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Pulling Weeds to Picking Stocks
By The Beatty Boys
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Dittos from me too!!
Congratulations to these young men for writing this book, getting it published, seeking out the most listened to advertising venue and for helping the U.S. Marines!! If Rush recommends it, I want it. I’m waiting for my copy since it’s already sold out. Thanks

Mediocre Capitalist Porn for Kids
Unlike most of the reviewers here, I’ve actually read this book. I’m not making assumptions about that either; almost all of the reviews say something like “I think this is just great! I can’t wait to read it!” Obviously you’re not going to get much other than vacuous assertions from this audience anyway. Plenty of people will buy this book because it reassures their fantasies about the Capitalist gang-bang, but I doubt many will read it.

I read the book in about an hour. I was hoping the book would not be 100% predictable, but unfortunately it was. I certainly applaud the boys for writing a book about something that interests them at such a young age. Any young person writing a book with competency on any subject would deserve a few stars simply for that. Bravo.

However, it is one of the worst books I’ve ever read. The writing is awful. I wouldn’t normally fault a group of kids too much for poor writing, but the subject matter is even worse. It is the unremarkable story of 3 white, middle class boys, with apparently no noteworthy obstacles or challenges, setting out to make a bunch of money and…making a bunch of money. I don’t recall any point in the book in which the authors put value on anything other than money, which I find particularly horrifying behavior especially for children of this age. Nowhere in the book do we read about how such wanton accumulation of personal wealth benefits the community or even the individual in any real way, other than the repeated, empty catch phrase of “investing in yourself.” This is basically the core of the book.

One thing that bothers me about all of the “buzz” surrounding the book is that many people are suggesting that the boys are selfless in some way. For instance, one review here says:
“I kept thinking about my nephew, whom only thinks about himself and his personal entertainment.”

I don’t understand how the activities outlined in this book are anything but selfish. Picking stocks may be a more constructive form of selfishness than playing video games, but it is selfish and self centered none the less. The boys themselves say on their blog “We are kids, and we want things.” I see nothing selfless, heroic, or even remarkable about that. I also see nothing desirable about the possibility of our children, at younger and younger ages, becoming capitalist prostitutes that value nothing but money. I applaud the boys for donating the profits from this book to families that were affected by senseless war, but even that effort comes off as an advertising gimmick more than anything.

And to all of the reviewers throwing “God Bless” around…remember that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Good luck, guys!
Like the rest of you, I heard about this on Rush’s show. I just ordered a copy for my wife’s 6th-grade classroom, although I’ll read it first. I only wish I had thought to have Rush promote my 2006 baseball trivia book….. ha!