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Peter Schiff on the Daily Show

If you don’t know Peter Schiff, his against-the-flow prediction of the present crisis, and his views on the economy, you have to watch this.  Even if you have already listened to Schiff, the interview is great fun.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=230058&title=peter-schiff

Thanks to www.campaignforliberty.com.

Obama’s plans hurting the economy: Yahoo “Poll”

Interesting and somewhat surprising.  An AT&T/Yahoo Poll in progress has the following results so far. 

“Q. The president’s progress with the battered economy has been both praised and criticized. How well are his efforts measuring up with you?

Extremely well. We are undoubtedly moving in the right direction.	19%
Fairly well. There’s still a long way to go.	14%
Not well at all. His plans are hurting more than helping.	65%
Not sure/No opinion.	2%

79205 votes”

Unfortunately, I can’t link directly to the poll or it’s results.  The link pulls up a java window or something.  Of course, this is not a scientific poll, but it is ineteresting nonetheless.  I did not think we would see any wavering among the faithful this early in the game.

Free Government Money!

“The greatest enemies of the Constitution are… right here at home…”

If you value liberty, you have to see this powerful video of Adam Kokesh.

Peter Schiff was right, so why is he being shunned by the media?

Peter Schiff was literally laughed at by other analysts in 2006 for his dire economic predictions.  Of course, he was right.  So why is the media giving him less air time now?  This interview of Peter Schiff by Time Magazine explores that question. 

All of the gold since the time of Christ…

Wow.  The cost of “bailing out” the present economy is already up to six times the value of all of the gold in existence since the time of Christ.

At last count, the Federal Reserve and the government have either lent, guaranteed or spent $12.8 trillion in their efforts to get the economy back on track. We know that these numbers  lose their significance after a while and it’s hard to relate to them but we’ll try…

You may remember a couple of years ago when a study was done by two respected economists estimating that the total cost of the Iraq war would eventually reach $2 trillion. At the time, people were shocked. But compared to the nearly $13 trillion for the economy, the Iraq war expenses now seem small in comparison.

Looking at it another way, the value of all the gold in existence since the time of Christ is currently worth about $2 trillion. In other words, just the costs to bail out the economy and nothing else, like Social Security, military, infrastructure, is so far going to be more than six times all of the gold that’s been produced over the past 2000 years. (Just last December the cost was three times, which illustrates how quickly the costs have multiplied over the past five months.)

That is the cost.  And what do we get for our “money” (I use the term loosely)?  A soon-to-be-worthless fiat currency, devalued savings, redistributed wealth, more crony-capitalism, fascism, legal plunder, socialism, war, and the destruction of what little was left of the free market.

How not to do environmental cost-benefit analysis…

The World Health Organization estimates that a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria, and acknowledges that this is largely preventable by the judicious use of DDT.  Yet, it still concludes that the unknown costs of DDT use outweigh the known benefits.  Hmm..

More…

http://greenhellblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/a-dead-child-every-30-sec-vs/

Obama a “homophobe”?

Greg Gutfeld asks the question in this interesting video.  If so, why isn’t he being criticized for it (not that he should be, not that “homophobe” is an applicable term)?

The leftist anti-war movement is MIA. Wars in Middle East continue unabated.

Where in the world is the anti-war movement?  Where are the protests?  Where are the silent vigils?  Are we still counting civilian casualties?  Where are the placards and bumper stickers?  For that matter, where is the media coverage of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?  We are not out of Iraq, and in fact we have been promised a long term presence there.  We have been told more troops will be sent to Afghanistan.  The nation-building, police-of-the-world rhetoric has not changed.   Has war become the answer?  What happened to Obama’s change?  Where are the “Obama lied, thousands are still dying”  bumper stickers?  And where are the Move-ons of the world who all but set themselves on fire during the campaigns?  As David Boaz of CATO points out:

But meanwhile, where’s the antiwar movement? President Obama rose to power on the basis of his early opposition to the Iraq war and his promise to end it. Now he has doubled down on the war in Afghanistan and has promised to keep the war in Iraq going for another 19 months, after which we will have 50,000 American troops in Iraq for as far as the eye can see. If McCain had proposed this sort of minor tweaking of the Bush policy, I think we’d see antiwar rallies in 300 cities. Calling the antiwar movement!

I have an idea where they are.  They are counting their money and revelling in their new power, laughing at me for believing they were really anti-war.

Thanks to Jesse at C4L for the link.