Comments on: Stash Your Cash Overseas Help the Local Economy http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/11/06/stash-your-cash-overseas-help-the-local-economy/ A smaller government is a better government. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Harrison http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/11/06/stash-your-cash-overseas-help-the-local-economy/#comment-2418 Harrison Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:58:06 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2980#comment-2418 Gosh, burro, that's not what I read in last week's edition of Newsweek that I found in at the bus station. Since I read it in a magazine it must be true. Gosh, burro, that’s not what I read in last week’s edition of Newsweek that I found in at the bus station. Since I read it in a magazine it must be true.

]]> By: burro http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/11/06/stash-your-cash-overseas-help-the-local-economy/#comment-2417 burro Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:04:27 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2980#comment-2417 I don't understand the populist angst against corporations. Corporations are a logical side product of a free, democratic society. The difference between a corporation and the government is that ultimately a corporation must create something of value for the rest of society. A corporation can only grow as large and as powerful as the will of the people will allow. Wall Street bankers wouldn't have become so important or wealthy if it weren't for millions of stupid Americans overleveraging themselves to buy things they couldn't afford. Ultimately, corporations cannot confiscate our wealth from us like a government can. To complain about corporations, is like looking in the mirror, deciding you are ugly, and then blaming the mirror. The nature of modern American corporations isn't a cause of problems as much as a symptom of some the inherent cultural problems. .-= burro´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIndependentBloghorn/~3/kbpv0z8DALs/" rel="nofollow">Another Messiah in the Making</a> =-. I don’t understand the populist angst against corporations. Corporations are a logical side product of a free, democratic society. The difference between a corporation and the government is that ultimately a corporation must create something of value for the rest of society. A corporation can only grow as large and as powerful as the will of the people will allow. Wall Street bankers wouldn’t have become so important or wealthy if it weren’t for millions of stupid Americans overleveraging themselves to buy things they couldn’t afford. Ultimately, corporations cannot confiscate our wealth from us like a government can. To complain about corporations, is like looking in the mirror, deciding you are ugly, and then blaming the mirror. The nature of modern American corporations isn’t a cause of problems as much as a symptom of some the inherent cultural problems.
.-= burro´s last blog ..Another Messiah in the Making =-.

]]> By: Harrison http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/11/06/stash-your-cash-overseas-help-the-local-economy/#comment-2416 Harrison Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:21:05 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2980#comment-2416 "Charles" or whatever his name is posted the exact same comment on another website: http://www.commentsonnationalamnesia.com/2009/11/06/3791/#comments I think you're a little off base here. The GOP has "forgotten" about smaller government, particularly under George W. Bush. With this I can agree. However except for WWII every war since has been a "war of choice." This in itself doesn't mean anything. One could argue unless another government directly attacks the U.S. everything we do is "of choice" (and technically even then our response to Pearl Harbor was "of choice"). I don't think that's a very good definition by which to go. I'm not sure what you mean about "church and state going into" your bedroom. The U.S. is more secular now than it has ever been. America was also founded as a Christian nation, this fact cannot be refuted even if many of the Founding Fathers were Deists they still believed we were a nation given special attributes by God. Multi-nation corporations may not be perfect but thanks to them we have energy, a robust food supply, technology, and toilet paper is in the stores. There were no corporations in the USSR and there aren't any in North Korea and many other places around the world and the standard of living in very poor indeed. Most of the rich are so because of their habits and lifestlye while most of the poor are that way for the same reasons. There are exceptions but the people I've known who work hard and smart do well, those who do not sink. You have more opportunities, for now, living in the U.S. than in any other nation or place on Earth today or on any nation or place that ever existed in human society. “Charles” or whatever his name is posted the exact same comment on another website:

http://www.commentsonnationalamnesia.com/2009/11/06/3791/#comments

I think you’re a little off base here.

The GOP has “forgotten” about smaller government, particularly under George W. Bush. With this I can agree. However except for WWII every war since has been a “war of choice.” This in itself doesn’t mean anything. One could argue unless another government directly attacks the U.S. everything we do is “of choice” (and technically even then our response to Pearl Harbor was “of choice”). I don’t think that’s a very good definition by which to go.

I’m not sure what you mean about “church and state going into” your bedroom. The U.S. is more secular now than it has ever been. America was also founded as a Christian nation, this fact cannot be refuted even if many of the Founding Fathers were Deists they still believed we were a nation given special attributes by God.

Multi-nation corporations may not be perfect but thanks to them we have energy, a robust food supply, technology, and toilet paper is in the stores. There were no corporations in the USSR and there aren’t any in North Korea and many other places around the world and the standard of living in very poor indeed.

Most of the rich are so because of their habits and lifestlye while most of the poor are that way for the same reasons. There are exceptions but the people I’ve known who work hard and smart do well, those who do not sink.

You have more opportunities, for now, living in the U.S. than in any other nation or place on Earth today or on any nation or place that ever existed in human society.

]]> By: Charles Gallo http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/11/06/stash-your-cash-overseas-help-the-local-economy/#comment-2415 Charles Gallo Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:46:24 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2980#comment-2415 As a moderate republican, I believe in smaller government, but somehow the new republican party has forgotten what smaller is, or what is the role of government. A war on terror costing 100's of billions of dollars, and takes away my privacy, in order to defeat terrorists who were armed with box cutters. A common sense lockable entry into the pilot's compartment would have avoided this whole mess. Two wars of choice. One we never knew the real reason why it was launched. The other we will never know when we have succeeded in our mission. Senator Taft (1950) was right. The last “good war” was WWII, because we knew what we were fighting for, and everybody shared in the sacrifice. As the tragedy at Fort Hood proved, what are we doing to those brave men and women who sacrifice their all for us? They go back to a war zone two, three, four times, and have a increasingly high rate of mental illness. When will their mission be accomplished? If there was a Draft would we be fighting these wars? The mixing of church and state, going into my bedroom, and telling my wife what she can and can't do with her body. Even I can't do that and Thomas Jefferson would never approve of this. America was founded because we have a right to privacy and the right to be to be secure in our own homes. While I do not have the responsibility to pay for private elective medical procedures that I consider immoral, I do not have the right to interfere with the private choices of others, which do not involve the government. Huge multi-national corporations have the rights of an individual, and effect my life more than the government ever has. Yet they are too big to fail, and I pay to bail them out. Small retailers can not compete with Wal-mart, who is so big they get special deals from Chinese companies which are unavailable to others. Wall Street enriches itself with actions that destroys peoples lives and the economy. Yet, my party tells me they can not be regulated and controlled by the only institution which can match them in size, wealth, and power. The only proper role of Government is to do what we as individuals can not do for ourselves. We do not live in a capitalist society, we live in a corporate society, with the rich getting richer, the poor struggling to survive, and the middle class disappearing as they join the ranks of the poor. The former abuses of government are are greatly overshadowed, by these corporations which have no loyalty to any country, or people. As a moderate republican, I believe in smaller government, but somehow the new republican party has forgotten what smaller is, or what is the role of government. A war on terror costing 100′s of billions of dollars, and takes away my privacy, in order to defeat terrorists who were armed with box cutters. A common sense lockable entry into the pilot’s compartment would have avoided this whole mess. Two wars of choice. One we never knew the real reason why it was launched. The other we will never know when we have succeeded in our mission. Senator Taft (1950) was right. The last “good war” was WWII, because we knew what we were fighting for, and everybody shared in the sacrifice. As the tragedy at Fort Hood proved, what are we doing to those brave men and women who sacrifice their all for us? They go back to a war zone two, three, four times, and have a increasingly high rate of mental illness. When will their mission be accomplished? If there was a Draft would we be fighting these wars?

The mixing of church and state, going into my bedroom, and telling my wife what she can and can’t do with her body. Even I can’t do that and Thomas Jefferson would never approve of this. America was founded because we have a right to privacy and the right to be to be secure in our own homes. While I do not have the responsibility to pay for private elective medical procedures that I consider immoral, I do not have the right to interfere with the private choices of others, which do not involve the government.

Huge multi-national corporations have the rights of an individual, and effect my life more than the government ever has. Yet they are too big to fail, and I pay to bail them out. Small retailers can not compete with Wal-mart, who is so big they get special deals from Chinese companies which are unavailable to others. Wall Street enriches itself with actions that destroys peoples lives and the economy. Yet, my party tells me they can not be regulated and controlled by the only institution which can match them in size, wealth, and power. The only proper role of Government is to do what we as individuals can not do for ourselves. We do not live in a capitalist society, we live in a corporate society, with the rich getting richer, the poor struggling to survive, and the middle class disappearing as they join the ranks of the poor. The former abuses of government are are greatly overshadowed, by these corporations which have no loyalty to any country, or people.

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