Sep

22

Bush’s New Deal 2008: The Bush Bailout

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Franklin Delano Bush and his Republocrat brain trust at work. Are we frigging doomed yet?
He cries “EMERGENCY!” again this time to open up another front on American soil, adding more insult to injury to previous insults and injury. Unlike his progressive forerunner FDR who asked Congress to give him “broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.” , this modern day Plutocratic Kleptocrat doesn’t even need to ask because he knows his congress has no constitutional or moral conscience at all—except a fringe few like Ron Paul. Happy days are here again, they’ve risen the public debt ceiling another trillion dollars or so; all that needs to be done is divvy up the loot and claim victory. It will be a bipartisan victory, progressive Democrats and progressive Republicans snout to snout at the trough.

From the Buffalo News yesterday:
“The proposal is a mere three pages long, but it gives sweeping powers to the government to dispense gigantic sums of taxpayer dollars in a program that would be sheltered from court review.”

Court review? Who needs that say the fascist rulers, we’ve gotta cover our tracks. No prying constitutional eyes allowed.

Bush sees the aftermath of his “ownership society”, that inflationary smoke screen that was supposed to cover the debilitating economic effects of wars and empire—at least until he was safely out of office. Time and economic law was not on his side, but the sheltered rich boy is still disconnected from the reality of what his warfare-welfare state has already done.

”Bush said he worried the financial troubles “could ripple throughout” the economy and affect average citizens. “The risk of doing nothing far outweighs the risk of the package. . . . Over time, we’re going to get a lot of the money back.”

Ya, I can see that the company line from his advisers is that this will be another one of those costless wars, the kind that is supposed to pay for itself—like Iraq. Hold on to your wallets.

Sep

17

BreakTheMatrix: Republocrat Campaign Song

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Sep

17

What the Anti-Free Market Capitalists are up too

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That would be the FED and their Wall Street cronies for the unenlightened.
Thomas Jefferson knew the dangers of a central bank and fiat money in his time.
“Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs.” –Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814

And he knew that they would corrupt everything they touched including the Congress.
“The bank mania… is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties.” –Thomas Jefferson to Josephus B. Stuart, 1817.

Now back to the moneyed aristocracy of our time:

Free market capitalism: A ‘peek behind the curtain’

“It is a popular myth that financial markets are based on principles of capitalism,” observes Ron Rowland in his All Star Investor newsletter, adding, “but the opposite is closer to the truth.”

Assessing what he calls the Federal Reserve’s moves to “buy Wall Street,” he offers a straight-forward overview of the current situation and a “peek behind the curtain” of free markets and Wall Street.


READ ON

Sep

11

Ron Paul on Glenn Beck 09/10/08

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Sep

10

Ron Paul & Ralph Nader with Wolf Blitzer 09/10/08

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Sep

10

Ron Paul & Ralph Nader with Wolf Blitzer 09/10/08

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Sep

8

Dental Socialism: Another Mental Abscess

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Hungarian capitalists come to rescue socialized patients from that collection of pus called bureaucrats.

Britons head abroad for dentists

Sinead Garvan
Newsbeat reporter in Lincoln

It might be a good place for a stag party or cheap weekend away but would you go all the way to Hungary just to get your teeth seen to?
One company reckons it is the answer to shelling out hundreds or even thousands of pounds on treatment in the UK.
The Hungarian Dentist Travel Company is spending the next week touring the country with a tent as their consultation room.

READ ON AT THE BBC

HT DISINTER

Sep

6

Bob Conley the Jeffersonian vs. Lindsey Graham “McCain’s Mini Me”

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“If a Democrat running to the right of the Republican seems a bit odd, it should be kept in mind that the Republican Party has been moving to the left. In fact, many Republicans are “neoconservatives” who promote a corporate-socialist-internationalist agenda under the banner of Republican conservatism. Neoconservatism has become so prevalent within the Republican Party that some conservatives have left the party in disgust.”

Bob Conley defeated a leftist Democrat in the primary and seems to be at battle not only with Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham but with the far left controlled South Carolina Democratic Party which as Conley was quoted s aying recently is “betraying members by implicitly supporting Graham”.
As would be expected, the far left finds a neocon like Lindsey Graham far more palatable to their big government tastes than a Jeffersonian Paulite like Bob Conley. Let’s hope the South Carolina voters wake up this time and smell the duplicity of the Republican and Democratic machines. As the great Jeffersonian Democrat Grover Cleveland once said, “It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.”

Read about The New Democrat in the NEW AMERICAN

HT Patrick Krey

Sep

6

Bob Barr on that empty suit McCain

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“We’re going to recover the peoples trust by standing up again to the values Americans admire. The party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan is going to get back to basics” - John McCain

In other words the party of war, corporate welfare, the regulatory state, expanded executive power and big government is what the American people want according to John McCain.
As a Jeffersonian the legacy left by those presidents is not exactly something I admire.

Sep

5

I McCain

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Lew Rockwell summed up McCain’s acceptance speech nicely in one paragraph so if you didn’t watch it, you don’t have to suffer through it.

The Republican National Convention is not a convention at all, but more like a staged coronation made for TV not unlike the horrendous spectacle of the Democratic National Convention.
A real convention would have a lot of competition amongst different delegates for different candidates, yelling, sign waving and general anarchy. Instead McCain black hat storm troopers roamed the aisles ready to put down any sign of true republicanism and dissent from neocon dogma. The roll call vote was a joke. In a McCain world, freedom is not popular.
I admit I didn’t watch the entire spectacle mainly because I couldn’t, but what I did see was one boring, deceiving, fear mongering, heart string pulling speaker after another. Of course if you are politically naïve and a dupe for snake oil salesman you probably thought it was just dandy. Then again you probably think the neocons are the defenders of limited government, peace, capitalism, the constitution, and fiscal responsibility too. Well the jokes on you sucker, maybe someday you’ll wake up and smell the fascism.