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Comment by Nathan on August 23, 2012 at 1:24pm

Shrink YOUR Government

The debate about shrinking government is mostly wishful thinking ... With the selection of Paul Ryan as the Republican vice-presidential candidate, it is clear both political parties agree that the central issue in the coming presidential election will be the scale and scope of government involvement in the U.S. economy. There will be disagreement over what constituted "normal" levels of spending in the past and indeed over what constitutes "spending." But there is a widespread view in both parties that it is feasible and desirable that in the future the federal government will be no larger as a share of the overall economy than it has been historically. Unfortunately, this aspiration is unlikely to be achieved. Even preserving the amount of government functions the U.S. had before the financial crisis will require substantial increases in the share of the economy devoted to the public sector. This is the case for several structural reasons. – Reuters/Lawrence H. Summers

Dominant Social Theme: The path we are on toward larger government and more federal expenditures in the US (and the West) is an inevitable one. We have no choice other than to live this way and discuss what (helpful) services we will disallow.

Free-Market Analysis: Here comes Lawrence H. Summers to tell us that shrinking the US federal Leviathan is at least improbable. Summers is very good at this kind of thing. After Milton Friedman passed away, he wrote an article entitled, "We're all Friedmanites Now."

Of course, who really would want to be a "Friedmanite," the man most responsible for the US graduated income tax, who believed in steady state monopoly central banking, who campaigned against the draft but ended up giving the US its all-volunteer army?

With this statement as in so many other ways, Summers provides us a head-fake in one direction – toward free markets – while listing evermore leftward. This is, of course, the ambit of his career. He's very good at it.

Continue: http://thedailybell.com/4206/Shrink-YOUR-Government

Comment by Tara on August 23, 2012 at 10:27am

Talk about striking a deal with the devil hey? Ron Paul, Jesse Benton and company just a "tip toeing through the tulips" by playing nice. It's politics as usual yet again.

Comment by Nathan on August 23, 2012 at 10:05am

An update on the circus: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/ron-paul-strikes-deal-...

Comment by Nathan on August 21, 2012 at 3:26pm

:D Couldn't say, Troy. Not following the reindeer games. I just googled Paul delegates and the link below is what I came up with.

Politics, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any. (apologies to J. Rostand)

Comment by Nathan on August 21, 2012 at 3:13pm

Hmm..

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/21/ron-paul-delegates-...

Comment by Nathan on August 20, 2012 at 11:20am

http://thedailybell.com/4197/Anthony-Wile-Gerald-Celente-on-the-Upc...

Comment by Misteri on August 19, 2012 at 11:53pm

Gracious troy, mi casa su casa.

Comment by Nathan on August 14, 2012 at 12:01pm

Mythperceptions and a vision of freedom

Urge people to free themselves, or even offer a little good news about freedom, and somebody is bound to retort with some anti-freedom myth. Two big ones that have made appearances in recent comment sections here at Ye Olde Blog are:

Government is so powerful it’ll stop us. (It’ll disarm us, cut off our ‘Net access, round us all up and put us in camps, etc.)

Yes, but there will still be people who … (Want to take our guns, support government programs, can’t handle freedom, etc.)

That second one doesn’t look like a myth on its face. There will always be people who want to use power to oppress others. There will always be people who don’t hold our values (in fact, from year-to-year we may not even hold our own values). But the statement expresses a myth: We can’t be free until everyone agrees with us.

And you know what? Those statements are just a big lazy pair of excuses.

continue: http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2012/08/12/mythperce...

Comment by suzie on August 14, 2012 at 3:15am

Troxel~   'Rigged' is my favorite it is on the record before congress that the vote can be flipped ~Nuf said as far as i am concerned ~did they do anything NO! 

Comment by Ken Troxel on August 14, 2012 at 3:03am

If you only watch 2 of the 5 video's i posted below, watch Spoonamore and "Rigged USA Elections Exposed"

Thanks

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