While author Mark Bragg agrees it was necessary for an environmental movement to force the government to clean the air and water, he says extremists have now taken over the federal bureaucracy and are using various federal laws to attack our food supply. Few people are aware that the missing money was replaced with IOUs, which Uncle Sam is now borrowing to repay. Those are promises the federal government has made with no revenue to pay for them. Unfortunately, that money was stolen first to pay for the Vietnam War and then satisfy other "unfunded federal liabilities". Originally created for the poor, Social Security was for those unable to support themselves in their old age - before it was forced on everyone as a savings account. Most Members of Congress are lawyers with no real business experience or economic background. The largest single destroyer of jobs in America (nearly 30 million jobs have been exported) has been our enormous trade deficit But why is this subject never mentioned in presidential campaigns? For the simple reason that no one knows what to do about it. 9780615548944, $12.95, PB, 114pp, Synopsis: In 2014, America bought $508 billion more in foreign goods than foreigners bought from us.
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