$4.6 million. Even including the cost of the driver, security detail, higher gas prices, comprehensive insurance, maintenance, and parking fees, it is hard to see how the federal government can possibly spend $4.6 million per car. But they do, according to a March 2011 GAO report. 13
Who knows? Maybe they park it next to the $400-dollar hammer and the $2,000-dollar toilet seat? Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, wasn’t amused. “It’s one more reason why there is so much cynicism in the public about what goes on in Washington.” 14
But beyond that, I’ll explain to you in chapter 4 how Goldman Sachs executives have essentially taken over the finances of the United States, and how they’ve instituted policies that have endangered the world economy by creating new collateralized debt that amounts to more than ten times the world GDP.
Chapter 5, “Tyranny of Obama’s Radical Accomplices,” explains how the White House has become labor union headquarters under Barack Obama. Former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) capo Andy Stern and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka signed the White House Guest Register dozens of times as they cemented labor and public employee unions’ hold on this utterly corrupt administration. Labor unions have stood behind the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators and the mobs that destroyed public property in Wisconsin when they tried to shut down the state government after it had trimmed public employee unions’ bargaining rights.
To pile corruption on top of corruption, Obama has also drafted an executive order that says businesses seeking federal contracts must reveal who they made political contributions to, despite the fact that this is clearly a violation of our constitutional rights under law and the fact that federal contracts are required to go to the lowest bidder.
It doesn’t stop there.
When the Ford Motor Company—the one U.S. automaker that did not accept bailout money—aired a commercial in which a Ford owner made it clear that he wouldn’t buy a car from a company that had accepted bailout money, Obama bullied Ford into stopping the broadcast of the commercial.
As you’ll read in chapter 5, the leftist fondness for mob rule goes back to one of the most dangerous of radicals, Saul Alinsky. Obama was mentored in the art of “community organizing” by Alinsky disciples, and his administration is littered with leftists who adhere to the methods put forth in Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals .
In chapter 6, “Tyranny of Obama’s Corporate Cronies,” I’ll explain to you how Obama has given over his administration to leftist thugs that he’s appointed as czars, bypassing the U.S. Constitution with no oversight or approval from America’s elected officials. The salaries of the czars are not reported to the public and they carry out duties only known to the president himself.
These unvetted lieutenants extend the administration’s illegal control over large segments of the U.S. economy, from automakers (Ed Montgomery, Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers) and oil producers (former Energy Czar Carol Browner) to college retirement funds (former Fannie Mae CEO Herb Allison) and marital relations (Lynn Rosenthal, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women). His Pay Czar, Ken Feinberg, was appointed to dictate what Americans can earn in the financial services industry and, eventually, in all industries.
In chapter 7, “Tyranny of the Egghead Wars,” I’ll take you through how the eggheads in the Obama administration—none of whom has a bit of experience in the real world—have hijacked America’s foreign policy and put it at the mercy of what’s known as the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine, a political philosophy developed by disciples of one of the most dangerous men in the world, George Soros.
This doctrine lies at the foundation of the so-called Arab Spring—which has