By SueN
- Guests:
- Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women's Forum.
- Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist/Senior Vice President for the National Association of Realtors.
- Conservative David Frum, editor of the Frum Forum.
- Topics:
- Is "Big Government threatening women's progress?" What?!
- Is the housing market finally out of its funk?
- "Liberaltarianism" - are we seeing a fundamental shift in the political landscape in America?
- Bumper Music:
- She Works Hard For The Money, Donna Summer.
- 9 to 5, Dolly Parton (video).
- Working Girl, The Members.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- Our House, Madness.
- It's all About the Money, Travis Tritt.
- Home, Chris Daughtry.
- Mobile, Avril Lavigne.
- Novocaine, Little Big Town.
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." -- Walter Lippmann, American journalist, author and public philosopher (1889-1974).
- Clip: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936, "A Rendezvous With Destiny" Speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
That very word freedom, in itself and of necessity, suggests freedom from some restraining power. In 1776 we sought freedom from the tyranny of a political autocracy - from the eighteenth-century royalists who held special privileges from the crown...
"But since that struggle, man's inventive genius released new forces in our land, forces which reordered the lives of our people. The age of machinery, of railroads; of steam and electricity; the telegraph and the radio; mass production, mass distribution - all of these combined to bring forward a new civilization and with it a problem for those who sought to remain free.
"For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations and banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service...
"Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise...
"The royalists I have spoken of, the royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live...
"These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. But in their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.
