1933 Pro-Inflation Propaganda Film

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This is a 10-minute propaganda film by the Roosevelt Administration advocating in favour of inflation. One often wonders how so many people have been led to believe something so vacuous. This may help you understand it. The sad reality is that the current government is, with the help of the media and academia, repeating the same sins.

WARNING: The following video is intended for intelligent audiences. Viewing this information without at least a marginal understanding of basic economics or an IQ above room temperature may prove hazardous to your political beliefs. Please do not view in the presence of leftist politicians, professors, journalists or government employees as they have been shown to become sexually aroused by economic inanity.

Why Elections Matter

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Well California, you’ve done it again. For years on end you’ve stacked your elected offices with Leftists of all stripes who have in turn filled every government agency with like-minded minions ever-ready to do the bidding of left-leaning special interests groups pushing the golden State further over the edge of reason and into the waiting arms of Mephistopheles. You have my permission to suffer the consequences of your deliberately crafted Faustian Deal.

Governor, Arnold Taxenegger (R) and State Senator Abel “The Enabler” Maldonado (R), joined Democrats in passing a budget that includes more than $70 billion in new taxes. Of course they assure us that it is mildly offset by spending cuts. From what I can tell, the total value of all spending cuts in the new budget would, if given to me in cash, allow me to purchase a Snickers Bar.

Far be it of me to say “I told you so” but….well, you know.

Why Do So Many Reject Free Enterprise?

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I'll turn to an old master for this one:

"One can hardly expect people either to like an extended order (free enterprise system) that runs counter to some of their strongest instincts, or readily to understand that it brings them the material comforts they also want. The order is even “unnatural” in the common meaning of not conforming to man’s biological endowments. Much of the good that man does in the extended order is thus not due to his being naturally good; yet it is foolish to deprecate civilisation as artificial for this reason. It is artificial only in the sense in which most of our values, our language, our art and our very reason are artificial; they are not genetically embedded in our biological structures. In another sense, however the extended order is perfectly natural; in the sense that it has itself, like similar biological phenomena, evolved naturally in the course of natural selection." [Parenthesis mine] – F.A. Hayek, Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

Painful Lessons of Economics

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In every major event these days we are inevitably greeted with a plethora of books rushed into publication, and a few re-released in “updated” form, heralding the supposed knowledge and foresight of our esteemed intellectuals and commentators. Many haughtily present a “See!?! I told you so” attitude when they were in fact, about as prescient as Wyle E. Coyote after falling into one of his own traps.

So it should come as no surprise that the most prolific sector of the economy at present is in books heralding the death of “laissez faire capitalism” as a result of the current market meltdown. After-the-fact rationalizations aside, this problem was predicted long before the first signs of impending doom materialized. Those predictions came not from otherworldly mystics glancing into a crystal ball. They emanated from the minds of the defenders of “laissez faire capitalism.” I won’t delineate them here but the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation are among those who, as early as 1999, issued the well-worn caveats in the face of foolhardy government polices. Derided as Cassandra mavens at the time yet we would be so much the better had we listened. After all, I believe Cassandra turned out to be right as well.

No one was willing to listen when warned that interference with the market mechanism would alter the functions of the system in ways contrary to its natural character. The market works on the basis of laws as important as the physical laws of the universe and when you introduce burdensome regulations, quixotic government policies, confiscatory taxation, ad nauseum you violate those laws and are forced to deal with the consequences thereof. Prices, profits and losses are integral facets of the market system which exist to relay signals to us all of how we should invest our resources. Once you attempt to regulate prices and/or insure against loses, you permanently obscure those signals and the market if it is to survive must react, not on the basis of legitimate data, but on the basis of distortions over which the players have no control and even less reliable information.

Now the politicians react as politicians are expected, by pointing the finger of blame at anything and everything but public policy. And they are trying ever so desperately to convince the public that the cure lies in even more government policy. In essence attempting to “fix” the problem using the very thing that caused it: socialism/statism. This isn’t a flu wherein we can treat it with a milder form of the virus. Socialism is a cancer. And like all cancers, it must be excised now before it irreparably afflicts the entire organism.

Laissez faire capitalism to balme? Laissez faire capitalism was not allowed onto the playing field. Like Wyle E Coyote, the statists among us set traps to ensnare the market, and they find themselves yet again, caught in their own device. And they have the nerve to look surprised.

Senator Tom Coburn (R) Blasts Stimulus Bill

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This is a must-see video clip from CSPAN of the Senate floor debate on the “Stimulus Bill” wherein Senator Tom Coburn (R) details the unconstitutionality of the Bill. Coburn is no late-comer to this issue as he also opposed previous similar measures under Bush. This is unfortunately an unedited CSPAN clip. I've adjusted it so that the clip opens to Coburn's remarks.

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?

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Please excuse the language of this post. Now considering the subject matter you’ll find it ironic that I am apologizing upfront for some of the rather harsh language that follows, but hey! My mother may be watching.Tough guys!! The kind who are gentleman enough to hold a door open for a woman and man enough to break the nose of the silly sod who crosses her. Those guys who were once staples of major motion pictures: Sean Connery, Humphrey Boggart, John Wayne, to name a few. Today however men are vilified for being tough. We are expected to be sensitive, to open-up and to get in touch with our inner child. In short, men have been completely feminized. This is the once proud culture that prompted singer Paula Cole to ask, “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?”

Well, take heart Paula, for there are still a few notable exceptions, including yours truly.

Clint Eastwood comes to mind. During a recent interview with Letterman, Eastwood wondered aloud when America became “a pu**y society.” And famed Cleveland Browns fullback, Jim Brown recently laid into Leftists in a January interview with Esquire Magazine noting, “A liberal is arrogant enough to think he can do you a half-assed favour. He is superior enough to think he can give you something that you don’t deserve. A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.” Yes, these are among the few remaining public Tough Guys. But why are there so few?

As far as I can tell, we're being eclipsed by the Tough Girls. I know many women who admit that while the love the fact that men are not always boorish, coarse and just plain gross, they miss real men. So failing to find them in sufficient quantity, these Girls are starting to take up the slack. And I’m not talking about the flannel-shirt-wearing, butch-cut sporting, comfortable shoes, type Girls. No, I’m talking real women who want an America filled with real men.

Ann Coulter is one example. One of my favourite Tough Girl commentators and authors whose current book Guilty is causing a state of extreme apoplexy on the political Left. She dares criticise the “victicrat” mentality that so permeates American culture. What a horribly mean Girl!! And don't get me started on Michelle Malkin. I could write volumes on these Girls.

But there’s an up-and-coming Tough Girl who is poised to become the veritable Joan of Ark of modern America. Her name: Pia Varma. This young, fiery, passionate Los Angeles native is making waves in West Coast political circles that will soon be cresting on the Potomac. She’s fighting to bust the balls of the current GOP leadership and force the nancy-boys on the Left, to cry “uncle!”. Pia recently launched PiaVarma.com coupled with the LaissezFaireLounge.com and I have it on good authority that you are in for a wild and wicked ride. With the intellectual verve of Ayn Rand and the tough-as-nails attitude of Margaret Thatcher, Varma will be a force to be reckoned with.

There may not be many Tough Guys left out there but these Tough Girls and their ilk (and the list is growing) will listen with sensitivity as you open-up and when the moment is right, they’ll find your inner child and kick its little ass.

Here’s to the Tough Girls.

Care to Test Your Knowledge of the Great Depression?

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You have 20 minutes to answer 25 questions covering one of the pivotal moments in US history. Dont worry if you answer incorrectly, just enjoy the ride.

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