This Episode’s Executive Producer: Nicolas Pelsmaekers
This Episode’s Executive Producer: David Hoffman
Executive Producers: Sir Lawrence Roik, Sir Wouter Seljee, Sir Paul Couture
Associate Executive Producers: Indy Hofmann, Nelson Ferreira, Sheigh Obrein
Knighthoods: Sir Zengarten, Sir Zachary Geesaman, Sir Borislav Marinov, Sir Wouter Seljee
Art By: Paul T. with Bonus art from Nick the Rat
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geesh! i told the shill today! and you did it again! NICK the Rat! what is up with NIK the Rat! I demand blow as retribution!!!
So, where is this theme download? hm, guess not
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/10/gop-against-nazis/
Okay so I downloaded the book, Nullification.
I’m with John. I still don’t want to get on the mother ship! They cook people!
You do not have to be crazy to listen to No Agenda but it helps. ?8^)
Honestly, I didn’t even remember what the 10th Amendment was all about until I heard the show today. What a major find that was!
At 36:30 in the show, John talks about the 10th Amendment, and that makes the 10,10,10 show great!
Equally as important is the 9th Amendment, which is counter to the nonsense that many people think that we only have the rights that the Constitution “gives” us.
Speaking of the importance of Federalism, there is a very strong economic argument for decentralized governance: competition. In this age when people are highly mobile, states can be made to compete in a merket sense on their policy choices. When the federal government creates a law, it has a monopoly position on that policy across all states. This greatly increases the probability that a federal policy will end up less efficient or desirable than the winning state derived policy could have been.
Also, looking at it from a Public Choice perspective, the problem with federal laws is that because the costs of those policies is spread across a very large pool of citizens, the incentive of any one individual to pay attention is extremely low. This creates an even greater oportunity for special interests to engage in rent seeking through the political process.
One of the real problems with centralized government is the elected members become isolated from the people and causes they are suppose to represent.
My favorite question I post on some of the political forums is “When was the last time you saw a Washington politician in the grocery store or pumping his own gas down the street?”
It sounds silly but is actually a very big problem. Way back the politicians spent a great deal of time at home being regular people. Then they started showing up only for campaign contributions and re-election. Now they only show up for re-election…
The see themselves (and try to convince us) as political leaders when they were only hired to represent us…