Comments on: Whitman to Testify at Economic Hearing http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/13/whitman-to-testify-at-economic-hearing/ Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:45:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kyle8 http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/13/whitman-to-testify-at-economic-hearing/#comment-617 kyle8 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:58:09 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/bluey/?p=152#comment-617 The American people have chosen big government. There comes a time when you must realize that you have failed. For a variety of reasons those of us who really believe in limited government (probably only about half of the Republican party if that much and not even everyone on this website) have completely and utterly failed to communicate our beliefs to the rest of the nation. A huge struggle between freedom and state-ism began in the early part of the twentieth century. After looking around the world one hundred years later, you must conclude that the state has won. All that remains now is the long hard march where we must go back to basics and painfully try to teach the next generation that another way exists. The American people have chosen big government.

There comes a time when you must realize that you have failed.

For a variety of reasons those of us who really believe in limited government (probably only about half of the Republican party if that much and not even everyone on this website) have completely and utterly failed to communicate our beliefs to the rest of the nation.

A huge struggle between freedom and state-ism began in the early part of the twentieth century. After looking around the world one hundred years later, you must conclude that the state has won.

All that remains now is the long hard march where we must go back to basics and painfully try to teach the next generation that another way exists.

]]> By: Jim http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/13/whitman-to-testify-at-economic-hearing/#comment-616 Jim Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:46:44 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/bluey/?p=152#comment-616 ...is <a href="http://mises.org/story/3128" rel="nofollow">in solid opposition to this</a>. Unfortunately most who oppose this are not as well known as the sainted Paul Krugman, but the intellectual foundations to oppose any of this government intervention is solid. I just find it funny that the great 20th century economist Ludwig von Mises demonstrated back in the 1920s <a href="http://mises.org/books/socialism/contents.aspx" rel="nofollow">the impossibility of the socialist calculation</a>. Yet here we are all these years later still thinking that <a href="http://mises.org/midroad.asp" rel="nofollow">state spending and central planning will somehow lead to paradise</a>. …is in solid opposition to this. Unfortunately most who oppose this are not as well known as the sainted Paul Krugman, but the intellectual foundations to oppose any of this government intervention is solid.

I just find it funny that the great 20th century economist Ludwig von Mises demonstrated back in the 1920s the impossibility of the socialist calculation. Yet here we are all these years later still thinking that state spending and central planning will somehow lead to paradise.

]]> By: James_Roe http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/13/whitman-to-testify-at-economic-hearing/#comment-615 James_Roe Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:19:40 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/bluey/?p=152#comment-615 Does anyone have a list of economists handy that have publicly opposed Barry's plan? I'm having a hard time finding one, and a couple of my lieberal friends keep throwing Krugman and his nobel prize in my face. Do we have anyone on our side with similar credentials I can use as a reference in refuting their points? Does anyone have a list of economists handy that have publicly opposed Barry’s plan? I’m having a hard time finding one, and a couple of my lieberal friends keep throwing Krugman and his nobel prize in my face.

Do we have anyone on our side with similar credentials I can use as a reference in refuting their points?

]]> By: DerKrieger http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/13/whitman-to-testify-at-economic-hearing/#comment-614 DerKrieger Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:23:34 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/bluey/?p=152#comment-614 The primary goal of the Democrats is NOT to create jobs but rather it is to increase the size, power, and reach of government. Passing a program that allows the free market to grow the economy prevents the Democrats from reaching their goal of imposing Euro-socialism on the US. Mountains of pro free-market evidence will not sway the Democrats from their Utopian goal. The same is true about health care. A free market solution deprives the Democrats of control therefore it won't happen. Amnesty. They support it in spite of increasing unemployment and the displacement of US born workers illegal immigration causes. But it helps the reach their goal of perpetual power so they will work to pass it. Democrats cannot be bargained with. They can only be defeated. The primary goal of the Democrats is NOT to create jobs but rather it is to increase the size, power, and reach of government. Passing a program that allows the free market to grow the economy prevents the Democrats from reaching their goal of imposing Euro-socialism on the US. Mountains of pro free-market evidence will not sway the Democrats from their Utopian goal. The same is true about health care. A free market solution deprives the Democrats of control therefore it won’t happen. Amnesty. They support it in spite of increasing unemployment and the displacement of US born workers illegal immigration causes. But it helps the reach their goal of perpetual power so they will work to pass it.

Democrats cannot be bargained with. They can only be defeated.

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