johngonole

A Warning for U.S. Dollar Bears and Commodity Bulls

Mark bites indeed. Post from the Mises institute was fantastic

Thursday Outlook: The Inflation Con Game

FDJ10595 - Sorry I was a bit hard on you. Read your last two post again. I agree with pretty much everything you said except the blame on Christians. The faith base values initiative of Bush was absolutely nuts. Again an attempt for the government (in my opinion) to take over control of even charitiable giving. I do not know of any Christian organization that asked for that. I think Bush and the Neocons think everybody wants money and thats it. Screw policy, screw the right long term plans, screw vision, screw the future, lets dole out the money now that we are in power.

At this point I really don't like any of the presidential candidates. I'll be voting for gridlock.

Thats what was missing from the back and forth above guys. Spending is only somewhat abated when the power is split between the parties. They bicker and nothing gets done which is usally a good thing relatively speaking.

Thursday Outlook: The Inflation Con Game

To fjd10595: The veto power was used sparingly until around the turn of the 20th century. Before that it was used only as (as I recall) veto on unconstitutional legislation.

The problem with facism and socialism is that they lead to lower standards of living because of the systematic destruction of free markets by monopolies. With socialism you get government monopoly and fascism government endorsed monopolies. Furthermore governments in both economic systems control production through spending decisions. Supply is also centrally controlled manly through spending decisions. This leads leads to misappropriation of resources and hence lower standards of living. If price is set to high to much of something is produce. If price set to low than their is a shortage. When people start standing in lines for government issued toilet paper they get upset. Than the Fascist or Socialist (both have done this throughout history) identify a scapegoat for the people to distract them. Than they throw the innocent into furnaces.

FDJ10595 your on the right track...but Christians are as upset about the very things you cite as everyone else. In fact more so because they tend to think more than the avg American. In polls Christians are split up favoring all kinds of Candidates. I for one support Ron Paul.

Careful because your comments about extremist Christians (you fail to cite any extremism...unless disagreeing with your ideas qualifies) makes you sound like a soon to be Nazi. If and when our economy falls apart our Facist and Socialist leaders will blame each other. Once one party controls will you be so easily lead.

I suppose the democrats pandering to the Christian left is OK. More welfare, government forced morality, etc... The point is that Christian influence is as diverse as the rest of the Americans. You sound foolish