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Big Government : Coakley Staffer Who Attacked Reporter Is an Obama Appointee

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:45:59 +0000

Thanks Mike you hit it in the head. Its disappointing to see the group think among the tea party.

Big Government : Coakley Staffer Knocks Reporter to the Ground

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:07:56 +0000

Fact: Election Eve, Monday, November 3rd, 2008: Scott Brown went on WTKK RADIO and urged voters to VOTE AGAINST Ballot Question 1, to END the Massachusetts state income tax. Scott Brown allied himself with the National and state Teachers Unions and SEIU (the government employees union that often works with ACORN) - against the taxpayers of Massachusetts. Fact: Scott Brown has been a state legislator for the last 11 years, but we can't find a single tax cut bill authored, sponsored, or introduced by him that would cut as little as 5% of state government revenue. Fact: Scott Brown has been a state legislator for the last 11 years, but we can't find even one spending cut bill authored, sponsored, or introduced by him that would cut as little as 5% of total state government spending. Fact: Scott Brown has been a state legislator for the last 11 years, but we can't find a single waste reduction bill authored, sponsored, or introduced by him that would cut waste as little as 5% of total spending. Polling shows that Massachusetts voters estimate that 41% of their taxes are wasted, but Scott Brown can't even find 5% government waste. Fact: The biggest tax and spending issue facing Massachusetts this year is our ballot initiative to roll back the sales tax from 6.25% to 3%. Yet we cannot find a single news account or mention at Scott Brown's legislative or campaign web sites where he takes a stand on this issue. He refuses to publicly endorse or campaign for our ballot initiative to roll back the sales tax -- even though it would give Massachusetts families 32,929 new private sector jobs. Fact: Scott Brown proudly proclaims that he was a key part of the team that designed RomneyCare, the Massachusetts health care reform bill endorsed and backed by Senator Ted Kennedy. Scott Brown helped write, voted for, and endorses the bill provision that forces all Massachusetts workers to buy medical insurance - or pay a penalty tax. (Remember when Bill Clinton swore that oral sex from Monica Lewinsky wasn't sex? Scott Brown, a lawyer, swears that this mandatory fee paid to the government is NOT a tax! ) And now, Scott Brown's provision requiring everyone to buy medical insurance - or pay a mandatory penalty tax - is a key part of the Nancy Pelosi-Harry Reid-Barack Obama Health Care Reform Bill.

Big Government : Coakley Staffer Who Attacked Reporter Is an Obama Appointee

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:07:23 +0000

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Hamilton Edition

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:54:14 +0000

Its refreshing to see that some people know the truth about the big govt. Hamilton

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Hamilton Edition

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:11:33 +0000

Your right but I doubt many people know their history. Or the distinction of Hamilton and Jefferson other than they are our founding fathers!

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Hamilton Edition

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:09:46 +0000

Yeah your right

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Hamilton Edition

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:08:25 +0000

Hahaha..... Hamilton's the same thing we have in Washingtion ie large deficits, central banking, fractional reserve banking, corporatism, bailouts, loose interpretation of the constitution and so on. What we have in Washington are Hamilton's bastard children called the Democrats and Republicans.

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Hamilton Edition

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:42:28 +0000

When Anna Schwartz, Michael Bordo, and Peter Rappaport evaluated this precursor to the Fed in an academic publication, they concluded that it was characterized by "monetary and cyclical instability, four banking panics, frequent stock market crashes, and other financial disturbances" (see their paper in Claudia Goldin, ed., Strategic Factors in Nineteenth-Century Economic Growth). Naturally, the government's response to all of this economic panic and instability caused by centralized banking was to create an even more centralized banking system with the Federal Reserve Act. Hamilton is perhaps best known among economists for his Report on Manufactures. In his 1905 biography of Hamilton, William Graham Sumner wrote that Hamilton's report advocated "the old system of mercantilism of the English school, turned around and adjusted to the situation of the United States." Thomas Jefferson also wrote that Hamilton's "schemes" for protectionism, corporate welfare, and central banking were "the means by which the corrupt British system of government could be introduced into the United States." They were right. Hamilton's reputation as having had great expertise in economics and finance has been greatly exaggerated, wrote Sumner, who also wrote that Hamilton's economic thinking was marred by "confusion and contradiction" and that Hamilton was "befogged in the mists of mercantilism." Unfortunately for us, all of Hamilton's bad ideas "proved a welcome arsenal to the politicians" who succeeded him, noted Sumner. At the constitutional convention Hamilton proposed a permanent president who would appoint all the governors of the states and would have veto power over all state legislation. His opponents correctly interpreted this as advocating a monarchy and, worse yet, a monarchy based on mercantilism. The reason for consolidating all political power first in the central government, and then in the hands of one man, the permanent president, was so that an American mercantilist empire could be centrally planned and controlled without any dissenters, such as tax protestors or free traders who resided in the various states. Hamilton (and his political heirs) understood that forced national uniformity is the only way in which such a central-planning scheme could work. The socialists of the 20th century understood this as well. Hamiltonian mercantilism is essentially the economic and political system that Americans have lived under for several generations now: a king-like president who rules through "executive orders" and disregards any and all constitutional constraints on his powers; state governments that are mere puppets of the central government; corporate welfare run amok, especially in light of the most recent outrage, the Wall Street Plutocrat Bailout Bill; a $10 trillion national debt ($70 trillion if one counts the government's unfunded liabilities); a perpetual boom-and-bust cycle caused by the Wizard of Oz–like central planners at the Fed; constant military aggression around the world that only seems to benefit defense contractors and other beneficiaries of the warfare state; and more than half of the population bribed with subsidies of every kind imaginable to support the never-ending growth of the state. This is Hamilton's curse on America — a curse that must be exorcized if there is to be any hope of resurrecting American freedom and prosperity.

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Hamilton Edition

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:42:22 +0000

The Founding Father of Crony Capitalism: What all this frantic Hamilton idolatry demonstrates is how the myth of Alexander Hamilton is the ideological cornerstone of the American system of crony capitalism financed by a huge public debt and legalized counterfeiting through central banking. It is this system that is the real cause of the current economic crisis We live in "Hamilton's republic," as the writer Michael Lind has proudly stated. Americans may like to quote Jefferson, George Will once wrote, but we live in Hamilton's country. This is true, but it is not the blessing that people like Lind, Will, and others proclaim. Just the opposite is true. The Real Hamilton Hamilton was the intellectual leader of the group of men at the time of the founding who wanted to import the system of British mercantilism and imperialistic government to America. As long as they were on the paying side of British mercantilism and imperialism, they opposed it and even fought a revolution against it. But being on the collecting side was altogether different. It's good to be the king, as Mel Brooks might say. It was Hamilton who coined the phrase "The American System" to describe his economic policy of corporate welfare, protectionist tariffs, central banking, and a large public debt, even though his political descendants, the Whig Party of Henry Clay, popularized the slogan. He was not well schooled in the economics of his day, as is argued by such writers as John Steele Gordon. Unlike Jefferson, who had read, understood, and supported the free-market economic ideas of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Baptiste Say (whom Jefferson invited to join the faculty of the University of Virginia), Richard Cantillon, and Turgot (a bust of whom still sits in the entrance to Monticello), Hamilton either ignored or was completely unaware of these ideas. Instead, he repeated the mercantilist myths and superstitions that had been concocted by apologists for the British mercantilist state, such as Sir James Steuart. Hamilton championed the cause of a large public debt — which he called "a public blessing" — not to establish the credit of the US government or to finance any particular public works projects but for the Machiavellian idea of tying the interests of the more affluent to the state: being government bondholders, they would, he believed, then support all of his grandiose plans for heavy taxation and a government much larger than what was called for in the Constitution. He was right. They, along with Wall Street investment bankers who have marketed the government's bonds, have always provided effective political support for bigger government and higher taxes. That is why Wall Street investment bankers were first in line for a bailout, administered by one of their fellow investment bankers, Treasury Secretary Paulson. Hamilton argued for a large standing army not because he feared an invasion by France or England, but because he understood that the European monarchs had used such armies to intimidate their own citizens when it came to tax collection. Evidence of this is the fact that Hamilton personally led some 15,000 conscripts into Western Pennsylvania (with George Washington) to attempt to quell the famous Whiskey Rebellion. He was eventually put in charge of the entire expedition, and rounded up two dozen tax protesters, every one of whom he wanted to hang. They were all pardoned by George Washington, however, to Hamilton's everlasting regret. In a publication entitled "A History of Central Banking in America" the Fed proudly labels Hamilton as its founding father, boasting that he even spoke just like a contemporary Fed chairman. The First Bank of the United States, which was opposed by Jefferson and Madison, created 72 percent inflation in its first five years of operation, as Murray Rothbard wrote in A History of Money and Banking in the United States. It was not rechartered in 1811, but was resurrected by Congress in 1817, after which it created America's first boom-and-bust cycle, which led to the Panic of 1819, the title of another of Rothbard's great works on American economic history. After years of generating political corruption and economic instability, Hamilton's bank finally came to an end by the early 1840s, thanks to President Andrew Jackson. This led to the twenty-year "free banking" era. Hamiltonian central banking was resurrected once again in the 1860s with the National Currency Acts. This is an important reason why some historians have labeled the postwar decades as a period of "Hamiltonian hegemony."

Big Government : There Is Something You Can Do to Stop Obamacare

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:42:52 +0000

Hahahahahaha Another major drive is to stop ObamaCare with Brown depriving the crucial 60th vote, a reason so laughable as to hardly merit an explanation. Truth is, if the Democrats want to pass ObamaCare then they will do so whether Brown wins or not. Not only can Reid convince Republican Senators Snowe or Collins, but Pelosi can accept the current Senate version of the bill allowing ObamaCare to sail into Obama's office before Brown's jet lands in Washington DC. As the last remaining reason, regrettably ignorance continues to persist despite the mounting fiscal problems and cries of "throw the bums out". Most supporters outside this state have no clue about Brown's legislative record and it is imperative they discover the truth before it’s too late. Of course there will always be a segment of the population falling for the song and dance, but the support being generated is coming from sources that claim to be experts on all things political!

Big Government : There Is Something You Can Do to Stop Obamacare

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:37:31 +0000

Who is Scott Brown? A professional politician skilled in beautifully weaving songs of fiscal responsibility and bucking the trend, a trend not too difficult to buck in a state where government is the panacea, terrorists get asylum, Columbus is evil and the American flag is a source of embarrassment. A state Senator serving during Romney's administration supporting and voting for billions in additional spending, millions of dollars in fee hikes and the utterly broken MassCare system known as RomneyCare. A man who voted for a property tax hike in his town of Wrentham, purposely overriding proposition 2 ½ designed to keep property taxes limited. A man who went on air to publicly speak out against ending the state income tax on the 2008 ballot and returning 12 billion dollars back into the pockets of Massachusetts citizens. Claiming that depriving 12 billion from the State coffers is reckless, despite knowing full well that the state spent almost 49 billion in 2008! A man who proudly speaks of his involvement in RomneyCare, a plan widely endorsed by both Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton champions of universal single payer health systems. Yet virtually everyone from CATO to WSJ confirmed RomneyCare’s dismal failure. In fact, Scott Brown in a debate just yesterday announced that he will go to Washington and bring RomneyCare with him. "I helped write it....I would be happy to go down there and tell them how we did it" RomneyCare forces individual mandates upon citizens of Massachusetts resulting in steep penalties for those refusing to pay. RomneyCare has skyrocketed insurance premium costs doubling the national average while extending wait time for doctors by weeks and sometimes months! This is what Scott Brown is proud of and this is what he is planning to bring to Washington DC. Ted Kennedy’s favorite claim was that health care coverage is a right, not a privilege. So does Scott Brown: "I do believe everyone is entitled to health care coverage" To make such an assertion in a country where no one is denied treatment is truly disturbing. A right to health insurance is as much of an abomination as an individual mandate, a direct and immediate move to collectivism. Patriots and activists are you listening? Who is Scott Brown? A big government Republican and a sellout posing as a conservative while riding on a wave of populism spurred on by the Tea Party movement.

Big Government : There Is Something You Can Do to Stop Obamacare

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:35:05 +0000

Thats why Brown isn't a good choice! He openly supported and still supports Romney care! "In fact, Scott Brown in a debate just yesterday announced that he will go to Washington and bring RomneyCare with him." "I helped write it....I would be happy to go down there and tell them how we did it"

Big Government : There Is Something You Can Do to Stop Obamacare

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:32:51 +0000

Big Government : There Is Something You Can Do to Stop Obamacare

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:27:42 +0000

Voting for Scott Brown and big government Republicans is a fatal mistake: Who is Scott Brown? A professional politician skilled in beautifully weaving songs of fiscal responsibility and bucking the trend, a trend not too difficult to buck in a state where government is the panacea, terrorists get asylum, Columbus is evil and the American flag is a source of embarrassment. A state Senator serving during Romney's administration supporting and voting for billions in additional spending, millions of dollars in fee hikes and the utterly broken MassCare system known as RomneyCare. A man who voted for a property tax hike in his town of Wrentham, purposely overriding proposition 2 ½ designed to keep property taxes limited. A man who went on air to publicly speak out against ending the state income tax on the 2008 ballot and returning 12 billion dollars back into the pockets of Massachusetts citizens. Claiming that depriving 12 billion from the State coffers is reckless, despite knowing full well that the state spent almost 49 billion in 2008! A man who proudly speaks of his involvement in RomneyCare, a plan widely endorsed by both Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton champions of universal single payer health systems. Yet virtually everyone from CATO to WSJ confirmed RomneyCare’s dismal failure. In fact, Scott Brown in a debate just yesterday announced that he will go to Washington and bring RomneyCare with him. "I helped write it....I would be happy to go down there and tell them how we did it" RomneyCare forces individual mandates upon citizens of Massachusetts resulting in steep penalties for those refusing to pay. RomneyCare has skyrocketed insurance premium costs doubling the national average while extending wait time for doctors by weeks and sometimes months! This is what Scott Brown is proud of and this is what he is planning to bring to Washington DC. Ted Kennedy’s favorite claim was that health care coverage is a right, not a privilege. So does Scott Brown: "I do believe everyone is entitled to health care coverage" To make such an assertion in a country where no one is denied treatment is truly disturbing. A right to health insurance is as much of an abomination as an individual mandate, a direct and immediate move to collectivism. Patriots and activists are you listening? Who is Scott Brown? A big government Republican and a sellout posing as a conservative while riding on a wave of populism spurred on by the Tea Party movement. ............ If you want to read the rest look at the link: http://www.rightcondition.com/2010/01/voting-for-...

Big Government : Our National Debt is Growing to Immoral and Unsafe Proportions

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:23:04 +0000

"The central truth about the Civil War is that it was not simply a conflict between North and South; it was a conflict between the Southern states and the federal government. The federal government won, and the Feds have been winning ever since." That is John Avery Emison's bold and controversial premise in Lincoln Uber Alles: Dictatorship Comes to America, which "takes almost everything you learned in school about the Civil War and turns it right-side up." Debunking the myth that the Civil War was a war for racial justice, Emison reveals that it was actually a battle over the economic disparities between the North and the South. By examining Supreme Court findings, he demonstrates not only that the Southern states were well within their rights to withdraw from the Union in 1860, but also that secession is still legal today. And, by illustrating how Abraham Lincoln's tyrannical presidency paved the way for today's bloated "Leviathan" government, Emison brings his subject into the twenty-first century and puts forth his fear for the future.

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Pearl Harbor Edition

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:23:21 +0000

1. By January l, 1941, Roosevelt had decided to go to war with Japan. 2. But he had solemnly pledged the people he would not take their sons to foreign wars unless attacked. Hence he dared not attack and so decided to provoke the Japanese to do so. 3. He kept all this a secret from the Army and Navy. 4. He felt the moment to provoke the attack had come by November. He ended negotiations abruptly November 26 by handing the Japanese an ultimatum which he knew they dared not comply with. 5. Immediately he knew his ruse would succeed, that the Japanese looked upon relations as ended and were preparing for the assault. He knew this from the intercepted messages. 6. He was certain the attack would be against British territory, at Singapore perhaps, and perhaps on the Philippines or Guam. If on the Philippines or Guam he would have his desired attack. But if only British territory were attacked could he safely start shooting? He decided he could and committed himself to the British government. But he never revealed this to his naval chief. 7. He did not order Short to change his alert and he did not order Kimmel to take his fleet out of Pearl Harbor, out where it could defend itself, because he wanted to create the appearance of being completely at peace and surprised when the Japs started shooting. Hence he ordered Kimmel and Short not to do any thing to cause alarm or suspicion. He was completely sure the Japs would not strike at Pearl Harbor. 8. Thus he completely miscalculated. He disregarded the advice of men who always held that Pearl Harbor would be first attacked. He disregarded the warning implicit in the hour chosen for attack and called to Knox’s attention. He disregarded the advice of his chiefs that we were unprepared. 9. When the attack came he was appalled and frightened. He dared not give the facts to the country. To save himself he maneuvered to lay the blame upon Kimmel and Short. To prevent them from proving their innocence he refused them a trial. When the case was investigated by two naval and army boards, he suppressed the reports. He threatened prosecution to any man who would tell the truth. Now, if there is a shred of decency left in the American people they will demand that Congress open the whole ugly business to the light of day.

Big Government : Robert Rubin: The Nexus Of Big Government and Wall Street

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:29:05 +0000

Here's a post from economist Alex Tabarrok: Many wise people are now recognizing that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was one of the few saving graces of the current crisis. Let's thank President Clinton (and Phil Gramm) for that wise bit of deregulation. Given a history like this people wonder how repealing the law could have been a good thing. The following potted history of the law, however, is all too typical: "Glass-Steagall was one of the many necessary measures taken by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress to deal with the Great Depression. Crudely speaking, in the 1920s commercial banks (the types that took deposits, made construction loans, etc.) recklessly plunged into the bull market, making margin loans, underwriting new issues and investment pools, and trading stocks. When the bubble popped in 1929, exposure to Wall Street helped drag down the commercial banks....The policy response was to erect a wall between investment banking and commercial banking." But a significant academic literature has investigated these claims and rejected them. Eugene White, for example, found that national banks with security affiliates were much less likely to fail than banks without affiliates. Randall Kroszner (now at the Fed.) and Raghuram Rajan found that (jstor) securities issued by unified banks were (ex-post) of higher quality that those issued by investment banks. A powerful bookby George Benston went through the entire Pecora hearings which supposedly revealed the problems with unified banking and found them to be a complete sham. My colleague, Carlos Ramirez later showed that the separation of commercial and investment banking increased the cost of external finance (jstor). Finally, my own work (pdf) unearthed the real reasons for the separation in a titanic battle between the Morgans and Rockefellers. Thus, the history of banking before Glass-Steagall and now our recent experience after is consistent, generally speaking unified banking is safer and repeal was a good idea."

Big Government : Debate on PelosiCare: Crunch Time Tonight in DC

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:18:50 +0000

I know this won't make me popular around here but it's truth. The Republican bill isn't exactly the most friendly to the free market. In fact it intrudes upon it. Here's an excerpt from an article I read: "Today, the House of Representatives will vote on a 2,000 page bill to give the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The bill will no doubt pass. It will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure. We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party....Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. Think about it. Government is the negation of freedom. Freedom is your power and ability to follow your own free will and your own conscience. The government wants you to follow the will of some faceless bureaucrat." -Andrew Napolitano

Big Government : So, How's That Stimulus Thing Working For You?

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:59:15 +0000

But were talking about U-3 unemployment not U-6!

Big Government : Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand's legacy

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 01:08:16 +0000

"The goal of the 'liberals'—as it emerges from the record of the past decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot—by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli. (The goal of the “conservatives” was only to retard that process.)" -Ayn Rand