A call to action from the bestselling author of The Dollar Meltdown.

Bestselling libertarian pundit Charles Goyette's new book makes a timely and eloquent argument for why a free economy produces wealth. The growth of federal power and its costly warfare and welfare spending have become the engine of America's runaway debt and are strangling our prosperity. We spend an incredible $1.2 trillion a year on state security, leading us toward inevitable bankruptcy, while transfer payments and social spending are equally unsustainable demographic time bombs.

Both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for the creation of the welfare/warfare state. While libertarians are frequently accused of antigovernment diatribes, Goyette's description of the reckless policies of both parties is sober and accurate.

Goyette highlights the dangers of increasingly centralized national economic planning and crony capitalism. He argues that restoring the American dream requires resolving our debt issue, renewing our failing monetary system, and ending the empire.