Posted on 01/10/2009 11:39:17 AM PST by FocusNexus
Peter Schiff is on shows and can be seen on YouTube. I saw an old man named Rogers, I think it was Jim, on a TV economic show via YouTube.
What other contrarians are out there?
I wouldn't give him so much credit for succeeding yet...
Irland is losing their Dell plants to Poland this year. The WSJ article quoted an Irland government guy as saying that corporate tax rate of 12.5% alone isn't enough. There are also factors such as people make too much, regulation, and poor infrastructure.
For later.
Who and what will stop him?
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The ‘FDR made Depression worse’ fantasy
By Jay Bookman | Friday, January 2, 2009, 08:49 AMThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One the more remarkable aspects of the modern conservative movement is its eagerness to believe whatever it prefers to believe, whatever gives conservatives ammunition against their opponents, regardless of the facts and data and expert opinion.
The latest example of such behavior is the claim that FDR’s New Deal extended and deepened the Great Depression, a newly formed myth that is without any basis in fact. Yet it is embraced by some on the right solely because it bolsters their argument against policies proposed by President-elect Barack Obama.
Excerpt.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson
Most bad government has grown out of too much government. Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical Thomas Jefferson
For some of us, there was/is no mystery. Liberal socialist policies DON'T work.
The New Deal didn't work and OBama's New New Deal won't work either. Just like FDR, OBama is pushing economic policy that calls for increases in public works expenditures. That agenda is called Keynesianism and it undermines what is at the core of capitalism --- private sector spending. And just like FDR, OBama WILL raise taxes. FDR's tax increases in 1936 made overall conditions worse and killed off any chances for sustained economic recovery.
The Feds should be cutting taxes and cutting spending across the board. Instead, the socialist mantra for more and more government spending is at the core of OBama’s agenda.
Obamas mission is to destroy capitalism and he will succed.
Only if real American patriots allow it
Having enjoyed several civil e-mail exchanges with Mr. Bookman, I can assert -- with authority -- that this particular tendency is his problem, not ours. Jay is, as they say, "projecting".
Unlike many liberals, he's a nice guy. But he's not, shall we say, "the sharpest knife in the drawer"...
All of us and our disdain for lack of personal freedom....eventually.
More likely the bickering will result in "something for everyone".
Can’t this get discussed in the public, so that there is some back and forth about “stimulus policies�
Republicans in Congress requested a debate and discussion on this, but Obama and the Dems are trying to use scare tactics to stifle discussion and any facts from getting through.
Obama Cites Grim Economy At Start, as Past Presidents Have
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162299/posts
For every day we wait or point fingers or drag our feet, more Americans will lose their jobs. More families will lose their savings. More dreams will be deferred and denied,” he told an audience at George Mason University in Fairfax County. “And our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.”
I doubt that Obama has ever read the book, so how 'bout if we all start sending him a copy, thousands of copies of Atlas Shruggedflooding his mail box on inauguration day? We could also write a new reality show entitled, "Atlas Shrugged".
“Obamas mission is to destroy capitalism and he will succed.
Only if real American patriots allow it”
Just read the posts, many conservatives, or so they say, are supporting Obama and wishing for “Obama’s success”, not realizing that
1. Obama’s success is the achivement of his agenda, which is socialism, and:
2. “all that is needed for evil to succeed, is for good people to do nothing”.
A statement filled with truth from one who is experienced with political distrust.
I couldn't agree more El Gato.
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