{"id":1233,"date":"2009-08-30T20:49:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2009-08-30T20:49:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:49:53","slug":"os-bookshelf-fleeced-by-dick-morris-and-eileen-mcgann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"OS Bookshelf &#8211; Fleeced by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Fleeced1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1235\" title=\"Fleeced\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Fleeced1.jpg\" alt=\"Fleeced\" width=\"115\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Fleeced1.jpg 322w, https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Fleeced1-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a>What I loved about this book is its&#8217; title.  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0061547778?tag=officiallyscr-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=0061547778&amp;adid=0XAV5D63XXCWC5Z9FHWY&amp;\">Fleeced<\/a><\/strong>.  Everywhere in the book where the word &#8220;fleeced&#8221; appears, you could swap in the words &#8220;officially screwed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The content is actually pretty good too.  It addresses several topics and how the American governments (both Republican and Democrat) are fleecing the tax payers.<\/p>\n<p>Morris covers several topics including the media, the do nothing Congress, pension funds, credit care companies, hedge fund billionaires, the Teachers Union and many others.  Each chapter also includes a bit of information on what people can do to fight being fleeced.<\/p>\n<p>What was very pleasing to see was a sentence in the conclusion that reminds me of this blog&#8217;s tagline &#8220;You either pay attention or pay through the nose. I would rather pay attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only way to avoid being fleeced by our own government is to pay attention to what our elected and appointed representatives are doing &#8211; or not doing &#8211; in Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although this book is geared towards the American system, the lesson to pay attention is important in all democratic nations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"15\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"15\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"15\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"15\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"15\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"15\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"15\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"15\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>8\/10 Screws<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I loved about this book is its&#8217; title. Fleeced. Everywhere in the book where the word &#8220;fleeced&#8221; appears, you could swap in the words &#8220;officially screwed&#8221;. The content is actually pretty good too. It addresses several topics and how the American governments (both Republican and Democrat) are fleecing the tax payers. Morris covers several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os-bookshelf","category-politics-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}