The Government Racket: 2000 and Beyond

In 1992, Martin L. Gross shocked the nation with his New York Times bestseller, The Government Racket: Washington Waste from A to Z, after which he testified before Congress five times on hidden catastrophic waste. Now he has returned to the scene of the crime and found that things have gotten even worse. He shows how the claim that the "era of big government is over" is a blatant lie. With 2 percent inflation, federal spending rose 7 percent and is now more than $2 trillion annually. The Social Security fund is empty and $1.2 trillion in debt, while its FICA surplus is squandered on everything except the aged. In this provocative follow-up volume, the author outlines an encyclopedia of new waste, shows what happened to his previous suggestions to cut costs, and lays out a blueprint for government reform that could stop Washington's dysfunctional behavior.