Comments on: Lew Rockwell Interviews Jacob Hornberger

By: Will Blalock

Will Blalock — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:19:58 +0000

It’s easy enough for the establishment to feed
the killing complex with new wars, the new trick
however will be to find ways to supply fresh meat
in the face of dwindling saps, er, volunteers.

The govt. is running out of willing macho dimwits.
Even American citizenship for aliens is now
a diminishing return.

I can’t wait to read the pledge that will be written
up for National Service conscripts to forcibly recite.
Even more interesting will be the salute they will
use while reciting it. Will it be the Boy Scout salute?
The hand over heart baloney salute? Palm out honesty salute?
Get the sun out of my eyes military “I’ll kill ya!” salute?
How ’bout they all just grab onto their genitals as a
gesture of obesiance and farewell address to their manhood?
Actually, any gesticulation of groveling will do just fine.

If and when mandatory national service becomes part of
American childhood that will be the day I will no longer
consider myself an American but a Confederate.

By: Mitch L.

Mitch L. — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:32:35 +0000

“There is no third option.”

Yes there is.

I will choose a life of freedom, even if 99.9% of “society” is against it.

http://www.campaignforliberty.com

By: Tom Woods

Tom Woods — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:13:36 +0000

As a matter of fact we don’t agree that military Keynesianism “works,” at least if you define “works” the way normal people do. A shame that so much of the left bought into this, since it feeds into the idea that we can’t reduce military spending because our economy will be harmed. That someone could fall for such an elementary fallacy never ceases to amaze me.

Here are some of the wonders of military Keynesianism: http://mises.org/journals/scholar/woods2.pdf

By: mattnnz

mattnnz — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:02:33 +0000

Mr. Berkeley,

Those state-sponsored industries in UK ended up being a bad idea. Whenever you have a state-sponsored industry you take away its profit motive and also expose it to being used as political tool. The end result is industry that is so inefficient that it cannot support itself and it winds up being nothing more than a government employment program. Why not have brigades of window breakers and window fixers to generate economic activity? You’ll get the same net result. “neo-keynesian”? Is there a such thing? Sounds like the same ‘ol government populist approach to economics that consists of the government throwing funny money all over the place.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:33:28 +0000

Let me expand on that term “neo-keynesian” if I may. We all agree that “military keynesianism” works, do we not? It keeps the economy growing, especially the politically vital high-tech sector – but within the confines of the right-wing, “anti-communist” mind-set, the only reason that the sinful liaison between the state and private industry can be justified is “military necessity”. This is entirely unique to right-wing ideology. Keynes understood that the state can sponsor other industries than “defense”. In the UK, at any rate, he was not regarded as a “communist” at all.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:17:20 +0000

I know you all have to sing for your suppers, but a time is approaching when you will have to choose whether to support what will reveal itself as a right-wing, authoritarian, hard-money based, isolationist, capitalist ‘american fascism’, and a neo-keynesian ‘new world order’, of the sort Alex Jones always tries to frighten you about. There is no third option.