Posted on 02/14/2016 8:22:32 AM PST by MtnClimber
Bernie Sanders, greedy for power to punish people he considers greedy, has occasioned 2016's best joke (reported in Bloomberg Businessweek): "In the Bernie Sanders drinking game, every time he mentions a free government program, you drink someone else's beer."
But neither Sanders' nor Hillary Clinton/s hostility to the First Amendment is amusing. Both have voted to do something never done before - make the Bill of Rights less protective. They favor amending the First Amendment to permit government regulation of political campaign speech. Hence, they embrace "progressivism's" logic, as it has been explained separately and disapprovingly, by two eminent economists, Ronald Coase and Aaron Director:
There is no reason the regulatory, redistributive state should distinguish between various markets. So, government that is competent and duty-bound to regulate markets for goods and services to promote social justice is competent and duty-bound to regulate the marketplace of ideas for the same purpose.
(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...
Although I think George Will has become somewhat a squish lately, I think this article is very good.
Since all Progressives are brilliant geniuses, they should be given the power to bring the utopia of social justice to all fifty states. The the federal government will be the central soviet that directs the little soviets in the states to enforce the brilliant, intellectual edicts of the brilliant intellectual Progressives in Washington.
/S/
(The Constitution is slowing ebbing away if not gone already.)
IMHO
I look at Bernie and Hillary and I have to ask out of all the democrats in all the United States, these two are the very best they can get to run for president?
Americans have become so spoiled and complacent that their rights will be taken from them without so much as a whimper, until the police come kicking in the door because the wrong word slipped out at the wrong place. 1984 should be required reading in every high school, but it will more likely be banned instead.
I think 1984 and Atlas Shrugged should be required. The progressive teachers unions would stop it though.
Nixon torn the Constitution up before he left office ... its all been illusion since then.
“Nixon torn the Constitution up before he left office...”
How’d he do that?
Just asking.
IMHO
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How old are you? Were you an adult then? If you do not understand I’m not going to write a long post explaining when all you have to do is read history ... and I do not mean anything on Wiki.
"Remembering Nixon’s Wage and Price Controls By Gene Healy This article appeared in The DC Examiner on August 16, 2011. Remember "TARP," "Too Big to Fail," "Government Motors," "pay czar," the buzzwords of the Bush-Obama era? They reflected a disturbing trend toward presidential interference in economic life. Forty years ago this week, President Richard Nixon showed us just how dangerous unchecked executive power can be to the free-enterprise system. On Aug. 15, 1971, in a nationally televised address, Nixon announced, "I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States." After a 90-day freeze, increases would have to be approved by a "Pay Board" and a "Price Commission," with an eye toward eventually lifting controls - conveniently, after the 1972 election. Putting the U.S. economy "into a permanent straitjacket would - stifle the expansion of our free enterprise system," Nixon said. As President George W. Bush put it in 2008, sometimes you have to "abandon free-market principles to save the free-market system." There was no national emergency in the summer of '71: unemployment stood at 6 percent, inflation only a point higher than it is now. Yet, after Nixon's announcement, the markets rallied, the press swooned, and, even though his speech pre-empted the popular Western Bonanza, the people loved it, too - 75 percent backed the plan in polls. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman correctly predicted, however, Nixon's gambit ended "in utter failure and the emergence into the open of the suppressed inflation. "The people would pay the price - but not until after he’d coasted to a landslide re-election in 1972 over Democratic Sen. George McGovern."
Thanks. Will Do.
How will they regulate or stop sarcasm?
From my seat, I see this as an ongoing attempt to replace God for man.
Take what is or thought to be certain about creation and literally make everything uncertain.
So much uncertainty that truth becomes subjective.
As a result people are left with popular opinion and left to place their faith in Government.
“How old are you?”
Do you hate Mr. Nixon for his pursuit of Mr. Hiss?
Just asking.
“Remembering Nixon”
Do you also hate Mr. Nixon for his pursuit of the case against Mr. Hiss?
Just asking
No, I do not think everything he did was wrong. The wage and price controls were unconstitutional though.
Forgot about Hiss, but no ... the country was never the same just with less freedom with special rights for some. Look at the list of things that were, but were no more when he left, as well as the new things like the EPA and OSHA.
“No, I do not think everything he did was wrong.”
But, you certainly hate him for the Hiss matter.
IMHO
“Forget about Hiss, but no...the country was never the same...”
Your irrational glorification of Mr. Hiss will never be forgotten along with your mindless, limitless hatred of
Mr. Nixon; the country will never be the same because of it.
IMHO
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