The 10 Big Lies About America shows why the solution to our economic downturn is not aggressive government programs. A quick look at history demonstrates in no uncertain terms that more government programs only exacerbate economic problems. They actually constrict the freedom that people come to America to find. Applying the same oppressive ideas and policies that poor countries use to strengthen the American economy is asking for failure. And believing that adopting policies which have failed in one country will work is, frankly, insane.

The very reason America has succeeded is that it grew into a nation that rejected the economically strangling trap of socialism -- the very formula that certain liberal politicians now tell us will save us.

Alarmingly, they think of government as if it were a parent. As President Clinton once stated, “We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its children.” This has never been an appropriate role of American government, and it carries no meaning in the spirit of the U.S. Constitution.

Difficult economic times do not call for new, bigger government programs, but for preserving the power of the people. Appropriately. Medved starts the book with something Ronald Reagan said in his January 1989 farewell address:

“We’ve got to teach history based not on what’s in fashion but what’s important …If we forget what we did, we won’t know who we are. I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit.”

The American spirit is still alive and well, but it won’t survive unless all of us are willing to fight for it. Thanks to Michael Medved and his terrific new book, The 10 Big Lies About America, you have the ammunition you need to do just that.