The true cost of war is more than a trillion dollars
Liberty For All
by Wrights 2012 staff
08/29/10
The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has surpassed one trillion dollars, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While this figure is staggering, a Libertarian presidential hopeful said that the real cost of these conflicts to our economy and our liberty is even more staggering. ‘One trillion dollars is an almost incomprehensible number, but what is even more incomprehensible is the fact that most of that cost is borrowed money,’ said R. Lee Wrights, former Libertarian Party national vice chair and the editor and co-founder of Liberty for All online magazine...
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4768
Most Americans just don’t get it
A Passion for Liberty
by Tibor R. Machan
08/28/10
It bothers me to no end that millions of Americans simply don’t get just how dangerous this current administration’s views are, especially about the nature of our basic rights. I suppose I should not be surprised, given the utterly perverted primary and secondary education most people receive now in their government run schools. After all, those very schools and everyone with a job in the system, depend upon the flat out rejection of the idea of our basic, natural rights spelled out in the Declaration of Independence...
http://tinyurl.com/28lhbl6
Why people believe government is here to help us
Strike the Root
by Paul Bonneau
08/27/10
The tenacity of the meme, that government is here to help us and protect us, is hard to understand. All evidence throughout history points in the opposite direction — that government is here to prey on us, and that if there is anything we need protection from, it is our own governments. Why do people cling to this harmful meme?
http://tinyurl.com/33xz5gp
What you’re not supposed to know about war
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
08/27/10
It is a testament to the power of government propaganda that several generations of self-described conservatives have held as their core belief that war and militarism are consistent with limited, constitutional government. These conservatives think they are ‘defending freedom’ by supporting every military adventure that the state concocts. They are not...
http://mises.org/daily/4659
It’s fine for police to kill people, so long as there’s no “ill will”
Las Vegas Review-Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz
08/29/10
Do we live in a free country or a police state? In a free country, police live under and must obey the same laws as the rest of us. In a police state, government police enjoy special laws and protections that allow them to do things that would be considered crimes if done by the rest of us...
http://tinyurl.com/39j5uc8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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The True Cost of the War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts281.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Declaration+of+Independence
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Congressional+Budget+Office
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=propaganda
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=militarism
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vin+Suprynowicz
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Bonneau
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/dilorenzo
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/roberts
by Wrights 2012 staff
08/29/10
The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has surpassed one trillion dollars, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While this figure is staggering, a Libertarian presidential hopeful said that the real cost of these conflicts to our economy and our liberty is even more staggering. ‘One trillion dollars is an almost incomprehensible number, but what is even more incomprehensible is the fact that most of that cost is borrowed money,’ said R. Lee Wrights, former Libertarian Party national vice chair and the editor and co-founder of Liberty for All online magazine...
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4768
Most Americans just don’t get it
A Passion for Liberty
by Tibor R. Machan
08/28/10
It bothers me to no end that millions of Americans simply don’t get just how dangerous this current administration’s views are, especially about the nature of our basic rights. I suppose I should not be surprised, given the utterly perverted primary and secondary education most people receive now in their government run schools. After all, those very schools and everyone with a job in the system, depend upon the flat out rejection of the idea of our basic, natural rights spelled out in the Declaration of Independence...
http://tinyurl.com/28lhbl6
Why people believe government is here to help us
Strike the Root
by Paul Bonneau
08/27/10
The tenacity of the meme, that government is here to help us and protect us, is hard to understand. All evidence throughout history points in the opposite direction — that government is here to prey on us, and that if there is anything we need protection from, it is our own governments. Why do people cling to this harmful meme?
http://tinyurl.com/33xz5gp
What you’re not supposed to know about war
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
08/27/10
It is a testament to the power of government propaganda that several generations of self-described conservatives have held as their core belief that war and militarism are consistent with limited, constitutional government. These conservatives think they are ‘defending freedom’ by supporting every military adventure that the state concocts. They are not...
http://mises.org/daily/4659
It’s fine for police to kill people, so long as there’s no “ill will”
Las Vegas Review-Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz
08/29/10
Do we live in a free country or a police state? In a free country, police live under and must obey the same laws as the rest of us. In a police state, government police enjoy special laws and protections that allow them to do things that would be considered crimes if done by the rest of us...
http://tinyurl.com/39j5uc8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
The True Cost of the War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts281.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Declaration+of+Independence
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Congressional+Budget+Office
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=propaganda
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=militarism
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vin+Suprynowicz
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Bonneau
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/dilorenzo
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/roberts
rudkla - 30. Aug, 08:56
