We Do NOT Live Under Socialism But Are Robbed In An Oligarchy Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Socialist.  This is another word that is used far too often and used in an inappropriate context.  What we have is an oligarchy.  We don’t have a socialism.  There’s a difference.  An oligarchy is where the system is...Read More

Austrian Economics 101 Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “For those of you that are free marketers out there, I’m not breaking any news here.  It shouldn’t go unnoticed, though, that as soon as an event like this happens, the first people that want to jump on the accusation train and start hurling all manner of...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – [Mike, mocking] “What’s so big about the big, bad central government?  There are a lot of things bad about it.  One of the things it does is it desensitizes the citizen.  It deprives the citizen of the responsibility of self-government.  No longer does the citizen feel as though he...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you call the HealthCare.gov website, since the Constitution and the federal leviathan now exist to make people’s dreams come true, if I push the right button or if I have the right coupon code, can I get a free dreamcatcher?  You know those things that are made by...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "According to the Reuters News Agency, the Sparkasse Bank in Chemnitz recently issued a MasterCard adorned with the hoary visage of Marx himself. So, now you can get a MasterCard Karl Marx edition. Doesn’t this play right into Marx’s adage that the capitalist would sell the very rope that...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You have to have trust in the price system and the market. That’s really one of the great fields of unexplored study in mainstream discourse in the United States, the study of actual free market, the way markets work and the way the price system is the greatest regulator...Read More

I just stop sometimes, I just marvel, seriously marvel at what liberty has created on these shores. We have things that no civilization in the history of Earth, hell, in the known universe, going all the way back to the cantina bar on Tatooine, or Dantooine. No one has had access to the stuff that...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – That’s what’s so depressing about this. You want to look at this and believe that our almighty federal overlord magical economic masters have this under control and there’s not going to be a drop off, and that roller coaster climb will just continue ad infinitum, on into infinity, never...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you need any more proof, as if you needed it, that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and that there is no trust fund, and that the trust fund was squandered and used in real time decades ago, here you go. It’s contained in the story. If the...Read More

The Hayek loving, Libertarian, [r]epublican populace erupts in shock and anger at Senator Rand Paul's comments to Fox Business News (video posted at end of this article) on the use of drones against American citizens.Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - What Taylor is saying is that you should only have a tariff because you have a couple duties that the general government has to discharge. You should only have the tariff so that you can raise money to do that. You should not use the tariff to enrich anyone....Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If the government is running the show, what the government will do, after it meets and thinks about it for six months, a year, two years, is it will order either the cessation of the manufacturing of the product, or it will order the recall of all those products...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There’s another great story at The Imaginative Conservative website about Wilhelm Roepke, the great Austrian economist and the kind of economics we ought to be talking about. We’re having this big, vainglorious discussion about the merits of Republican central economic planning versus the merits of Democrat central economic planning....Read More

Mandeville, LA – In response to many requests by readers for a posting of Freidrich Hayek’s “response” to Russell Kirk’s “Chirping Sectaries” essay, here is the Hayek post in its entirety. I will post more of a narrative and response after reading this work in its entirety. Why I Am Not a Conservative By Nobel...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/15062012_Transcript1_ron_paul_job_romney_admin_EDIT.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Audio and Transcript – One of Mike’s callers thinks Romney should appoint Ron Paul to oversee the destruction of the Fed, but what he forgets is that Ron Paul is not a Romneybot.  He’s not a GOP...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In today’s transcript Caller Joe berates Mike for being anti-union and tries to convince Mike that people who invest their time in a company (not investing capital or for a paycheck) are the ones that the company and unions should take care of.  Sounds like a lot of collectivism...Read More