Abolish EPA now. It has become a political tool and offers nothing to protect the environment and allow for economic growth. Each state has an environmental agency is quite capable of taking care of its state environmental issues. All without destroying the state economy; CA being an exception.

Getting the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US should be a top priority rather than just targeting countries that hate us. We could paint the loss of taxpayer dollars to dictators with a large brush.

Cruz’s speech was excellent for many reasons, but as someone who was there, what struck me most was that he spoke as he walked freely on the stage without using a teleprompter or notes. You could tell he knew what he was talking about, and he spoke about them with passion you can’t fake.

cbartlett, as you know, the Left is hell bent on changing TX from red to purple. I’m not surprised the article was from SA with the popular Castro brothers. Personally knowing they’re both libs, their name alone would give me pause enough to do research. If all is well then fine. SA is the epicenter of their push IMO with Austin in collusion of course. Dallas isn’t too far off either (I’m in a suburb). We better get cracking on our major TX cities to stem the disease, especially with more influx from CA.
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BTW, I wrote the same about Ted Cruz’s speech that his brilliance was speaking from the heart without notes. And if he makes so many mad, he must be doing something right

Only an idiot would give up the power of a Security Council perminant-member’s veto…

We can always just stop paying money to the UN & tell them ‘what are you gonna do about it?’….

It is better to treat the UN like Augustus treated the Roman Senate, than to bail out of it….

You’re BOTH wrong! Neither inflation nor deflation is good! Stable money is good for both spenders and savers.

The savers can get a fair return on their savings without having its value diminished. And real assets, like real estate, have price changes based solely on their productivity and desirability.

Borrowers know the real costs of borrowing before they commit to a loan on an asset that has value to them. They have no right to arbitrarily devalue the unit of account, hurting others, to grant them a profit, or offset their interest costs.

This is why the Founders gave us hard money, gold & silver, as the only constitutional legal tender. Neither did they give us a central bank, they in fact rejected such, because it raised the the precise power to destabilize monetary value that we are discussing here.

What we need to avoid is artificially created inflation or deflation.

Back at the turn of the last century, before the Fed, a tailored businessman’s suit cost a $20 gold piece. It still does today, $1,600 Federal Reserve Notes.

But the value of the accumulated savings of the citizens of the US, then the richest nation in the history of the world, has been frittered away. And those same citizens have been deluded into the belief that holding excess debt to profit on further inflation is wise investing. NO! Instead, is speculation and malinvestment.

It was a good talk to wrap up the conference and send everybody home feeling positive and motivated. It wasn’t the place for substantive talk about policy, and there wasn’t any. But I like it that he headlined growth and opportunity. Also that he mentioned jobsgrowth.org, which itself is a PAC site, but which has a link to tedcruz.org.

tedcruz.org is/was his campaign site, and it has a lot of specific ideas on legislation to promote job growth, such as here:

http://www.tedcruz.org/jobs-and-growth/2011/09/15/houston-chronicle-oped-ted-cruz-a-true-agenda-for-jobs-would-limit-government/

It also includes a statement Sen Cruz made after being elected, where he pledges to

“…work every single day in the US Senate to champion small business and entrepreneurs to help them do what they do best, which is create jobs and get America working again.”

I like good oratory as much as the next guy, and the Senator is definitely comfortable on his feet. What I value a lot more, is measurable effectiveness in pushing a legislative agenda that restores growth and jobs. Measurable, meaning bills get passed, GDP goes up, and unemployment goes down.

Senator Cruz is off to a flying start.

The power we would give up, is the absolute ability to stop any UN action that requires security-council support (eg, any form of compulsive or punitive action) simply by saying ‘NO’.

It’s not a power to make the UN do things, it’s the power to prevent them from doing anything more than sending a nasty letter….

Dave, I just read this. Wow, are you channeling William Jennings Bryan here? It’s the same argument 1880s populists were making because they wanted their debt load reduced. Tell me that inflation is not a killer when my wages don’t rise but everything I guy goes up by 10-20%. Or are you saying the late 70s were good economic times? you mention below that no one has the right to devalue your non-monetary possessions. Do you have the right to use the power of government to devalue my monetary holdings? Both are economy killers, which is why stability is best. Injecting cash into the economy to stimulate growth on the scale of the 3 QE’s is not conducive to monetary stability in the long term when it is not followed by real economic growth. We have and continue to have a non-growing economy for all intents and purposes, yet the money supply continues to increase.

As for “sound money,” your argument that supply is dwindling and population was increasing therefore hard-metal based currency is bad was also made in the 1890s. Right before Alaskan, Australian, and South African gold was found in huge quantities.

But, I am not an economist, and I take that you are, so please explain to me how inflation (not the regular 4% or so rate that has been consistent for the past century) is not an economy killer, and why it is perfectly okay to print trillions of dollars without a corresponding rise in economic output?