Posted on 10/02/2008 3:57:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Millions for defense! Not one cent for paragraph tags...
Good article.
VDH get’s it in a BIG way.
Crickets chirping in the background...
If it's anything more profound, you'll have to elaborate.
There is no longer any doubt that they intend to distroy us by destroying the moral essence of the country. I have kept the following quote for many years:
“Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top.
May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny. May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state, but its morals.
May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet. May they all be soldiers.
May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good, but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders.”
Denis Diderot
Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782
Note:
1)Imported goods
2)Bill finally due
Albeit, the meddling of the government has hastened or exacerbated the current crisis.
Much like the "bill" for for the energy crisis is the result of decades of governmental neglect of domestic exploration/production. And when do you think the "bill" will come due for the following?
Before approving a massive financial bailout package Wednesday, the Senate attached language that would hit the oil and gas companies up for higher taxes to help fund tax credits for renewable energy and other tax breaks.The point is that you can't blame free-market economics for the sub-prime debacle (unless you're a Democrat), just as you can't blame it on me for buying imported beer. Nice try, though.
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The legislation would freeze the tax deduction oil and gas companies receive for their domestic manufacturing operations at 6 percent, while other American manufacturers will see that deduction rise to 9 percent in 2010.
Houston Chronicle, Package includes bite out of oil industry, October 1, 2008.
We have to send our dollars to countries who don't have our best interests in mind because we won't exploit the trillions of barrels of oil that exist on our own soil. Whose fault is that?
The government forces lenders to finance homes for deadbeats who will never be able to repay the loans and then demand the taxpayers bail them out when the worst occurs. Whose fault is that?
Now, as usual for you, you demand more government intervention to create a "level playing field" (like that ever exist anywhere) to appease your belief that America can't compete with the third-world. You've learned nothing from all of this and continue to do what you do best: whine. Will you be voting for change and hope in November? Maybe "The ONE" can protect you from the competition you fear so much.
I can’t read an article without paragraphs.
As far as I can tell, Mr. Hammer is against the bailout.
Ok. But he’s against the freedom to trade and has argued here for as long as I can remember that we need protectionism to save our economy. Who implements economic protection? Yes, that’s right, the fedgov. The same people who got us into the financial mess we find ourselves today. Hammer is against government intervention to stabilize our financial system but will be the first to demand government tariffs and quotas to protect American industry from competition. As if the fedgov can make life fair. I can’t think of one example of a level playing field. That’s because it doesn’t exist. I’m simply pointing out the hypocrisy.
Gotcha. I guess I’m just a freaky libertarian who opposes all of that as well as the bailout. A lot of people like to talk the talk when it comes to “free markets”, but I like to think folks like me walk the walk.
Gotcha? I have no idea what you’re talking about. You must be assuming facts not in evidence. Whatever makes you feel better about yourself.
You're totally misunderstanding. By "gotcha", I meant, "understood". I was just acknowledging the points you made in the previous post.
That’s the point, though: what sort of a person, when casting-about to find blame for the mess we find ourselves in, focuses on economic liberty as the cause? Who sees regulation as the cure for regulation? Think about that for a minute.
A confused person
Who sees regulation as the cure for regulation?
It seems like everyone but me sometimes. One one hand, you have people that want to tariff and regulate the hell out of everything, and then on the other hand, you've got people who support the bailout who are deluding themselves if they think that won't cause more regulation. And then you've got people like me who are considered libertarian kooks by all of the above for not wanting any of it. Go figure.
A liberal. Same thing. LOL!
And then you've got people like me who are considered libertarian kooks by all of the above for not wanting any of it.
I didn't want any of it (Fannie, Freddie, CRA, etc) either. But now, unfortunately, we need to do something. They'll f*** it up, because that's what Congress does, but I think the alternative could be worse.
Term limits, now! I wonder, are term limits okay with libertarians?
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