Obamaholics and McCainiacs: Two Sides of the Same Side.

In light of the recent "debate", and I use that term very loosely, I would like to examine the stances of both Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain.

Support a withdrawl of US troops from the Middel East and the rest of the world?
Obama-No McCain-No

Opposed to the theft of 350 million Americans that has been generously titled a "bailout?"
Obama-No McCain-No

Want to lower taxes across the board for all citizens regaurdless of income?
Obama-No McCain-No

Promise to never raise taxes?
Obama-No McCain-No

Want to return to a sound economic policy with dollars backed by gold?
Obama-No McCain-No

Discuss monetary policy and the Federal Reserve's role in it?
Obama-No McCain-No

Want to decrease the size and power of government?
Obama-No McCain-No

Curb government spending?
Obama-No(hell its his entire campaign goal) McCain-No

Want to abolish the Patriot Act outright? Not alter it, but ABOLISH IT?
Obama-No McCain-No

Fight inflation?
Obama-No McCain-No

Talk about inflation and/or its causes and effects on our dollar?
Obama-No McCain-No

Promise "change" so much they are now beating an entire stable of dead horses to death?
Obama-YES McCain-YES

Want real change in econmic, fiscal, social and foreign policy?
Obama-No McCain-No

Want to abolish the IRS and get rid of the crippling income tax?
Obama-No McCain-No

Want the government to absorb more and more responsibilities of the private sector?
Obama-YES McCain-YES

Want government to spend more money on any given goal?
Obama-YES McCain-YES

Want the government to regulate more of our economic and personal interactions?
Obama-YES McCain-YES

Are both horrible choices for president?
Obama-YES YES YES McCain-YES YES YES

Notice a pattern here? Most of the topics I listed THEY DO NOT EVEN TALK ABOUT! The only differences these two candidates have is what they want to spend government money on. Neither of them want to lower everyone's taxes and give power of choice back to the consumer. Obama wants the Nanny-State to run everything from education to healthcare. Because apprently the state has done such a bang up job on running the war, the economy and is responsible with our tax dollars.....o wait.

Sen. McCain pays lip service to conservative fiscal policy but wants to create a government oversight commitee called the Mortgage and Financial Institution's Trust; or as he called it then MFI. I will link the video of that at the end of this article. How Sen. McCain are you going to decrease government size, power and spending by creating another damn committe?

Other than what they want to spend your money on, there is next to nothing that separtes these two. Infact they agree on a lot of the same actions, such as the bailout, more government spending etc. The specifics are irrelivant because the constant for both is more government, more spending, same intrusive foreing policy, same broken monetary policy and more telling US the people how WE the people can act.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qLefrvxbq8

In Liberty,
Mr. Jefferson

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-Thomas Jefferson

Is Anybody Out There? Hello Alone.

This title is a refrence to a song entitled "Hello Alone" by Anberlin. Most people are aware that my last post "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" was turned into a song by R.E.M. I was listening to the song Hello Alone and I was inspired to write this entry. It seems today, especially at the liberal university I attend, that the title of this blog is the question that I endlessly seem to be shouting into a dark cave. In fact its worse than a cave, a cave at least humors you by echoing your question back to you. I seem to be screaming this question at the top of my lungs at a void. A void that swallows it up without even humoring me by throwing my own question back at me to create the illusion of a companion. I briefly touched upon the recent bailout plan propossed by the president and the congress and how I beleive; or rather how I KNOW, that it is an economic blunder that is at least comporable to anything that any misguided or confused "progressive" enatced during the 1930's. in fact I call them "regressives." They want to drag us back to a time where government controlled our lives and nothing could be done without Big Brother's OK.

The Austrian theory of the business cycle and monetary policy, laid out by Karl Menger and exapnded upon by the great champions of liberty Ludwig von Mises and Muray Rothbard, are being proven more and more correct everyday. For me to even attempt to explain the intricate details of these men's writtings would be the ultimate disserivice. Instead all this blog is aimed at doing is to make these ideas open to people who may have not yet had the opportunity to come across them yet. I will provide a link to the Mises Institute where interested readers can explore these ideas for themselves. The link I will provide will link to an article that explains in detial many of the economic problems we face today and how to deal with them. There are around 40 article links on this one entry but all anyone has to do is click in the search bar then enter a topic and a plethoria of information will be made available to them.

Many economists disagree with these men and women who follow the so called "Austrian" or "Venice" school of thought. Some call it idealistic, and some call it radical. However there is one thing that these individuals are; they are 100% right.

http://mises.org/story/3128

In Liberty, (While it still exists)
Mr. Jefferson

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
-Thomas Jefferson