Daily Archives: August 26, 2016


Libertarianism Debunked

YouTube has the video Libertarianism Debunked.

If you’d like to live in a world where the government didn’t interfere in your private life, where you paid minimal taxes, and were free to do whatever you wanted as long as it didn’t infringe on others freedoms? Well then, you might be a libertarian…or you might not be a libertarian. Hasan Piker of Pop Crunch breaks down libertarianism.


I used to believe in Libertarianism until I figured out what this guy has figured out. My epiphany came in 1962. I guess I stopped being surprised many years ago that some people just never outgrow their fascination with this utopian scheme that has a huge blind spot to the major part of reality.


Jill Stein: Time To Reject The ‘Lesser-Evil’ & Stand Up For The Greater Good

YouTube has the interview Jill Stein: Time To Reject The ‘Lesser-Evil’ & Stand Up For The Greater Good.

MintPress editor in chief Mnar Muhawesh interviews Green Party Presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein on how alternative voices during elections are purposely excluded because of their anti-corporation and anti-war stance on politics.


This is the interview that was part of my previous post Mnar Muhawesh: Why I’m Choosing Peace & Voting Jill Stein For President.

This may be over a year old, but as things have unfolded more recently, these remarks are more relevant today than they seemed to be a year ago. I didn’t pay much attention to Jill Stein because I was happy with Bernie Sanders, and he even had a chance of winning. Now that we don’t have Bernie Sanders to pin our hopes on, I find that Jill Stein actually represents my point of view even better than Bernie Sanders did.


Mnar Muhawesh: Why I’m Choosing Peace & Voting Jill Stein For President

Mint Press has the article Mnar Muhawesh: Why I’m Choosing Peace & Voting Jill Stein For President.  Here is just a taste of what is in the commentary of the article.

Stein’s plan would redirect these billions — by far the biggest expenditure in the federal budget — into creating a “Green New Deal,” a peace economy built around a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The Green Party candidate plans to “[c]reate millions of jobs by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture, and conservation.”

As a proponent of Modern Money Theory (MMT) I am always pointing out the fallacy of thinking that we have to increase taxes or cut the budget to “afford”  some government program.  As I step back and consider what is being said here, I have to admit that there is nothing wrong with avoiding expenditures that we  do not need to make, and that are actually harmful  to us.

The limits of what the government can do come from real resources, not from the creation of money which the FED does everyday with some keystrokes on a computer keyboard.  The money we  spend on the military budget is used to employ real resources that would be better used  for more peaceful purposes.  So in that sense, it is a very good idea to cut the military budget and put that money (and the resources that money buys) to more productive uses.