AlexMerced
11-14-2010, 09:27 PM
http://libertyisnow.blogspot.com/2010/11/liberty-soul-of-new-york.html
Liberty: The Soul of New York by Alex Merced
Many don't the associate New York as a bastion of liberty, with it's vast state controls over wages and rents, and it's cumbersome taxes and regulations on local business. No one thinks of New York as a home of freedom when it's the home of most detrimental of Federal Reserve District Banks, the New York Branch which carries out the asset purchases that destroy our currency and prosperity as it diminishes away. New York is often considered a shadow of the land that was once this nations capital as business flees to greener pastures domestic and abroad, although it wasn't always this way. New York has been the home of many of the greatest individuals in American history who've done a lot to further the cause of Liberty, Peace, and Sound money. New York was home to the greatest U.S. president (Martin Van Buren), and the greatest economist (Murray N. Rothbard).
The Little Magician - Martin Van Buren
Most presidents revered in history are those who against the principles of Liberty and Small government grew the power of the executive branch and breeded conflict into war, Martin Van Buren was none of these things often charachterized as weak by historians. In my view, his willingness to seek peace and stick to principles was his greatest strength. As Andrew Jacsons vice president he helped prevent a conflict with france, and then avoided two more conflicts with Mexico and Britain as president. While someones nationalists senses may say Van buren should of entered these conflicts, the preservation of life that occurs from his willingness to take pause and clarity is something we must appreciate.
While the economy entered a massively painful restructuring from Andrew Jackson rejecting to renew the charter of the Second US Bank, instead of preventing this restructuring Martin Van Buren finished the work towards free banking that Andrew Jackson began. His willingness to allow the needed corrections to occur to have a sustainable economic environment is possibly his greatest achievement, leading to multiple periods of Growth AND Deflation (late 1830s-early 1840s and the 1870s). While no good deed goes unpunished, Van Buren was not re-elected even being rejected by his former president, Andrew Jackson, for his unwillingness to spill american blood to annex Texas. He later on joined the abolitionist party, The Free Soil Party, in which he later carried on a nother failed bid for the presidency.
The Greatest Economist - Murray N. Rothbard
Murray N. Rothbard who was born and raised in the Bronx, is one of the most influential economist in the last century. While he may not be as revered by establishment economist as such enemies to liberty like John Maynard Keyenes, Rothbard was instrumental in the revival Misesian Austrian Economics most pivotal was his treatise on the topic, "Man, Economy, and State". To this day, in his short life the amoung of work done in economic thoughts, history, theory, and more dwarfs what most eonomists accomplish in a lifetime. He leaves behind a veritable library of work for the Liberty minded fellow to strengthen their convictions and sharpen their arguments to a free world.
Liberty: The Soul of New York by Alex Merced
Many don't the associate New York as a bastion of liberty, with it's vast state controls over wages and rents, and it's cumbersome taxes and regulations on local business. No one thinks of New York as a home of freedom when it's the home of most detrimental of Federal Reserve District Banks, the New York Branch which carries out the asset purchases that destroy our currency and prosperity as it diminishes away. New York is often considered a shadow of the land that was once this nations capital as business flees to greener pastures domestic and abroad, although it wasn't always this way. New York has been the home of many of the greatest individuals in American history who've done a lot to further the cause of Liberty, Peace, and Sound money. New York was home to the greatest U.S. president (Martin Van Buren), and the greatest economist (Murray N. Rothbard).
The Little Magician - Martin Van Buren
Most presidents revered in history are those who against the principles of Liberty and Small government grew the power of the executive branch and breeded conflict into war, Martin Van Buren was none of these things often charachterized as weak by historians. In my view, his willingness to seek peace and stick to principles was his greatest strength. As Andrew Jacsons vice president he helped prevent a conflict with france, and then avoided two more conflicts with Mexico and Britain as president. While someones nationalists senses may say Van buren should of entered these conflicts, the preservation of life that occurs from his willingness to take pause and clarity is something we must appreciate.
While the economy entered a massively painful restructuring from Andrew Jackson rejecting to renew the charter of the Second US Bank, instead of preventing this restructuring Martin Van Buren finished the work towards free banking that Andrew Jackson began. His willingness to allow the needed corrections to occur to have a sustainable economic environment is possibly his greatest achievement, leading to multiple periods of Growth AND Deflation (late 1830s-early 1840s and the 1870s). While no good deed goes unpunished, Van Buren was not re-elected even being rejected by his former president, Andrew Jackson, for his unwillingness to spill american blood to annex Texas. He later on joined the abolitionist party, The Free Soil Party, in which he later carried on a nother failed bid for the presidency.
The Greatest Economist - Murray N. Rothbard
Murray N. Rothbard who was born and raised in the Bronx, is one of the most influential economist in the last century. While he may not be as revered by establishment economist as such enemies to liberty like John Maynard Keyenes, Rothbard was instrumental in the revival Misesian Austrian Economics most pivotal was his treatise on the topic, "Man, Economy, and State". To this day, in his short life the amoung of work done in economic thoughts, history, theory, and more dwarfs what most eonomists accomplish in a lifetime. He leaves behind a veritable library of work for the Liberty minded fellow to strengthen their convictions and sharpen their arguments to a free world.