Here’s something to use when someone tries to make this claim against you. And here’s the resource page the video mentions.

Government spending, not a healthy economy, says Shawn Ritenour .

According to figures in a Congressional Research Service report on federal spending on poverty, there was $60,000 of such spending per poor family in 2011.

Just added another speaking date, this one at Michigan State University on December 4. Details to come. And I hope to see you Chicagoans this Friday night at Jaks Tap from 5-7pm!

“It is reasonably certain that we would still have stagecoaches — nationalized, to be sure, heavily subsidized, and with a fantastic research program to ‘retrain the horse’ — had there been ministers of transportation around 1825.” –Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive (Thanks to Brett Lunn.)

This page , run by a reader of this site, deserves more likes.

Someone on my Facebook page ( which I hope you will ‘like’ ) asked about defending the electoral college: should he make the argument that electors will have more sober and impartial judgment than the fickle masses, etc.? I wouldn’t. Given that the electors are nearly always party machine people, almost…
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That’s one of the things I was asked in this impromptu interview at a meet-and-greet before I spoke at the University of Central Florida on Wednesday.

I run into this claim quite a lot. A lot of the people advancing it are fans of G. Edward Griffin, and this is why I find it so odd that this theory has gained so much traction. Griffin discounts the theory in his excellent…
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