Eric the Red

With this being a congressional election year, I decided to brush up on political behavior. Below are the three books I’m reading this spring:

These are:

“Mugged by the State” is especially relevant these days because of Kelo v. City of New London, where the Supreme Court decided that seizing an individuals property for a private real estate developer. It also discusses other outrageous instances where over-reaching regulation is used to squash the economic advancement of mostly low-income families. Not surprising, this is done by mostly left-wing pro-”working man” governments run by Democrats and their ilk. In the wake of Kelo, the city of New London served the displaced residents with rent bills for illegally occupying city property.