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mock and insult the Supreme Court of the United States in his 2011 State of Union speech—and defied the attempts of Congress to shut down his illegal maneuvers.
    The Obama Tyranny
    In Trickle Up Poverty I explained to you that the first two years of the Obama presidency amounted to nothing less than a leftist takeover of the United States. Early in his first term, with Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, Obama pushed through sweeping legislation to take over the banks and automakers, seized control of health care, and took command of the student-loan market, eliminating private lenders.
    When he couldn’t get even his own Democratic-controlled Congress to do his bidding, Obama found ways to bypass the lawmakers and judges and secretly implemented his subversive agenda via the rapidly expanding federal bureaucracy.
    Let me take you through what you’ll read in Trickle Down Tyranny so you’ll get a sense of just how dangerous this subversive administration has become in only three short years.
    In chapter 3, “Tyranny of the Government-Media Complex,” you’ll discover how Obama continues to subvert our free speech rights.
    One of the techniques is the use of intimidation. A CBS reporter who has reported on the Department of Justice’s Fast and Furious scandal since it became public early in 2011 explained how the Obama administration tries to bully legitimate reporters into submission: “Well the DOJ woman [Tracy Schmaler] was . . . yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me.” 12
    When a Boston Herald reporter sought to cover Obama’s trip to Boston, White House press secretary Jay Carney pointedly excluded him. He wanted only the loyalist White House press corps to cover the president when he visits American voters. When Vice President Joe Biden was speaking at a $500-per-plate fund-raiser in Florida, Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers was roughed up and locked in a closet for several hours by presidential goons. The president himself has attacked Fox News and tried to exclude it from covering public events where the president is present. Obama has also put together a “war room” to use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media to send out his propaganda without the checks and balances of a free press.
    The so-called press has become the Pravda of the 21st century under Barack Obama.
    In chapter 4, “Tyranny of the Treasurer,” I address one of the most important issues of our time: U.S. debt. In that chapter, you’ll read about how Obama has refused to rein in spending, growing the national debt from $9 trillion in 2009, when he took office, to more than $15 trillion in 2012. It took America from 1789 to 2008 to rack up $9 trillion in federal debt—it took Obama less than three years to increase that 200-year debt load by nearly 70 percent. He has refused to reform runaway so-called entitlements or cut payments that go to his supporters and donors. In Obama’s first three years, the national debt climbed from slightly more than 40 percent of our gross domestic product to more than 100 percent of GDP. Rather than cut spending, Obama spent the summer of 2011 fighting with Congress to increase federal debt by another $2.5 trillion.
    But Obama can’t stop spending even on frivolous items. He’s nearly doubled the number of limousines used by government officials. In the last year of the George W. Bush administration, the federal government owned 238 limousines, according to the General Services Administration. By 2010, two years into Obama’s reign, the federal fleet had swelled to 412 limousines. Those limousines aren’t cheap. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that the Obama administration spent $1.9 billion to buy and operate limousines in 2009 alone. So let’s crunch the numbers. With a fleet of 412 limousines and a budget of $1.9 billion, that means that each vehicle costs the taxpayers just over