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By: The Anti-American American Empire « Orwell's Dreams

The Anti-American American Empire « Orwell's Dreams — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:56:59 +0000

[...] class. ~Arnold J. Toynbee and James Burke, as paraphrased by Wikipedia The myth dies hard. Thomas E. Woods of the Mises Institute appeared last summer on Scott Horton’s Antiwar.com radio pr… to try to kill it, as quite possibly only he can, but even his deft hands are full. He’s up [...]

By: The Anti-American American Empire | Strike-The-Root: A Journal Of Liberty

The Anti-American American Empire | Strike-The-Root: A Journal Of Liberty — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:06:59 +0000

[...] ~Arnold J. Toynbee and James Burke, as paraphrased by Wikipedia The myth dies hard. Thomas E. Woods of the Mises Institute appeared last summer on Scott Horton’s Antiwar.com radi… to try to kill it, as quite possibly only he can, but even his deft hands are full. He’s [...]

By: The Anti-American American Empire | Bastiat Institute

The Anti-American American Empire | Bastiat Institute — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:03:10 +0000

By: The Neglected Costs of the Warfare State « Little Alex in Wonderland

The Neglected Costs of the Warfare State « Little Alex in Wonderland — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:04:53 +0000

[...] Scott Horton Interviews Thomas E. Woods [...]

By: Bob Roddis

Bob Roddis — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:37:50 +0000

I do say that. I even send them to a site where they can check federal outlays 1945-1948:

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/budget.php

Being leftists, they tend to be immune to little technical things — like facts and logic. At this point in the debate, they generally start calling me names like "wingnut", which I don't think is the compliment it is here in Detroit.

http://www.wattabrightidea.com/images/Anthony_the…

My favorite insult was first being accused of learning everything I know from mass e-mails. As I further bested them in debate, I became the guy who sent out the mass e-mails.

Love 'em.

By: TomW

TomW — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:51:01 +0000

If they say, "Oh, that was a simple switch-over…" you might reply that the Keynesian mainstream all predicted economic disaster after World War II because of the dropoff in "spending"; they predicted catastrophic economic consequences. Why didn't these people, who share your leftist friends' views, dismiss their own fears on the grounds that this would be a "simple switch-over"?

By: Bob Roddis

Bob Roddis — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:52:28 +0000

I vouch for student draft deferments. In fact, I vouch for all draft deferments. I had a nice college student deferment from 1969 through March 1973. As I recall, the draft officially ended soon after my deferment expired. If my low draft lottery number hadn't made me a antiwar zealot, I might not have been so susceptible to the writings of Murray Rothbard in January, 1973. As we used to say, F*CK THE DRAFT!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:27:01 +0000

Let us not forget the role the nation's colleges played in helping to keep students out of the war in Vietnam.when student's grades were raised to prevent they from being vulnerable to the draft. People like Dick Cheney were given many deferments to avoid serving in combat though many like him supported the war provided others fight it. steve, ww2

By: bob d

bob d — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:20:56 +0000

Once WW2 ended, the GI Bill sent so many veterans to our colleges that they were the biggest group on any important campus. Since that time, the Universities are beholden to the GI Bill to pay tuitions for a good fraction of their enrollment. This is how since WW2 the military-industrial-complex spread into universities.

By: BobRoddis

BobRoddis — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:46:12 +0000

Scott mentioned in the interview that shifting from military spending to a civilian economy might be difficult. However, I often make comments on liberal blogs and point out that Harding did nothing to cure the 1921 depression other than slash spending and tax rates. Tom Woods speaks to that in this video:

http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2009/04/tom-woods…

The usual liberal response to my point is something like, "Oh, that was just a simple switch-over from WWI to a peace-time economy" (I'm not sure where such an argument gets them in advancing Keynesianism). I would think that such a change-over would be more traumatic than curing a simple peace-time business recession. Nevertheless, it appears that the solution to a militarized economy would necessarily be to slash spending and tax rates to effectuate a quick switch to a non-military economy. So much for military Keyensianism.