• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

Most Military Cuts Would Be Pork

Seth Mason writes:

During the “fiscal cliff” non-event debate, I noted that defense cuts would be okay because the U.S. military budget is far greater than the total defense spending of the rest of the developed world. (Considering the military quagmires in which we’ve found ourselves mired in recent years, that bloated budget certainly hasn’t been employed wisely.) Defense cuts are once again a possibility in this round of sequestration, and Bloomberg Businessweek published a must-see infographic that shows that 1) much of what would be cut would be contractor windfalls that have little to do with the defense of the nation, and 2) ironically, the majority of the cuts would be felt in Democrat districts. As far as I can tell, the only significant cut would be to one (1) health insurance plan. But the overwhelming majority of the employees who would be furloughed provide non-essential services. And servicemen can do without $33 million in lobster tails and other gourmet foods!

See the revealing infographic laying out the cuts.

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