Sep
3
http://www.house.gov/paul
http://CampaignForLiberty.com
Last Saturday many concerned Americans watched in horror as the House passed the healthcare reform bill. If this bill makes it through the Senate, it would massively overhaul the way healthcare is delivered in this country. Today, obviously, we dont have a perfect system, but this legislation takes all the mistakes we are making with healthcare and makes them worse. Most of what is wrong with healthcare stems from decades of government intervention and the resulting unintended consequences.
But the governments prescription for the ills caused by intervention is always more intervention. We see this not only in healthcare policy, but also in foreign policy, in economic policy, and in monetary policy – basically, in all areas of public policy. It was even claimed that the House bill would increase competition in healthcare, and thereby improve the private sectors business model for insurance.
It is fascinating that politicians would use the language of the free market in this way to justify more corporatism. This demonstrates a couple of things. One, that politicians truly do not understand the very basic tenets of a free market. By definition, a free market is free from government intervention. But once a little intervention is accepted as legitimate, politicians will blame the problems created by their intervention on the free market and present themselves as saviors that must intervene even more.
It also demonstrates that politicians know that Americans still believe the free market is a good thing. People know and understand that competition among businesses is better for the consumer than a monopoly. However, competition between a private business and a government or government-favored entity is not real competition.
In real competition, your competitor can go bankrupt if they do a bad job. Everyone knows a government program is forever, no matter how poorly it performs. In real competition, efficiency is necessary for survival. In government programs, waste is rewarded as budgets are often determined by how much money a department is able to consume in a year. In real competition, one business does not have regulatory or taxation authority over its competitors. In real competition, businesses get sued and punished for breaking contracts and defrauding people, and are kept accountable in this way. But just try to sue the government when you are unjustly harmed by it!
The reason real competition is a good thing is because good businesses get bad ones out of the consumers way. Can the government put someone out of business? Most certainly! But it will have the opposite effect: an otherwise good business will be replaced by a poorly performing government agency, or a government-favored monolithic business that behaves almost like a government agency.
If Washington really wanted to give consumers more choices they would remove legislative and regulatory barriers to competition across state lines for health insurers. They would remove barriers for new and innovative models of healthcare and tort reform. They wouldnt have run so many church and charitable hospitals out of business. Washington is keenly interested in healthcare reform, but it is certainly not going to increase competition or to expand your options for healthcare.
Duration : 0:3:35
Sep
3
A fantastic interview with Gerald Celente by James Corbett of the Corbett report..Jerry goes into detail on how he feels the current reports of recovery (green shoots) is really in fact a coverup as the power to be in reality is blowing smoke up our ASSES..Listen to James per week at the
http://www.corbettreport.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/corbettreport
for his weekly podcast!!The best research on the net IMO
Cheers Guerrilla
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Duration : 0:8:55
Aug
19
http://www.mises.org
Peter is a follower of the Austrian School of economics, to learn more please visit the link above
or go to
Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty
http://www.campaignforliberty.com
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Duration : 0:3:54
Aug
14
Findlay, Ohio area restaurants being negatively impacted by the economic depression.
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Several closed restaurants in Findlay, Ohio.
Duration : 0:6:55
Aug
14
Ron Paul: If spending were solution, there’d be no problem
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Sponsor: http://RidleyReport.com/Class – Learn more about Ron Paul’s weekly broadasts at: http://house.gov/paul/
But if you want to see illustrated versions, RidleyReport.com is your one stop shop. This one he recorderd 3/2/09 and I edited months later.
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Duration : 0:4:14
Aug
7
American Economic Collapse, Las Vegas Day 1
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http://inflation.us/
Day 1 of 2
BattleBornBroadcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWVmTP7l4o&feature=channel
and George4title explore the economic reality of Las Vegas. From the 9.8 billion dollar City Center to doubling our homeless population, Las Vegas is juggling both ends of the economic coin. George4title and BattleBornBroadcast hit the streets to make sense of a real estate market gone wild, commercial real estate collapse and billion dollar bust.
Economists predict more struggles for Las Vegas housing market
Las Vegas Sun – Buck Wargo – ?Jan 20, 2010?
It will be continued suffering, NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe said of the Las Vegas economy and housing market in 2010. That is the simplest way to …
Tour the new dream home: At International Builders’ Show, it’s small, virtual … USA Today
Housing construction rebound is in slo-mo, economists say Dallas Morning News
Homebuilding Forecast: Modest Growth in 2010 ABC News
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jan/20/economists-predict-more-struggles-las-vegas-housin/
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/01/tour-most-innovative-house-never-built-on-virtual-display-at-ibs/1
Duration : 0:7:34
Aug
3
Ron Paul 10/19/09 “The Very Busy Politicians in Washington DC”
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With a faltering economy, multiple wars, and the approaching demise of the dollars reserve status, there are more than enough problems to keep politicians in Washington working day and night. In between handing out cash for clunkers and nationalizing healthcare, the administration is busy sending more troops overseas, escalating existing wars, and seeking out excuses to start new wars. Congress is working on urgent legislation to address crises like healthcare reform and climate change. The reforms are so very urgent that legislation must pass swiftly with no time to read the bills even though the new laws wouldnt take effect for several years! Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is busy dealing with our dollar crisis by printing up more dollars.
Yes, there certainly is a lot for Washington to do these days. Most, if not all, of what Washington is doing however, is more of what created the problems in the first place. Capitol Hill is filled with politicians running around putting out fires but with gasoline. The truth is that all these fires keep so many powerful people employed and wealthy that it is not truly in many decision makers interests to be very effective problem-solvers. If Washington ran out of problems, think how many lobbyists would be out of a job, and how many special interest groups would just disband? Sadly, whatever is bad for the greater economy is good for the economy and job market in DC.
Of course, no form of government, not even one that respected its Constitutional restraints, would magically create a problem-free society. The question is: how should a society deal with its problems? The form of government that our founders envisioned, in which the federal government was strictly constrained by the Constitution, allows private citizens and communities to solve their own problems. The role of the government should be to protect contracts, punish fraud and violence through appropriate laws, law enforcement and the courts. Not a whole lot of laws or bureaucrats are really necessary to work on just that. Instead, new laws are constantly needed to fix the problems that previous unconstitutional laws created. We have ended up with an incomprehensible maze of laws and regulations that severely constrains the people and expands the government the exact opposite of what our founders intended.
This is all because the Constitution is treated like a suggestion manual instead of the supreme law of the land. Under the Constitution, politicians hands are supposed to be tied in most of the areas they involve themselves in today. But somewhere along the line, politicians stepped out of Constitutional bounds and started pretending to solve our problems for us. All we have to show for it is more problems.
Today, Washington politicians can busily solve one problem, knowing that unintended consequences from that solution will keep them and their friends all very busy tomorrow. The people are ultimately left suffocating under the burden of Washingtons helping hands. It is coming to a point where our economy, our dollar, and indeed, the rest of the world have had about all the help from Washington that they can stand. The United States is headed the way of Rome and the Soviet Union, for the same reasons, unless we reverse the trend.
I continue to hope that enough Americans will realize that the true strength of our country doesnt come from Washington, but rather the limitations placed on government in the Constitution. We must resolve to reverse the destructive course that we are on and then never again let big government problem-solving take over our lives and our country.
Duration : 0:4:4
Aug
3
Mike Maloney, Dave Morgan and John Embry discuss the US economy and investing in physical gold and silver
Duration : 0:9:36
Jul
30
Ron Paul: Obama Stimulus Package Will Turn Recession Into Depression
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The Congressman also appeared on MSNBC this morning to discuss the same issue.
One commentator suggested that Paul’s analysis was misguided because “The house is already on fire” and something must be done to put it out.
“You are correct, the house is on fire,” Paul fired back, “and you think you’re putting water on it, but I think you are pouring kerosene on it.” he added.
“We got into this mess by spending too much, borrowing too much and inflating too much. Government was too big and we had too many regulations. We had rejected the market economy for decades, we have rejected the notion of sound money for decades, and we got into a mess this way. So what is the proposal? Spend more money, borrow more money, print more money, regulate more, it makes no sense whatsoever.” Paul asserted.
The Congressman suggested that a more sound approach to the crisis would be to abolish income tax and business tax to get Americans spending, whilst simultaneously cutting overseas spending to cover revenue losses.
“But the problem is no one wants to cut the American Empire,” Paul explained.
“Even Obama’s administration wants to increase spending overseas and increase military spending. As long as you want to run the world empire at a trillion dollars a year, believe me you cannot solve this problem.” he added.
Duration : 0:9:58
Jul
27
Economic Collapse Preparation: Frugal ideas for a Depression / Collapse
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Since we are headed for an economic collapse, it is important that all of us learn to survive without needing much money at all. I’m going to share some things with you that save my family over $1000 a year in bills.
Toilet Paper is Win200 (windsoft) – Free shipping. Cheapest I’ve found.
(24,000 ft. of TP!!!!)
http://www.restockit.com/jumbo-roll-toilet-tissue-%28win200%29.html?prd=1
Recipe for some fantastic Laundry Detergent
http://www.livingpress.com/frugal/home-made-laundry-detergent/home-made-laundry-detergent.html
Coupon Savings Site Link (After you sign up for free, put in a retailer you shop at. More than likely there will be a good percent off)
http://www.bigcrumbs.com/crumbs/landing.do?r=Daddymorebucks&s=9811
Duration : 0:9:11