Amity Shlaes, according to Wiki, has a 1982 BA in English from Yale. That’s it. Her own web site doesn’t mention any academic background whatsoever.

Take for example her denial that we where having a recession in 2008:

Quote from Amity Shlaes: “Consider what happened this week. While speaking with the Washington Times, Gramm said that the country was not in a true recession but a “mental recession.” He also said, “We have sort of become a nation of whiners” and “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline.”

Gramm was right about the recession and stood by his recession comments on Thursday. A recession is two consecutive quarters in which the economy shrinks, and last quarter it grew. But no matter. Voters feel they are in a recession, and so they are, at least according to Campaign Econ.”

I guess she’s real authority now isn’t she?

Here brief snapshot to the absolute fraud of the Forgotten Man: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009020603/fdr-failed-myth.

I suggest you look at the data which available online before you buy CFR/Globalist crap.

Quote: “Nothing wrong with the Liberty League”

Nothing wrong with the American Liberty League except the whole Business plot, and openly aligned with fascists. But what is little treason after it is against the big bad State.

Cato is project of the Mont Perelin Society and that Society created by London Bankers and European Oligarchs and promoted fascist coups throughout South American and are no friends of freedom unless you consider George Soro’s “open society” project the kind of freedom you want.

You called Larouchies cultists and then you go on to promote Ayn Rand. Pot meet Kettle.

I like Larouche but I don’t agree with his organization’s attacks on G.K. Chesterton.

Here’s a rather nice debate between Larouchies and Randians back in 2005 when the Randians/Libertarians where claiming all was fine with economy and claiming Larouchies where all doom and gloom. The Randians are reduced to saying “F the Constitution” and founders where wrong to set a government and it is perfectly moral to let people die of thirst if they can’t pay money.

Check it out here: http://wlym.com/mp3/20051115-ucla-debate.mp3

Quote from Michael Hardesty: “Finally, no one can make anyone learn anything. You have
to learn to drive or swim or play chess by yourself. Someone
can show you but you have to do it yourself.”

So you decided to potty train yourself? You decided what language would be your first? You decided what family traditions and customs you would follow? You cannot do anything separate from the past that produced you thus all learning is based in the culture you are part of and cannot originate in the individual alone.

As human beings the first economy we are part of is the economy of grace and we don’t have a choice as to what gift we receive.

Quote from Michael Hardesty: “By the way none of the people you list ever built a garage,
much less an economy in the real world. ”

So Friedrich List and the Careys have nothing to do with German or Japanese industrialization? I guess they have nothing to Pennsylvania Railroad or American Industrial Policy.

Sigh…..Friedrich List started out building a successful coal mine and then created the Little Schuylkill Railroad making a statement like just goes to show that reading all those Libertarian propaganda means that you don’t know any American history much less an economy in the real world.”

By the way, where you four months ago? I and other Larouche crazies were out organizing people against Obamacare and getting screamed at and now the people who listen are driving their congress critters into hiding and Obamacare is going down. Who do think started debated about euthanesia and government rationing of care against people’s will?

So I don’t want a lecture from a do nothing Libertarians about healthcare when I fighting your fight months before you Teabaggers got of you asses and did something.

Your pushing to audit the Fed. We are pushing to prosecute the Fed Peccora style and seize it. Who’s serious here?

I’ve read Von Mises but have you read Friedrich List, Mathew Carey, or any American System economist? Have you read Marx, Smith, G.K. Chesterton, Henry George, P.J. Proudhon, or Rosa Luxemberg or anyone outside the Chicago or Austrian School?

Have you ever read the people who built economies in the real world that worked quite well.

You think that Larouche is the only who talks about a physical economy? You obviously don’t know any history or any economics.

You call Larouche a crackpot but he called the current situation way way before any Austrians in 2001.

So you can lie and call him a Marxist but Larouche and his organization have opened up for me a entire tradition of American and European thought that nobody else is willing to talk about from Nicolas of Cusa to the Carey Brothers.

I suggest you stop reading Liberty League wannabes and go to the original sources stop letting foundation funded operations like Cato and the von Mises institutue do your thinking for you.

Quote: “Any time you have a finite resource you will have rationing–it is not matter of whether healthcare rationed, but how it’s rationed–healthcare is after all a finite resource.”

Actually that’s only one half or the question. You have think about how you increase or change your resource base so that you have to ration less. If you focus on that part of equation you be getting somewhere.

The current U.S. paradigm rations largely by an individuals ability to pay. For example, if you cannot afford insurance your only choice may be to wait until a conditon reaches the point where it becomes a medical emergency and you go to the emergency room. Additionally, those who have insurance are by no means immune from rationing: your insurance company often has leeway it what does and does not pay for. If your insurance company decides not to pay for a treatment, you’re on your own.

By ending the Federal Reserve System and establishing a Constitutional credit system based on credit for long term physical economic development just like we used to do.

Quote: What new framework strikes you as being more rational.

A framework based on connecting physical productivity to profit rather than money to profit. Changing the idea that profits are monetary to the idea that profits is physical just the same as the American System from Benjamin Franklin to the Moon Shot.

Quote: People use markets to exchange what they can produce best and most easily for other things that they value more highly.

Well, the markets do seem to produce debt and derivatives better than anything else and markets say derivatives are highly valuable.

But is what the markets are saying true? Can I eat derivatives? Do they have any value for human existence? No, the markets are wrong because what the people in the market believe is wrong.

Quote: That’s been going on since the beginning of recorded history, and it seems to work, since it aggregates information about individual values and none of us are as smart as all of us, so to speak.

Complete nonsense. I’m am smarter than the so-called market because truth isn’t a opinion and just because the market decides on the “impartial spectator” of popular opinion doesn’t make the “market” right and me wrong. The market aggregates no information about value only human beings successive via inter generation relationships aggregate value i.e. people learn from their families and communities the fundamental relationships of value not so called “market forces.”

The market is only as “smart” people participating in the market so the question is how to make the people i.e. the nation “smarter?”

By the way how you Austrians define “smart” or you apriori assume in a feat circular logic the market is already the smartest there is because it like God is omnipresent, omniscient even if we poor mortal aren’t so divinely endowed?

Quote: “I don’t trust your proposed “planner” to be entirely trustworthy, to say nothing of his or her capacity for intelligence or empathy.”

My planner’s is requirements are determined of physical world around us and only thing for human beings to figure out how to figure out what is going in the physical world and therefore figure out rationally what to do in face of this changing world.

Today’s market says there are not much monetary profits in clean water and governments think they are limited by what money they can get through the bond markets and market won’t buy bonds for water projects.

Now the physical world tells us looking at the numbers of “fossil” water reserves and what is needed for continued economic growth presents a problem unless we start doing something very soon.

The entire problem of “unplanned” or “planned” has to do with your conception of man being driven by a fixed set of mental relations based on individual pleasure and pain or as the Austrian’s would say the “fixed logical structure of human mind” and therefore what humans do is limited to figuring out human action based on these parameters and therefore anyone interfering with an individual’s decisions based on the optimal utility of those decisions toward the maximizing or minimizing pain is violating their liberty.

So the conclusion of that view is that if an individual wants sell himself into slavery because of debt then that’s the free market at work and I can’t tell enforce my “economic planning” based on the universal principle that slavery is wrong.

If a “socialist” like Jesus Christ says if the Priest or Levite for very good economic reasons wants to ignore the man beaten by robbers they are violating natural law and that the only lawful action toward the victim is that of the Good Samaritan who acts the basis of the humanitarian principle without regards to personal monetary profit or whatever pleasure or pain he may personally receive then that man is dangerous to liberty because “economic planners” like Jesus Christ believe that every human life has immortal value and we must organize ourselves around that principles whereas the Austrians like to let the “free market” make those decisions.

I reject that British/Austrian view of man that the only basis human action is a calculus of pleasure or pain but rather assert the true liberty of his creativity ability to change the basis of his action toward himself and nature to higher and higher conceptions of man and nature just like the Good Samaritan can act on the basis of immortal value of another human outside rather than momentary pleasure or pain.

We can know universal truth and organize or society around those principles institutionally and thus the economy is planned around the good, the true, and beautiful because it has institutions of republican government i.e. institutions that rule by and for “common wealth” of the free people essentially creating what engineers called a “positive feedback loop” or greater action toward the “General Welfare” and that classical conception of a Republic i.e. dynamical national development.

There no greater assault on Liberty than the doctrine that human beings are incapable of reaching such higher conceptions of themselves and their relationship toward nature and are forever locked in a “digital world” of pleasure and pain without the ability to gain the immortal perspective that is in reality is necessary basis for moral action.

So as always British/Austrian Monetarism Delenda Est!

In Canada, or England, if your baby has had a temperature of 103F for 48 hrs (for you libs, that’s 2 days), you wait another 2 days before trying to get the baby to a doctor.

In the US, if you’re not confident, after 2 days that the baby is going to be okay, you have the option of trying to get baby to a doctor.

Before you spout some lib-pseudointellectual retort, try checking with an actual Canadian or UK citizen.

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But where dumb republicans, (like sometimes Hannity and OReilly), go wrong, is they think there is no “bottom of the barrel class” who don’t have this available to them. This DOES need fixed, just not at the cost of screwing the other 20 million who are covered.

We won’t get to a decent solution until the conservative talking heads quit spouting their nonsense about “everyone in the US has access”, and help those trying to advance realistic solutions without some communist takeover.