Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Written by Gary North on October 1, 2012
How the mighty have fallen. The Canadian think tank, the Fraser Institute, rates nations each year in terms of liberty. It is a useful service. Here is the grim news from the 2012 report. The United States, long considered the standard bearer for economic freedom among large industrial nations, has experienced a substantial decline in […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 17, 2012
A Texas policeman was chasing a suspect in a high speed car chase. The fleeing suspect then turned into a dead-end residential street. The police car rammed his car. The cop told him to get out of the car. His girl friend said he was not given three seconds. The cop started shooting. He emptied […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 22, 2012
Law-enforcement agencies need reminders from time to time that voters are in charge. Elected sheriffs are not. The first step in reclaiming the United States is to elect a sheriff who knows the good guys from the bad guys. He must also be smart enough to understand this rule: don’t beat up employees of the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 11, 2012
Every bureaucacy wastes money. If it can spend money, it will. It doesn’t matter much on what. The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has bought screening machines. It stores them in warehouses. It paid $184 million. There are two ways of looking at this. One way is to say “let’s get them installed.” The other wa […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 9, 2012
Jeffrey Tucker reviews a new book on the nanny state. The nanny state is the security-promising bureaucracy that treats citizens as children. The phrase “nanny state” captures the spirit of this push to regulate our consumption in all areas of life. But the phrase misses the mark when it comes to the methods themselves. Nannies […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 27, 2012
Answer: because we are not in charge. My old friend Jeff Tucker has written a dynamite article on ending the Federal Reserve. It’s in a newsletter called Whiskey and Gunpowder, which publishes dynamite articles. He is happy that a public debate over the FED is in progress. But he wonders why there is any debate […]
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