DANIEL RUTH & PRICE GOUGING: One of the first "media debate" dares occurred when Dr. Rex Curry publicly challenged newspaper columnist Daniel Ruth to debate Ruth's column in which Ruth condemned economic freedom (what Ruth calls "price gouging"). http://rexcurry.net/ruth.html The response against Ruth from the general public was so great that Ruth said he was labeled a "Dork, anti-free market statist $#@%!&@, Dummkopf, liberal, daffy, dolt, stupid, dunce and, oh by the way, socialist." In a second column Ruth, humiliated by Curry's debate dare, wouldn’t debate and issued a public apology to Curry regarding Ruth's earlier column. The link in this paragraph is the famous parody/rebuttal of Daniel Ruth's loopy attack against a free market economy. For more on Ruth's defeat in a public debate challenge see http://rexcurry.net/ruthmore.html For a blog about Ruthless stupidity see http://www.getruthless.blogspot.com |
Media Socialists Misrepresenting Reasons for Spike in Gasoline Prices Libertarians, Free Market Professors Could Gleefully Point Out Blithering Idiocy of the Media Coverage By Attorney Rex Curry
Media socialists are reporting an impending war with Iraq, and then following
it with reports that prices are going up at gasoline stations -not because
of the impending war- but because of so-called "price gouging" by greedy
businessmen.
The media and the government join to rah-rah a war with Iraq, and
then blame someone else when gas prices rise. The officials who the media interview are never asked "Aren't
YOU government officials responsible for gas prices going up?!?!" It never
occurs to any media socialists that the elected clowns who are investigating
price-increases should also be asked "Aren't YOU also responsible for price
increases by adding more government hassle to the cost of supplying gas?" The media never interview any libertarian nor even any free market
economics professors who would gleefully point out the blithering idiocy
of the media coverage. The "Iraq War" and "Gas price gouging" stories question
the sanity of media socialists. Media socialists rehash anti-growth stories about "growing broke"
and claim that more people mean more problems. The articles never mention
the great economist Julian Simon (nor his many followers among free market
economics professors) who refute the tired Malthusian/socialist claims.
The media will never headline an article "More people mean fewer
problems." That headline is the complete opposite of the lie that
media socialists keep repeating. The media articles never note that all
of the so-called "over-burdened services" are government services, while
private services gladly supply new customers without any problems (other
than those problems caused by government provision of services). Media socialists rehash problems in government schools and never
compare how private schools, and parents who reject government schools,
quietly and happily solve or avoid the same problems. All of the above demonstrates
why the media may be the best evidence of the need to end government schools. Rex Curry is an attorney in Tampa, FL and can be reached via
email at http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.print.aspx?06d788b5-2920-442c-8f06-57d778df54dc |
The only thing worse than Katrina's devastating destruction
is government's horrific "help." http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers16.html
So-called "price gouging" in emergencies is also defended
by Walter Williams HERE: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3578
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20040324.shtml
Frank Bubb HERE: http://www.objectivistcenter.org/text/fbubb_hurricane-gouging.asp?mc
and by Sheldon Richman HERE: http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=6181
Economics textbook chapters on price controls are excerpted
here: http://FreedomKeys.com/pricecontrols.htm