A republic no more Big Government and the rise of american political corruption by jay cost. My name is john samples. Icann would like to welcome you to our event today for this very important book. If you read the book florins before today come the day will proceed in many ways save his fellow other bookworms have. You would hear from some participated in the there will be a questionandanswer session about 1 00 and also one other thing like our other events, please turn off our cell phones now so we can have the event in peace and quiet. Some of the things will be different today. We are trying different to us. A different format. Into this particular case, are out there jay cost with a few general sense of the lay of the land. Mycobacteria and Chris Edwards and they will for a few minutes give you some impressions of the book and then work how much a increase will have a conversation about the spread of a little corruption in america a republic no more. I look at the administrative s
Us at comments cspan. Org or send us a tweet, tweet, cspan comments. Join the conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Welcome to columbus, georgia, on booktv, located on the chattahoochee river. The river served as a Major Trading post and created a booming textile industry in the citys early history. The boats would come up the river and bring finished goods like, you know, furniture, machinery or agricultural implements x the farmers from east alabama and west georgia would bring their produce especially cotton into columbus, and it would be shipped down the river. Our port on the gulf is apalachicola, and from there the cotton would be shipped mainly to england or to the textile mills in the north. The help of our mediacom partners, for the next hour we explore columbus literary scene starting with local author Dan Crosswell as he recounts the life and career of general walter bidell smith. Basically, eisenhower was the good cop. So what he needed was a bad cop and
Boomers retire end this inefficient system that privileges waste and playoffs is going to become more expensive. I often said if you start from the premise of thinking Financial Regulation is about stability or safety and soundness. One of the things that struck me, a commonality and insurance, it was all kind of hidden, it works on issues a lot. Really out rage you about what is on budget, it seems to be contingent liabilities, what let me ask you, it is it the corruption is worse when theres an element of budgetary secrecy . I would say so. I would say there is and the extent to which they are hidden is extraordinary. It seems like i remember when everybody kept telling me things like money failed, but these are going to be great profit but i am sure it is true. In the case of fannie and freddie one of the problems was they werent keeping on his books. Tom cox is the new senator from arkansas. The vote, he was the only member of the arkansas delegation, a very in the cycle guy, a reu
The people who get in government think that they can centrally plan the economy as it the economy or set society was like a chessboard that the government can manipulate. That is the problem with the Big Government. So i dont think i think jays critique is the hamiltonian or henry clay kind of Big Government system perhaps could have worked in washington if we changed the institutions in washington over the decades. I dont think thats right. I think the government failed because it tries to centrally plan. A second point and maybe this is more, i thought it was interesting more bit of an agreement with j. Is that the master and the of checks and balances and that factions and extend republic our each other to the broader public good medicine and fairly, jay can correct me if im wrong, didnt see logrolling. Its a central and crucial problem in government and jay goes into this in some detail. Back to the 19th century logrolling was a huge problem with various programs. I think a discuss
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