"Freedom" thread or something

Sad night in PA.  Not sure how Paul's other delegates did but it looks like we're only getting 1 delegate and 1 alternate in PA-18.  What was deeply disturbing about today was that PA-18 also chose to retain card-check supporting, NDAA supporting, big-labor whore Tim Murphy (not sure what orifice of his they don't use) who is considered an utter a****le by anyone who's talked to him for more than a minute.  What a joke.  Also, who the hell is Tom Smith and where did he get all this support?  Seriously, has anyone else in PA ever heard of the guy?

^ I haven't seen the numbers yet, but it wouldn't surprise me. Remember, Santorum grew up and was a Senator in PA. Also remember that in the middle of the State you essentially find yourself in the deep south.  

I'm ashamed to say that he was a pretty popular senator here. 

On another note, something that everybody who's not a neo con should like:

Arizona has passed a law refusing to be part of the indefinite suspension sections of the NDAA
This is now the second state after Virginia.

It's funny, habeaus corpus was suspended under the Military Commissions Act which got overturned by the Supreme Court.
It passed again in NDAA, but states are starting to overturn it. What if it gets revoked again?

Congress just can't be denied the right to grossly violate rights...how long before it's passed again?

Hell, it's such a sweet deal. Communism was bound to come to an end, but terrorism? sh*t! That won't ever go away...and with our foreign policies we keep feeding to fuel for new terrorist fires. The government show never needs to end now!


Edited by JJLehto - April 25 2012 at 15:38

Thank you oh representatives of the people. You protect us from ourselves.

manofmystery wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: I'm ashamed to say that he was a pretty popular senator here.      Speaking of senate: Do you have any idea who the hell Tom Smith is?  All I know about the guy is that he used to be a democrat.  I was a Scaringi voter but figured it would surely come down to Welsch and Rohrer.  Never had Smith on the radar.  His big win in the Senate primary leads me to believe something weird was going on, along with Murphy's win, and the vote total for Ron Paul being down 23k from 08 (first state to go backwards, i believe).  We ended up getting 1 delegate out of the 4 from PA-18 but other than that it was a dismal day.

I have no idea about him. Yeah the Ron Paul vote total just didn't make any sense.

In politician speak, dissidents are acting against our chosen representatives, who are there for us. Dissidents are also represented by them, even if they don't realize it in all their treasonous minds. Hence, they are acting against themselves. Thanks oh lord for the FBI. Thanks bipartisan majority. Democrats and Republicans together. We should be proud. 

Equality 7-2521 wrote: manofmystery wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: I'm ashamed to say that he was a pretty popular senator here.      Speaking of senate: Do you have any idea who the hell Tom Smith is?  All I know about the guy is that he used to be a democrat.  I was a Scaringi voter but figured it would surely come down to Welsch and Rohrer.  Never had Smith on the radar.  His big win in the Senate primary leads me to believe something weird was going on, along with Murphy's win, and the vote total for Ron Paul being down 23k from 08 (first state to go backwards, i believe).  We ended up getting 1 delegate out of the 4 from PA-18 but other than that it was a dismal day. I have no idea about him. Yeah the Ron Paul vote total just didn't make any sense.

 

Moment "Mises" is mentioned most people stop caring.
Because after all "no one believes those guys" so ya know....clearly they are wrong and don't even deserve to be known about.

As for price stability, using a simple online inflation calculator: since 1992 the dollar has lost over 38% of its value.
That's just 20 years, and during that time the Fed managed to maintain its target of 2-4% inflation. There was of course great recession to cap it off. Sooo yeah, so much for that low, stable inflation


What really gets me is how often I see people scoff at "these people think recessions are a good thing"
I'd say recessions are necessary...and while the hurt, well hurts...it does also do some good things like let bad businesses fail (unless they get bailed out) and allows the "equation to balance"
Basically, a recession is a necessary self correction. I learned this is in my basic econ classes at school...not exactly these uber right wing Austrians that plague the internet. Are people really so dumb/biased?






Edited by JJLehto - May 01 2012 at 16:05

I've heard of it, but I haven't done enough of my own research yet to form an opinion. So someone else would probably answer your question better.