Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "misesmedia" channel.

  1. What's so complicated about it? A tariff is essentially an import charge (duty) levied on an imported good, which the Gov keeps. It's designed to either equalize the price of what that import sells for, when compared to a US product, or to make the import higher to protect manufactured goods in the US.
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  2. He was also an attorney, who was deeply in bed with the railroads and banks. He knew that without the tariffs and taxes coming from the South, they couldn't pay off what the Federal Gov owed, and they would become insolvent, thus, the Greenbacks and war.
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  3. In reality, what became the founding of the GOP, was the resurrection of the old big-government Federalists, now calling themselves Whigs, under Henry Clay. The same Clay that dueled John Randolph over the very differences between the real Old Republicans of Randolph, and Clay's Federalist Whigs. I always found it deplorable, how Clay, their new party, and Lincoln stole the word, Republican, from the actual real Republicans that, one could say, ended with Randolph and Jackson.
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  4. That was one of the best exposés that I've had the pleasure of listening to. The problem is, that we have many in government, today, with those very beliefs, and they fully intend on dragging the west into their disastrous system even deeper. "Keynesian economics, as part of the neoclassical synthesis, served as the standard macroeconomic model in the developed nations during the later part of the Great Depression, World War II, and the post-war economic expansion (1945–1973). It lost some influence following the oil shock and resulting stagflation of the 1970s. Keynesian economics was later redeveloped as New Keynesian economics, becoming part of the contemporary new neoclassical synthesis, that forms one current-day theory on macroeconomics. The advent of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 sparked renewed interest in Keynesian thought." -- Wikipedia Then, there is this: "Keynes, a British economist who died more than 60 years ago, inspired President Barack Obama's plan to save the U.S. economy with a massive round of government spending. The British economist published his big theory, the one underpinning most of what Obama intends to do, in 1936. "By the 1980s, many believed Keynes' ideas were utterly discredited. But he is the man who came up with the then-radical notion that a government can pull a country out of a deep recession by spending a lot." -- NPR article: Obama Gives Keynes His First Real-World Test (Jan. 2009) Of course, we had the Bush family do something very similar, and now, in 2022, we've spent trillions more.
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  5. He did remind one of one.
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  6. The US and UK were infected by socialism by the late 1800s. In the US, it started with the Christian Socialists, which is a group that many should research, as their movement, Christian Socialism, led to the first social science schools started in Boston, and later, in NYC, where it was brought into post-secondary education at Columbia U and two other colleges. Here, you will find a common religion between the US and UK as well. By the time of the Frankfurt School professors' arrival, Columbia was already well on its way to pushing socialism upon the US. In the UK, it hit Oxford with Ruskin. By the way, when Trotsky was in NYC, it was that same social science school (Rand), which he was affiliated with before he left on a steamer to join Lenin at Saint Petersburg.
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  7. The Anglo-American Establishment has had a penchant for that, but they were teens of both genders. The British seemed to be the worst for it, but this hedonism was within both nations' elite.
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  8. It's true that the allies of both world wars called themselves the NWO, which several US Presidents have used in their rhetoric. The NWO is the International Rules-Based Order, which began under Wilson with the League of Nations, and after WWII, with the creation of the UN and the Atlantic Charter. Both have failed. The UN has become so radicalized with "stopping war" that they are behind the climate nonsense and ESG. That all began at the first Earth Summit at Stockholm in the seventies.
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  9. The Anglicans have since the early 1800s in Britain, and then in the US by the late 1800s when Britain's Christian Socialism came to the US via the Church of the Carpenter in Boston, and spread to New York, where it infected their major Anglican university, Columbia. It was also behind the Rand School of Social Science in NYC. Then, there were also the Quakers, Shakers, Hutterites, Amish, and the Mennonites, as well as the Unitarians that pushed "communal living," and despised the state and the industrial revolution. They are the real roots of socialism and communism.
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  10. I wouldn't call the neoconservatives "anti-communists," but anti-Stalinists, and anti-Soviet Socialists. Kristol's lot were Trotskyists, thus, they were Marxists. They accused Stalin of being "nationalistic," and the support of Stalin and the Soviets on the left was why they fled D Party. Buckley acquired himself some very strange bedfellows, but Buckley was British, and they had a liking for socialism as well. One has to remember that under Ike came the "Eisenhower Policy," which pretty much led the US to spread "liberal democracy" around the world at the end of a gun barrel. They kept that policy paper under wraps for years before it was released. The Old Right would have not stood for those actions. Nixon was Ike's VP, and I have always called him the first Neoconservative president. He was surrounded by Kristol's lot, and many bad policy decisions were made under him.
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  11. The Reagan White House was packed full to the rafters with the New York Intellectuals. Many photos from his office told the tale of who was in the room with him. People like Kristol were around a lot, and the press spoke of who had the president and vice president's ears.
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  12.  @MilquetoastQT  The truth is, much of what became socialism and Marxism started with Christian movements such as the Quakers, and an offshoot, the Diggers. You had the Owenites as well. Then, there are the Hutterites, who still live very communally. The Brownists were similar, who were absorbed into the Mennonites. This eventually made its way into the Church of England and the Episcopalians in the US, which infected the universities, starting with Columbia and the Rand School of Social Science. It's no wonder socialists act as if they're in a religious movement. .
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  13. The EU and Britain, as Britain has a similar bill going through. You have to ask the Tories what they're afraid of.
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  14. Europe has been latched to America's teat since the end of WWI, and it is time to harshly wean them from it.
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  15. I think we all know that this rot started with Nixon, when the so-called Neconservatives came in, and finally took control of the Oval Office. The neocons were all from the Ds, and they were anti-Stalinists, but still as red as they come, and were followers of Trotsky. They were known as the New York Intellectuals, and with them came the world domineering ideology, and setting up China for what it is. Kissinger and the Kristol brothers were behind much of this. Much of the ideology within the UN came from these people.
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  16. What nation has been behind every revolution (Color, Arab Spring, etc.) going back to Solidarity in Poland in 1980? Coups orchestrated by...? What was their purpose, to remove Russian influence? Wars by proxy.
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