Give Me a Break
- Author: John Stossel
- Narrator: John Stossel
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 5:41:12
Synopsis
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."
Chapters
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Chapter 001
Duration: 11min -
Chapter 002
Duration: 14min -
Chapter 003
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 004
Duration: 13min -
Chapter 005
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 006
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 007
Duration: 12min -
Chapter 008
Duration: 16min -
Chapter 009
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 010
Duration: 13min -
Chapter 011
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 012
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 013
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 014
Duration: 19min -
Chapter 015
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 016
Duration: 08min -
Chapter 017
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 018
Duration: 16min -
Chapter 019
Duration: 14min -
Chapter 020
Duration: 12min