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Conservative Collectivism
3/30/13
Those who call themselves, "conservative", profess to hate collectives, but they love collectivism when necessary to support their economic interests and ideology. Examples: "support the troops" and corporations.
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Bush Deficits Blamed on Obama: Deficit & GDP Data
10/19/12
Data shows that deficits are greater under Republican presidents than under Democratic presidents. Deficits increased drastically under Bush. The deficit for fiscal 2012 is 32% lower than Bush's last budget year, 2009. As of Sep 12 employment has increased 68% of the way back to what it was in Nov 2007 at the beginning of the Great Recession.
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Colorado Springs Conservative Crazy
5/23/11
Colorado Springs, ruled by "conservatives" for decades, has enormous infrastructure backlogs and dust bowls as parks. But somehow we're in a financial mess because liberals have been in charge?
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Oil Drilling Deception
4/21/11
"Drill Here, Drill Now" for more oil to the U.S. market? Don't be silly. Since 2005 oil exports rose by 483 million barrels while imports fell by 377 million barrels. The result: net petroleum (imports minus exports) coming into the U.S. was 25% less in 2010 than in 2005. Market manipulation plunders public resources for private gain.
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Explaining Liberal Principles
11/12/04
Examining the principles that explain when governmental solutions are required to improve peoples' lives and the prosperity of the nation. This is a more complete treatment of "The Libertarian Menace". The Libertarian Menace is more dangerous that the Communist Menace ever was.
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The Conservative Mind
9/01/06
Quotes from The Conservative Mind from Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk, 1953. It's considered the foundational book that's credited with inspiring the conservative resurgence in America.
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The 9/22/08 Economic Crisis
9/24/08
What's at the root of the 9/22/08 economic crisis? An explosion of "trade", fiscal, and personal debt encouraged by government and Federal Reserve policies. Why? Compensation growth has fallen far behind productivity growth. Why? Five factors.
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Rep Doug Lamborn on 'Free Trade'
3/16/09
Notes from a meeting 5/30/08 with Rep. Doug Lamborn and NAM on manufacturing, "free trade", the "free market" and other issues.
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Freedom? Liberal vs. Conservative
3/01/09
Conservatives and libertarians have a limited, and therefore false, view of "freedom". They see those who understand the need to use government to improve peoples' lives as "socialist authoritarians." Such distorted thinking would similarly call gardeners, "socialist authoritarians" comprising a "socialist mob". That's just plain crazy.
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Fiscal Deficits! Who's Responsible?
8/31/10
Fiscal deficits were exploding and 4.3M jobs had been lost before Obama even took office. Fiscal debt as of Sept 09, 8 months after Obama took office, was already $11.9 trillion. "Trade" deficits subtracted $6.2 Trillion from GDP from 2000 through 2010. Democratic tax increases on the wealthy led to a boom and Republican tax cuts for the wealthy and not-paid-for spending led to a bust. The Republican-created economic downturn plus unpaid-for Bush tax cuts ($1.8T), illegal invasions & occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq (much greater than $1T), Medicare Part D with no-competition prescription drug industry gifts (~$1T), and the TARP bank bailout ($700B) explain virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years.
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