Mark Steyn - After America : Get Ready for Armageddon DJV, EPUB, TXT
9781596981003 English 1596981008 "New York Times"-bestselling author Steyn argues that Barack Obama is moving the country toward a Scandinavian-style, big-government system that will stifle liberty and leave the world in a dangerous place., Mark Steyn, author of the New York Times bestseller America Alone, is back with his most brilliant and uproarious book yet: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. "In America Alone, I wrote that Europe was facing a largely self-inflicted perfect storm that threatened the very existence of some of the oldest nation-states in the world," says Steyn. "My warning proved so influential that America decided to sign up for the same program but supersized. Heigh-ho." Bitingly funny and wickedly clever, After America takes on Obama's disastrous plan for our nation, and reveals exactly what a post-American world could look like if we don't change our ways soon. Says Steyn: "Nothing is certain but debt and taxes. And then more debt. If the government of the United States had to use GAAP (the "Generally Accepted Accounting Practices" that your company and mine and the publishers of this book have to use), Uncle Sam would be under an SEC investigation and his nephews and nieces would have taken away the keys and cut up his credit card." Slim as it is, however, Steyn argues there is still hope: "Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea¿of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit your talents to the fullest - or you can join most of the rest of the western world in terminal decline. This is a battle for the American idea, and it's an epic one, but you can do anything you want to do. So do it." Hilarious, smart, and compelling, After America is Steyn at his best., Optimistic About America's Future?Don't Be. In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction.It's not just our looming financial collapse; it's not just a culture that seems on a fast track to perdition, full of hapless, indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for every problem; it's not just America's potential eclipse as a world power because of the drunken sailor policymaking in Washington-no, it's all this and more that spells one word for America: Armageddon.What will a world without American leadership look like? It won't be pretty-not for you and not for your children. America's decline won't be gradual, like an aging Europe sipping espresso at a cafe until extinction (and the odd Greek or Islamist riot). No, America's decline will be a wrenching affair marked by violence and possibly secession.With his trademark wit, Steyn delivers the depressing news with raw and unblinking honesty-but also with the touch of vaudeville stand-up and soft shoe that makes him the most entertaining, yet profound, columnist on the planet. And as an immigrant with nowhere else to go, he offers his own prescription for winning America back from the feckless and arrogant liberal establishment that has done its level best to suffocate the world's last best hope in a miasma of debt, decay, anddebility. You will not read a more important-or more alarming, or even funnier-book all year than After America.
9781596981003 English 1596981008 "New York Times"-bestselling author Steyn argues that Barack Obama is moving the country toward a Scandinavian-style, big-government system that will stifle liberty and leave the world in a dangerous place., Mark Steyn, author of the New York Times bestseller America Alone, is back with his most brilliant and uproarious book yet: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. "In America Alone, I wrote that Europe was facing a largely self-inflicted perfect storm that threatened the very existence of some of the oldest nation-states in the world," says Steyn. "My warning proved so influential that America decided to sign up for the same program but supersized. Heigh-ho." Bitingly funny and wickedly clever, After America takes on Obama's disastrous plan for our nation, and reveals exactly what a post-American world could look like if we don't change our ways soon. Says Steyn: "Nothing is certain but debt and taxes. And then more debt. If the government of the United States had to use GAAP (the "Generally Accepted Accounting Practices" that your company and mine and the publishers of this book have to use), Uncle Sam would be under an SEC investigation and his nephews and nieces would have taken away the keys and cut up his credit card." Slim as it is, however, Steyn argues there is still hope: "Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea¿of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit your talents to the fullest - or you can join most of the rest of the western world in terminal decline. This is a battle for the American idea, and it's an epic one, but you can do anything you want to do. So do it." Hilarious, smart, and compelling, After America is Steyn at his best., Optimistic About America's Future?Don't Be. In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction.It's not just our looming financial collapse; it's not just a culture that seems on a fast track to perdition, full of hapless, indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for every problem; it's not just America's potential eclipse as a world power because of the drunken sailor policymaking in Washington-no, it's all this and more that spells one word for America: Armageddon.What will a world without American leadership look like? It won't be pretty-not for you and not for your children. America's decline won't be gradual, like an aging Europe sipping espresso at a cafe until extinction (and the odd Greek or Islamist riot). No, America's decline will be a wrenching affair marked by violence and possibly secession.With his trademark wit, Steyn delivers the depressing news with raw and unblinking honesty-but also with the touch of vaudeville stand-up and soft shoe that makes him the most entertaining, yet profound, columnist on the planet. And as an immigrant with nowhere else to go, he offers his own prescription for winning America back from the feckless and arrogant liberal establishment that has done its level best to suffocate the world's last best hope in a miasma of debt, decay, anddebility. You will not read a more important-or more alarming, or even funnier-book all year than After America.