The Free Market:A School of Virtue

"Does the market inspire people to greater practical virtue, or does it eviscerate what little virtue any of us have"?

http://www.ocpathink.org/publications/perspective-archives/december-2009-volume-16-number-12/?module=perspective&id=2349.

Do you understand the different Economic Theories?

This is a great YouTube video that illustrates the differences between the Keynesian School of Economics espoused by John Maynard Keynes and the Austrian School of Economics espoused by FA Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. This is both entertaining and informative. Enjoy!

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjA0ZDk2ODVkNWJkODI5NDZhN2U0N2VmZjUxY2UzY2E=

Thought for the day

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.... We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price."
-- Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President

Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome

http://townhall.com/content/f3741f44-62ec-456f-a4a1-25ced4a47a05

This is a funny video you have got to see!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4aQCiRjvZY

Thoughts from Ronald Reagan

"We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development."

"I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts."
-- Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
Source: Farewell Address, 11 January 1989

US Drops in Economic Freedom Ranking

For the first time ever, the U.S. has dropped out of the free category and fallen to mostly free in the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom. Of the world’s 20 largest economies, the U.S. has suffered the largest drop in economic freedom. It’s clear why our economy is failing to generate jobs. To see other highlights from the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, click the link below:

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An Open Letter to Democrats and Republicans

These are shots fired across the bow! Check out the YouTube Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNLU2CURkU&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNLU2CURkU&feature=player_embedded

A Call for the Separation of State and Economics

In "Tea Parties" across the country, Americans are rebelling against government's explosion of spending and controls since the onset of the financial crisis - and it's about time. If ever there was a time to protest, it is now. Here is one perspective from the Ayn Rand Center.

http://www.aynrand.org/site/DocServer/separation_of_econ_and_state_long.pdf

Martin Luther King Jr. held these truths. Do You? This is a great piece from the Heritage Foundation.

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Conservative Thoughts from Thaddeus McCotter

Nice article in The American Spectator about Thaddeus McCotter(R), Michigan. A five-point summary of the fundamental principles that guide him include: "Our liberty is from God, not the government; our sovereignty rests in our souls, not the soil; our security is through strength, not surrender; our prosperity is from the private sector, not the public sector; and our truths are self-evident, not relative."

There is also an article in TAS entitled "All the President's Regulators". If Congress can't pass Obama's liberal agenda, these people will attempt to impose it. However, with great senators like Oklahoma's Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, it won't be a cakewalk for these lefties.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/07/all-the-presidents-regulators

What went wrong with the Obama Presidency?

What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world.

Now President Obama's approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46% — and his disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president's second year.

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Don't blame Capitalism

The truth is that we don't have a free market -- government regulation and management are pervasive -- so it's misleading to say that "capitalism" caused today's problems. The free market is innocent. Read on:

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/01/13/lets_take_the_crony_out_of_crony_capitalism

Obama promising televised healthcare negotiations

http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/

Obama's Other Broken Health Care Promises

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Hollow words on terrorism

WASHINGTON -- Janet Napolitano -- former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security -- will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: "The system worked." The attacker's concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son's jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers. Read the rest of Charles Krauthammer's article.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/01/02/war_what_war_99742.html

Why the health care bills are unconstitutional

America's founders intended the federal government to have limited powers and that the states have an independent sovereign place in our system of government. The Obama/Reid/Pelosi legislation to take control of the American health-care system is the most sweeping and intrusive federal program ever devised. If the federal government can do this, then it can do anything, and the limits on government power that our liberty requires will be more myth than reality.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703278604574624021919432770-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwMjEwNDIyWj.html

The Senate insurance reform bill - consumer choice is DOA

These three forms of health insurance regulation-individual mandates, guaranteed issue and coverage mandates-have been attempted in a number of states, including California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington. The results are described below.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/senates_solution_consumer_choi.html

With threats from federal officials to seize control over the health care system and further intrude into our private matters, many Americans are trying to find ways to protect their lives and liberty. Given America's dysfunctional economic situation that the federal government caused and has beenmaking worse, government can only make thehealth care system go from dysfunctional to despotic. The regulations, mandates, and restrictions currently in place already violate the individual citizen's God-given, inalienable natural rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" referred to in the Declaration of Independence.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/health_care_and_our_inalienabl.html