Donald Boudreaux Brings Economic Wisdom to Abacoa
“Running a trade deficit is a good thing.” “It would have been better if the Fed had never been created.” “The country can continue to run deficits and pile on the national debt as long as there are those who continue to invest in the US.” “The dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency does not depend on the amount of gold in Fort Knox.”
These are some of the jewels we collected from Economist Donald J. Boudreaux at Abacoa last evening.
In an informal discussion of all things economics, this professor, attorney and noted author brought life and clarity to the “dismal science” as his anecdotes and pithy analogies questioned conventional wisdom and shared with us his lifelong appreciation of “fiscal responsibility, limited government and free markets”.
Regarding the US trade deficit, he asked what could be wrong with acquiring real goods from abroad in return for pieces of paper embossed with monochrome pictures of dead presidents. Pointing out that we all run a trade deficit with (for example) a supermarket, unless we actually work there, he explained that attempts by politicians to limit imports of foreign goods is misguided.
Having no love for the federal reserve, the endless printing of money is not a good thing, but as long as others are willing to accept dollars in payment for goods and services, the party will continue.
He even took on his professorial colleagues when asked why they are all so liberal. Stupidity is the reason he said, not an ideological belief in the goodness of socialism.
It was an enlightening and entertaining presentation.
In other business, Mel announced that the Tea Party Patriots is looking for volunteers to go to Mississippi for a few days (at their expense) to work on campaigns in that state, and the PBCTP will be needing volunteers later in the year to help distribute our voters guides for the 2014 election.
Present at the meeting were candidates Calvin Turnquest, Beverly Hires and Alan Schlesinger for CD18, and Jay Bonner who is running against Alcee Hastings in CD20.
THE VA NEEDS A LEADER WHO KNOWS THE BUSINESS
The Veterans Affairs Department needs a leader who knows the business. The agency is mostly a collection of hospitals and needs a leader who has experience as a successful hospital chief executive officer. It needs someone who recognizes when the ratio of professional medical staff to administrators is too low and can fix the problem. A heroic military man who performed well on the battlefield may not be the best person for hospital management.
I once worked for a small aerospace company that was bought by a commercial company that wanted to invest its profits in high technology. The buyer replaced the technical person who built the aerospace company with a retired army officer. The officer proceeded to drive the company into oblivion because he did not understand the business. He might have been a good warrior and leader of men, but not knowing the business can be a fatal handicap.
Colonel Allen West for Combined Chapter Meetings June 16
PROGRAM: Lt. Col. (ret) Allen West will speak and sign his recent book “Guardian of the Republic”.
DATE: Monday, June 16, 2014
TIME: 5:30 PM Dinner (Soup & Sandwiches $18, tax and tip inc. Cash Bar)
6:30 PM Meeting $5
PLACE: Abacoa Golf Club, 105 Barbados Dr., Jupiter, FL 33458.
DIRECTIONS: MAP
Donald Ross Rd. to Parkside Dr. North on Parkside Dr. 0.4 miles to Barbados Dr. Left on Barbados Dr. to first driveway on Left.
Please RSVP
so we are prepared to accommodate you.
INFORMATION: Email: info@palmbeachcountyteaparty.org
GIVE THEM BACK THEIR NUKES
In 1994 the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom signed the
Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances
That memorandum on security assurance against threats to the sovereignty of Ukraine resulted in Ukraine giving up the world’s third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and agreeing to the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Since Russia is now violating its commitment under the Budapest Memorandum and the United States and United Kingdom seem unable or unwilling to go the aid of Ukraine, we should give back to Ukraine the nukes they had and need to defend themselves.
