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Ballooning government? Millionaire welfare queens? Tort legal professionals run amok? A $330,000 outhouse, payed for with your tax dollars? John Stossel says, "Give me an escape."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 on the way, he pointed out that there is something a lot more troublesome happening: As 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 legal professionals make your life worse even while 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 suggestions to the public, his struggle to overcome stuttering, and his eventual realization that, for a long time, a lot of his reporting missed the idea.Stossel concludes the book with a modest proposal for change. It's a straightforward plan in the spirit of the Founding Fathers to ensure that America remains a location "where free minds -- and free markets -- make good things happen."
