State of the Union 2012

Cato Institute scholars Malou Innocent, Chris Edwards, Neal McCluskey, Ilya Shapiro, Jerry Taylor, Dan Mitchell and Dan Ikenson respond to President Obama's 2012 State of the Union Address.

Video produced by Caleb O. Brown, Austin Bragg and Lester Romero.

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[Alex A]

Did he really lie, though? Yeah, Bush did the same thing, but McCluskey didn't say Bush didn't do the same thing... since this conversation isn't about Bush. So, he's only talking about Obama. Therefore, he's not lying..?

[Alex A]

John Kerry @ 2:10 .... does he have two black eyes or did he rub shit all over his face? or does he just have a weird complexion

[Richard Paul]

Neal McCluskey @ 3:19 lied... The "No Child Left Behind" law did the same exact thing, but was unfunded by the Bush Admin.

[Ray Slim]

Liberalism claims that conservatism is reactionary, but the intervention of government is ALWAYS shortsighted, constantly needs correction, and can never get ahead of the problems it has previously created. The reason "gridlock is good" is because fewer mistakes can be made in that time, because anything but an undoing of prior overregulation that contradicts reason in the free market, furthers the convolution of "success," making it beneficial to make objectively irrational business decisions.

[HorizonWrestling]

complete ignorance by asshole analysts

[aseredy]

I would further argue, that a Grocery store is a "source" of food. Yet, there are competing products that vie for ones patronage, in the same sense that there are competing ideas on the internet that attempt to do the same. I imagine, though, that you are more interest in disproving me, than trading ideas and learning form each other. A dangerous assumption I hope is invalid.

[aseredy]

Well, it is a "source" if one is only interested in the consumption of ideas, not developing their own. For those not locked into rational cages, ideas are traded, merged, discarded, and created. Simply because one doesn't use it like a market place, isn't definitive of its limits.

[J Smith]

Yes under certain economic rules certainly. Im saying those rules are bollocks and we should have different ones.

The problem is with economists, is too many of them live in a blue sky bubble of hypothetical situations.

Free Market Ideology is fundamentally flawed, because its based on a false premise of human relationships and interactions.

[J Smith]

Err i think you mean free SOURCE of ideas.

I dont remember bartering for any ideas on the internet? Dunno who your being conned by, but certainly sounds like free market madness to me.