02791cam a2200421 i 4500 1609085721 TxAuBib 150909s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015373212 9781451606300 hardcover 1451606303 hardcover 9781451606331 PB $9.69 1451606338 PB $9.69 TxAuBib rda Levin, Mark R., 1957-, (Mark Reed.) Plunder and Deceit [PB] : Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future / Mark R. Levin. First Threshold Editions paperback edition. New York, NY : Threshold Editions, 2015. viii, 244 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nb rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Plunder and deceit -- On the debt -- On social security -- On medicare and Obamacare -- On education -- On immigration -- On the environment -- On the minimum wage -- On national security -- On the constitution -- A new civil rights movement. In modern America, talk radio host Levin argues, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to tolerate, if not enthusiastically champion, grievous public policies that threaten their children and successive generations with a grim future at the hands of a brazenly expanding and imploding entitlement state poised to burden them with massive debt, mediocre education, waves of immigration, and a deteriorating national defense. Levin's latest book is an appeal to reason and audacity -- one intended for all Americans but particularly the rising generation. Younger people must find the personal strength and will to break through the cycle of statist manipulation, unrelenting emotional overtures, and the pressure of groupthink, which are humbling, dispiriting, and absorbing them; to stand up against the heavy hand of centralized government, which if left unabated will assuredly condemn them to economic and societal calamity. 20160829. sr YBP 20151211. copy 20160209 aw. Federal government United States. Conservatism United States. Civil society United States. Youth United States. Youth Government policy United States. Liberty. Decentralization in government United States. United States Social policy. United States Politics and government.