Republicans turn their backs on the free market and common sense policies.
The GOP are not embracing limiting government
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When President Nixon imposed wage and price controls on August 15, 1971 and ended the convertibility of the US dollar at the same time, I concluded there is only party in DC, the Washington Party, which some pundits have dubbed the UniParty today.
For more than a half a century DC Republicans have talked a good game about limited government and free market principles. Yet, when in power the welfare-warfare state has continued to expand when a Republican president has had GOP majorities in Congress.
So much for devotion to the Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, which outlines the authorized expenditures of the federal government. In short, there is no authorized spending for the welfare state, and that includes, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, as well as aid to education, agriculture, and corporate welfare among the hundreds of programs that essentially turns the federal government into one gigantic money laundering operation.
In the WSJ today, columnist Andy Kessler highlights how the GOP has been hijacked by phony populists. Free market “populists” call for ending the Federal Reserve, shrinking the welfare-warfare state, and enacting a noninterventionist foreign policy, not proposing “reforming” Medicaid and other redistribution policies.
In addition, Allysia Finley outlines the how some (many?) Republicans have become defenders of the Medicaid status quo instead of promoting nonprofit medical centers.
The solution to the entrenched Big Government agenda is to make our voices heard whenever and wherever we can. (Yesterday, I sent a letter to the Naples Daily News yesterday about the national debt. Hopefully, it will be published soon. I will post it here even it is not published.)
There is a historical lesson that free market advocates need to remember. The 1912 Socialist Party platform has been virtually enacted.
How has this occurred in the Home of the Brave and Land of the Free? Murray Rothbard explains it…the Progressive Movement laid the foundation for the welfare-warfare state.
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James Bovard on protectionism.
Recent interviews discussing the state of the economy with Perry Atkinson, Jim Peters, and Randy Durham.
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Dave Campbell and I discuss MAFI on the Clarity and Chaos podcast.
Col. Mike and Dr. Mike and I discuss Trump and his promises on the National Security Hour.
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Restoring free enterprise, medical freedom, and a constitutional federal budget.
The insufferable Jim Cramer reveals his economic ignorance in a recent CNBC rant.
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Tom DiLorenzo’s pamphlet, Axis of Evil, is now available at the Mises Institute.
Order a free copy of Rothbard’s money and banking classic monograph. Or, you can read it online here.
My December 10 talk on medical care.
Bob Murphy interviews Dr. Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of OK.
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Two sides of the same coin.
The retardicans are a joke. They offer no vision, no promise, no hope and not much of anything else. They got the majority because the leftists filly stunk out the joint so bad that many people could no longer stomach their anti-human antics.
It was NOTHING that the retardicans did. You have to understand that they are part of government and being as such have NO interest in downsizing it or revamping it. The pendulum will swing back toward the left and it will be the last time it ever swings.