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Historic health care bill to be voted on in House, V.A. Secretary in Tampa, and activists to protest Rick Baker: Mitch Perry Report: 11.06.09

Posted by Mitch Perry on Nov. 6, 2009, at 9:33 am

As speculation continues on what led to Thursday’s crazed shooting spree by Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood yesterday, the Secretary of Veteran Affairs, General Eric Shinseki, is scheduled to speak today on the USF Tampa campus.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her underlings will be working furiously today to try to gather the 218 votes she needs to pass a health care reform bill that includes a public option tomorrow.

And the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce intends to honor Mayor Rick Baker tomorrow for all of the successes that the Chamber believes have occurred under the Baker administration. But there are activists who say the whole story needs to be told, and they plan on protesting the event tomorrow night.

We may not have an audio podcast up today. But we’ll be back for certain on Monday a.m.

Tags: Eric Shinseki, Fort Hood, health care reform, House of Representatives, Mayor Rick Baker, Nancy Pelosi, Nidal Hassan, St. Petersburgh Chamber of Commerce
Posted in Mitch Perry Report |

HR 1207: Will Ron Paul’s House bill spell the end of the Federal Reserve System?

Posted by Al Coryell on Sep. 17, 2009, at 7:32 am

(L-R) Timothy Geitner, Lawrence Summers

By Al Coryell
PoHo correspondent

In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series of articles we have learned that, at present, there are two important competing economic philosophies. There is the Keynesian philosophy, practiced by the Federal Reserve, which purports to centrally control economic stability through price and monetary manipulation — and the Austrian School philosophy, which supports a hands-off approach to economic management contending that a truly free market will self-correct if left alone to do so. In this final installment of the series, we will ask “Can the Austrians possibly overcome the overwhelming power of the Federal Reserve and return the U.S. to a free market, sound money economic system?” Both sides are locked in a battle which will forever change the face of America, and much of the world, regardless of who wins…

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Tags: Austrian economics, Federal Open MArket Committee, Federal Reserve System, FOMC, GAO, Government accounting office, House of Representatives, HR 1207, Keynesian economics, Larry Summers, Ludwig von Mises, Mises Institute, Murray Rothbard, ron paul, Tim Geitner
Posted in Politics, Recessionomics |

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Historic health care bill to be voted on in House, V.A. Secretary in Tampa, and activists to protest Rick Baker: Mitch Perry Report: 11.06.09

HR 1207: Will Ron Paul’s House bill spell the end of the Federal Reserve System?

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