The Siren Song of Pax Americana
"The financial burdens of hegemony are difficult to overestimate. "
"The financial burdens of hegemony are difficult to overestimate. "
"Soon the women who stood in the pallid queues before shops spoke more about their children's hunger than about the death of their husbands."
As the economic aspect of state absolutism, mercantilism was of necessity a system of state-building, of big government, of heavy royal expenditure
We suggest that loose fiscal and monetary policies have severely undermined the ability of the private sector to generate real wealth.
The garbage situation in Cairo is a classic example of government imposing a supposedly rational and modern solution that fits the needs of the people in charge but doesn't fit the needs of people. The end result is a spectacular failure.
"The very idea of a shortage of aggregate demand is absolutely meaningless."
There is no greater immorality than deep opposition to mankind per se, and environmentalism must be exposed as that kind of immoral and destructive creed. Only then will the party of mankind be able to take back our culture.
Like school vouchers, the flat tax, and other pretenders, the AFV assumes the necessity of state intervention and tries to bend liberty around such strictures.
The way to stop the brain and capital drain is readily at hand. Relinquish controls. Stop taxing people abroad. Adopt laissez-faire. Reinstitute freedom. Reject militarism and nationalism.