Founding Fathers to ensure that America remains a place "where free minds -- and free markets -- make good things happen."
Capítulos
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Chapter 001
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Chapter 002
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Chapter 003
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Chapter 004
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Chapter 005
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Chapter 006
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Chapter 007
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Chapter 008
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Chapter 009
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Chapter 010
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Chapter 011
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Chapter 012
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Chapter 013
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Chapter 014
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Chapter 015
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Chapter 016
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Chapter 017
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Chapter 018
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Chapter 019
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Chapter 020
Duração: 12min