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Economics 101: Learning From Sweden’s Free Market Renaissance

aquinlan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:32:03 -0800

Sweden is a powerful example of the importance of public policy. The Nordic nation became rich between 1870 and 1970 when government was very small, but then began to stagnate as welfare state policies were implemented in the 1970s and 1980s. The CF&P Foundation video explains that Sweden is now shifting back to economic freedom in hopes of undoing the damage caused by an excessive welfare state. www.freedomandprosperity.org

Making Banks Spy on Their CustomersIs Not Effective Crime Fighting:The Failure of Anti-Money Laundering Laws

aquinlan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:46:57 -0800

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video examines anti-money laundering laws and finds that they are expensive and intrusive. These costs might be acceptable if the result was less crime, but this mini-documentary reveals that anti-money laundering policies are ineffective. As a former Reagan Administration official remarked, they undermine the fight against crime by misallocating law enforcement resources. www.freedomandprosperity.org

Economic 101: Government Monopolies Are Bad: The School Choice Example

aquinlan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:16:40 -0800

Competition promotes innovation and results in higher quality and lower costs. Government-run schools are a tragic example, by contrast, of why monopolies generate bad results. This video uses the example of school choice to explain why competition is a better approach. www.freedomandprosperity.org

Stimulus II: A Sequel America Can’t Afford

aquinlan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:36:21 -0800

Labor Department numbers show that the Obama Administration’s $787 billion “stimulus” was a flop. Instead of holding the unemployment rate at 8 percent or below, the jobless rate soared to 10 percent. Now there is discussion of second so-called stimulus, which politicians are calling a “jobs bill.” But making government bigger, this CF&P Foundation video explains, is a recipe for long-run stagnation and lower living standards, regardless of what the policy is named. www.freedomandprosperity.org

Economics 101: Moral Hazard

aquinlan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:43:48 -0800

This CF&P Foundation's Economics 101 video discusses the Moral Hazard, which occurs when bad choices are subsidized. This often happens when government intervention lets people take risks while having little or no skin in the game. Housing policies, for instance, subsidized mortgages, thus enabling irresponsible borrowing and leading to bubbles and bailouts. Politicians may be setting the stage for the next crisis with a too big to fail policy that will subsidize the biggest financial institutions. www.freedomandprosperity.org

Deficits are Bad, but the Real Problem is Spending

aquinlan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:59:31 -0800

Huge deficits and skyrocketing debt levels are creating considerable worry. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains that that government borrowing is excessive - and will get worse in coming decades. But this mini-documentary explains that deficits and debt are merely the symptoms, and a rising burden of government spending is the real problem. www.freedomandprosperity.org

A Red-Ink Train Wreck: The Real Fiscal Cost of Government-Run Healthcare

aquinlan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:15:18 -0800

This CF&P Foundation video explains why healthcare proposals in Washington will result in bloated government and higher deficits. This mini-documentary exposes the pervasive inaccuracy of congressional forecasts and succinctly lists 12 reasons why Obamacare will be a budget buster. For more information: www.freedomandprosperity.org

Don’t Copy Europe’s Mistakes: Less Government Is the Right Way to Fix Healthcare

aquinlan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:29:38 -0800

In this CF&P Foundation video, Eline van den Broek explains that government interference is driving up healthcare costs in America and warns that European style health "reform" will make the situation even worse. Based on what has happened in Europe, she explains that universal health coverage is not the same as universal healthcare, that insurance mandates mean more government control, and that price controls simply do not work. More information: www.freedomandprosperity.org

The Value Added Tax: A Hidden New Tax to Finance Much Bigger Government

aquinlan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:06:06 -0700

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why a value-added tax would be a dangerous money machine for big government. The evidence from Europe also shows that VATs actually lead to higher income taxes. www.freedomandprosperity.org

Check Your Tits

britethorn — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:47:32 -0700

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
For help getting a mammogram, visit:
http://liv.com/free_mammograms.php
You can also find help by visiting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation at: http://www.bcrfcure.org/
Film by John Kramer
Starring Brian Hoolahan
Written by Brian Hoolahan and John Kramer

The Empirical Evidence Against Big Government

aquinlan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:17:01 -0700

Building on a previous mini-documentary that focused on theory, this video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation presents real-world data and research showing that the burden of government spending is far too high – not only in the United States (where the Bush-Obama policies have increased the federal budget by more than 100 percent), but also in other nations where government budgets sometimes consume more than one-half of an economy's output. www.freedomandprosperity.org

Health Insurance for Veterans: Reality Check

whitehouse — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:27:27 -0700

Matt Flavin, Director of Veterans and Wounded Warrior Policy, explains that nothing in health insurance reform will affect veterans' access to the care they get now. To the contrary, the President's budget greatly expands coverage for veterans who have been denied access in the past.

Eight Reasons Why Big Government Hurts Economic Growth

aquinlan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:49:16 -0700

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video analyzes how excessive government spending undermines economic performance. While acknowledging that a very modest level of government spending on things such as "public goods" can facilitate growth, the video outlines eight different ways that that big government hinders prosperity. This video focuses on theory and will be augmented by a second video looking at the empirical evidence favoring smaller government.

"Not This TIme"

whitehouse — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:28:50 -0700

The President continued his conversation on health reform with a roundtable at the Children's National Medical Center, a conversation that has taken him to every region of the country and encompassed every imaginable perspective on health care reform.
It has been a conversation that has brought more people and more stakeholders into the fold supporting strong reform than ever before, and taken us further down that road than ever before. And so it is no surprise, perhaps, that those who feel they would profit financially or politically have come out swinging furiously to try to kill reform.

President Obama’s Dishonest Demagoguery on Tax Havens

aquinlan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:51:36 -0700

Politicians who like higher taxes would like to shut down so-called tax havens so they can set up an "OPEC for politicians" and implement higher tax rates. Yet since all the evidence shows that low-tax jurisdictions are very beneficial for the global economy, the politicians often resort to dishonest demagoguery. This educational video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity debunks President Obama's two most common smears against tax havens.

TeleTownHall: Sotomayor's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing

HeritageFoundation — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:30:22 -0700

Sen. Jim DeMint and former Attorney General Edwin Meese discuss Judge Sonia Sotomayor's activist decisions and remarks during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings.