Economic Concepts: Foreign Aiding and Abetting – 1-19-2010

Listen in while we discuss how due to the recent horrific events in Haiti President Obama has committed $100 million in monetary aid by US tax payers. He has also expressed our country’s intention to help rebuild the nation over the long term. Historically, America has given trillions of dollars to foreign nations in the form of “aid” through the UN and other avenues, at the expense of the US tax payer. On this Call For Freedom we will analyze this pattern of aiding foreign nations via the government to determine if this is a legitimate use of governmental force.

Presented by: Randall Hinton and Thomas Dyches

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The Call for Freedom – Tuesday Feb. 23rd, 2010, 9:00PM(MST)

ECONOMIC CONCEPTS: THE FALLACY OF THE FREE LUNCH

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” –Frédéric Bastiat

Join us as we discuss the invasion of the “Entitlement Mentality,” and how it has affected our nation. What has been the result of our turning away from the virtues of self-reliance and responsibility? To what extent has this mental shift aided in the creation of our oppressive monetary policy? Listen in or call in this week to share your insights and impressions.

Presented by: Randall Hinton and Thomas Dyches

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• Begins at 9:00PM(MST) sharp!
• Call kicks off with a 30 minute presentation by our speakers followed by an open forum discussion to answer your questions and debate.

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Economic Concepts: Fauxsparity – The Fed and the Death of the Dollar – 12-22-2009

Listen to our Call for Freedom from December 15th 2009, where we discuss how the Federal Reserve, despite claims to the contrary, has spent the last century destroying the US currency through it’s reckless management of monetary policy. Learn what is awaiting us in the years ahead, and what you can do to hedge against a worst case scenario.

Presented by: Randall Hinton and Thomas Dyches

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Economic Concepts: Education Inflation – 11-17-2009

Listen to our Call for Freedom from November 17th 2009, where we discuss that many people praise the Federal Government for its role in granting millions of Americans the opportunity to seek learning at institutions of higher education. Join us as we pull back the curtain and show how these seemingly gallant practices are undermining the viability of our bastions of learning, both economically and socially. And how government interaction in education is actually hurting the students its supposed to be helping.

Join us for a lively discussion and prepare to re-examine potentially some of your own deeply held beliefs about education and how it relates to the proper role of government.

Presented by: Randall Hinton and Thomas Dyches

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Economic Concepts: The Fragrant Stink of Inflation – 10-20-2009

Listen to our Call For Freedom from October 20th 2009 where we discuss how everyone is effected by inflation, it has greatest impact on those who don’t understand what it is and how it works. For our Economics and Principles week we will explore the following questions:

- What is inflation?
- How has it impacted the economy of the United States over the last Century?
- What does the future hold for inflation?
- How can I Prepare for that future?

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Complete Fiat

When did Congress first issue paper money with no gold or silver to back it up – in 1808, 1862, or 1933? [Read more]

The Little Red Hen (Modern Version)

I saw this today and thought that our readers might find this entertaining.

Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered some grains of wheat.

She called her neighbors and said, “If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?”

“Not I,” said the cow.
“Not I,” said the duck.
“Not I,” said the pig.
“Not I,” said the goose.

“Then I will,” said the little red hen, and she did.

The wheat grew tall and ripened into golden grain. “Who will help me reap my wheat?” asked the little red hen.

“Not I,” said the duck.
“Out of my classification,” said the pig.
“I’d lose my seniority,” said the cow.
“I’d lose my unemployment compensation,” said the goose.

“Then I will,” said the little red hen, and she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread. “Who will help me bake the bread?” asked the little red hen.

“That would be overtime for me,” said the cow.
“I’d lose my welfare benefits,” said the duck.
“I’m a dropout and never learned how,” said the pig.
“If I’m to be the only helper, that’s discrimination,” said the goose.

“Then I will,” said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share.

But the little red hen said, “No, I can eat the five loaves.”

“Excess profits!” cried the cow.
“Capitalist leech!” screamed the duck.
“I demand equal rights!” yelled the goose.
And the pig just grunted.

And they painted “unfair” picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

When the government agent came, he said to the little red hen, “You must not be greedy.”

“But I earned the bread,” said the little red hen.

“Exactly,” said the agent. “That is the wonderful free enterprise system. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide their product with the idle.”

And they lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, “I am grateful. I am grateful.”

But her neighbors wondered why she never again baked any more bread.

Insanity on Capitol Hill

With the nation deepening in economic turmoil a virus seems to have gotten loose on capitol hill. This virus seems to turn the minds and backbones of men and women alike, into a gelatinous mass. They then stop thinking and rush to get something done, rather than stopping to think if they ought to be doing anything at all.

We stand at a crossroads, the future of our country is looking more bleak every day. Our lawmakers seem more ready to do the things that will bring them greater popularity, rather than take a hard look and make hard or unpopular decisions that would be in the best interest of our country.

Now that we have every lawmaker in Washington DC squabbling over the billions of dollars that they want to print for us, our state leaders are discussing all the great ways that they can spend the money that comes to them. What a great opportunity for our state leaders to really “LEAD” and turn down the money. Follow true economic principles and somebody take a stand before this beast destroys what little we have left. Call your state representatives and ask them to stand against this doling out of your children’s future today.

The problem was not created because of and will not be fixed with MONEY. We must take a stand for principle or we will reap the unfortunate rewards of economic slavery.

Frédéric Bastiat – A French Founding Father

Claude Frédéric Bastiat was born in 1801, in France. As he grew he experienced many of the hardships that come with Wars and Governement Economic intervention. Being an exporter by trade, he was able to see their effects first hand. Coming of age during the Napoleonic wars, and then living through another of France’s revolutions, he was seasoned with understanding of what an oppressive and overwhelming government can do to the people. He wrote many works and shared many speaches, seaking for a freeing of the economy and the people, rather than forcing them to live under monarchical or socialistic forces. He could be declared to be the Thomas Jefferson of France, well read, well written and easy to understand. We could all learn a great deal by reading some of his great although brief works like The Law.

“Try to imagine a regulation of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property. If you cannot reconcile these contradictions, then you must conclude that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.” – from The Law

Palmer Says Bush Feeding Market Instability

ROUND ROCK, TX — Stephen Palmer said Friday that the government’s financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to plunge America into a depression and rob citizens of their hard-earned savings, but it may take time to fully kick in as the government props up unstable policies and institutions. “We can solve this crisis and we will — by getting rid of the Federal Reserve,” he said in brief remarks from his home.

Palmer spoke as leaders of the world’s top economies gathered in Washington to figure out how they could leverage the panic to confiscate more illegitimate power.

Mr. Palmer noted that major Western countries were working together in an attempt to undermine every positive step we’ve taken toward creating just and equitable civilizations since 1776, including ignoring their respective Constitutions.

“Through these efforts, the world is sending an unmistakable signal. We’re in this together and we’ll be oppressed by our governments together,” Palmer said.

Palmer said how he understood how Americans could be concerned about their economic future. “That anxiety can feed anxiety and that can make it hard to see all that’s being done to worsen the problem and strip us of more freedom,” he said.

But despite a relentless sell-off that has seen the Dow Jones industrials plunge 20 percent in the past seven trading days, Palmer said, “We are a prosperous nation with immense resources and a wide range of tools at our disposal — all of which can be employed when we get President Bush, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve out of the way.”

Mr. Palmer said the new $700 billion tyranny plan that President Bush signed into law a week ago authorizes the Treasury Department to socialize financial institutions at the whims of one man.

It wasn’t the first time Mr. Palmer has declared that the government stop distorting the market by controlling interest rates and the money supply, although it has also been mentioned by several other prominent economists and experts.

Since the bailout package was signed into law, the conversation about how it will be used has shifted from how taxpayers are lining the pockets of corporate executives to how they are supporting an overblown government.

Nationalization of the U.S. banking industry was once unthinkable, but in a stagnant pond of public apathy, anything is possible.

The government is authorized under the law to “screw taxpayers.”

These include the couple in South Dakota making $45,000 a year and trying desperately to put their two sons through college, but not Wall Street executives making $5 million per year and struggling with the overwhelming decision of how they should spend their money.

It is Mr. Palmer’s position that the Bush administration’s authority extends to whatever it feel like doing, since Congress doesn’t have the guts, nor the knowledge, to check it on any front.

“The plan they are executing is aggressive. It is the wrong plan. It will take time to have its full impact. It is flexible enough to get even more tyrannical as the executive branch amasses more power. And it is big enough to work, the definition of ‘work’ being to collapse the economy,” Palmer said.

He also noted that the Federal Reserve has injected hundreds of billions of green pieces of paper into the system — with little to no oversight and with nothing backing it. Other central banks have cooperated to help speed up the rate of inflation and erode the savings of every American.

“The federal government has a comprehensive strategy to lull the people into temporary security at the cost of freedom,” Palmer said.

While he sought to reassure Americans that the situation is not hopeless and that we should continue doing all we can, Palmer also acknowledged that this was one of the most egregious acts of tyranny in our nation’s history.

Palmer said his online community, The Cause of Liberty, has launched initiatives that are “helping common Americans to reclaim their responsibilities as citizens and to restore the American Republic.”

He also noted “rigorous discipline” must be enacted by the People to make sure that the government doesn’t “take advantage of the crisis to illegitimately erode our freedoms.”

“Over the past few days,” Palmer continued, “we have witnessed a totally predictable drop in the stock market, much of it driven by the stupidity and power-mongering of the government and the Federal Reserve. This has been a deeply unsettling period for the American people.”

A little touch of humor to lighten your economic day, and still discuss this troubling topic.

Original Post on Cause of Liberty.com: click here to visit.

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