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10 hours ago @ http://912wolverines.com/ - growl · 0 replies · +2 points
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"Block credits his "conversion" to Libertarianism to personal meetings with Ayn Rand while he was an undergraduate student"
"Block is also a Senior Faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics. His most famous work is Defending the Undefendable, of which John Stossel said, "Defending the Undefendable... opened my eyes to the beauties of libertarianism. It explains that so much of what is assumed to be evil--is not."[4] Lew Rockwell of the Mises Institute said this about Walter Block's active role in modern libertarianism:Murray Rothbard, in his life, was known as Mr. Libertarian. We can make a solid case that the title now belongs to Walter Block, a student of Rothbard's whose own vita is as thick as a big-city phonebook, and as diverse as Wikipedia. Whether he is writing on economic theory, ethics, political secession, drugs, roads, education, monetary policy, social theory, unions, political language, or anything else, his prose burns with a passion for this single idea: if human problems are to be solved, the solution is to be found by permitting greater liberty.[5]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Block
1 day ago @ http://912wolverines.com/ - growl · 1 reply · 0 points
Many of the companies he targeted were healthy companies with solid balance sheets and full order books with a future in their industries and a loyal and proficient work force. They were targeted for this very reason. They could be destroyed profitably. My personal suspicion is that Bain Capital were hired guns for big players who wanted to destroy a competitor and acquire their assets and their customer base.
1 day ago @ http://912wolverines.com/ - growl · 2 replies · +1 points
Rand has done done great things in the Senate. He's also made some very questionable votes, like voting for sanctions against Iran. At this point, for me, the verdict is out on him.
He also made these extremely disappointing comments recently:
starts around minute 3....
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Concerning your recent post on HR 4133, probably my favorite Congressman after RP, Justin Amash (MI) voted for this POS bill. He gave a pathetic explanation on his Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/repjustinamash/posts/3974... Let's just say it didn't go over very well among his supporters in the liberty community.
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WEST CHESTER, Pa., May 22, 2012 — The mainstream media continue to discount Ron Paul as a factor in the race for the Republican nomination, even though he and his supporters could become serious contenders when the convention meets in August. Paul continues to rack up delegates in such states as Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.
Strangely, in spite of the success of Paul’s strategy in accumulating delegates, many pundits insist that Paul remains a nonfactor. These same pundits continue to claim that electorally Ron Paul cannot win the Republican nomination, and while the media miss the mark by discounting Paul as a contender, they miss the truly “big story” of the 2012 election. That is, that Ron Paul, mobilizing both young and old with his message of liberty tempered by personal responsibility, and government power tempered by accountability, has already won far more than the election. He has won the trust and the imagination of the people, Rocky Balboa-style.
Consider the issue of the Federal Reserve, where Dr. Paul has been an outspoken critic of the Fed’s policies for years. When Paul proposed a bill to audit the Federal Reserve in 1983, he had not a single Republican or Democrat who was willing to co-sponsor the measure. When he reintroduced it in 2011, every Republican and several Democrats in the House signed onto Paul’s bill.
Almost every Republican candidate vying for the nomination this year supported a full independent audit of the Federal Reserve, and many demanded that Chairman Bernanke be fired. Texas Governor Rick Perry, when asked about future quantitative easing by the Fed, went further than most Republicans when he said, "If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous – or treasonous in my opinion." Paul’s views on the Federal Reserve are no longer outside the mainstream. According to a survey published by Bloomberg in 2010, most Americans believe that the Fed should be severely reigned in or altogether abolished. These numbers are probably higher in 2012 considering that Fed policies have not pulled us out recession.
Some Republicans like Ron Paul’s ideas when it comes to issues that are economic, but most haven’t completely embraced his views on foreign policy. Despite GOP objections, most of the American people and American troops agree that it is time for the United States to stop policing the world and engaging in nation building missions. Several polls have shown that more than half of the American people agree that it is time for the United States to withdraw from Afghanistan. Further, according to a poll conducted by CBS, one in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 conflicts believe that America’s presence overseas and the wars America is currently fighting are no longer worth the cost. This probably explains why Paul receives more campaign contributions from members of our military than Obama or Romney.
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