Left-shill Thom Hartmann says that the economic ideas of Mises + Hayek + Rand are to blame for the financial crisis
Says Thom Hartmann, one of the hardest shills for the left + the Democrat Party:
"The intellectual forefathers and mothers of the insane conservative economic policies that have brought us to where we are include Ludwig Von Mises, Freidrich Von Hayeck, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, Tom Freidman, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and Ayn Rand."
Also as you see, he tries to imply that Rand, Friedman, Mises, and Hayek were conservatives. This is a lie. All four detested conservatism. Furthermore, Mises, Hayek, and Friedman even called themselves liberals (Rand called herself an 'Objectivist').
Seems to me that Hartmann is the true conservative. Since his man got into power ("Smooth" Barry Soetoro), he's the one who wants to conserve--that is keep things as they are.
What does a mental midget like this
have to say about the Fed, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, numerous bail outs roughly every five years and the entire apparatus left of from the New Deal and the "great society" programs?
Is this the "free market"? Maybe the NEO Free Market?
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ha - who said this do you think ?
* Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become 'profiteers,' who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
Like stealthness of poison.
Add to this, the extinctful side affects of institutionalized toxins, which don't seem to calibrate into the monopoly board.
And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
Yes, lets blame the folks whose ideas have never been practiced
OK, Greenspan got his turn at bat and how he wound up on that list is beyond me.
Truth exists, and it deserves to be cherished.
Great post!Over the past
Great post!
Over the past 75 years, the government has not followed free market principles at all.
Is Hartmann not aware of the Soviet economy? Was that Hayek and Rand's fault as well?
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
Even longer than that I'm afraid...
Even longer than that I'm afraid...
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