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.
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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?
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.
Lew Rockwell has written an interesting article for the latest edition of The American Conservative on not voting. While I’m not sure that I agree at the moment (there is still a week), he does make some interesting points:
we do have the freedom not to vote. No one has yet drafted us into the voting booth. I suggest that we exercise this right not to participate. It is one of the few rights we have left. Nonparticipation sends a message that we no longer believe in the racket they have cooked up for us, and we want no part of it.
I have to agree that it is basically a racket that we participate in. Why else is it harder in most states for 3rd parties to get on the ballot than for the two main parties. Is there a two party system in the constitution (the answer is no)? He continues with:
You might say that this is ineffective. But what effect does voting have? It gives them what they need most: a mandate. Nonparticipation helps deny that to them. It makes them, just on the margin, a bit more fearful that they are ruling us without our consent. This is all to the good. The government should fear the people. Not voting is a good beginning toward instilling that fear.
This year especially there is no lesser of two evils. There is socialism or fascism. The true American spirit should guide every voter to have no part of either.
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. Bob Conley believes we must change our monetary policy, restore sound, honest money, and halt the fall of the dollar. We must stop predatory lending practices, end the Wall Street bailouts, and put a lid on massive expenditures abroad.
Another area that is directly related to our fiscal problems:
Military: Overseas deployments of occupation are breaking our military. Deployments in recent years have left 80% of our National Guard units without the necessary equipment for training – and the missions they should be prepared to serve here at home. Our National Guard needs to be rebuilt.
Gun Owners of America gives Conley a higer rating than Graham:
2nd Amendment Rights: Bob supports the right of the individual to own guns and is a life member of Gun Owners of America. The GOA favors Bob over Graham in supporting gun owner rights.
He also has a Pro Life position on Abortion that separates him from the majority of Democrats:
Abortion: Bob is Pro Life and will work in the U.S. Senate to stop government funding of groups that advocate and / or perform abortions, including Planned Parenthood, which received $300 million in taxpayer funding last year.
Bob Conley is definitely a better choice than Lindsey Graham in most areas it seems. Lindsey Graham has proven in the recent bailout vote that he doesn’t understand economics and he doesn’t care what the people think. Unfortunately the one negative for many who call themselves conservatives is that Conley is a Democrat. This seems to be an extremely good example of getting beyond party politics and voting on principle.
If we can ever get beyond a loyalty to a party that doesn’t have any loyalty to the people (this includes both parties) then maybe the government will quit running our nation into the ground.
All kinds of theories and ideas are being thrown around on the news and talk radio about how the government should solve the current crisis. Over the years I have become convinced that the government caused the problem and that the more the government does the longer the problem will go. Read America’s Great Depression to see how the government helped cause and extend the great depression. The Case Against the Fed is an excellent source of arguments and evidence showing the destructiveness of fractional reserve banking. Economics in One Lesson explains economics in an informative way that shows how government intervention and taxes hurt the economy. How Capitalism Saved America gives many historical examples of unfettered capitalism in United States history that helped to produce the prosperity that generations past started and we continue to experience today. It will also help to see that what we have today isn’t really capitalism and that the supposedly deregulated businesses suffer under much government control.
There are some additional books that I plan to read soon that should also be worthy of recommendation. What Has Government Done to Our Money?, A History of Money and Banking in the United States, and Prices and Production to name a few. For a good work of fiction I really enjoyed An Enemy of the State. It is a science fiction novel examing the takeover of a totalitarian intergalactic society through purely economic means. I found it helpful to see these economic concepts worked out in fiction to get a glimpse of how it might work.
Natural men do not like the free market because it leaves everything to chance. Basic evolutionary theory postulates a universe of spontaneous change. “Survival of the fittest” at it’s core seems to indicate that man will take his chances and the “best” man or animal will win.
In a controlled or socialist society men who desire to act as God fight this by attempting to make everyone equal. That way there will be no “best” man to survive. These men play God in society because the don’t like the chance that they profess to believe in.
They are mistaken because as outline in Romans 1 they ignore God and try to overthrow the God that they know exists. These facts argue for a totally free market as explained by Gary North in The Dominion Covenant: Genesis (p. 10):
The operations of the market, like the operations of the atom, are ultimately guided by and upheld by God. In fact, the strongest philosophical and theological argument in favor of the free market is that it thwarts the attempt of power-seeking men to attempt to imitate God by centralizing the economic planning system through the civil government, thereby directing the lives of other citizens in terms of the goals of some elite central planning board. The free market decentralizes economic power thereby limiting the quest for personal power. It has as one of its most important functions a definite religious purpose: to restrict men in their attempt to play God.
The chance that the natural man professes to believe in does not exist because a sovereign God reigns over all. The free market is free within the all encompassing will of God. To manipulate everyone in a controlled society is to attempt to play God.
George Reisman has written a great article titled, Barack Obama and Sarah Palin on Taxing Oil Companies and Giving the Money to Others. The following quote shows a basic lack of economic understanding from both sides of the aisle:
A major consequence that both Obama’s and Palin’s plans overlook is that even insofar as the oil companies are presently prevented by drilling restrictions from using their funds for expanding oil production, their funds still perform a valuable economic function. Namely, they provide the capital for carrying on production elsewhere in the economic system. To the extent that the oil companies simply put their funds in the bank, buy Treasury bills, repurchase their own stock, or pay out extraordinary dividends, those funds are then available in the financial markets, all of which are interconnected. Their presence makes it easier for other businesses to obtain loans or sell stock and thereby have the funds to carry on their business activities.
Sarah Palin probably never thought of this when she dipped her hand into the oil companies’ till and withdrew $1,200 for every Alaskan. What she was actually doing in her ignorance was helping to make the credit crunch that the United States has been experiencing that much worse. She was helping to deprive businesses around the country of capital they would have had, if that capital had not been made available to be consumed to the extent of $1,200 for each and every Alaskan.
Ron Paul’s new book The Revolution: A Manifesto was officially released this week. I received my copy from Amazon about a week ago and highly recommend it. With chapters on foreign policy, the constitution, economic freedom, personal freedom, and money this book covers many of the problems in our country today.
The book is a quick summary of the main areas that gave national prominence to the Ron Paul campaign. I am excited that Ron Paul has also includes a four page reading list at the back of the book telling other sources to read on the important issues of the day. The price for the book on Amazon is currently 45% off the regular price. Buy this book and gain a more clear understanding of the many issues that need addressed in our country.
Update: It’s #1 on Amazon Wednesday afternoon.
Ron Paul has written a new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto. According to Amazon it will be available at the end of April. As I write this article the book is the #4 bestseller in all books on Amazon right now. According to Ron Paul’s Revolutionary Manifesto at LewRockwell.com the book “covers everything establishment politicians lie about or ignore: war, sound money, terrorism, the economy, the IRS, civil liberties.” That article also points to the grassroots effort to keep the book at the top of bestsellers lists by getting all interested parties to pre-order it now.
A book like this needs to be in the hands of every Ron Paul supporter that wants to have a complete understanding of his ideas for our country. Then getting books like this into the hands of the rest of America will show many who lean toward a position of liberty and small government that Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that has a complete and sensible position that will return our country to better paths.
Update: Now at #3 on Amazon and #8 on Barnes and Noble. (6:29 p.m.)
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