The Government Racket 2000 (Record no. 1417)
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| fixed length control field | 01409nam a2200193 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 99046774 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780380787845 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 42420865 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HJ2051 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 336.73 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Martin L. Gross |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Government Racket 2000 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Avon Books (P) |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 294 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In 1992, Martin L. Gross shocked the nation when he blew the whistle on catastrophic government profligacy in his New York Times bestseller THE GOVERNMENT RACKET: Washington Waste from A to Z. Now he's returned to the scene of the crime and found that things have gotten even worse. He details dozens of new ways Washington has thrown away our hard-earned tax dollars. He details classic pork projects, such as highway projects and ever-delayed, over-budget mass transit systems. He examines politically self-serving radio ads, military junkets and political conventions. He tries to figure out how many billions the government squanders on telephone service. And he shows how we run through $4 billion a year on 127 different youth programs. He revisits the waste and pork he originally exposed-and discovers that little has been done to eradicate it. So he lays out his own blueprint for the twenty-first century, what needs to be done and quickly to create a Washington free of waste and corruption. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Government |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Politics |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 336.73 GROS | 30911 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |