Chris Edwards: “Over the decades, federal efforts to subsidize and manipulate the economy have failed over and over again”

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Chris Edwards: “Over the decades, federal efforts to subsidize and manipulate the economy have failed over and over again.”

November 6, 2013 10:04AM

The Sickness of Government

By Chris Edwards

People shouldn’t be surprised about the botched roll-out of Obamacare and all the damaging effects of the law that are now generating headlines. Over the decades, federal efforts to subsidize and manipulate the economy have failed over and over again.

That lesson has been driven home to me in researching Downsizing Government. Farm policies, for example, have been an ongoing boondoggle for more than eight decades. President Herbert Hoover’s Federal Farm Board blew $500 million trying to stabilize crop markets, but it did the opposite by inducing overproduction and depressing prices. Every farm bill since then—including the one moving through Congress right now—has been based on two very dumb ideas: that farm businesses need welfare and that agriculture needs government central planning.

I recently came across “The Sickness of Government,” (PDF) a 1969 essay by famed management theorist Peter Drucker. It is strikingly relevant to the problems we see in Washington today from Obamacare, to farm programs, to IRS abuse, to NSA spying. Unlike, say, Ayn Rand–who at the time was writing about government from the standpoint of individual freedom–Drucker was writing from the practical perspective that Big Government simply wasn’t working.

Here are some excerpts from Drucker, but his whole essay is worth reading:

“Government surely has never been more prominent than today. The most despotic government of 1900 would not have dared probe into the private affairs of its citizens as income tax collectors now do routinely in the freest society. Even the tsar’s secret police did not go in for the security investigations we now take for granted.”…

“For seventy years or so – from the 1890’s to the 1960’s – mankind, especially in the developed countries, was hypnotized by government. We were in love with it and saw no limits to its abilities, or to its good intentions.”

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“This belief has been, in effect, only one facet of a much more general illusion from which the educated and the intellectuals in particular have suffered: that by turning tasks over to government, conflict and decision would be made to go away. Once the “wicked private interests” had been eliminated, a decision as to the right course of action would be rational and automatic. There would be neither selfishness nor political passion. Belief in government was thus largely a romantic escape from politics and from responsibility.”

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“The greatest factor in the disenchantment with government is that government has not performed. The record over these last thirty or forty years has been dismal. Government has proven itself capable of doing only two things with great effectiveness. It can wage war. And it can inflate the currency.”

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“The best we get from government in the welfare state is competent mediocrity. More often we do not even get that; we get incompetence such as we would not tolerate in an insurance company. In every country, there are big areas of government administration where there is no performance whatever – only costs.”

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“Modern government has become ungovernable. There is no government today that can still claim control of its bureaucracy and of its various agencies. Government agencies are all becoming autonomous, ends in themselves, and directed by their own desire for power, their own narrow vision rather than by national policy.”

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“We are very good at creating administrative agencies. But no sooner are they called into being than they become ends in themselves, acquire their own constituency as well as a “vested right” to grants from the treasury, continuing support by the taxpayer, and immunity to political direction. No sooner, in other words, are they born than they defy public will and public policy.”

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“Nothing in history, for instance, can compare in futility with those prize activities of the American government, its welfare policies and its farm policies. Both policies are largely responsible for the disease that they are supposed to cure.”

In the essay, Drucker’s solution for government is decentralization and “reprivatization,” which today is called privatization. Based on his views in this article, he is no libertarian. His conclusions about government are practical in nature, stemming from his long experience studying how organizations work.

I find it depressing that more people don’t share my understanding of individual freedom, the Constitution, and limited government. But it is also depressing that Drucker-style common sense ideas about government failure have so little penetrated the nation’s governing elite. After all these decades, too many people are still “in love” with government and, indeed, “hypnotized” by it, as Drucker noted.

For more of Drucker’s analysis of government, see this 1995 article on Al Gore’s Reinventing Government effort.

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Brian Welch of Korn and his Christian conversion and deliverance from drugs Part 4

Brian Welch of Korn and his Christian conversion  and deliverance from drugs Part 4

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Brian ‘Head’ Welch: ‘Life Is About Drugs And Mistakes’
artist: Brian Welch date: 11/21/2011 category: interviews
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When Brian “Head” Welch crawled out of Korn in 2005 he was addicted to drugs and an alcoholic. He finally pulled himself together and in 2008 released Save Me From Myself, a solo album full of dark synths, epic-length songs and tunes all sung by Head himself. Now three years later Welch has returned to the studio to record his follow-up album [maybe an EP]. “Paralyzed” is the first single from the upcoming record and it is a brutal vision punctuated by the staccato guitars Head made famous in Korn. The vocals rise to nasty growls and descend into melodic passages revealing how capable the ex-Kornman is as a vocalist. It has not been an easy road. Sober now for many years, Head looks back at his first solo album, his time with Korn and reflects on those moments with a clear head. He was unabashedly open in this conversation and didn’t try to cover up the things he’d done with smoke and mirrors. As further testament to his newfound sense of professionalism, he called precisely at 1:30 p.m. for our interview. The phone rang, I picked it up and someone on the other end said, “Hi, this is Ed.” I said, “Oh, man, I’m sorry I’m waiting for a call from Brian Welch. Could you please hang up?” There was a laugh on the other end. “This is Head.” The connection wasn’t great and I thought the voice had uttered, “Ed.” He had a laugh and we jumped into the dialog. UG: You left Korn in 2005 and didn’t record Save Me From Myself, your first solo album until 2008. What were you doing for those three years? Brian Welch: First of all I wanted to focus on my life and what I was doing and Who am I now? I was a single father so I was taking care of that. I was working on music off and on and I also wrote a book in 2006 and the whole year I spent writing my autobiography [Save Me From Myself]. So that kept me busy and just doin’ the everyday dad stuff, the school, and that stuff. When did you seriously start thinking about putting together your first solo album? I was thinkin’ about it since ’05 since right when I left but it wasn’t nothin’ in a rush. It just kinda took its time and then it finally was done. Like I was happy with it and it was good enough to release for ’08 and that’s just kinda when it all came together. Were any of the songs that ended up on Save Me From Myself stuff you had written for Korn? I wrote it after I left the band and it was more like an experimental album and there a lot of songs were about my life change and everything. Just being fed up with the party and stuff like that; it was for that time period. In what ways was the album experimental? It was my first one so I was experimenting with like singing and all kinds of stuff. There’s one nine-minute song on the album and a lot of five- and six-minute songs. There was just like stuff we [Korn] would never do like before. I experimented with string sounds a lot of keyboard synth sounds and we never did that. So it was just like one of those albums I just wanted to do new stuff. You brought in Josh Freese on drums and Tony Levin on basswere you looking for something special in a rhythm section? Yeah, totally. My manager at the time knew those people and stuff and so it just kind of clicked and it just happened. And it was fun to see these legends in there tearin’ it up on my stuff. It was good times.

“With the Korn guys we were all family but we were dysfunctional and we were drunk the whole time.“

You used a rhythm guitarist on the albumArchie J. Muise, Jr.but did you play most of the guitars on Save Me From Myself? Yeah, totally. I did a lot of em but Archie came in and he was nailin’ some stuff better than me on some of the rhythms so I was like, You need to record some stuff. But I did most of it. In Korn, you and Munky did all the guitars together. How different was it being the sole guitar player in the band? Yeah, it was different. It was more on my plate that I had to come up with the stuff like that. Sure, with the Korn guys we were all family but we were dysfunctional and we were drunk the whole time. So it was good to get away from the craziness but I sure missed havin’ someone to collaborate with like that but it was cool. It was new and exciting so I just went for it. You talk about Korn being drunk pretty much all the time. How was the band able to function in the studio if everyone was drinking? We wouldn’t get wasted while we were recording. We’d wake up, most likely have a hangover and stuff like that, and just kinda wake up, eat and just start recording. And not really start drinkin’ til after; we would keep it together. Certainly one of the experimental aspects of Save Me From Myself was you being the lead singer. Were you influenced by watching Jonathan Davis record all those years? Yeah, totally. Some of the stuff where I’m singin’ now, I’m not the best singer so you know how Jonathan sounds sick sometimes when he sings? He sounds disturbed. And so, yeah, I get a lot of that dark sound like that. It just kinda goes with the style that we do. I learned a lot watchin’ him and a lot of the other bands like the Deftones and Tool and stuff like that. Had you done much singing in Korn? I did some screams and I did a couple backups live but I didn’t do a lot on the records except for the early records like the first two. You knew you wanted to be the singer on your album? Yeah, the reason being I wanted to speak about stuff I went through and I didn’t want another person to do that. It would be weird so yeah, I wanted to try it. I always admired vocalists and it was a cool thing for me to try and do. It was awesome. Flush was the first single from Save Me From Myself. Was that song chosen specifically to sort of introduce Head musically post-Korn? Yeah, and some of the other songs were more spiritual sounding you know. I wanted to release one that was more like just rockin’ and just talkin’ about getting sick of being sick. Steven Tyler said once, I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. That’s kinda what the song’s about and so I thought it would be a good choice to come out with. The video was pretty heavy. Were you concerned about alienating some of your fans? I wanted to do somethin’ visual; I wanted to do a video but I didn’t have my band picked out yet so it was just me. We just did what we could with it. It was pretty heavy but that’s the life. We did interviews with some ex-drug addicts and strippers and all these messed up lives so we just built the video around that. We got some actresses and it was a little heavy but I think it was meant to be for the time. Bob Clearmountain mixed Save Me From Myself. How did you come to work with him? Again that was a manager call. He’s very like well known and everything but I’d never heard of him. My manager was a fan of him and I heard of the artists he’d worked with [Bruce Springsteen; The Rolling Stones; Bon Jovi] and I said, Heck, yeah, let’s go get him. He only mixed four songs and then a friend of mine did the others. How did you feel about your guitar sounds on Save Me From Myself? They’re good and I liked em. I think I’m getting better sounds now on my new stuff. I like the sound of the new song Paralyzed that I put out. The Save Me From Myself record was cool and I had a lot of cool pedal effects and stuff that reminded me of some of the Korn stuff we used to do. But as far as rhythms and stuff I really like the tones we’re getting right now. Washed By Blood was the nine-minute song you mentioned earlier. That had synth strings and big walls of guitars and was a really different-sounding track. Yeah, totally. I just loved the melody and the strings and stuff and that’s how I was feeling back then. I was feeling like peace and I was feelin’ really good about the future. So that’s what came out and it was really good for the time. Is there a fine line between writing songs about your own life and having a lyric come across as too preachy or artificial? Yeah, totally and the new stuff is more about life. Not totally but you’ve got to live and learn. You know what I mean? Everybody warned me too and I was, I don’t care. I’m doing what I want. But I had to do everything in my time. You talked about getting better guitar sounds on the upcoming recorddid you also want to go a bit heavier than Save Me From Myself? Yeah, the producer Jasen Rauch wanted to pull that out of me. That song just came so quickly and he came to me with the idea and then we both worked on it. I’m really stoked on it; it’s really a lot of energy comes when we play live. I’ve been playing it live for a month and I’m really stoked on it. How did you come to work with Jasen Rauch? I signed on with Union Management, the Union Entertainment Group actually, and he’s one of their clients and I liked the band, Red. I liked their stuff so it was just a natural progress that we hooked up. Once we did it it just clicked and we had two songs in three days that I’m really just stoked on. So I’m hitting the studio and looking to finish an EP or an album by November 7th. Who are the musicians on the album? The guys in my band are Michael Valentine playing bass; Dan Johnson on the drums and J.R. is playing guitar too.

“I just want the best-sounding product so it’s all working better and it’s gonna be the best thing.“

Is this record taking a more band approach than the Save Me From Myself record where you tended to do a lot of it by yourself? Uh, yeah, we’ll track it all separately but it’s all different now because my solo album was all me and that’s how I wanted it to sound and I did that and it was cool and I’m glad. But this time I’m givin’ it to the producer and allowing him to produce me and write with other people. I just want the best-sounding product so it’s all working better and it’s gonna be the best thing. The writing has been going smoothly? Yeah, we’ll have a few done before this year is done; we’ll have like six or seven. Would you mind commenting on some of the Korn stuff? Yeah, no problem. The first Korn record was pretty important in the development of that type of music. When you were making Korn, did you have any idea of what you were creating? A little bit but there was no way no one could predict the impact it had. We knew that it was special and there was a couple people that came to the studio like this guy named McG who is a movie producer now who did Charlie’s Angels. He hadn’t done nothin’ when we met him and he was just a friend of one of the guys that we hooked up with through the record. He came and listened to it while we were recording and he was like, Dude, this stuff is gonna be huge and we’re like, What? You’re crazy. He said, It doesn’t sound like nothin’ out there and sure enough he was right. He did our videos and later on he blew up too and he’s doin’ movies now. Yeah, we knew we had something unique but we didn’t know it was gonna impact that hard. What was it like playing guitar with Munky on that first record? That was always when we were jammin’ in the studio. That was always live and we’d write the songs live. Nowadays it’s differentyou write it on computer and do that but back then it was just get in a room with a bunch of friends, get some beers and jam out. So that was how we did it and it was really fun back then. The first time an audience really heard Korn was with Blind, the first single. Was that a good representation of who the band were at that time? I think it’s really cool; it’s so different. Even now I play Blind in my set. I love some of the stuff we did and I play two or three songs in my set of Korn’s just because I like it and I’m proud of it. So that was a really cool song because it had a fat riff and the verses were really melodic and everything and a chorus that grooved. So I think it was a good introduction song to Korn fans. When you look at the Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 album, how does that collection of songs stand up for you today? Yeah, it’s a trip and it’s humbling. Just really stoked because there’s a lot of musicians out there that are better than us that are just rippers and are just so good. And for us to make it so successful it’s almost a crime. But we did have a unique sound and stuff like that but it’s just funny how we were just these dudes partying, having fun and making music and we just made it so big. I’m pretty thankful to be part of it. What do you remember about recording A.D.I.D.A.S.? Actually it’s funny cause I called in sick that day and they all wrote it without me. There’s like that one and Y’All Want A Single off a later record [Untouchables] and two others off later records that I wasn’t a part of cause I was sick and I didn’t come in. It was a drug sicknessI did drugs the night before and stuff like that so I lied to them at the time cause I didn’t want to feel like a loser [laughs]. I wasn’t a part of that song but I remember they wrote it and A.D.I.D.A.S. stands for all day I dream about sex and they were all reminiscing about their childhood and how they used to say that in school. So everybody was excited about that and I liked it and it was a really cool melody and the guitar part was pretty catchy. The nrr nrr nrr nrr nrr, that thing was catchy. Look In the Mirror album was your last record with Korn. As your final statement with them what do you think about the album? I was on drugs that whole recordI was on crystal methamphetamine. You asked earlier about the studio and I was really havin’ hard time in the studio then. I think that it shows. I think it’s lacking the production and I think it’s not good at all. It’s one of our least-selling records. There are a couple of okay songs but I just really don’t like the drum sounds. It wasn’t horrible or nothin’ but it’s just one of my least favorites and it was in my darkest times so I don’t think it held up as much. I wrote some stuff but I just wasn’t in my primeI was definitely lacking then. So eventually the drugs really did impact on the band. Yeah, totally. In the beginning it didn’t with the alcohol but the drugs took us all down later on in one way or another. It’s strange that bands don’t get into drugs until after they’ve become successful. You’d think that when a band is fighting to become successful is when the drugs and drinking would happen. It’s just a party and everyone wants to party with the band after the show. And everybody wants to go hang out with the girls and stuff and it’s a cycle that most bands go through. It’s pretty jacked up.

“There was no way no one could predict the impact the first Korn record had.“

If Korn hadn’t been pulled apart by drugs and you stayed with them, what kind of music do you think you’d be making now? I think everything happened the way it was meant to be so I don’t really think about that. I’m glad it happened actually because I got humbled by it and it taught me about what life is really aboutabout drugs and mistakes. Do you talk to any of the guys in Korn? Yeah, totally. Jonathan and Fieldy came and visited us at a solo show about a month ago but I haven’t seen the guitar player, Munky, though. I haven’t seen him or talked to him since ’05. I think there’s some bitterness on his part about that still but we got nothin’ but good vibes towards each other and we’re just doing our own thing. Did you hear any of the last Korn album? Yeah, there’s a couple songs I liked. They’re still doin’ it and I’m proud of em. I interviewed Munky a while ago and he really had nothing but positive things to say about you. Oh, that’s cool. He’s up and down you know. I went and hung out with Jonathan and stuff like that and I just heard about some comments he made because they were talking about us getting back together and stuff. I don’t wanna do thatI’m doin’ my solo stuff and I’m happy doin’ the smaller things that I’m doing. And I have no desire but I heard the comments saying that, I don’t wanna talk to him. We made four records without him. So he’s up and down a little but I think overall we’ve got nothin’ but love for each other. His bitterness about you leaving was probably because he was really hurt when you left. I totally agree with you. You’re finishing up your tour now? Yeah, we have one more show with the band, Red, and then we’re off into the studio for the next three months. I’ll be glad to get home. I’m so stokedI’ve got some good ideas and I’m just really excited to get some new stuff done. Dude, I’m like done playing these songs liveI need new material. I mean it’s ’08 and I’m tourin’ on these songs. I’ve got one single out, Paralyzed a month ago so I’m at my wits end. But I’ve been building up the fanbase and stuff like that so it’s a good time to get some new music. Interview by Steven Rosen Ultimate-Guitar.Com 2011

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Open letter to President Obama (Part 449) (Paul Greenberg on abortion and Dr. C.Everett Koop’s passing, includes cartoon)

Open letter to President Obama (Part 449)

(Emailed to White House on 4-9-13.)

President Obama c/o The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I know that you receive 20,000 letters a day and that you actually read 10 of them every day. I really do respect you for trying to get a pulse on what is going on out here.

Mr. President Paul Greenberg used to be pro-abortion just like you but he met a man named Mike Huckabee that challenged him on that and he changed his view. I have included Greenberg’s story below.

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Dr. C. Everett Koop on Baby Doe, euthanasia, abortion

Uploaded on Nov 3, 2008

Dr. Koop answers questions on Baby Doe, euthanasia and abortion during interview at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL http://www.christianethics.org

Dr. Koop with Al Gore in the White House pictured above.

On 2-25-13 we lost a great man when we lost Dr. C. Everett Koop. I have written over and over the last few years quoting Dr. C. Everett Koop and his good friend Francis Schaeffer. They both came together for the first time in 1973 when Dr. Koop operated on Schaeffer’s daughter and as a result they became close friends. That led to their involvement together in the book and film series “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE?” in 1979.

Paul Greenberg
Posted:  03/07/2013 12:12 AM

The surgeon general of the United States needn’t be a surgeon. And he may be a general — or admiral — only in name. The rank is essentially a civil office — despite the dress whites and gold braid. Indeed, it was largely an honorary title before Ronald Reagan chose a physician by the name of C. Everett Koop for the appointment.

Dr. Koop, who died last week at the grand old age of 96, was indeed a surgeon and a fine one (his specialty was pediatric surgery at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia), and he soon became a household name. And a target of equal-but-opposite denunciations from both ends of the political spectrum.

The rabid right didn’t like his crusade against AIDS — he spoke of it openly and treated it as a disease instead of a moral failing — and his campaign for sex education, saying words like condom out loud. Shocking. As for the pro-abortion left — excuse us, the pro-choice left — it objected to his unswerving reverence for human life.

Together with Francis Schaeffer, the doctor would write a small classic of the pro-life movement (“Whatever Happened to the Human Race?”) in which he would say all manner of politically incorrect things, however prophetic. For example:

“Once the value of human life has been depreciated, as in Roe v. Wade and the Baby Doe Case, no one is safe. Once ‘quality of life’ is substituted for the absolute value of human life itself, we all are endangered. Already respected scientists are calling for a time period following birth (a week or so) to decide if newborns have ‘sufficient quality of life’ to be allowed to live. Already committees of ‘medical professionals’ would like to decide whether the ‘quality of life’ of the elderly or anyone seriously ill is high enough to allow them to go on living.”

Dr. Koop had foreseen “death panels” long before the idea had become a volatile topic of political debate — and understood the fatal potentialities in stylish clichés like quality-of-life. It wasn’t just in the medical journals, where he documented his pioneering work as a pediatric surgeon in numerous articles, but in the nation’s conscience that C. Everett Koop left his mark.

The doctor never let his faith interfere with his science, or his science with his faith. He was true to both. He never saw any need to reconcile them because they didn’t conflict. But supported each other. Like intelligence and conscience.

If any of the good doctor’s stands aroused more ire than his views on abortion and the rights of handicapped children, it was his campaign against smoking, which did not please the tobacco industry and powerful lobby, not at all. It was during his tenure as surgeon general — in 1988 — that his office released an irrefutable study on the addictive powers of tobacco.

As early as 1984, the doctor had challenged Americans to “create a smoke-free society in the United States by the year 2000.” The prospect seemed a fantasy then, but year by year, it became closer to reality as this country led the world in fighting the noxious weed. Just during his time as surgeon general, smoking rates in this country dropped from 38 percent to 27 percent. He fought Big Tobacco with scientific evidence, political savvy and, perhaps most effective, social ostracism. He helped made smoking unfashionable, and fashion can be all in such a fight.

Dr. Koop may have made his errors of judgment. For example, he got entirely too close, too profitably to the manufacturers of some of the health products he’d helped develop. But his campaign against smoking, including the second-hand variety, was no mistake; it was more a vision achieved.

As surgeon-in-chief at Children’s, he not only established innovative programs but taught, wrote and generally educated. He proceeded to do much the same as surgeon general of the United States, only on a larger scale and with a host of critics attacking his every pronouncement as he turned his office into a bully pulpit. He remained undaunted. And the target of angry critics. Like any man who takes a stand on moral issues.

Dr. Koop caught it from both sides — the Advanced Thinkers and the Bible Thumpers, too. And he didn’t seem to mind at all. Neither did President Reagan, who stuck by the doc throughout his long and controversial tenure as surgeon general. By its end, whatever Americans might think about his science or religion (he was what used to be called an Iron Presbyterian), he was universally admired and trusted. With that Amish-style beard and family-doctor manner, he’d become a kind of American institution. They called him the nation’s doctor — which is what he had become.

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In the film series “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE?” the arguments are presented  against abortion (Episode 1),  infanticide (Episode 2),   euthenasia (Episode 3), and then there is a discussion of the Christian versus Humanist worldview concerning the issue of “the basis for human dignity” in Episode 4 and then in the last episode a close look at the truth claims of the Bible.

In this 1979 film series they dealt with the big social issues and predicted what social problems we have in the future because of humanism. For instance, they knew that the Jack Kevorkians of the world would be coming down the pike. They predicted that there was a slippery slope from abortion to infanticide to youth euthanasia brought on by the materialistic worldview.

Dr. C. Everett Koop is pictured above.

Francis Schaeffer Whatever Happened to the Human Race (Episode 1) ABORTION

Francis Schaeffer: What Ever Happened to the Human Race? (Full-Length Documentary)


Part 1 on abortion runs from 00:00 to 39:50, Part 2 on Infanticide runs from 39:50 to 1:21:30, Part 3 on Youth Euthanasia runs from 1:21:30 to 1:45:40, Part 4 on the basis of human dignity runs from 1:45:40 to 2:24:45 and Part 5 on the basis of truth runs from 2:24:45 to 3:00:04

Francis Schaeffer “BASIS FOR HUMAN DIGNITY” Whatever…HTTHR

It is a fact that President Obama has done everything in his power to advance abortion rights as this editorial cartoon shows.

Dr. Koop.

C. Everett Koop

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Thank you so much for your time. I know how valuable it is. I also appreciate the fine family that you have and your commitment as a father and a husband.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher III, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, ph 501-920-5733, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com

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“Friedman Friday” Milton Friedman’s legacy by John Chapman

July 31, 2012

The Ongoing Importance of Milton Friedman

By John Chapman

Milton Friedman is a superb economist. There are not, and never have been, many.— William R. Allen, Professor of Economics, UCLA

The true test of a scholar’s work is the judgment that is made, not at the time his work is being done, but twenty-five or fifty years later. — Milton Friedman on ‘Meet the Press’ in October, 1976

Today is the centenary anniversary of the birth of Milton Friedman. Born of humble origin in Brooklyn, New York to two Carpatho-Ruthenian (Hungarian/Ukrainian) immigrants on July 31, 1912, Friedman would go on to become a world-famous economist, the 1976 Nobel Laureate, and perhaps second only to John Maynard Keynes in global influence during the 20th century. Like Keynes, Friedman was famous for being a public intellectual as much as he was technical economist, and in fact with his prodigious output across an active career spanning six decades, he far surpassed the master in the latter capacity. As the 20th century economist most associated with notions of free enterprise, classical liberalism, and limited government, Friedman’s life is worth remembering today for whom he was, what he accomplished, and how he might regard the present challenges in the global economy.

As a testament to the broad-based research agenda that undergirded his prolific writings, Friedman’s technical work was as impressive as it was wide-ranging; he made notable contributions in monetary theory and policy, price theory, the consumption function and permanent-income hypothesis, Friedman-Phelps Phillips Curve-related macro-policy theorizing and findings, international finance and exchange rate policy, empirical methodology, and statistical theory and its applications. As a policy intellectual, he made his mark as a founder of the Mont Pelerin Society, with time spent at the American Enterprise Institute, the Hoover Institution at Stanford, associations with the Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation, and as a key advisor to President Reagan for all eight years of Reagan’s term of office. And as a writer and speaker in the popular literature and media, Friedman’s considerable influence stemmed from his 17-year stint as a columnist for Newsweek (often opposite Paul Samuelson), as the author, creator, and narrator of the wildly successful PBS TV-documentary series known as Free to Choose, and as author of several books and monographs written for popular consumption (his two most popular books, Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose, were best-sellers and remain in print and widely read).

Among the many policy changes his positions influenced were those pertaining to lower marginal taxation on capital and income, the military draft, flexible exchange rates, monetary policy rules and Federal Reserve behavior, federal spending trajectory, and educational choice (much to his later regret, Friedman also played an important part in the wartime shift of health care delivery to its centering in the tax-advantaged employer-based insurance scheme that became embedded in the U.S. economy after 1943).

At the University of Chicago, Friedman was an inheritor and then keeper of the long tradition in economic theory of what has come to be known as the Chicago School, built by the likes of Frank Knight, Lloyd Mints, Henry Simons, Ronald Coase, and more recently in addition to Friedman, George Stigler, Gary Becker, and Robert Lucas. The Chicago School is notable for rigorous “neoclassical price theory” (which is a fancy way of saying how supply and demand affect prices and output in individual markets) and its policy concomitant, a commitment to a laissez-faire regime and minimal government interference in markets. While Friedman eschewed intellectual or partisan labels, famously saying once that there was only “good” economics and “bad” economics, he nonetheless was, as an outgrowth of his Chicago association and opposition to Keynesian policies, grouped together with those who adhered to the monetarist label.

The monetarists were key figures on the scene in 20th century economics, as they were the first group of researchers to systematically oppose what became the dominant orthodoxy in theory and policy, Keynesianism. In the landmark Monetary History of the United States: 1867-1960, written with his longtime collaborator Anna Schwartz, Friedman showed conclusively that changes in the quantity of money led to shifts in nominal income, and at least in the short run, often in real incomes and output as well. That the line of causality runs from the money stock to impacting nominal GDP – and not the other way around – is now conventional wisdom in economics, but it had enormous policy implications at the time, in the 1960s and ‘70s.

At the time, Keynesian policy-makers felt that shifts in aggregate spending drove changes in the money stock, monetary policy was often ineffective as a policy tool and neutral even in the short run, and that therefore activist fiscal policy should be the predominant tool to use in “managing” the market economy through slumps. Indeed, this view was precursory to the core paradigm of Keynes’ instability thesis regarding the market economy: wild shifts in business investment, driven by changing whims as manifested in investor sentiment, caused the boom-bust business cycle that seemed to be an inherent feature of a modern capitalist economy. Keynesian theory of course borrows the capitalist instability hypothesis directly from Marx, and prior to Friedman there had been no effective post-war rebuttal of its logic.

This gets to the heart of the contributions Friedman made as a public intellectual and highly influential policy advocate. By showing the nature of monetary/output causality in a conclusive way, Friedman not only proved that inflation was a monetary phenomenon, “anywhere and everywhere,” but more broadly he showed that monetary instability, and not the crazy whims of investors and their animal spirits, was the main source of economic downturns and depressions. As such, Friedman advocated a “rules-based” Federal Reserve for much of his career, in which increases in the quantity of money would be pre-set at a certain growth level (say, 3-5% per year, in line with income and output growth), as opposed to a Fed which engaged in discretionary activism.

This debate about “rules versus discretion” in turn permeated most all else about his pursuits in public policy, and Friedman was in the end so successful because his policy prescriptions were rooted in both rigorous theory as well as significant empirical observations. That a capitalist economy was inherently unstable and in need of activist (viz., discretionary) government intervention was disproven by neoclassical price theory, in which prices shift to clear markets and quickly move resources to their highest and best use, based on changing consumer preferences and production technologies. And one of Friedman’s great talents was to so cogently explain this in an extemporaneous and audience-friendly way, often mixing in “empirical observations” to confirm his point, that his ideas about the superiority of markets and limits of activist government – indeed, to the point where he was able to illustrate the harm caused by government intervention – were manifestly influential in the rise of Reaganism after 1980.

That is to say, in the years running up to the advent of Mr. Reagan, Friedman had a material impact in changing the climate of opinion in the United States in favor of market-oriented solutions to policy challenges (or to say it differently, Friedman was able to show that it was government failure that led to an unstable economy, not market failure). In the dominating era of Keynes, Friedman’s ability to articulate clear explanations of market phenomena, often on the fly in public forums, and in a way “common men” could apprehend his thinking and logic, was instrumental in paving the way for Reagan. Would there have been a Reagan in 1980, and eventual recovery and prosperity, if there had been no Friedman? Probably, but to apprehend the necessity of considering the question is to understand how important Friedman’s impact was on recent U.S. history.

What would Friedman make of the present global torpor? He would of course have been saddened by the debacle led by Fannie and Freddie, both of which he long railed against as corrupt government-sponsored enterprises, and how it was fueled by a hyper-activist Federal Reserve, which poured gas on a global fire. For him the Great Recession would have been confirmation of many of the sub-texts of all his work: the folly of government interventionism in the face of insoluble problems with information and incentives; the waste and corruption endemic to big government programs, even those with the most charitable of intentions; the critical importance of a dependably-valued currency that does not distort asset prices in financial markets any more than it does consumer prices; and the importance of avoiding burdensome government spending and regulations that strangle entrepreneurial initiative and “crowd out” productive private investment.

Professor Friedman would likely approach the challenge of convincing the American public of the folly of current policy in the same manner as he did in so many other policy controversies: paint a convincing picture grounded in both theory and empirical reality – but happily, in a way most people would easily understand. He was fond of pointing out “natural experiments” in public policy, for example, such as the different outcomes in economic performance between East and West Germany, the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, or North and South Korea, where “all else” could be held constant except the political regime and the associated policy mix. His central point was always the same: the larger the government’s activist footprint in the economy, the smaller is the capacity of the economy to grow, and hence the slower the standard of living can progress. In spite of government’s best intentions, this is an ironclad law of economics, bearing repeating in the current moment.

Mr. Friedman was not perfectly consistent in his advocacy of laissez-faire: for most of his career he was in favor of central banks running fiat currencies, mediated by international freely-floating exchange rates. And he agreed with Keynes’ critique of gold as a “relic.” But even here, at the end of his life, he questioned the efficacy of central banking and any sort of activist monetary policy, and spoke not unfavorably of a role for gold or return to some form of commodity money. And he had great respect for the emerging Austrian school of economists, notably Lawrence White of George Mason University and George Selgin of the University of Georgia, both of whom argue in favor of the abolition of both the Fed and deposit insurance, and a return to commodity money as it arises in a system of freely competitive banking firms. He clearly had come to recognize the folly of too-big-to-fail moral hazard wrought by the Fed and modern policy, and was sympathetic to White’s and Selgin’s scheme to eliminate this with market-generated monetary and banking institutions.

All in all, however, the venerable philosophy that underlies the free market economy has never had a better friend or more articulate spokesman than Milton Friedman. One hopes that the great cause to which he devoted his life, the liberalism of the 19th century, is not yet an historical artifact. RIP at age 100.

John Chapman is an economist with Alhambra Partners, a Miami-based investment management firm, and an analyst at Hill & Cutler Co., an economic research firm based in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at john.chapman@hill-cutler.com.  

November 8, 2013 – 12:21 am Categories: Milton Friedman | Post a comment

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Published on Sep 17, 2013

AltRockLive.com caught up with Fieldy, bassist, of heavy metal band Korn to discuss his faith life, touring, and the new record, The Paradigm Shift, which hits stores on October 8th! Filmed on 9/14/13 at Monster Energy’s Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, CA. All Korn songs featured in this video are owned solely by the artist. Songs included: “Ball Tongue” from Korn and “Never Never” from The Paradigm Shift. Interview by Jacob Wilson, filmed by Jamie Howard.

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I wrote of series of four posts on the conversion to Christ of Brian Walsh of the heavy metal band Korn and that was because my son Hunter told me about Walsh’s Christian testimony. Then I stumbled on the Christian testimony of Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu of Korn. This subject has always interested me and I have written about Lou Graham of Foreigner, and Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope and their similar experiences. In all of these cases they convert to Christianity and give their lives totally to Christ and then they are delivered from drugs.

From Korn to Christ–Part 2: Interview with Fieldy

Four years after guitarist Brian “Head” Welch left the popular rock band after a Christian conversion, bass player Fieldy talks to Beliefnet about getting sober and becoming a Christian.

BY: Dena Ross

Fieldy from Korn

You may have remembered hearing the news back in 2005 that one of the world’s most popular rock bands, Korn, was losing one of its members–to Jesus. Guitarist Brian “Head” Welch” decided that he wanted to make some major changes in his life–to get off drugs and embrace his Christian faith. Unfortunately for Korn fans, he also decided he could no longer stay in the band if he wanted to stay sober and live his faith.

Now, another member of the band, bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu has come out publically as a Christian and has co-authored a book, “Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn,” (you can browse the book on Harper Collins’ website) which was released earlier this month. However, unlike Head, Fieldy is determined to remain with the band.

In this interview with Beliefnet entertainment editor Dena Ross, Fieldy talks about what brought him to embrace Christianity, how he plans to stay sober, and Korn’s response to his conversion.

Your new book begins with a vivid recounting of a night when you were drunk and physically abusive to your wife. Was that your breaking point–when you knew you had to make a really big change?

That was the beginning of my breaking point. I think it all started coming down when after seven days a week, 20 years straight of partying, my body not being able to take it anymore. And then, to top it off, things like that were happening all the time. That’s one of many stories in the book. And then to really top it off, my dad goes into the hospital and dies.

Your dad was a Christian?

He walked with the Lord for 18 years.

Did you grow up in a Christian household?

Actually, we never had anything like that. Back in the day if people would even mention the name Jesus, I was like, “What? What’s that?” I didn’t even know. I didn’t know anything.

So he became a Christian when you were older?

Yeah. I already lived on my own. But when we did hang out together, there was something about him—he had so much peace; he was just content. I liked that about him.

Now that you’re a Christian, do you experience that same peace that you saw in him?

Yeah. I think I do. It’s somewhat like peace, but it’s not like you become a Christian and [your] problems go away. I still have my everyday struggles of life and situations that come my way. But I found the difference now is when difficult situations come my way, I’m on a strong foundation and I know how to handle the situation. I don’t know how, but following and walking with Christ, He shows me how.

When exactly was the point when you decided to become a Christian?

It was probably after my dad’s death. It was a slow process [that] changed me. Actually, it seems really slow, but it goes really fast—it’s been three-and-a-half years. But, it was real casual and slow, and it still is today.

The only thing that really works for people is loving them where they’re at. To love somebody equals time. You’ve got to give people time and actually hang out [with them]. I guess that’s where my patience comes in. [Some people] dive in so strong and heavy that it’s almost like they’re using it [to] push people away. And I didn’t want to do that. I wasn’t trying to push people away.

Did Brian “Head” Welch [former guitarist for Korn who left the band in 2005 after becoming a Christian] play a role in your embracing Christianity?

I guess he did play a role, in a way, of me almost learning from… not really his mistakes, because that’s his choices of what he wanted to do. But I don’t want to have to quit Korn or do this or do that. I didn’t follow his ways, and I’m glad, because I’m following the way that I’ve been called to follow, and he’s going the way he’s been called to follow. But who knows what tomorrow will bring. Head may be back rocking out with Korn [one day].

So you’re still with the band, and you plan on staying with them?

Yeah. Korn’s actually in the studio right now with the producer that did the first two Korn albums, Ross Robinson. We’ve been in for about a month—me, [guitarist] Munky and [drummer] Ray Luzier and [singer] Jonathan Davis, and we’re working on a new album. We have a tour coming up April 25th, a U.S. tour. Then we take off to Europe in June for a couple of weeks.

Like I said, I was real humble, and changed by action, not by words. And action speaks louder than words, so I kind of just [became a Christian] and really never said anything.

It’s funny, because Jonathan Davis would say something to somebody and he’s, like, “Oh yeah, Fieldy’s a Christian now,” and I’m like, “I never even told you that.” My actions were speaking for me. I’ve had a few friends do that, where I’ve never really said [I became a Christian].

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I was shocked to learn that both Arkansas and Tennessee pay their football coaches top 4 salaries!!!

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I was shocked to learn that both Arkansas and Tennessee pay their football coaches top 4 salaries!!!Everybody knows that when Texas and Alabama won the national titles they raised their coaches up to the highest paid football coaches in the nation and who could blame them? Also you can not blame Oklahoma, Ohio State, and LSU for paying a huge amount of money to coaches that have won national titles. However, Tennessee and Arkansas are paying an enormous amount of money to coaches that have not won national titles. I personally like Coach Bielema and think he will do a great job at Arkansas and I am glad we took what it takes to get him. We will just have to wait and see how things will turn out.

NCAAF Coaches

RANK SCHOOL CONF HEAD COACH SCHOOL PAY OTHER PAY TOTAL PAY MAX BONUS STAFF PAY
1
Alabama
 SEC
Nick Saban
 $5,395,852 $150,000 $5,545,852 $700,000 —
2
Texas
 Big 12
Mack Brown
 $5,392,500 $61,250 $5,453,750 $850,000 —
3
Arkansas
 SEC
Bret Bielema
 $5,158,863 — $5,158,863 $700,000 —
4
Tennessee
 SEC
Butch Jones
 $4,860,000 $0 $4,860,000 $1,000,000 —
5
Oklahoma
 Big 12
Bob Stoops
 $4,741,667 $31,500 $4,773,167 $819,500 —
6
Ohio State
 Big Ten
Urban Meyer
 $4,608,000 $0 $4,608,000 $550,000 —
7
LSU
 SEC
Les Miles
 $4,300,000 $159,363 $4,459,363 $700,000 —
8
Michigan
 Big Ten
Brady Hoke
 $4,154,000 $0 $4,154,000 $550,000 —
9
Iowa
 Big Ten
Kirk Ferentz
 $3,985,000 $0 $3,985,000 $1,750,000 —
10
Louisville
 AAC
Charlie Strong
 $3,700,000 $38,500 $3,738,500 $808,333 —
11
Oklahoma State
 Big 12
Mike Gundy
 $3,450,000 — $3,450,000 $550,000 —
12
South Carolina
 SEC
Steve Spurrier
 $3,300,000 $22,500 $3,322,500 $1,550,000 —
13
Georgia
 SEC
Mark Richt
 $3,200,000 $114,000 $3,314,000 $1,000,000 —
14
Penn State
 Big Ten
Bill O’Brien
 $3,282,779 — $3,282,779 $200,000 —
15
Cincinnati
 AAC
Tommy Tuberville
 $3,143,000 $0 $3,143,000 $465,000 —
16
Texas Christian
 Big 12
Gary Patterson
 $3,120,760 — $3,120,760 — —
17
Texas A&M
 SEC
Kevin Sumlin
 $3,100,000 $300 $3,100,300 $750,000 —
18
Nebraska
 Big Ten
Bo Pelini
 $2,975,000 — $2,975,000 $1,000,000 —
19
Kansas State
 Big 12
Bill Snyder
 $2,800,000 $3,000 $2,803,000 $580,000 —
20
Missouri
 SEC
Gary Pinkel
 $2,800,000 $200 $2,800,200 $850,000 —
21
Florida State
 ACC
Jimbo Fisher
 $2,750,000 $0 $2,750,000 $675,000 —
22
Florida
 SEC
Will Muschamp
 $2,724,500 $10,000 $2,734,500 $454,000 —
23
Mississippi State
 SEC
Dan Mullen
 $2,700,000 $0 $2,700,000 $650,000 —
24
West Virginia
 Big 12
Dana Holgorsen
 $2,630,000 $0 $2,630,000 $600,000 —
25
Southern California
 PAC-12
Lane Kiffin
 $2,594,091 — $2,594,091 — —
26
Washington
 PAC-12
Steve Sarkisian
 $2,575,000 $0 $2,575,000 $1,525,000 —
27
North Carolina State
 ACC
Dave Doeren
 $2,550,000 $5,000 $2,555,000 $1,000,000 —
28
Clemson
 ACC
Dabo Swinney
 $2,540,024 $10,000 $2,550,024 $775,000 —
29
Virginia Tech
 ACC
Frank Beamer
 $2,491,616 $50,000 $2,541,616 $382,500 —
30
Georgia Tech
 ACC
Paul Johnson
 $2,513,000 $2,500 $2,515,500 $1,025,000 —
31
Kansas
 Big 12
Charlie Weis
 $2,500,000 $3,727 $2,503,727 $615,000 —
32
Auburn
 SEC
Gus Malzahn
 $2,440,000 — $2,440,000 $1,250,000 —
33
Utah
 PAC-12
Kyle Whittingham
 $2,427,100 — $2,427,100 $740,000 —
34
Baylor
 Big 12
Art Briles
 $2,426,360 — $2,426,360 — —
35
Colorado
 PAC-12
Mike MacIntyre
 $2,403,500 — $2,403,500 $1,500,000 —
36
California
 PAC-12
Sonny Dykes
 $2,394,000 — $2,394,000 $304,000 —
37
Arizona State
 PAC-12
Todd Graham
 $2,300,000 $3,020 $2,303,020 $3,159,000 —
38
UCLA
 PAC-12
Jim Mora
 $2,300,000 $0 $2,300,000 $750,000 —
39
Wake Forest
 ACC
Jim Grobe
 $2,251,635 — $2,251,635 — —
40
Washington State
 PAC-12
Mike Leach
 $2,250,000 $0 $2,250,000 $625,000 —
41
Northwestern
 Big Ten
Pat Fitzgerald
 $2,221,153 — $2,221,153 — —
42
Virginia
 ACC
Mike London
 $2,173,200 $16,503 $2,189,703 $715,000 —
43
Purdue
 Big Ten
Darrell Hazell
 $2,160,833 — $2,160,833 $1,095,000 —
44
Boise State
 Mt. West
Chris Petersen
 $2,148,000 $3,500 $2,151,500 $290,000 —
45
Arizona
 PAC-12
Rich Rodriguez
 $1,850,000 $300,000 $2,150,000 $610,000 —
46
Miami
 ACC
Al Golden
 $2,148,107 — $2,148,107 — —
47
Wisconsin
 Big Ten
Gary Andersen
 $2,035,823 $85,000 $2,120,823 $440,000 —
48
Maryland
 ACC
Randy Edsall
 $2,021,440 $4,000 $2,025,440 $950,000 —
49
Mississippi
 SEC
Hugh Freeze
 $2,000,000 $5,500 $2,005,500 $1,575,000 —
50
Kentucky
 SEC
Mark Stoops
 $2,001,250 — $2,001,250 $1,475,000 —
51
Michigan State
 Big Ten
Mark Dantonio
 $1,959,744 $0 $1,959,744 $650,000 —
52
Southern Methodist
 AAC
June Jones
 $1,911,511 — $1,911,511 — —
53
Texas Tech
 Big 12
Kliff Kingsbury
 $1,855,000 $300 $1,855,300 $600,000 —
54
Vanderbilt
 SEC
James Franklin
 $1,842,771 — $1,842,771 — —
55
South Florida
 AAC
Willie Taggart
 $1,807,745 — $1,807,745 $650,000 —
56
Oregon
 PAC-12
Mark Helfrich
 $1,800,000 — $1,800,000 $1,035,000 —
57
Duke
 ACC
David Cutcliffe
 $1,792,285 — $1,792,285 — —
58
North Carolina
 ACC
Larry Fedora
 $1,730,000 — $1,730,000 $345,835 —
59
Iowa State
 Big 12
Paul Rhoads
 $1,700,000 $12,282 $1,712,282 $950,000 —
60
Illinois
 Big Ten
Tim Beckman
 $1,700,000 $0 $1,700,000 $80,000 —
61
Connecticut
 AAC
Paul Pasqualoni
 $1,700,000 — $1,700,000 $116,666 —
62
Central Florida
 AAC
George O’Leary
 $1,534,728 $0 $1,534,728 $600,000 —
63 Ind.
Ken Niumatalolo
 $1,514,240 $0 $1,514,240 — —
64
Oregon State
 PAC-12
Mike Riley
 $1,417,843 — $1,417,843 $360,000 —
65
Colorado State
 Mt. West
Jim McElwain
 $1,350,000 — $1,350,000 $150,000 —
66
Indiana
 Big Ten
Kevin Wilson
 $1,291,220 — $1,291,220 $780,000 —
67
Minnesota
 Big Ten
Jerry Kill
 $1,200,000 — $1,200,000 $875,000 —
68
Wyoming
 Mt. West
Dave Christensen
 $1,200,000 — $1,200,000 $25,000 —
69
East Carolina
 CUSA
Ruffin McNeill
 $1,150,000 $0 $1,150,000 $380,000 —
70
Notre Dame
 Ind.
Brian Kelly
 $1,088,179 — $1,088,179 — —
71
Memphis
 AAC
Justin Fuente
 $956,779 $0 $956,779 $625,000 —
72
Air Force
 Mt. West
Troy Calhoun
 $882,000 $21,100 $903,100 $247,500 —
73
Houston
 AAC
Tony Levine
 $900,000 $2,100 $902,100 $340,000 —
74
Rutgers
 AAC
Kyle Flood
 $850,000 $10,000 $860,000 $350,000 —
75
Western Kentucky
 Sun Belt
Bobby Petrino
 $855,600 — $855,600 $355,000 —
76
Louisiana-Lafayette
 Sun Belt
Mark Hudspeth
 $800,000 $3,000 $803,000 $105,000 —
77
San Diego State
 Mt. West
Rocky Long
 $800,000 $0 $800,000 $855,000 —
78
New Mexico
 Mt. West
Bob Davie
 $763,600 $0 $763,600 $330,000 —
79
Arkansas State
 Sun Belt
Bryan Harsin
 $724,597 — $724,597 $245,000 —
80
Middle Tennessee State
 CUSA
Rick Stockstill
 $701,504 $2,500 $704,004 $157,809 —
81
Southern Mississippi
 CUSA
Todd Monken
 $700,000 $1,200 $701,200 $133,333 —
82
Fresno State
 Mt. West
Tim DeRuyter
 $650,000 $5,000 $655,000 $1,685,000 —
83
Rice
 CUSA
David Bailiff
 $646,386 — $646,386 — —
84
Marshall
 CUSA
Doc Holliday
 $607,070 $14,250 $621,320 $80,000 —
85
Hawaii
 Mt. West
Norm Chow
 $550,000 $70,000 $620,000 $880,000 —
86
Tulsa
 CUSA
Bill Blankenship
 $619,549 — $619,549 — —
87
Alabama at Birmingham
 CUSA
Garrick McGee
 $550,000 $0 $550,000 $330,000 —
88
North Texas
 CUSA
Dan McCarney
 $545,000 $300 $545,300 $85,000 —
89
Nevada
 Mt. West
Brian Polian
 $525,000 — $525,000 $250,000 —
90
San Jose State
 Mt. West
Ron Caragher
 $525,000 — $525,000 $195,000 —
91
Ohio
 MAC
Frank Solich
 $502,400 $11,500 $513,900 $299,350 —
92
Louisiana Tech
 CUSA
Skip Holtz
 $500,000 $10,000 $510,000 $295,000 —
93
Georgia State
 Sun Belt
Trent Miles
 $510,000 — $510,000 $304,500 —
94
Nevada-Las Vegas
 Mt. West
Bobby Hauck
 $500,000 $3,749 $503,749 $140,000 —
95
Utah State
 Mt. West
Matt Wells
 $500,000 $2,500 $502,500 $735,000 —
96
Florida International
 CUSA
Ron Turner
 $500,000 — $500,000 $120,000 —
97
Texas-El Paso
 CUSA
Sean Kugler
 $500,000 — $500,000 $449,999 —
98
Florida Atlantic
 CUSA
Carl Pelini
 $496,124 $1,100 $497,224 $317,500 —
99
Troy
 Sun Belt
Larry Blakeney
 $480,000 $1,000 $481,000 $67,500 —
100
Toledo
 MAC
Matt Campbell
 $455,000 $2,500 $457,500 $400,000 —
101
Old Dominion
 Ind.
Bobby Wilder
 $450,000 $0 $450,000 $0 —
102
Massachusetts
 MAC
Charley Molnar
 $417,730 $1,200 $418,930 $162,500 —
103
Army
 Ind.
Rich Ellerson
 $401,500 $0 $401,500 $550,000 —
104
Bowling Green
 MAC
Dave Clawson
 $400,000 $1,000 $401,000 $109,000 —
105
Idaho
 Ind.
Paul Petrino
 $400,011 $0 $400,011 $152,000 —
106
Miami Ohio
 MAC
Don Treadwell
 $400,000 $0 $400,000 $393,660 —
107
Akron
 MAC
Terry Bowden
 $400,000 $0 $400,000 $205,000 —
108
Ball State
 MAC
Pete Lembo
 $396,000 $3,000 $399,000 $265,000 —
109
Western Michigan
 MAC
P.J. Fleck
 $392,500 — $392,500 $236,000 —
110
South Alabama
 Sun Belt
Joey Jones
 $358,450 $26,000 $384,450 $38,871 —
111
Kent State
 MAC
Paul Haynes
 $382,500 — $382,500 $261,000 —
112
Northern Illinois
 MAC
Roderick Carey
 $375,000 $1,000 $376,000 $205,000 —
113
New Mexico State
 Ind.
Doug Martin
 $375,000 — $375,000 $185,000 —
114
Eastern Michigan
 MAC
Ron English
 $374,937 $0 $374,937 $90,000 —
115
Texas State
 Sun Belt
Dennis Franchione
 $366,075 $7,300 $373,375 $132,500 —
116
Central Michigan
 MAC
Dan Enos
 $360,000 $600 $360,600 $224,000 —
117
Texas-San Antonio
 CUSA
Larry Coker
 $350,000 $1,150 $351,150 $30,000 —
118
Buffalo
 MAC
Jeff Quinn
 $325,000 — $325,000 $335,000 —
119
Louisiana-Monroe
 Sun Belt
Todd Berry
 $288,268 — $288,268 $42,500 —
120
Boston College
 ACC
Steve Addazio
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Pittsburgh
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Paul Chryst
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Brigham Young
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Bronco Mendenhall
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Temple
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Matt Rhule
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Syracuse
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Scott Shafer
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Stanford
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David Shaw
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Tulane
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Curtis Johnson
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Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu of Korn and his Christian conversion and deliverance from drugs Part 3

Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu of Korn and his Christian conversion  and deliverance from drugs Part 3

BRIAN “HEAD” WELCH & FIELDY of KORN interview 2012

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Ray Manzarek on the death of Jim Morrison

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I wrote of series of four posts on the conversion to Christ of Brian Walsh of the heavy metal band Korn and that was because my son Hunter told me about Walsh’s Christian testimony. Then I stumbled on the Christian testimony of Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu of Korn. This subject has always interested me and I have written about Lou Graham of Foreigner, and Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope and their similar experiences. In all of these cases they convert to Christianity and give their lives totally to Christ and then they are delivered from drugs.

Reginald Arvizu

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Reginald Quincy “Fieldy” Arvizu
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Korn live Rock im Park 2013 Nuremberg, Germany
Background information
Also known as Fieldy
Reggie
Born November 2, 1969 (age 43)
Los Angeles County, California, US
Genres Nu metal, funk metal, hard rock, alternative metal, west coast rap, hardcore rap, g-funk
Instruments Bass guitar, guitar
Years active 1989–present
Labels EMI, Virgin, Roadrunner
Associated acts Korn, Fieldy’s Dreams, StillWell, L.A.P.D., Ragtyme, Pierct
Website www.korn.com
Notable instruments
Ibanez K5, Ibanez Soundgear

Reginald Quincy “Fieldy” Arvizu (born November 2, 1969 in Los Angeles County, California)[1] is the bassist for the nu metal band Korn, and guitarist for the hard rock band StillWell.

Musical career

Prior to Arvizu’s time in Korn, he and Brian Welch, who would later become one of Korn’s two guitarists (alongside James Shaffer), had played together in a number of bands, having become friends while still at school. Upon their graduation from high school, Arvizu, Welch, Shaffer, and drummer David Silveria relocated from Bakersfield to Los Angeles and Arvizu, Shaffer, and Silveria formed L.A.P.D (the name first stood for “Love and Peace, Dude”, but this abbreviation was later changed to “Laughing As People Die”). Although L.A.P.D. did succeed in signing a record deal, their success was limited until the band hired singer Jonathan Davis and changed their name to Korn.

The name “Fieldy” is said to have come about as an inside joke. Originally, his band mates called him “Gopher”, due to his large cheeks. Gopher quickly became “Gar”, Gar became “Garfield” (based on the comic strip character of the same name), and eventually “Gar” was dropped and a “y” was added to “Field”, which became Fieldy.[2] His full moniker is “Fieldy Snuts”, which when spoken aloud sounds like “feel these nuts”.

He plays a five-string Ibanez model SDGR SR1305, named the K-5, which is his signature bass.

His playing style consists of slapping, standard finger-style plucking, and left-hand muting; his standard tuning is: A, D, G, C, F. He states Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as being one of the main influences towards his playing style. He has also stated to have been influenced by Billy Gould from Faith No More.

Fieldy is also one of the main songwriters in Korn. The majority of his bass riffs are hip-hop inspired. He says he gets inspiration from anything hip-hop. On the business side of Korn, Fieldy is responsible for all Korn merchandise, its buying and selling. He will come up with a number of designs, shows them to the band and they either approve or disapprove.[citation needed]

In August 2012 it was reported that Fieldy would be taking a brief break from Korn as his wife Dena was expecting a child. Korn began touring through Eastern Europe, Russia and India throughout August and September 2012 with fill in Bassist Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne.

Life outside Korn

In addition to Korn, he has a rap side project called Fieldy’s Dreams. Fieldy’s Dreams has released one album titled Rock’n Roll Gangster.

Fieldy married girlfriend Dena Beber on Tuesday, 16 May 2006. Korn’s guitarist, Munky played nylon guitar at the wedding. It is her first marriage and his third. Fieldy has two daughters, Sarina and Olivia Arvizu, from his second marriage from Shela Arvizu; he and his current wife Dena had a son in early 2007 and named him Israel. Following the death of his father, Fieldy became a born-again Christian.[3][4][5]

Fieldy has stated that his second album, Bassically, is still in the works. Originally intended to be a hardcore rap album, Fieldy has scrapped the original idea in favor of a jazz fusion style.[citation needed]

Fieldy is currently working with independent rap artist Q-Unique on a side project called StillWell. The song “Killing Myself To Live” can be heard on their MySpace page. Stillwell’s debut album, Dirtbag, is set to be released on May 10, 2011.

Fieldy was also working on his own clothing line Immanuel one twenty three; when asked about it while backstage at the West Palm Beach stop of the Mayhem Festival in 2010, he stated that it was “much harder than he had previously expected” to start a clothing line, and has moved on to the side project that he can “be more proud of, opposed to his first solo CD under Fieldy’s Dreams titled Rock’n Roll Gangster”

Got The Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery and Korn is a memoir Fieldy penned, which hit shelves March 10, 2009. His autobiography tells the story of how he found God, quit drugs, and found the better part of himself.[6]

Fieldy has a tattoo that was done by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst while he still worked in a tattoo parlour.

Guest appearances (videos)

Discography

Solo albums

L.A.P.D.

Korn

Main article: Korn discography

Other appearances

Bibliography

See also

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References

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  2. Jump up ^ Arvizu, Reginald (2009). Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn. ISBN 0-06-166249-6. Unknown parameter |middle= ignored (help)
  3. Jump up ^ “Korn Bassist Fieldy on the Christian Life – CBN TV – Video”. Cbn.com. Retrieved 2011-07-01.
  4. Jump up ^ “From Korn to Christ–Part 2: Interview with Fieldy”. beliefnet.com. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  5. Jump up ^ “Fieldy @ R.O.C.K. Ministries”. youtube.com/user/StrawnK. 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  6. Jump up ^ Fieldy of Korn’s Road To Redemption

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Eric Blair of “The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show“ recently conducted an interview with KORN bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu at this year’s NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, which was held January 14-17, 2010 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Watch the chat below.

KORN will top the bill on this summer’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour, which is scheduled to kick off on July 10 in San Bernardino, California.

The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival will be the first major city tour for KORN in support of the band’s ninth studio album, tentatively titled “Korn III – Remember Who You Are”. The new album marks the return of producer Ross Robinson, who worked with KORN on their first two releases, “Korn” and “Life is Peachy”. Lead vocalist Jonathan Davis has said that the new material matches the pure raw emotion of KORN‘s early releases while the current touring band has never been tighter.

“We experimented with a lot of cool stuff on our last two records [2005’s ‘See You On The Other Side’ and 2007’s untitled effort], but we didn’t want to do another record like that,” Davis explained to Revolver magazine. “So we said, ‘Let’s strip it back again. Let’s do this as a four-piece and make it real raw like the old stuff.”

KORN‘s forthcoming effort was tracked last October at the band’s studio. “We recorded everything on tape, just like we did in the old days,” said Davis. “And we didn’t stack four or five vocal parts like I usually do. I’m singing one part for every song, which was scary. It’s just me and the microphone, and you can really hear the emotion.”
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Eric Blair of “The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show“ recently conducted an interview with KORN bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu at this year’s NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, which was held January 14-17, 2010 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Watch the chat below.

KORN will top the bill on this summer’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour, which is scheduled to kick off on July 10 in San Bernardino, California.

The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival will be the first major city tour for KORN in support of the band’s ninth studio album, tentatively titled “Korn III – Remember Who You Are”. The new album marks the return of producer Ross Robinson, who worked with KORN on their first two releases, “Korn” and “Life is Peachy”. Lead vocalist Jonathan Davis has said that the new material matches the pure raw emotion of KORN‘s early releases while the current touring band has never been tighter.

“We experimented with a lot of cool stuff on our last two records [2005’s ‘See You On The Other Side’ and 2007’s untitled effort], but we didn’t want to do another record like that,” Davis explained to Revolver magazine. “So we said, ‘Let’s strip it back again. Let’s do this as a four-piece and make it real raw like the old stuff.”

KORN‘s forthcoming effort was tracked last October at the band’s studio. “We recorded everything on tape, just like we did in the old days,” said Davis. “And we didn’t stack four or five vocal parts like I usually do. I’m singing one part for every song, which was scary. It’s just me and the microphone, and you can really hear the emotion.”

Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/korn-bassist-talks-about-being-christian-new-cd-and-former-guitarist-head/#7QoC3ldYBFzbYog7.99

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The food stamp bill would be more costly than the Obama Stimulus!!!!!

Farm Bills Would Cost More Than Obama Stimulus

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The costs are just one example of how the farm bill ignores taxpayers, consumers, and virtually all Americans.

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“The Tyranny of Control” in Milton Friedman’s FREE TO CHOOSE Part 2 of 7 (Transcript and Video) “As always, economic freedom promotes human freedom”

In 1980 I read the book FREE TO CHOOSE by Milton Friedman and it really enlightened me a tremendous amount.  I suggest checking out these episodes and transcripts of Milton Friedman’s film series FREE TO CHOOSE: “The Failure of Socialism” and “What is wrong with our schools?”  and “Created Equal”  and  From Cradle to Grave, and – Power of the Market. In this episode “The Tyranny of Controls” Milton Friedman shows how government planning and detailed control of economic activity lessens productive innovation and consumer choice.

In this episode Milton Friedman asserted, “Central planning, in practice, has condemned India’s masses to poverty and misery. We know what has happened in Japan. Free trade set off a process that revolutionized Japan and the lives of its people. Improvements in material well-being went hand in hand with the elimination of the rigid social structure of a century ago. It’s no accident. As always, economic freedom promotes human freedom.”

Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose – Ep.2 (2/7) – The Tyranny of Control

But it is more than just a symbol of honoring the past. It typifies the policy that they are actually following.

The new government in 1948 decided that India’s traditional weaving industry and its workers should be protected from 20th century industrialization. What were the consequences of that policy? This is India today, 30 years after winning independence. These are scenes of a very typical Indian community __ one of thousands. It is called “Anicaputar” and it is about 1,000 miles south of the capital, New Delhi. This is not the kind of life the government intended to perpetuate. But it is one result of their policy. By subsidizing the cotton that the villagers spin and the cloth that they weave, they made it difficult for modern industry to develop.

This is sizing. It’s an essential technique in cloth production where the yarn is smoothed clean. A modern machine could do the same thing in a hundredth of the time. The result of government planning to modernize industry is that the number of hand looms roughly doubled in the first thirty years after India’s independence. Today, in thousands of villages throughout India, the sound of hand looms can be heard from early in the morning until late at night. In this village alone, there are more than 3,000 hand looms in operation.

Since 1948, three generations of villagers have sat at these looms making cloth with patterns that never vary, using methods that never change. There is nothing wrong with this activity, provided it survives the test of the market, provided it is the way in which these people can use their abilities and their energies most effectively. After all, in Japan, where the government has not specially encouraged the hand loom industry, there remains a very small, but very productive hand loom segment. The trouble here is that this industry exists only because the government has subsidized and supported it because it has in effect imposed taxes, direct and indirect, on the rest of the people of India, people who are no better off than these people are in order to enable this activity to continue.

Other industries, both textile industries and industries of a variety of kinds, have been restricted, explicitly kept back, prevented from providing more productive employment in order to make room for this industry. The effect has been to inhibit the development, to prevent the growth, to prevent the dynamic activity that could otherwise develop out of the energies and the abilities to the people of India. This looks like a factory, but it is also home for the people who work here. When they are not sitting at their looms, they eat and sleep in a corner of this hut.

Throughout the world, governments always profess to be forward-looking. In practice, they are always backward-looking. Either protecting the industries that exist, or making sure that whatever ventures they have decided to undertake, are encouraged and developed. This occurs at the expense of the kind of healthy development of new, dynamic, adapted industries that would surely occur if the market were allowed to operate freely. If it were allowed to separate out the unsuccessful ventures from the successful ones. Discouraging the unsuccessful and encouraging the successful.

India has tremendous economic and human potential, every bit as much as Japan had a century ago. The human tragedy is that in India, that potential has been stifled by the straightjacket imposed by an all-wise and paternalistic government.

Central planning, in practice, has condemned India’s masses to poverty and misery. We know what has happened in Japan. Free trade set off a process that revolutionized Japan and the lives of its people. Improvements in material wellbeing went hand in hand with the elimination of the rigid social structure of a century ago. It’s no accident. As always, economic freedom promotes human freedom.

And in the meantime, what has happened to the Japanese weaving industry? This is how textiles start life in a Japanese weaving shed today. A design for cloth is placed on a drum. As it revolves, it is scanned by an electric eye. Each color, each variation in the pattern and texture is transmitted faithfully to a computer. It’s all that the modern loom of Japan requires. This loom is fitted with electronics that make it one of the most sophisticated of its sort in the world. The fabric that it produces is the best silk of its kind.

Thanks to the speed and efficiency of these machines, the price of the silk is competitive. The workers are highly skilled and well paid. With the new technology, there is very little __ a loom like this cannot produce. This piece will become the sash of a traditional bridal gown. These are machine-made products. But by any standards, they are beautiful. They can stand comparison with the very finest work of the hand loom. And it’s not merely the end product itself that is remarkable. The sophisticated technology which was developed to make all of this possible, has been adapted to other processes. Part of the self-generating development under free enterprise, and it all stems from an ancient, traditional industry __ weaving __ that imported a new method for controlling its looms when Japan turned to free trade more than a century ago.

Yet, believe it or not, many still maintain today that markets cannot be left to operate freely. That they must be controlled by government. This dockside is in Scotland, a British government, a socialist government decided that its role was to protect the workers here from competition. So down there in governed shipyards, they are building these vessels for the Polish government. To get the order, the British government is using the money of British taxpayers to subsidize the work. In other words, British people are making these ships in order to sell them at a loss to the Poles. Not only the Poles, but we also in America benefit from this kind of philanthropy.

The steel industry in the United States makes a fine profit. Other countries do too. And their steel is often cheaper, sometimes because their taxpayers subsidize it. So, why shouldn’t the American consumer buy steel wherever he can get it cheapest __ at home or abroad. The American steel industry works very hard trying to persuade us that it’s not in our self-interest to buy in the cheapest market. They urge the government to restrict what they call unfair competition, though, of course, they recognize that there are dangers in this.

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Dear Senator Pryor, here are some spending cut suggestions (“Thirsty Thursday”, Open letter to Senator Pryor)

Senator Pryor pictured below:

 Why do I keep writing and email Senator Pryor suggestions on how to cut our budget? I gave him hundreds of ideas about how to cut spending and as far as I can tell he has taken none of my suggestions. You can find some of my suggestions here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,  here, and  here, and they all were emailed to him. In fact, I have written 13 posts pointing out reasons why I believe Senator Pryor’s re-election attempt will be unsuccessful. HERE I GO AGAIN WITH ANOTHER EMAIL I JUST SENT TO SENATOR PRYOR!!!

Dear Senator Pryor,

Why not pass the Balanced  Budget amendment? As you know that federal deficit is at all time high (1.6 trillion deficit with revenues of 2.2 trillion and spending at 3.8 trillion).

On my blog www.thedailyhatch.org . I took you at your word and sent you over 100 emails with specific spending cut ideas. (Actually there were over 160 emails with specific spending cut suggestions.) However, I did not see any of them in the recent debt deal that Congress adopted although you did respond to me several times. Now I am trying another approach. Every week from now on I will send you an email explaining different reasons why we need the Balanced Budget Amendment or I send you specific spending cut suggestions. It will appear on my blog on “Thirsty Thursday” because the government is always thirsty for more money to spend.

IF YOU TRULY WANT TO CUT THE BUDGET AND BALANCE THE BUDGET THEN SUBMIT THESE POTENTIAL BUDGET CUTS PRESENTED BELOW!!

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What Can We Cut to Balance the Budget

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If the U.S. government cut all government services except Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and payments on the debt, federal spending would still outpace revenues. Prof. Antony Davies argues that there are not specific cuts that will enable government to balance the budget. He says, “Nothing less than a redesign will solve this problem.” That redesign should begin by determining what the proper role of government is.

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         Wasteful Programs that Make You Want To Pull Your Hair Out

This week we finally reached Tax Freedom Day – the day after which American workers begin to make money for themselves and their families instead of the government. While no one begrudges making a reasonable contribution for necessary services, how many of us are confident that our wages earned over the past 108 days are being spent carefully and wisely by the federal government in Washington, D.C?

So while we all listen to politicians and government employee unions still bemoaning the modest cuts imposed by the Sequester, let’s scroll through the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) annual report highlighting just some of the waste and redundant programs still funded by our tax dollars.

Wasteful Spending Program #1: $14 million on Catfish Inspections

“Government doesn’t have a spending problem.”- President Obama, Jan. 2013

Not only does government have a spending problem, but with a budget shortfall estimated at $845 billion this year, we have a massive wasteful spending problem. Take for instance Catfish Inspections. The GAO reports that we could easily save $14 million annually by consolidating the overlapping inspection processes on Catfish.

The actual cost of our absolutely critical Catfish inspections are more than $100 million every year, but due to a system riddled with inefficiencies we’re throwing money down the stream. The United States Department of Agriculture, under a provision of the 2008 Farm Bill, has the power to inspect and create inspection programs for meat, poultry, and seafood. One inspection process, Catfish, has grown into three separate taxpayer-funded agencies each with overlapping research and responsibilities.

Wasteful Spending Program #2: $4 Billion by not buying in bulk

“Deficit reduction is not a worthy goal.” – White House spokesman Jay Carney

Ask any big American family how they save money on groceries and household supplies, and they’ll probably pull out a Costco card. We understand that buying in bulk will reduce costs, but sadly our Federal Government doesn’t understand that basic tip for saving tax dollars. Instead each department or agency buys many of the same goods independently, dramatically reducing our national purchasing power and wastefully spending your tax dollars. The GAO reports that, “By simply buying together the critical agencies like the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Energy, and Veterans Affairs could save over $4 billion a year.”

Wasteful Spending Program #3: $82 million spent on 7 different camouflage uniforms

“It’s almost a false argument to say that we have a spending problem.” – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

In 2002 the military began a change from two camouflage patterns to the seven service-specific camouflage uniforms, all with different colors and patterns which we have today. The camouflage uniforms look incredibly similar, yet because each branch of the military is developing its own uniforms they are spending nearly $82 million in the design, creation and acquisition of the different uniforms. Instead of the military branches working together, they are all moving separately. The GAO report found that consolidating the uniforms would be more efficient, better protect service members and save millions. During the sequester debate, we made it clear that providing for national defense was a legitimate and vital function of the US Government, but maintained that even the military could trim spending by finding and eliminating inefficiencies. The $82 million in overspending here seems like a great place to start.

Implementing just these three simple changes above would save $5 billion the very first year. With the hundreds of other reforms suggested by the GAO report there would be an annual savings of roughly $250 billion. As Senator Coburn said, “That’s three times what the sequester was. Just in waste, in duplication, in stupidity, and lack of efficiency and effectiveness by the federal government. (It) makes you want to pull your hair out.”

Well said Senator Coburn…well said.

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The Balanced Budget Amendment is the only thing I can think of that would force Washington to cut spending. We have only a handful of balanced budgets in the last 60 years, so obviously what we are doing is not working. We are passing along this debt to the next generation. YOUR APPROACH HAS BEEN TO REJECT THE BALANCED BUDGET “BECAUSE WE SHOULD CUT THE BUDGET OURSELF,” WELL THEN HERE IS YOUR CHANCE!!!! SUBMIT THESE CUTS!!!!

Thank you for this opportunity to share my ideas with you.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com www.thedailyhatch.org, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, ph 501-920-5733

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