Ya. No spending issues here... so when was the last time we had a budget in the green? Don't say Clinton either, I've debunked that myth enough times I should put it in my sig... oh wait. it is.

Sending low skill jobs overseas isn't really a bad thing, unless you believe in imperialism via international trade (aka protectionism)... Additionally, interventionism isn't in and of itself a bad thing, but creating make work government jobs, paid out of of the pockets of people already struggling is not good policy.

Well public sector jobs do nothing but guarantee future stagnation, as the burden of having to pay for them mounts. Running huge deficits produces inflation. The economy will recover as the credit markets become more liquid and the private sector is able to expand once again and create jobs.

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Summary of the April 15 TEA Parties Media Coverage

It was pretty biased yall....

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What coverage do you expect for a bunch of tax protesting morons, all of whom will pay less taxes than they are now.

I do think the media were remiss if they didn't recognize the great propaganda victory for Fox news. Although by now the average intelligence of people watching Fox has dropped so low than leading them around by the nose presents no challenge.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Dwight D. Eisenhower

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain

They aren't jst protesting taxes, at least, that's not what all of the protest was about. There is also the enormous amounts of spending which Obama has taken over from Bush and promised to carry to great new heights. Even if income taxes are going down, the stealth tax of inflation that will arise from all the deficit spending will wreak great destruction on the middle class.

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“Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little or no distinction between them ... [Yet s]ociety is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.” - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

"Bleeding head good. Healed head bad."

Excellent analysis of the tea parties:

Tea and Sympathy

Justin D.’s been nagging me to blog about the Tea Parties, so here’s my two pence:

Whichever party is out of power always begins to emphasise its libertarian-sounding side in order to divert anti-government sentiment toward support of that party rather than toward genuine radical opposition to the entire establishment.

By the same token, the party that’s in power employs alarmist rhetoric about the other side’s supposed anti-government radicalism in order to drum up support for its own policies.

Thus events like the Tea Parties serve the interests of both parties; people with libertarian leanings get diverted into supporting one half of the bipartisan duopoly, the antistate message getting diluted by mixture with (in this case) right-wing statist crap about war and immigration and the Kulturkampf. Those turned off by this creepy right-wing stew get diverted into supporting the other half of the bipartisan duopoly, with any libertarian sentiments likewise getting diluted into (in this case) left-wing statist crap about gun control and the need to impose regulation on some imaginary laissez-faire economy. And so the whole power structure ends up being reinforced.

I saw this game under Clinton, I saw (almost) everyone switch teams under Bush, and now they’re all switching back again. And so we get Republican pundits and politicians suddenly howling about Obama’s fascism when they’ve never supported anything but fascism in their entire lives; and on the other side we get Democrats ridiculing the very sorts of concerns about oppression and civil liberties violations that they pretended to take seriously under Dubya’s reign.

Rest of Blog here

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“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” - Adolf Hitler

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