Reviews for El Cucuy: En la Cumbre de la Pobreza

The average rating for El Cucuy: En la Cumbre de la Pobreza based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-30 00:00:00 Doyal Steward This is another situation where a "thinking" person starts out buying the standard line...the standard way of thinking and sets out to participate in it. Mr. Stossel was a consumer reporter for some time. he recounts here his intro into journalism, broadcast journalism, move to ABC and move to 20/20. (Since this book he has moved from ABC to Fox Network). After some years of exposing conmen/conpeople, debunking false product claims etc. he found himself becoming more and more aware that in spite of all the "new safety regulations" and government regulators the only thing being accomplished was the tying of peoples hands. From the series of small businesses "put out of business" not because they were unsafe but because regulations were now being used by "established business" and services to end competition (a small company running "small bus" type vans that got people to work faster than the city bus line and without the long wait, put out of business when the bus driver's union complained...or the two old ladies in North Carolina who were knitting mittens in their home and selling them to "get by" who were out out of business, "because they couldn't legally run a business from their home) to the little old ladie who was so short she was endangered by the airbag in her car and could not legally have it removed or disconnected. She finally had to get the help of her congressman. Good book that ought to scare us and ought to provoke us to scream that the regulators be shut down...but it won't. When Mr. Stossel (after a 3 year battle) finally got a program (or report) okayed (Scaring Ourselves) on the regulation mess and (as he says) he naively thought after he got an enormous positive response to the program that people would demand the return of their freedom. They/we didn't. As I said good book, read it, think about it...just think.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-21 00:00:00 Lori Goldfarb Oh these libertine Libertarians. Will they never stop chanting for individual rights and self-responsibility? What does Stossel think this is, a free country? His book Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... by John Stossel (Feb 1, 2005) seems to speculate that it could be, or at least should be, or maybe once was. This investigative reporter and former host of ABC's 20/20 TV program has spent decades delving into the skulduggery of government and private enterprise alike. Listen to him and you'd think both rich and poor want every handout they can get, and the federal government is more than willing to be just the one to give it to them. Stossel covers a lot of bases in this book and weaves them in with many anecdotes about his personal reporting experiences. Over-regulation, nannie state, vulture lawyers, super rich, junk science, OSHA, the FDA, free markets, cut the waste, free speech, and on and on and on. Each chapter starts with a quote from a famous person. One that says it all for me: "Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw. And: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain." Thomas Jefferson. (Doesn't that seem exactly where we're headed, if we haven't already arrived.) This book is easy reading and highly informative. I recommend it. C'mon Americans! Take your country, your LIVES, and your MINDS back!! Related links for John Stossel: