Wow! Check out the Fed bashing that goes on in this bit of the Texas Senatorial debate.
Heather, excellent find!
That is incredible.
And here I thought there was only one choice in that race. Granted, this is only one issue, but still, this is pretty damn awesome, and it means a closer look at these guys is warranted.
As Ted Cruz said, he’s been endorsed by Rand Paul, so he may be the guy…but it’s possible that endorsement came before some of those others (aside from Dewhurst) declared. Dewhurst of course is this race’s Trey Grayson, the establishment party guy, just looking to get a bigger office. (Both literally and figuratively).
Craig James is just a jock guy, but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t know anything. I’m wondering if the electorate would go for him over a politician though. And this Glenn Addison guy will need to pick up a lot of momentum if he hopes to get anywhere.
I’m interested to see what Craig James’ positions are. I watch a ton of college football so I normally came into contact with him since he was announcing games for ESPN. I guess we’ll wait and see if he is actually a Paulite or not…
It’s entirely possible he is. Spending your whole life in sports, you don’t get a whole lot of political and economic indoctrination…so it can go either way. Athlete’s and actors typically just go along with what they’ve heard. It doesn’t take much to sway them, so it’s entirely possible the football player has actually read a book or two and at least caught a glimpse of the light.
Found this when searching for a Craig James related post in Skip Oliva’s twitter feed:
http://www.lvrj.com/business/former-silver-state-bank-executive-agrees-to-settlement-136437838.html
Also, Skip has just released a new anti-trust ebook
He’s right in the sense that those resources that are spent on seasteads can’t be used to educate inner city youth. But this looks at the economy as an automatic process. The wealth that Peter Thiel gets, and may even waste on frivolous experiments, is insignificant. It’s a small price we have to pay. If Peter Thiel couldn’t have gotten rich founding PayPal, he wouldn’t have made society billions of Dollars richer by making internet shopping more efficient. The question is not how to faily distribute that tiny part that wealth creators get, but how to create that big chunk of wealth that will make all of us better off. People who assume that economic progress is automatic think that this big chunk of wealth appears on it’s own, therefore they consider profit an avoidable cost to society. Which is why they hate the Jews rich so much.
I agree, but I don’t think it’s just that. There’s another reason: Humans evolved to easily comprehed intention-leads-to-result explanations. Spontaneous order, which is often different from individual participants intentions, is not as easily understood. That’s why this belief in “intentions must equal results” is such a powerful cultural aesthetic, it just happens to turn people into statists. Maybe state-school teaches it because it’s present in the human mind, rather than the other way around.
Edit: Of course, that useless educators teach whatever cultural aesthetic happen to fill their caveman heads, is the fault of state-school. Open source education would probably teach more substantiated ideas.
A complicated explanation always has the disadvantage that people have to understand it before they can accept it. Simple, linear explanations always have an edge in the battle of ideas. It’s funny that this kind of ignorance is looked down upon in any field of inquiry except economics/politics. Just imagine it was that way in physics or astronomy. Ultimately libertarians simply want people to be more scientific. With all the yelling about “science” these days, we should point that out more often.
And you know what, that dinner you just ate can’t be used to feed 3 starving children in Africa. Seems like you wasted those resources. You bastard.
Again, you’re making his same mistake. You’re projecting your value scale onto his choices. The guy acquired those resources (supposedly) through market means…making other people better of (i.e. increasing wealth). If you want to argue that what he chooses to do with that freely acquired wealth he now has (i.e. what he does with his own time and his own property) is “a waste”, that’s your opinion…but that doesn’t make it a fact. That’s the thing about opinions. I could just as easily say you’re wasting time and effort bitching about how people are wasting money. You could easily be using all that breath to be singing showtunes on the street corner. I would much rather hear that. That would be useful. But instead you’re wasting all that vocal work complaining about other people. You bastard.
Um. Yeah. I said that.
Or maybe state-righteousness and necessity and dependence is taught in state-schools because it’s in the self-interest of those in control.
You haven’t heard? That’s their whole problem. Austrian economics isn’t scientific. Even Brian Caplan shows so.
So if you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t seen “Sh*t girls say” on youtube, you should. In case you also hadn’t noticed, the viral video(s) have spawned a ton of copycats, showcasing basically all the shit everyone says…up to, and including, “shit nobody says.”
So you had to guess, our little group wouldn’t be left out…
Krugman Has Serious Competition
A new Keynesian appears on the scene, with theories sounder than Paul Krugman’s.
Hilarious, thanks for the laugh. “Daddy little job creator,” I’m going to have to use that visual.
The thread at the RPF about the former Fed economist has been sent down the memory hole. You will now have to register if you want to view the thread.
Ron Paul is now second on Politico’s candidate hub!
I can’t tell if this fake or not.
The parts where you can see his mouth match. The voice and words are consistent with his face, motions, and the ref’s reactions. I find it odd that that would be broadcast, but it looks legit.
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Here’s another upload. It’s legit.
No wonder I had him on my fantasy football team; there’s something special about him.
Yeah, I’m definitely sharing that all over the place tomorrow.
I’m not quite sure how the Green Party matches up with Ron Paul, but hey. I’ll take it.
I think it’s from an NFL Network show where they just show sound bites of players who they mic’d up before the game. I’m glad to see Arian Foster is a Paul fan! Peyton Hillis, RB for the Cleveland Browns and the cover athlete for Madden 2012, is also a Paul fan (I’m sure you guys have seen this one):
