The hour long debate from Saturday between Bob Conley and Lindsey Graham is available online at the South Carolina ETV site.
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Bob Conley for Senate from South Carolina
Bob Conley is running against Lindsey Graham for his Senate seat. From his campaign materials and other sources that I have read, he is conservative in all the ways that Lindsey Graham is not. A couple of points of interest from his campaign website:
Economy: We must implement fiscal policies to end deficit spending. [...]
Intervention is the Problem
Economics in One Lesson is an excellent book by Henry Hazlitt that attempts to help people to correctly think through any economic situation. The one lesson is reduced to a single sentence on page 5 of the Mises edition:
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects [...]
Final Bailout Vote Tally
A list of congressmen who changed their votes between the first and second time is posted at the Campaign for Liberty. A full list of the votes can be found at the house website. Gresham Barret, who I spoke positively about before, change his vote and voted for the bill. The two congressmen from [...]
Senate Votes to Bailout Wallstreet
The senate voted to pass their version of the $700 billion bailout of the rich by the poor. I wasn’t suprised to find that Lindsey Graham voted for it. It is great to see that Jim DeMint is one South Carolina senator with some economic sense. You can see how your senator voted here.
Now would [...]
The Great Bank Robbery of 2008
Robert P. Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, has written new article on Mises.org explaining the bailout that failed yesterday and will probably be attempted again on Thursday in a slightly altered form. The conclusion of his article expresses the main problems with the bailout:
The Paulson Plan is a heist. It [...]
Bailout Vote Tally
The Campaign for Liberty website has posted a tally of today’s vote on the bailout plan. Check it out to see how your congressman voted.
Update: that link no longer exists but you can find updated information on the final vote at Final Bailout Vote Tally.
Bailout Defeated!
It is exciting that for today the bailout was defeated in the house. The first thing I wanted to know was who voted for it - so that we can get rid of them. I was disappointed but not suprised to learn that Bob Inglis voted for it. According to the Greenville News the South [...]
