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find the book disturbing, especially when you look at what is going on with
oil, war, banks, the economy, and education today.

In the book, Dr. Fuller states that the government puts their hands in
your pockets via taxation and turns that money over to their friends who
control multinational corporations. In other words, our elected officials,
congressmen and senators, do not represent the people, they represent big

business. Surprise!
In 2003, President George W. Bush and the Republicans in Congress
literally forced through the Prescription Drug Benefit bill. This bill is one of
the most expensive bills put through Congress in the last twenty years. The

cost to the American taxpayer is well over $500 billion. Soon after the bill
was passed a number of congressmen and staff were hired by the drug
companies, some at multimillion-dollar salaries. This is an example of
GRUNCH in action.

Other books you may want to read on this subject are:

The Dollar Crisis by Richard Duncan
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism by John Bogle
Empire of Debt by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin

I believe the value of looking at these four books is that each author

comes from a different discipline, and a different point of view. It is not a
single group of lunatic-fringe discontents criticizing the system. For
example, Dr. Fuller was a futurist. Richard Duncan is an international
banker. John Bogle is the founder of the Vanguard Group. Bill Bonner and
Addison Wiggin are international investment advisors. Four different books

from four different disciplines, all basically saying the same thing: people
are playing games with money and stealing it legally.

A New Set of Rules

Personally, I am not trying to change the system. My personal philosophy is
that it is easier to change myself than to change the system. In other words,
I am not a person who battles the winds that drive windmills. Hence, I am