Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney were the big draws for attendants at an Americans for Prosperity event in Lovonia today. Between the candidates ABC reporter John Stossel addressed the crowd. His statements today helped to contextualize the name of his long-running 20/20 segment “Give Me a Break.”
Stossel spoke against government regulations and subsidies. Stossel spokes about the massive rise in government since President Johnson’s Great Society. According to Stossel, government makes up about 40 percent of GDP today. Stossel challenged the idea that government agencies like the FDA do a good job of protecting us, pointing out that in the time it takes to get new drugs to market many people die from the causes such drugs are meant to prevent.
“Why can’t the FDA be volintary?” asked Stossel, saying that citizens could choice if they wanted to follow the FDA’s advice. Stossel critisied the media’s characterization of new drugs and technologies as well.
“Bad reporting has made Americans afraid of the innovation that has made their lives better,” said Stossel. Stossel asked people if they would be willing to have an odorless, invisible gas power their homes if it would reduce oil use, before explaining that natural gas does just that. “We accept coal and natural gas because they are old yet we are afraid of nuclear power.”
Stossel challenged the idea of the economy as a pie with large businesses taking an unfair share. “People like Bill Gates bake thousands of new pies,” said Stossel.
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Someone needed to do a spell check on the word voluntary. “Volintary?”
To set the above aside — John Stossel is right-on-the-money in his arguments.
Outside of Ron Paul I’d like to see the likes of John Stossel run for president. Both of these men thoroughly believe in the Limited Republic (government) that our founders laid their lives on the line for and Ben Franklin statement, “We have a republic if we can keep it.”
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