Damon Root on Fox's Freedom Watch With Judge Andrew Napolitano, 11/10/2009

Reason's Damon W. Root appeared on Fox News Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano to discuss how the New Deal eroded liberty and how FDR's policies caused some leading liberals to turn right.

Original airdate: November 10, 2009.

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[NoEoAoRo]

Not everyone in Fox News supported Bush. Judge Napolitano certainly didn't. Reason TV never supported Bush.

[abarzilai664]

Look through the archives of Reason magazine and you'll see plenty of criticism of George W. Bush.

[ellery92]

this helped me with my paper. thank you

[RatkoUSA]

FDR would have made a great Nazi.

[chris72sax]

The problem is not the corporations, it's the power the politicians wield that are outside the narrow powers enumerated in the Constitution. Further regulating business plays right into their hands.

[beachmom561]

whauck buys into the class warfare and jealousy that the liberals need people to buy into in order to gain power.

Keynesian economics has been proven to be a failure in economies and in keeping freedoms over and over.

[bertly71]

Nanny state taking over our lives.

[whauck]

You're responding to a post that you (or someone) deleted. LOL.

Someone didn't want me to question who was on the board of Freedom Watch. LOL

Did you study economics? Do you think Keynesian economics doesn't work?

Where on the Laffer curve would you say we are? Do you think we should cut taxes more and go further down the curve?

Do you think Reagan's trickle down economics has worked?

[XCritonX]

I am well aware that logic escapes you.

I do not work for freedom watch. I am however an entrepreneur who understands the markets, economics, and freedom. Each day I stake my reputation, fortune and honor on my ability to serve my clients, pay my suppliers and motivate my employees. Average Americans are not on the board of anything, average people go to work, come home and crack open a beer and watch tv. Entrepreneurs and business owners make the economy work, provide jobs, and sit on boards.

[whauck]

Your logic escapes me. Do you work for Freedom Watch?

Do you know who funds Freedom Watch? Do you know who is on the board of Freedom Watch. Are these average Americans?

Do you know if they get any funding from the oil companies?

Of course, the oil companies don't have any power. We could "easily sink them in a night by not buying their products".

Yeah, right.

[XCritonX]

Unfortunately most people would rather vote for free money than freedom. Then they blame corporations instead of themselves for voting in big government politicians for 200 years.

Corporations are a useful way to organize people to accomplish some tasks. Corporations grow, break up and then disappear. If they dont have a big, powerful government to corrupt than we can easily sink them in a night by not buying their products. With out big government we have nothing to fear from corporations.

[whauck]

With due respect, we haven't given power to the government. We've given the power to the corporations. They have first amendments rights with a $Billion pocket book.

The founding fathers were very leery of corporations and there were restrictions. A corporation had to serve a "public good".

Gradually, corporations have obtained more and more power to the extent that we've almost lost our country.

If We the People don't wake up, pretty soon we will have lost our country.