I, Light Bulb with Bonus eBook
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New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party. I, Light Bulb: A Death Row Testimonial as told to Michael Patrick Leahy, demonstrates how the American economy has gone from free markets to politically correct, government controlled crony capitalism in the half century since Leonard E. Read wrote the classic essay I, Pencil. Leahy tells the story of the ban on the current generation of incandescents from the perspective of a condemned 100 watt light bulb. In the voice of the light bulb, Leahy points out the need for political activism to reverse this ban, arguing that it not onlyprevents an innocent incandescent light bulb from continuing a useful economic life, it also deprives every American of their own economic liberty and freedom of choice.
Readers who buy I, Lightbulb will also receive the bonus companion e-book The Disastrous Lightbulb Ban by Howard Brandston, at no additional cost. Brandston, the internationally recognized expert on lighting most well known for lighting the Statue of Liberty, explains why the federal government's ban on the current generation of incandescent light bulbs is such a bad idea. He explains how in 2007 a Democrat controlled Congress, the lamp manufacturers, the Department of Energy, and George W. Bush combined to force us to replace inexpensive and safe incandescent light bulbs with expensive, unsafe Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs that contain mercury. In this companion book to I, Light Bulb, Brandston concludes by encouraging citizen political activism to repeal this ridiculous ban.
Michael Patrick Leahy
Michael Patrick Leahy is an innovative leader in both the tactics and strategy of grassroots conservative new-media activism. As cofounder of Top Conservatives on Twitter, Leahy helped to form the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition. With a BA from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford, he has more than two decades of private-sector experience in technology and communications. He is the author of several books, including Rules for Conservative Radicals. He lives in Tennessee.
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I, Light Bulb with Bonus eBook - Michael Patrick Leahy
I, LIGHT BULB
A Death Row Testimonial
as told to Michael Patrick Leahy
WITH A BONUS EBOOK:
THE DISASTROUS LIGHT BULB BAN
by Howard M. Brandston
BroadsideLogo_Revised_4-15-11.pdfContents
About Voices of the Tea Party
I, Light Bulb: A Death Row Testimonial, as told to Michael Patrick Leahy
The Disastrous Light Bulb Ban: How Congress, Lamp Manufacturers, the Department of Energy, and George W. Bush Brought a Potential Health and Safety Hazard into Your Home, by Howard M. Brandston
Also by Broadside Books
Copyright
About the Publisher
About Voices of the Tea Party
Voices of the Tea Party is a real-time collaborative forum for Tea Partiers around the country that delivers in-depth information on tactics, strategy, and policy from on-the-ground activists through the use of inexpensive and easy to download e-books. The series will serve the vibrant online community of everyday Americans who launched and continue to drive the Tea Party movement, by taking their collaborative discussions to a much higher level. Tea Party supporters around the country will now be able to instantly access best practices
that have succeeded elsewhere, hear the stories of others in the movement, and learn from Tea Partiers with specific policy ideas and expertise. Perhaps more important, they will be able to engage with other thought leaders by submitting their own e-book proposals for possible inclusion in the series. (Please see our website for details: broadsidebooks.net.) Readers and writers alike can thereby join the important national discussion within this ever-expanding community of citizen-activists who have dedicated themselves to securing the movement’s core values of constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets.
Series editor Michael Patrick Leahy has been one of the driving forces of the Tea Party movement from its inception. He’s a co-founder of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, which sponsored the very first national Tea Party demonstrations; the February 27, 2009, Nationwide Chicago Tea Party; and the April 15, 2009, Tax Day Tea Party. He is also the author of The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement, to be published by Broadside Books in January 2012. His website is http://www.michaelpatrickleahy.com.
Contents
I, Light Bulb
My Grandfather, Invented by Thomas Edison
My Father, the Tungsten Filament Bulb
I Am Born as a Soft Light Incandescent Light Bulb
I Am Sentenced to Die
Footnotes
About Michael Patrick Leahy
I, Light Bulb
I am a 100-watt incandescent light bulb and I have been sentenced to death by the federal government. I will be executed at one minute after midnight on January 1, 2012.
I serve but one purpose, and that is to cast light where there was none before. I do my job very well and very inexpensively. I do it so well, in fact, that every house and office in the United States is familiar with me or my siblings.
Last year, over one billion incandescent light bulbs like me and my siblings of the 40-watt and 60-watt variety were sold in the United States.¹ We joined over five billion incandescent light bulbs already at work throughout the country, available to provide pleasant light anywhere, anytime, at the turn of a switch.
And yet I stand wrongly accused and unjustly condemned, sentenced to die by the hand of Big Government.² How did this happen? What unseen forces put me on death row? The public needs to know the names of the villains who orchestrated this miscarriage of justice. Who conducted the kangaroo court filled with trumped up charges against me, brought by well-heeled lobbyists in $2,000 suits and Gucci shoes?
What powerful industry executives, stuck selling me at low prices and low profit margins, deceptively manipulated the government to force my execution, so they could replace me with unsafe, high-priced, high-margin, swirly spiraled Compact