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Welcome to hungry minds speak of series with Steve Simpson speaking on cronyism and corruption in government power. Steve sampson is director of legal studies at Ayn Rand Institute in irvine california. A former constitutional litigator for the institute for Justice Steve has litigated cases in the u. S. Supreme court and lower federal and state courts throughout the nation. Steve was the lead lawyer in speech now versus sec, the case that created super pacs and he has litigated many many other campaignfinance and constitutional cases over the years. Steve has written and spoken on a wide variety of legal and constitutional issues. His writings have appeared in the wall street journal, the washington post, the Washington Times and many print and on line publications over the years. So lets will come Steve Simpson speaking on cronyism, corruption and government power. [applause] okay. First of all thanks very much hannah and doug and hungry minds for having me here. I have to say its a
The first is this. Government is not a value neutral enterprise that should be open for everybody to use depending on whether they get voted into office or whetherthey control the government. Its not value neutral. There is a right sort of government, a good sort of government, beneficial sort of government and theres an evil sort of government, a wrong sort of government in a destructive government and that really matters. As i said i think the distinction is ignored in the context of cronyism. What is being ignored ultimately is governments proper purpose. The idea is this. He idea is government is just, its a value neutral enterprise and whoever wins the lottery called elections get to use it for their purposes. What is the essential point behind back . Its this. Its might makes right. If i hold the reins of power is pretty much get to use power however i want and the government power which is the power of force. What we need to do to have a proper government is to subordinate the r
What does each side have to do tonight . Bate caller there have been some Little Things being promoted. Tonight . Right now. W things Mary Landrieus campaign is focusing on bill cassidys time as a teacher. He has also been a congressman. How much work he was doing for lsu. Bill cassidy refused the allegations, saying he was doing a lot of work. Had people in d. C. He was working with. As far as the cassidy side, he has been only agreeing to a limited number of debates. This is literally the only debate between the primary and the runoff. For his campaign, it has really keep your head down and get through this. Story on the a teaching controversy. Askseadline, Mary Landrieu bill cassidy to bring records. The Keystone Pipeline has been an issue in the race. Especially the votes in the house and senate. What did the votes do for both sides . Caller the Keystone Pipeline han an issue in the at the end of t, iote was a lot more think it played better on tv and in d. C. Than it did here. Any
Concerned about . There is a real problem when people talk about cronyism. It signifies or gets to a real phenomenon with government but i think its widely misunderstood. Its worth starting with a simple question. We hear about cronyism all the time. We hear about corruption all the time, but what does this idea mean . And this is part of what i want to do. I want to explore with this idea means and what its implications are. I will say off the top of the issue that there is a problem here but if you think about it the wrong way it has very dangerous consequences. But in order to get into this issue we should first start with what people think of this issue. What is that people are talking about when they talk about cronyism and corruption . So i want to start by characterizing this issue and kind of giving you an example of what we often hear. Its an election season now and it makes sense to think about this in the context that perhaps something that you have heard and if you havent h