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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Hardcover)

by Glenn Beck (Author), Kevin Balfe (Author)

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Hardcover: 325 pages
Publisher: Threshold Editions (Sep 29 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416595015
ISBN-13: 978-1416595014
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19.3 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg

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FUNNY.

FRIGHTENING.

TRUE.

It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.

Just go away! you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is...

...this book.

Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck's Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts.

And this book is full of them.

The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence, you'll tell them all about England's handgun ban (see page 53). When they tell you that we should copy the UK's health-care system, you'll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244. And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you'll stop saying "no, they won't" and you'll start saying, "actually, eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just $8 a year more on produce." (See page 139.)

Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth.

About the Author

Glenn Beck, the nationally syndicated radio and Fox News television show host, is the author of three previous #1 New York Times bestsellers: An Inconvenient Book, Glenn Beck's Common Sense, and the novel The Christmas Sweater. His children's version of The Christmas Sweater is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster and America's March to Socialism is available now from Simon & Schuster Audio or downloadable from Simon & Schuster Online. He is also the author of The Real America and publisher of Fusion magazine. Visit www.glennbeck.com.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Finally A Modern Primer for the Political Dissident, Nov 14 2009

By	Ian Gordon Malcomson (Smithers, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

The popular right-wing TV talkshow host, Glenn Beck, has finally come out with his rubric on what makes for sensible and effective government in the United States. In the space of three-hundred pages, Beck and an associate lay a blueprint by which America can survive quite handily with considerably less government. The book, while heavily encased in political rhetoric and polemic, does a thorough job in raising public awareness as to why 30-40% Americans feel that Washington - a euphemism for big government - continually gets in the way of progress and common sense with some of its heavy-handed approaches to problem solving. The basis for this argument is a straightforward question-and-answer format that probes why many people still cling to the notion that government is there to help them in their economic and social needs. In a nutshell, governments get in the way of progress and individual freedom of choice because they create dependency on badly-run programs, they discourage competition, they squander tax dollars on boondoggles, and, above all else, they manipulate the truth by not fully informing the public as to the true facts of the matter. For each of these contentions, Beck trots out some pretty-standard statistics that reveal in his mind the glaring truth that big government is patently incompetent. While he might be making a philosophical case on one hand for less government, he doesn't make strong case for how it might look in terms of greater deregulation. Conveniently, very little is mentioned as to how deregulation of the banking industry got us into this present fix. His only answer to overcoming a recession seems to lie along the lines of letting market forces do their thing in creating a stronger economy. For him, Washington's bailing out companies with TARP money is what has caused the present deficit crisis. This colorfully-presented book makes for interesting reading if only to present why a certain portion of the American public is sworn to defend the constitution in the interests of eliminating what they see as excessive and unwarranted interference in their personal lives. Read this book with the idea that reality lies somewhere in between too much and too little governmental presence.

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