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# *Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government’s Stranglehold on America*

(William Morrow, 2012)

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Date and Time 

September 13, 2012 12 - 1 PM EDT 

Location 

Hayek Auditorium 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring the author **Matt Kibbe**, President and CEO, FreedomWorks; with comments by **Sen. Rand Paul (R‑KY)**, moderated by **John Samples**, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute. 

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The American enterprise system grew to be exceptional because of the principles on which it was built — individual freedom, decentralized knowledge, and accountable, constitutionally limited government. But, says Matt Kibbe, politicians in Washington have systematically replaced the dispersed genius of America with top-down dictates and expensive schemes designed to expand the power of insiders and protect the privileged positions of politicians, bureaucrats, and their cronies. In his new book, Kibbe proposes a different path. “Decentralized freedom” can return America to its founding values by breaking up centralized government’s monopoly on power and returning it to where it belongs: with We the People. Kibbe exposes the privileged collusion of Washington insiders and maps out a proven plan for how to return power from the self-appointed “experts” back to the people. Kibbe was dubbed by *Newsweek* “one of the Tea Party’s masterminds.” Please join us for a fresh and exciting look at past and coming changes in American politics. Kibbe will be joined by Sen. Rand Paul, a leader in advancing policies that are a return to the traditional American concern for liberty from government. Come hear how the nation went off track and how the government might be restored to its foundation in liberty.