Although ex-Republican 2008 Presidential candidate Fred Thompson recently announced he was withdrawing his intent to join the RNC and instead return to acting, I believe he made a shrewd political move (or suicide??) here with this Youtube video release, which was well worth 8 minutes of my time even though I almost chortled myself to death near the end. As the Obama birth saga continued, I could not take too much more political humor.
In the video, Thompson makes a mockery of the entire federal government involving their bailout "plans." I suspect he may have even read some of the libertarian Austrians like Mises or Hazlitt after hearing him use the hole-digging stimulus plan example.
Watch it:
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On his political blog, Thompson has written about his fears for America with the Democrats led by Senators Obama, Biden, and Clinton in charge and the Republicans relegated to the political sideline.
This is where Fred and I start to differ. A lot. I hold that it would not matter if the Republicans were in charge either. Why? Just look at what has happened this year, with a split Senate, House with just a 38-seat Democrat advantage AND a Republican President. With the pleasant exception of Dr. Paul, they are all just a bunch of plundering goons like Bastiat warned us all about in his monumental 1848 work, "The Law." [CAUTION! "The Law" has infected record amounts of Republicans and Democrats with libertarian fever.]
My suggestion of the day tell members of Congress that to earn their $169,000/year salary, they must just go and dig holes in the Nevada desert. At least that way they can not start new wars and continue to wreck our economy. Maybe they will find some gold or silver.
