The Right says that the government isn’t the solution to problems at home but at the same time wants the government to solve problems everywhere else. The Left says the opposite. When either are elected they grow the government at home and never actually shrink the presence of our government abroad. When will the vast majority realize that government as practiced today is also the cause of most of these problems.
I just finished watching Collision: Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson. This documentary follows a series of debates and discussions that Douglas Wilson and Christopher Hitchens did after they had authored the book, Is Christianity Good for the World?. It is excellent and seems to present a fair look at both sides of the argument. Christopher Hitchens claims that Christianity is an “immoral” religion, while Doug Wilson consistently points out that Hitchens has no basis for what is and is not moral (where does the atheist base his morality).
Ultimately the argument between the believer and non-believer is an issue of faith. The Christian believes because God has given him the gift of faith. The unbeliever rejects because his sin has darkened his understanding. Collision will edify the believer and I would recommend that everyone see it.
Ron Paul’s bill to Audit the Fed, HR1207, went through committee hearing on Friday. You can watch the whole hearing in 5 parts below.
The House Financial Services Committee will hold hearings on Ron Paul’s bill to audit the fed this Friday, September 25, beginning at 9 a.m. You can watch the hearings online here.
Don’t forget to buy End the Fed if you haven’t already, and contact your congressman and senators to get this bill passed quickly.
In related news the bill now has 290 cosponsors in the house which is a supermajority.
Ron Paul’s latest book, End the Fed, will be released on September 16. If you are at all interested, please pre-order the book to help make it a best seller on Amazon and get it more exposure. Also, don’t forget to contact your congressman and senators and tell them to cosponsor HR1207 and S604 to Audit the Fed.
Mark Horne has posted an excellent question asking how the Christian relates to the state. Romans 13 is clear that we are to obey the leaders placed over us, but if a Christian finds himself living in a society without a state is he sinning if he doesn’t set up a state? Read Mark’s article at Was a Christian Missionary supposed to tell Icelanders to repent and start a state?
John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market, has written an article at the Wall Street Journal on The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare. It is good to see someone from the business world pointing out that there are better ways. Part of the problem with this whole health care debate is that President Obama’s side wants you to think that we currently have a free market. They then try to convince you that the free market doesn’t work. The problem is that health care doesn’t happen in a free market. To name a few obvious intrusions into health care that manipulate the market with easy money and also add unnecessarily regulation we have the Food and Drug Administration, Medicare and Medicaid to just name the government intrusions that first pop into my mind. Let’s quit pretending the market is currently free and maybe realize that some of these past ideas created the current problems.
I first saw this story on the Campaign for Liberty blog in the article, Health Care, Whole Foods, and Consumer Choice. Andrew Ward points to the progressives that have now vowed to boycott Whole Foods. All those against ObamaCare should consider increasing their shopping there.
The Campaign for Liberty and other diverse organizations have formed a coalition to promote HR 1207 and S 604 and the need to audit the fed. Go to their site and sign the petition and then check on your Congressman and Senators to see if they are supporting it. Thank them if they are and ask them to support it if they aren’t already.
Then head over to Amazon and order a copy of Ron Paul’s upcoming book End the Fed.
President Obama said the following in his recent town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
They do it all the time. If you think about it, UPS and Fed-Ex are doing just fine. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems…. there is nothing inevitable about this somehow destroying the private marketplace. As long as it is not set up where the government is being subsidized by the taxpayers so that even if they are providing a good deal, we keep having to pony up more and more money.
Lew Rockwell has written an article, Obama and the Post Office, in which he shows how that Obama’s simple admission gets to the heart of the problem. If the government run and supported Post Office can’t stop losing money, how does anyone expect health care to be different? As Rockwell points out the only reason the Post Office accomplished anything (while still losing money) is that the law prohibits any competition in certain areas of it’s business.
When the government can’t compete in an area of business, laws are passed to either make the competition illegal or at least lots more difficult.
The entire text of President Obama’s town hall meeting can be found at the New York Times with the statements mentioned here being located at page 9.
If you have the time, I highly recommend watching the following 8 minute video in which the news media (Chris Matthews specifically) demonstrates how out of touch they are with your constitutional rights.
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