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- Gingrich: Ron Paul’s base is “people who want to legalize drugs”
- In Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback puts tea party tenets into action with sharp cuts
- Monetary Theory, Crony Capitalism and the Tea Party
- Tea Party raises fear of UN at Ocean County freeholder meeting
| Gingrich: Ron Paul’s base is “people who want to legalize drugs” Posted: 22 Dec 2011 12:11 PM PST By Walt Cronkite, Sarah Huisenga, CBS News Despite his mantra to stay “positive,” Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich took a swipe at rival Ron Paul on Thursday, suggesting that the Texas congressman’s political base consists of “people who want to legalize drugs.” During a radio interview with conservative commentator John McCaslin, the former House speaker also said Paul is naive about the war on terrorism and Iran’s nuclear program. “This is a guy who basically says, if the United States were only nice, it wouldn’t have had 9/11. He doesn’t want to blame the bad guys. … He dismisses the danger of Iranian nuclear weapon and seems to be indifferent to the idea that Israel could be wiped out. And as I said, I think the key to his volunteer base is people who want to legalize drugs.” Paul has grown in strength in recent polls in Iowa and is threatening Gingrich’s ability to merge from the state’s Jan. 3 GOP caucuses as the clear-cut conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Both Paul and Romney have unleashed a barrage of negative ads against Gingrich in the first caucus state, prompting Gingrich to challenge Romney to go one-on-one with him in a debate. “I’m happy taking the heat, why doesn’t he join me in the kitchen?” Gingrich said on Fox News late Wednesday, referring to Romney’s quip that his rival should get out of the kitchen if he can’t stand the heat of critical ads. Gingrich called on Romney to join him for a 90-minute debate, a shorter engagement than the three-hour “Lincoln-Douglas” style debates he has touted for several weeks now. To read more, visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57347050-503544/gingrich-ron-pauls-base-is-people-who-want-to-legalize-drugs/ |
| In Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback puts tea party tenets into action with sharp cuts Posted: 22 Dec 2011 11:56 AM PST By Annie Gowen, The Washington Post TOPEKA, KAN. — If you want to know what a Tea Party America might look like, there is no place like Kansas. In the past year, three state agencies have been abolished and 2,050 jobs have been cut. Funding for schools, social services and the arts have been slashed. The new Republican governor rejected a $31.5 million federal grant for a new health-insurance exchange because he opposes President Obama's health-care law. And that's just the small stuff. A new "Office of the Repealer" has been created to reduce the number of laws and regulations, and the Repealer is canvassing the state for more cut suggestions. In the upcoming legislative session, Gov. Sam Brownback (R) plans to roll out proposals to change the way schools are funded, taxes are levied and state pensions are administered. A year after voters vaulted hundreds of tea party candidates to power in Washington and in state capitals, the movement's goals are being pursued aggressively in states such as Wisconsin, Ohio and Texas. But in Kansas, as nowhere else in the country, tea party fervor is reshaping government. The same political forces of the Republican Party driving the confrontation over taxes and spending in Washington are now completely in charge in Kansas. The GOP now controls the state's House of Representatives with the biggest majority in half a century. Emboldened by this power shift, Brownback — the state's former two-term U.S. senator — has embarked on his overhaul at a breathtaking pace. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-kansas-gov-sam-brownback-puts-tea-party-tenets-into-action-with-sharp-cuts/2011/11/02/gIQAkbnOAP_story.html |
| Monetary Theory, Crony Capitalism and the Tea Party Posted: 22 Dec 2011 11:53 AM PST
The past few years have taught us a lot about the effects and operations of monetary policy in the United States. The Federal government responded to the economic downturn by spending enormous amounts and Federal Reserve responded to the financial crisis with an enormous expansion of its balance sheet — what the proles call “printing money” — and both occurred without any attendant inflation or giant soaring of interest rates. The so-called “bond vigilantes” turned out to be mythological creatures, at least as far as U.S. federal debt is concerned. Even the crisis over the debt ceiling and the downgrade of the U.S.’s credit rating only lead to lower interest rates. The school of economics that best explains this phenomenon is called “Modern Monetary Theory” or MMT. The MMT school is made up of scholars, businessmen and online advocates who have a deep understanding of the operations of the actual operational aspects of our monetary system. They argue, quite persuasively, that our monetary system is built in such a way that our government is never revenue constrained, which is to say it can spend as much as it likes, because the government creates our money. The real constraint on government spending is price inflation, which occurs when government and private spending outpace economic output. To read more, visit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/45765009 |
| Tea Party raises fear of UN at Ocean County freeholder meeting Posted: 22 Dec 2011 11:50 AM PST By Erik Larsen | Asbury Park Press TOMS RIVER — Conspiracy fears over a United Nations plot to establish a one-world government in which property rights can be voided, brought a dozen Tea Party activists to Wednesday's meeting of the Ocean County Board of Freeholders. Specifically, Ocean County Tea Party members voiced concern with Gov. Chris Christie's strategic plan for targeting growth in New Jersey and the county's update of its own master development plan. "I'm not attacking the need for planning and I'm not attacking the need for good environmental stewardship," said David Sharp, 75, of Waretown. "What I am concerned about … a thing called Agenda 21 that has crept into the policy making of many government agencies." According to literature from the John Birch Society, Agenda 21 would mandate national service, control the size of families, reduce the amount of goods and services individuals can purchase and use, and virtually eliminate private ownership. To read more, visit: http://www.app.com/article/20111221/NJNEWS/312210098/Tea-Party-raises-fear-UN-freeholder-meeting?odyssey=nav%7Chead |
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