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Show 5-17 Why Oregon Fails at Economics

By Dr Mark | April 27, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: April 25 & 26, 2015

This week, it’s about economics. Yeah, yeah. Don’t groan. You need to know this stuff. Otherwise, you’ll be boondoggled into thinking raising taxes is good. Or that raising minimum wage doesn’t impact businesses. Or big government works. Or any number of progressive ideologies. Next thing you know, you’ll be believing global warming and then it’s all down hill from there.

With guests Jonathan Williams of American Legislative Exchange Council and Jan Meekcoms of National Federation of Independent Businesses.

Always fun talking with Mark Anderson @ispyradioshow about #oregon #tcot. I just wish Oregon had a better outlook https://t.co/d6TcClSnnp

— Jonathan Williams (@Taxeconomist) April 25, 2015

Links mentioned

ALEC – American Legislative Exchange Council. One of the good guys. You can tell, because the political Left hates them so much they think one of the Baldwin boys needs to rename himself.
NFIB – National Federation of Independent Businesses. Here’s the state chapter for Oregon (have you joined yet??) and the national organization.
Download your own copy of Rich States, Poor States and take a look at how your state is doing (you might want your legislators’ number on speed dial)
A quick one-sheet verview from ALEC on Oregon’s outlook (this link opens a PDF)
NFIB-Oregon is holding its Day at the Capital on April 29. More info.
Both of these fine organizations offer memberships. Why not join them and add your voice to the chorus of conservative voices trying to safeguard your economic freedom?

Additional Links & Info

Talk to liberals? Not sure how to answer their unicorns-and-fairies myths about the minimum wage? Here’s a great Forbes article (by an NFIB economist no less) that debunks progressive myths.

Rally ‘Round the Flag Event

When: Saturday, June 20, 2015, 10am – 4pm
Where: Fairgrounds, Cottage Grove, Oregon
Cost: Free!

Here in Oregon, we have a strong heritage of using our natural resources wisely. But well-intended yet weak-minded “environmentalists” believe they are “protecting” the environment by not touching it–or allowing anyone else to harvest them. Worse, our lands are being controlled by people out east who’ve never set foot on them and have no idea about how to manage them; people who’ve been persuaded by the well-funded environmental lobby that we should never touch these lands.

Oregon Citizen’s Lobby invites you to join them for a fantastic day of speakers, networking, and fun! And a chance to learn more about the effort to transfer control of the federal lands to the people who know best how to manage them: Oregonians.

The event will feature prominent leaders in this effort, booths, networking opportunities, and a panel discussion to answer your questions.

Featured Guests:

Rep. Ken Ivory (UT) of the American Lands Council
Noah Wall, FreedomWorks Grassroots Director
Jeff Kropf, Oregon Capital Watch
Mark Anderson, host of I Spy Radio
David Hunnicutt, Oregonians in Action
Dennis Linthicum, former Klamath County Commissioner

Battle for Public Lands

By Dr Mark | April 21, 2015 | Comments 3 comments

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Air Dates: Jan 10 & 11, 2015

The federal government holds title to 640 million of acres of land, mostly west of the Mississippi. In some states, this is more than 60% of all land within their borders. The battle as to who should own that land, whether the feds or states, has been going on since before the 1900s. Why does this matter? They represent trillions of dollars of economic activity.

This week on I Spy Radio, we talk with Rep. Ken Ivory (UT) about the continuing battle to force the federal government to honor their promise to transfer land to the states in which it belongs. We start by getting some clarification and history on exactly who legally owns the land: the feds or the states? We also discuss on-going battles in states like Utah—which threw down the gauntlet, demanding their land by Dec. 31, 2014—and Wyoming, which had 1 million acres unilaterally seized by Obama’s EPA. Find out what counties can do, why Canada is already transferring control of its land to its territories, and what strategies and tactics the new Republican-controlled Congress is likely to pursue.

Links mentioned

The American Lands Council – be sure to sign their petition to let lawmakers know this matters to you!
Great resource on the issue of the transfer of federal lands: American Lands Council FAQ’s.
Utah passed HB 148 in 2012, demanding the federal government transfer ownership of the land to Utah. Here’s a link to more info on HB 148 (via Constitutional Defense Council)
1 million acres seized from Wyoming by Obama’s EPA 1 million acres seized from Wyoming by Obama’s EPA & an update regarding lawsuit by WY against the EPA’s actions
Politifacts article: Napolitano: Unconstitutional for Fed to own land.

Related Links

The battle over federally held lands is an ongoing effort – Lawmakers from 9 states gather in Utah, discuss ways to take control fed land.
Why this matters: EPA wants to assert control over any land that gets wet.
An interesting timeline of land-use laws in Oregon.

Economic Warfare

By Dr Mark | April 21, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Jan 17 & 18, 2015

The 21st century’s battlefields won’t just involve bombs and guns. Enter the age of economic warfare and financial terrorism. And when it comes to warfare, you attack your enemy’s weaknesses. The problem is, the U.S. has created a massive weakness and the States are helping—and in this day and age, we’re more vulnerable than ever.

We know that regular I Spy Radio listeners are keenly aware that at the heart of big government lies big spending. In fact, big government simply could not exist without big spending.

But what do you know about the actual mechanism that allows the federal government to enact policies it is not constitutionally allowed to do? We talk about grant-in-aid funding with State Senator Doug Whitsett and how this funding is really about states giving up their own authority.

Perhaps even worse is the extremely vulnerable position this spending puts us in. We talk with Kevin Freeman, one of the world’s leading authorities on economic warfare and financial terrorism. With groups like ISIS, this is no longer “just” threats from countries like China and Russia. It’s real, it’s happened and find out why it will happen again. Tune in to hear why all this spending is like a bomb we built — and then handed to the terrorists.

Links mentioned

Sen. Doug Whitsett’s Newsletter – more info on the grant-in-aid funding and how this both cedes states’ rights and how the U.S. is digging its own grave. If you’re not currently receiving Sen. Whitsett’s newsletter, be sure to sign up!
Kevin Freeman’s blog: Global Economic Warfare. Read his white paper, submitted to the Department of Defense – Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses; an analysis of twenty-first century risks in light of the recent market collapse
Kevin’s books are Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack and Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It can Happen Again.
The Chinese economic warfare plan: an easy-to-read Wikipedia article on the plan. Want to read the plan? Download here. *A great article on World Net Daily about Wall Street turning a blind eye to its own vulnerabilities. Also discusses the Russian attack in 2008
We didn’t cover it on the show but here’s a fascinating article in the UK Telegraph about how the U.S. unleashes its own economic weapons. Eerily reminiscent of how President Obama can “deem” anyone an enemy combatant, no?

Show 5-05 | Socialism Exposed: Superiority of Capitalism

By Dr Mark | April 21, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Jan 30 & 31, 2015

By now, you’ve heard or read the usual conservative fact-checking of Obama’s State of the Union speech but we wanted to go deeper than just fact-checking to analyze the progressive ideology that lie at the heart of the speech.

This week on I Spy, we talk with author and economist Dr. Gerard Lameiro to analyze the underlying philosophies and values on display in Obama’s State of the Union address.

For example, most of I Spy listeners know that the free-market system is superior to socialism but why is it so superior? What makes it more successful from both an economic and philosophical standpoint? And what is so unique about the American system of capitalism that makes it better than any other free-market system in the world? We also analyze Obama’s faith in big government to drive the economy, the unfairness of wealth, that regulation is the solution, and much more.

Links mentioned

Dr. Lameiro’s terrific website: www.gerardlameiro.com
Why is American capitalism so superior? See Dr. Lameiro’s “Achitecture of American Capitalism“
Check out this terrific graphic about the characteristics of a free-market economy
See also his “Socialism’s Chain of Control“
His books include Renewing America and its Heritage of Freedom (What Freedom-Loving Americans Can Do to Help), America’s Economic War (A Citizen’s Handbook for Understanding the War between American Capitalism and Socialism), and Choosing the Good Life (two competing economic visions, capitalism and socialism).