Video of the Day: Capitalism Takes Avantage of Obamacare’s 13,000 Pages

Video of the Day: Obama Listening?

You decide.

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (CA-22) today released "Is the President Listening? Linda's Story," a new video in which Linda Lizanich, an accountant at Willoughby, OH based Kennedy Group, breaks down how President Obama's small businesses tax hike will hurt middle class employees working at small businesses.

Let’s be fair, Obama has worked in the private sector before, he has received paychecks from at least 11 different for-profit companies (CQ). According to Politifact.

George W. Romney: Did The Apple Fall Far From The Tree?

 This short interview with George Romney was originally published here on June 20, 2012.  We thought it deserved a second look as the RNC ramps up tonight in Tampa.

George W. Romney is the father of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and was an auto industry executive who became a three-term Governor of Michigan, a Republican Presidential candidate and a member of the Nixon Cabinet.  George Romney died in 1995.  He was 88.

Romney was chairman and president of the American Motors Corporation when he resigned in 1962 to run, successfully, for Governor. He ran for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1968 but dropped out of the race just before the New Hampshire primary. He then served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in President Richard M. Nixon's first term.

George Romney represented the liberal wing of the Republican Party, supporting civil rights initiatives and Government social programs and opposing the war in Vietnam. His politics proved successful in Michigan, where he was elected Governor three times, by increasingly large margins.

We found this 1992 interview of the elder Romney rather profound considering the current political and economic state of affairs the United States is facing some 20-years later. 

It makes one wonder what our leaders in Washinton have been doing over the past two decades , lending greater credence to  the claim that "All politicians are the same."

At approximately the one minute mark of this interview, Mr. Romney mentioned Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville and how this French visitor viewed the early Americans and how they dealt with their individual problems.

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 10

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

About the Tenth Amendment

Boosting Entrepreneurship Will Lead to Economic Recovery

“Wealth and Poverty” author George Gilder on why economic policies that support entrepreneurial creativity will boost economic growth.

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Big Government: The Mother of All Invention?

A satirical take on “You didn’t build that!”

Obama’s Fundamental Lack of Understanding of Capitalism and Entrepreneurialism

Capitalism: An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

Entrepreneur: The capacity and willingness to undertake conception, organization, and management of a productive venture with all attendant risks, while seeking profit as a reward.  In economics, entrepreneurship is regarded as a factor of production together with land, labor, natural resources, and capital. Entrepreneurial spirit is characterized by innovation and risk-taking, and an essential component of a nation's ability to succeed in an ever changing and more competitive global marketplace.

Where does Obama suppose infrastructure funding comes from—"mandates?"

"There's no place like home, there's no place like home..."

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CAPITALISM 101: What do Private Equity Firms Really Do?

Confused by all the hub-bub over private equity firms?  Here is a crash course on how private equity firms work.

If you are skeptical of this explanation because of its source, we invite you to educate yourself on the subject and become an informed voter.

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Paul Harvey's Prophetic 1965 Warning to America

Have you ever heard radio broadcast legend Paul Harvey's Warning to America in 1965?  Very spooky…

A GBTV presentation.

Bill Whittle, What We Believe: Small Government and Free Enterprise

In this installment of Bill Whittle’s “What We Believe “Series, the Conservative chalks out the basics of Tea Party Conservatism. And the inherent advantages of small government and free enterprise.

Ayn Rand and Objectivism: The Antithesis of Barrack Obama and Collectivism

In keeping with our goal… to enlighten, inspire, educate—and even entertain—our fellow Franklinites to become more active and engaged in Franklin government, today we bring you a 1959 interview with Ayn Rand conducted by Mike Wallace in 1959 (30:00), two years after the publication of Rand’s novel  “Atlas Shrugged.”

Before we get to that interview, here is “Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand's Legacy” (4:00) a video by Reason TV.

Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged

In 1957, a 1,168 page book by Ayn Rand, titled “Atlas Shrugged,” was published. According to one source, Rand was alleged to be a mistress to Philippe Rothschild, who instructed her to write the book in order to show that through the raising of oil prices, then destroying the oil fields and shutting down the coal mines, the Illuminati (New World Order) would take over the world. It also related how they would blow up grain mills, derail trains, bankrupt and destroy their own companies, till they had destroyed the economy of the entire world; and yet, they would be so wealthy, that it would not substantially affect their vast holdings. The novel is about a man who stops the motor of the world, of what happens when "the men of the mind, the intellectuals of the world, the originators and innovators in every line of industry go on strike; when the men of creative ability in every profession, in protest against regulation, quit and disappear."

As you watch this interview keep in mind that is was recorded in 1959.

LEARN MORE ABOUT AYN RAND’S PHILOSOPHY

• The Ayn Rand Institute
• The Atlas Society