Sarah Palin, Peter Schiff and von Mises

http://www.youtube.com/user/SchiffReport - if you listen to Peter Schiff, you'll come away convinced Sarah is absolutely right re financial crisis. She's being a maverick in going against the grain that lack of regulation was the cause. BUT SHE IS RIGHT. :) And her economic views will be proved right. But in order to help get those views out there, we need IMHO to support economist Peter Schiff in his campaign for senate in Connecticut. Sarah's economic views are part of an economic movement we need to support: Schiff is the focus of that movement. his stated himself that his aim is to educate Washington in real economics. make them see sense.

I think this needs to be emphasised: Sarah Palin's position on the economy is outside of the mainstream but the mainstream is wrong. Her views are right BECAUSE they are the views of Peter Schiff - the stock broker who predicted the 2008 financial crisis because of the housing bubble. But ... both Schiff and Ron Paul frequently say that it is not their genius it's Mises ie Ludwig Von Mises. Please check out his wikipedia entry. So Sarah has some serious intellectual force behind her economic views whereas obama has .... Keynes at best and Marx at worst.

Sarah Palin is more advanced economically than Ronald Reagan who was a monetarist eg a follower of Milton Friedman who was halfway there but not part of the Austrian School of economics.

I'm impressed, coz it is only she, Schiff and Paul who know any proper economics. :)

perhaps this is why she has quoted Plato and Aristotle in the past: she's smart.

So in summary: von Mises is the intellectual giant who vindicates common sense economics: the market should determine interest rates and we must return to the gold standard.

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My favourite Palinisms/quotes

My favourite parts are in bold.

1: [the one re her Down's Syndrome son Trig]
"As for our baby boy, Trig, for Todd and me he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. When we hold Trig and care for him, we don't feel scared anymore. We feel blessed."

2: "Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by—dare I say it—death panels?" - rhetorically brilliant because based in truth. - definitely a Palinism. Is already being written into history books. Written here on 2009-09-08 in her Wall Street Journal piece.

3: “Never have so few defended the liberty of so many.” - compares well with Churchill's original: "... never has so much been owed by so many to so few". Written in her facebook note on 9/11, 2009

4: Re 'Cap and trade' bill, the supply-side economics phunny
"The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics." - Great wit. :) My fave liberal review of this "i doubt leather-skirted Sarah wrote this." - obviously they thought it was a good article. Sarah's piece is located here. I chose the Guardian site coz of the picture of the caribou.

5: "We eat therefore we hunt" - Governor's picnic farewell speech.

6: re tort reform
Full quote. my fave bits are in bold.

"As Governor of Alaska, I learned a little bit about being a target for frivolous suits and complaints (Please, do I really need to footnote that?). I went my whole life without needing a lawyer on speed-dial, but all that changes when you become a target for opportunists and people with no scruples. Our nation’s health care providers have been the targets of similar opportunists for years, and they too have found themselves subjected to false, frivolous, and baseless claims. To quote a former president, "I feel your pain."" Sarah's fb article is here.

7: [re being pregnant at age 44 with a Down's Syndrome child] “Plus I was old. And i thought Yeah - very funny god. My name is Sarah but my husband is not Abraham. He’s Todd. Yeah. And just like Sarah of old, I too, I laughed.” [in a speech at Vanderburgh County’s Right to Life banquet in Evansville, Indiana, April 16th, 2009] Transcribed from a You Tube vid located here. Please watch.

8: “thumped up charges” – i initially thought that this must be Sarah's one and only twitter typo but after listening to a radio interview where she mentioned a book called “The Thumpin’*” [about how to exploit ethics laws to bring down a politician], I realised this was an incidence of Sarah being far too clever for her own good. ;) [2009-12-14 update: confirmed by the title of one of her chapters in her book Going Rogue]

* = From the way she said it, I'm assuming the book title has no 'g' at the end. ;)

· More suggestions welcome. lets get it up to 10. :)

 9: "Flying from Fairbanks 2 Wasilla, looking 4 dancing Northern Lights.The frigid,black sky paints perfect backdrop 4 hem of the Aurora Borealis" - a poetic tweet [her twitter is SarahPalinUSA] on 2009-12-14

10: [BRACE YOURSELF] - Now she has more time on her hands [ie not being governor, not writing a book and not book touring], I expect Sarah's best writing is yet to come.  She has the talent, the techne, the temperament and now more time.  The 4 Ts of writing. :)