The following book review is only two weeks old but I'm bringing it
back to the front of these posts because high schools, colleges and
universities are beginning a new year and this book was written
primarily for them. I'm adding to this post the last paragraph from Mark
Levin's chapter...."On Education." This paragraph is an example of the
lucidity that you will get in every chapter. If Levin's words can't win
you over and encourage you to read his book, even in amongst your other
reading requirements, then my words surely cannot either.
"There are salient realities that very few in the academy will acknowledge. The most prominent is that education is not supposed to be about administrators and educational bureaucrats, labor unions, tenured educators, improvident construction projects, and statist indoctrination. It is supposed to be about the enrichment and improvement of young people and society. Students are not lab rats to be subjected to endless educational experiments; they are not Pavlov's dog to be conditioned as societal malcontents; and they and their families (and the taxpayers) are not cash cows for reckless spending and debt assumption. The failure of American education is an unforgivable dereliction of one generation to the next."
Plunder And Deceit
Mark Levin begins his new book with this question....."Can we simultaneously love our children but betray their generation and generations yet born?" We are voting in America today.....in abstentia.....our minds being absent, our efforts to learn lazy, and ultimately our discernment near nonexistent. We fail to grasp that we are ignoring the disastrous, even cataclysmic, trends of the day at the expense of our children's future. This is the essence of Levin's book.
Folks.....friends.....as the subtitle states, it is the young generation...our children...who will bear the brunt of the burden for our abdication! I have tried over and over in these posts to sound an alarm to parents, and to shout this warning from these pages! This is not politics and it is not a game and it is not just theory. It is rather... plunderers, barbarians and Marxists who are not only attacking us but succeeding! The effort has to be made to come up to date on what has transpired in this nation of ours, that is if we love our children, for Mark Levin answered that first question in the negative...one cannot love our children and simultaneously betray their generation.
Our nation has collapsed and I have accepted my own responsibility for this many times over in these near seven years of posts. There may be some who are unscathed but they are few. I've used the word mayday a number of times in these posts. It's somewhat of an archaic term but it's relevance to today is as current as this morning's newspaper and as the SOS sent from the Titanic. Levin writes that "Many are acutely aware of the gathering storm of societal and economic disorder and wish to do something about it." I am part of that, only I personally and continuously also focus on our rejection of God. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that Russia experienced their evils and oppressions and horrors because, as he stated..."We have forgotten God," and many Christian ministers who have a national platform today say the same thing about us......that we have forgotten God, and indeed Israel of the Old Testament was guilty many times of the same and was judged many times!
Levin writes that younger people, by the very fact that they are young and inexperienced, are "especially vulnerable to be manipulated" while the older generation chooses not to look to the future but only the present. He concludes his first chapter with these words..."The mission of this book, as in my past books, is to persuade as many fellow citizens as possible, through scholarship, facts, and ideas, to avert a looming tragedy.......a real and devastating American tragedy, the loss of the greatest republic known to mankind."
The author, beginning in his second chapter, demonstrates that "scholarship, facts and ideas" with a clear and concise tutorial on our national debt, particularly as it pertains to "federal entitlement spending and debt financing." I think that I may have written before that Levin, the number two conservative radio talk show host, writes even better than he speaks. I say this to encourage you to put out a few bucks and give the time to read this book, and then give it away! I bought three books so far and the CDs which are great for the car.
Levin calls our debt a "moral issue," explains his position very well and then ends the chapter with statistics and figures that will unnerve you......and with this statement...."The devastating consequences of wealth redistribution, inter-generational thievery, massive federal spending, endless borrowing , and unimaginable debt accumulation on American society, and most particularly on the rising generation and future generations, are a travesty."
I am 65 years old and may, Lord willing, be applying for Social Security benefits in the near future. Levin gives the best explanation of the impending disaster on this front that I have ever read, and his message is as much for the younger generation as it is for mine, actually more. He concludes this chapter with this...."(Social Security).....the federal government's biggest program will stop with a crash, taking down the older recipients and the younger payers alike."
The author then gives another best explanation on Medicare and Obamacare. Plunder And Deceit is only 192 pages before the notes. The chapters are not long and can easily be understood and digested. Education is next up and he uses the word "dereliction." He lays out very clearly where America is today on the world stage in our elementary to college education and why we are failing and who is behind it. It's not a pretty picture. Many of us know much of this already but the younger generation is in the middle of it and is cognisant of little to none of the machinations aimed right at them. This younger generation, or "rising generation" as Levin refers to it, needs to have heard at least once, an educated opinion as opposed to a regurgitated "quixotic idealism." Whether it is the minimum wage, immigration or "A New Civil Rights Movement," one cannot read this book and then as easily fall prey to the choreographed soundbites that are constructed to 'educate and inform' today.
Levin mentions Karl Marx and Communism as instigators. His "On The Environment" chapter alone can explain just why climate change is more than a scam, it's a full-fledged battle plan, not on any warming temperatures but on overachieving economies that are a monkey wrench in the Marxist scheme that the younger generation has fallen for hook, line and sinker. This same generation should know that our weakening national security affects them more than anyone and that the disemboweling of our Constitution will be their inheritance of tyranny and servitude from what would be a defunct republic.
When I was in high school, we were taught about John Locke and Montesquieu. I may not have remembered the specifics come exam time but my point is that we were taught the writings of the philosophers who influenced our Founding Fathers. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were heroes from history. If these names are not etched into your memory then you should read and study Plunder And Deceit. Consider the following words that these three men would have read over and over and meditated upon as they helped formulate the foundations of our republic, and then consider which definition describes us today. The words are from Charles de Montesquieu..."...there are three kinds of government, REPUBLICAN, MONARCHICAL, and DESPOTIC...I assume three definitions, or rather, three facts: one, republican government is that in which the people as a body, or only a part of the people, have sovereign power; monarchical government is that in which one alone governs, but by fixed and established laws; whereas, in a despotic government, one alone, without law and without rule, draws everything along by his will and caprices" (Italics in original)
In his book, the author stressed that a nation must retain a continuity if it is to survive. He quotes others on this necessity of holding to the eternal truths known by those who preceded us and I'll end with this blurb from the back of the book, written by Edmund Burke in his Reflections of the Revolution in France, 1790....."By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, as as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of summer."
I've covered the main themes of this book, Plunder And Deceit, Big Government's Exploitation Of Young People And The Future, but cannot convey the brilliance of this former top advisor in President Reagan's administration, for this brilliance emanates from a legal mind with a passionate love for this country.
"There are salient realities that very few in the academy will acknowledge. The most prominent is that education is not supposed to be about administrators and educational bureaucrats, labor unions, tenured educators, improvident construction projects, and statist indoctrination. It is supposed to be about the enrichment and improvement of young people and society. Students are not lab rats to be subjected to endless educational experiments; they are not Pavlov's dog to be conditioned as societal malcontents; and they and their families (and the taxpayers) are not cash cows for reckless spending and debt assumption. The failure of American education is an unforgivable dereliction of one generation to the next."
Plunder And Deceit
Mark Levin begins his new book with this question....."Can we simultaneously love our children but betray their generation and generations yet born?" We are voting in America today.....in abstentia.....our minds being absent, our efforts to learn lazy, and ultimately our discernment near nonexistent. We fail to grasp that we are ignoring the disastrous, even cataclysmic, trends of the day at the expense of our children's future. This is the essence of Levin's book.
Folks.....friends.....as the subtitle states, it is the young generation...our children...who will bear the brunt of the burden for our abdication! I have tried over and over in these posts to sound an alarm to parents, and to shout this warning from these pages! This is not politics and it is not a game and it is not just theory. It is rather... plunderers, barbarians and Marxists who are not only attacking us but succeeding! The effort has to be made to come up to date on what has transpired in this nation of ours, that is if we love our children, for Mark Levin answered that first question in the negative...one cannot love our children and simultaneously betray their generation.
Our nation has collapsed and I have accepted my own responsibility for this many times over in these near seven years of posts. There may be some who are unscathed but they are few. I've used the word mayday a number of times in these posts. It's somewhat of an archaic term but it's relevance to today is as current as this morning's newspaper and as the SOS sent from the Titanic. Levin writes that "Many are acutely aware of the gathering storm of societal and economic disorder and wish to do something about it." I am part of that, only I personally and continuously also focus on our rejection of God. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that Russia experienced their evils and oppressions and horrors because, as he stated..."We have forgotten God," and many Christian ministers who have a national platform today say the same thing about us......that we have forgotten God, and indeed Israel of the Old Testament was guilty many times of the same and was judged many times!
Levin writes that younger people, by the very fact that they are young and inexperienced, are "especially vulnerable to be manipulated" while the older generation chooses not to look to the future but only the present. He concludes his first chapter with these words..."The mission of this book, as in my past books, is to persuade as many fellow citizens as possible, through scholarship, facts, and ideas, to avert a looming tragedy.......a real and devastating American tragedy, the loss of the greatest republic known to mankind."
The author, beginning in his second chapter, demonstrates that "scholarship, facts and ideas" with a clear and concise tutorial on our national debt, particularly as it pertains to "federal entitlement spending and debt financing." I think that I may have written before that Levin, the number two conservative radio talk show host, writes even better than he speaks. I say this to encourage you to put out a few bucks and give the time to read this book, and then give it away! I bought three books so far and the CDs which are great for the car.
Levin calls our debt a "moral issue," explains his position very well and then ends the chapter with statistics and figures that will unnerve you......and with this statement...."The devastating consequences of wealth redistribution, inter-generational thievery, massive federal spending, endless borrowing , and unimaginable debt accumulation on American society, and most particularly on the rising generation and future generations, are a travesty."
I am 65 years old and may, Lord willing, be applying for Social Security benefits in the near future. Levin gives the best explanation of the impending disaster on this front that I have ever read, and his message is as much for the younger generation as it is for mine, actually more. He concludes this chapter with this...."(Social Security).....the federal government's biggest program will stop with a crash, taking down the older recipients and the younger payers alike."
The author then gives another best explanation on Medicare and Obamacare. Plunder And Deceit is only 192 pages before the notes. The chapters are not long and can easily be understood and digested. Education is next up and he uses the word "dereliction." He lays out very clearly where America is today on the world stage in our elementary to college education and why we are failing and who is behind it. It's not a pretty picture. Many of us know much of this already but the younger generation is in the middle of it and is cognisant of little to none of the machinations aimed right at them. This younger generation, or "rising generation" as Levin refers to it, needs to have heard at least once, an educated opinion as opposed to a regurgitated "quixotic idealism." Whether it is the minimum wage, immigration or "A New Civil Rights Movement," one cannot read this book and then as easily fall prey to the choreographed soundbites that are constructed to 'educate and inform' today.
Levin mentions Karl Marx and Communism as instigators. His "On The Environment" chapter alone can explain just why climate change is more than a scam, it's a full-fledged battle plan, not on any warming temperatures but on overachieving economies that are a monkey wrench in the Marxist scheme that the younger generation has fallen for hook, line and sinker. This same generation should know that our weakening national security affects them more than anyone and that the disemboweling of our Constitution will be their inheritance of tyranny and servitude from what would be a defunct republic.
When I was in high school, we were taught about John Locke and Montesquieu. I may not have remembered the specifics come exam time but my point is that we were taught the writings of the philosophers who influenced our Founding Fathers. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were heroes from history. If these names are not etched into your memory then you should read and study Plunder And Deceit. Consider the following words that these three men would have read over and over and meditated upon as they helped formulate the foundations of our republic, and then consider which definition describes us today. The words are from Charles de Montesquieu..."...there are three kinds of government, REPUBLICAN, MONARCHICAL, and DESPOTIC...I assume three definitions, or rather, three facts: one, republican government is that in which the people as a body, or only a part of the people, have sovereign power; monarchical government is that in which one alone governs, but by fixed and established laws; whereas, in a despotic government, one alone, without law and without rule, draws everything along by his will and caprices" (Italics in original)
In his book, the author stressed that a nation must retain a continuity if it is to survive. He quotes others on this necessity of holding to the eternal truths known by those who preceded us and I'll end with this blurb from the back of the book, written by Edmund Burke in his Reflections of the Revolution in France, 1790....."By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, as as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of summer."
I've covered the main themes of this book, Plunder And Deceit, Big Government's Exploitation Of Young People And The Future, but cannot convey the brilliance of this former top advisor in President Reagan's administration, for this brilliance emanates from a legal mind with a passionate love for this country.
