Mises.org has posted an excellent article on free-market education to their site. I recommend that you go read it for yourself, but will give a short synopsis here. A teacher in a San Diego high school decides to sell advertising on tests and quizzes to local area businesses and parents. This helps the teacher to do his best job in class without incurring more expenses himself. People allowed to operate within the free-market will figure out a profitable way to do the best thing for all parties involved. Taxpayer funded schools (or anything else for that matter) are nothing but a drain on the taxpayer and will always do a poor job. Think of the irony of congress getting a pay raise while they demand pay cuts for the automaker executives. We need to remember the housing bubble which precipitated the current crisis started with the fed and it’s socialist manipulation of credit. Congress could control or abolish the fed if they cared. Shouldn’t they take a pay cut – or be fired?
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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.)
Today is December 16, which is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party that originally occurred in 1773. Take a look at Tea Party 07 and then Donate to Ron Paul, the only candidate who will fight the inflation tax that is constantly propagated by the fed.
Christopher Deliso writes an excellent article at LewRockwell.com exlpaining Why Ron Paul Can Win It All. Definitely an interesting read.
Ron Paul has an article at LewRockwell.com in which he explains the realities of isolationism and how that relates to our current policies of intervention. I think it does a good job of how these kinds of policies always lead to problems. Obviously the article is short and there is much more that could be said but it points in the right direction.
The 2008 election season is coming really fast. With the republican primary here in South Carolina coming on January 19 it is becoming really important to decide who you will vote for. I want to recommend that everyone look carefully at Ron Paul. Read through the issues on his site. He is pro-gun, pro-life, and pro-constitution. He has a very clear understanding of how the constitution is the foundation of our federal form of government. Powers that were not given to congress should be left to the states. If you want lower taxes and a more responsible government vote for Ron Paul. Some will say he “can’t win” but they are making themselves part of the reason. Vote on principle not fear.
I have heard complaints from different people recently about how Bush has seemed to do nothing to balance the budget during his first four years. In some circles this has been used as an argument why that Republicans aren’t fiscally responsible. Most of the people I would be talking to are normally using this as support for the Constitution Party. Kerry also brought up the same types of arguments in one of the debates. He went so far as to claim that Clinton did balance the budget while Bush was so fiscally irresponsible that he could not do the same thing.
I did a little research on Kerry’s argument. I was in high school for about half of the 90s and didn’t pay much attention to the economic things that happened in governement. I found an interesting article from 1998 on the Cato Institute’s website explaining who really balanced the budget. The article, No, Bill Clinton Didn’t Balance the Budget, gives evidence to show that it was the Republican Congress and not Bill Clinton that balanced the budget.
While I have not been too happy with Bush and the Republican Congress with their handling of the budget, this gives me hope that they are capable of controlling their spending. Hopefully with the stronger majority that the Republicans now have in the House and the Senate, they will now accomplish a lot more in this area.
Rush Limbaugh today read an article from the National Review Online concerning a possible outcome of the upcoming election. The article, Do You Know the U.S.A.?, discusses the feelings of an anonymous “longtime GOP operative” who basically argues that Bush will beat Kerry in a landslide based on our response to the terror threat. Rush’s commentary interested me when he read another article from the same site that quoted Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., current publisher at the New York Times. Sulzberger was asked by his dad during his anti-war protest days, “If a young American soldier comes upon a young North Vietnamese soldier, which one do you want to see get shot?” Sulzberger told his dad, “I would want to see the American get shot. It’s the other guy’s country; we shouldn’t be there.” Rush didn’t know Kurtz’s source of this quote when I heard him today, but I found an article in the New Yorker that seems to be the source. The connection has to be made between what people like Sulzberger and Kerry did in their youth and the attitudes they have today. Stanley Kurtz points this out in Something About Our Country Today in relation to the media. He points out that the people who made the most noise about the vietnam war and what they saw as the “evils” of that time are now in positions of importance in the media. Sulzberger is a good example of this. Rush made the point that these people hate Bush and his policies and sometimes it seems like they have no reason for this except to make sense to themselves of the protests they participated in during the 60’s and 70’s.
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