Cato Institute's new Site: Downsizing the Federal Government

by the Left Coast Rebel

This morning CNBC ran a program on worldwide economic 'austerity' which essenentially comes down to developed nations raising taxes and America spending itself into generational bankruptcy. Cato's Tad DeHaven was on hand to combat the Keynsian 'spend yourself into prosperity' typical media go-to-guy.

I noted the hostility that the CNBC talking-bobblehead along with the guest treated Cato's Tad Dehaven. If anything other than predictable, it gave me an excuse then to plug Cato's new site Downsizing the Federal Government which lists Federal bureaucracy by egregious bureaucracy and ways that they can be cut, scaled back, etc.

Just my kind of organization. Here's a video:

Comments

  1. Grung_e_GeneTue Jun 22, 06:46:00 PM EDT

    yes, deregulate the government more so that when another republican corporation which actively murders american workers fucks up and unleashes a catastrophe on the Nation you can't blame Obama for it.

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  2. Grung_e_GeneTue Jun 22, 06:57:00 PM EDT

    This video is crap. Just absolute undercutting of the American worker stuff, America needs higher tariffs and increased protection for small business not the complete removal of protections. Republicans have sought for years a two-pronged strategy to undercut the American middle and working class, by removing tariffs Corporate bureaucrats push to make the American worker compete with slave labor in Indonesia and Costa Rica driving down wages and dismantling the industrial infrastructure in America. Republicans at the behest of their Corporate Masters have then blindly ignored immigration allowing millions of workers to enter the US to work at cut rate wages destroying labor and union strength.

    It's an Outsourcing and Insourcing of cheap labor which Corporate Plutocrats desire.

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  3. Les CarpenterTue Jun 22, 07:24:00 PM EDT

    Guess I must disagree. Subsidies which typically go to Agri corporations are agri welfare.

    Your comments read like something V.L. Lenin would have said.

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  4. Gorges SmytheTue Jun 22, 10:49:00 PM EDT

    Isn't it interesting how all companies and corporations are supposedly owned by Republicans? Research will prove otherwise.

    Personally, I'm FOR the careful use of tariffs, but then, for nearly 12 years I was a Republican union member, so I AM a bit of an odd duck.

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  5. Will "take no prisoners" HartTue Jun 22, 11:44:00 PM EDT

    I guess that you could call me Keynesian light. I agreed with the Democrats (and some Republicans) that a stimulus was needed. Mine, however, would have been far less the far-left grab-bag. It would have had just 3 major components. 1) A 1-2 year payroll tax holiday. 2) A PERMANENT middle class tax cut (no more of this rebate nonsense). And 3) I would have targeted infrastuctre projects that were, HELLO, under code - you know, as opposed to building bridges to nowhere, etc..

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  6. Les CarpenterWed Jun 23, 02:26:00 AM EDT

    Will - I am not a Keynesian advocate. I see you points however and could live with them.

    However a scalpel needs to be taken to Leviathan as well. Time to trim the fat. And there is no doubt a lot of unneeded fat to trim.

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  7. Will "take no prisoners" HartWed Jun 23, 12:41:00 PM EDT

    I'm with you on the fat, RN. I've heard that there are up to 70 federal agencies that dole out aid to the poor. A person cannot tell me that there isn't duplication there. And, hey, maybe we can get that 3 billion in back taxes that these same federal employees owe us/Uncle Sam.

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  8. Les CarpenterWed Jun 23, 01:21:00 PM EDT

    Will - Just he tip of thew iceberg. Anytime there is a situation such as you describe there is duplicity.

    The three billion would be a nice start.

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  9. Left Coast RebelThu Jun 24, 12:11:00 AM EDT

    Grung'e' - I sure would love to know your background. Education? Law? Upbringing? What do you do for a living? What publications do you read on a daily basis? Websites? Philosophers? Who would you consider having mentored you?

    I'm just wondering, no offense intended.

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  10. AnonymousThu Jun 24, 11:49:00 AM EDT

    >What do you do for a living?

    Top Ten Possibilities (based solely on the content of his comments)

    10. Starbuck's employee
    9. Stay-at-home husband
    8. Social networking
    7. Undergrad student in a non-scientific field
    6. Hobo
    5. Community organizer
    4. Romantic revolutionary
    3. Government social engineering agency staff
    2. Government school employee
    1. Career welfare recipient

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  11. AnonymousThu Jun 24, 11:57:00 AM EDT

    The video is nothing more nor less than Constitutionally based common sense. Almost everything that the federal government is doing right now is not sanctioned by the Constitution, and directly violates the rights of the individual to his or her life, liberty, and property.

    In addition, the government doesn't give subsidies. The government has no resources of it's own. The government takes my money, gives it to somebody else, and calls it a subsidy, or a bailout, or entitlements, or some other deceitful term.

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  12. Grung_e_GeneFri Jun 25, 12:11:00 PM EDT

    United State Marine.

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