TEA PARTY ECONOMIST

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Public Schools Give Kids Attention Deficit Disorder. In a recent study requiring 76,000 telephone interviews, the Centers for Disease Control spent a bundle of money. Nobody at the CDC is saying how much money. What did the CDC find? That almost 20% of boys in public schools squirm a lot. This is twice as many as girls. The CDC has diagnosed this [...] READ MORE Blind Church, Idiotic Law, Great TV News Story: Dumped Food An Atlanta store went out of business. Before it closed, it called a local church. Did the church want the store’s inventory to give away to the poor? Sure, someone at the church said. But no one showed up to haul it away. So, the church offered the food for free to the public. The [...] READ MORE Stockton, California Emerges from Banpruptcy. Will It Cut Pension Payments? The City of Stockton has officially gone bankrupt. But it is still paying pensions. The other creditors are complaining. What entitles pensioners to get paid, when no one else is getting paid? The judge overruled them. But if Stockton gets away with this, the California pension system will be in trouble. Cities will stop contributing [...] READ MORE Army’s $900 Million in Warehouses Full of Useless Vehicle Parts The Pentagon got caught by the Defense Department’s Inspector General’s office. Again. This time it was for a military vehicle called the Stryker. It has $900 million in spare parts in just one warehouse. It keeps thousands of these vehicles in warehouses around the nation. It has so many Strykers that it lost track of [...] READ MORE Video: The Origin of Gun Control in America in 30 Seconds Liberals want gun control. They never mention where they got the idea. In 30 seconds, here’s the “background check” on where they got the idea. READ MORE 71st Anniversary: Roosevelt’s Concentration Camps On April 1, 1942, California announced the order for the arrest and deportation of Japanese citizens in California. They were sent into internment camps — read: concentration camps in Idaho. Here are photos and an accompanying account. Here are other photos. We all know this story. President Roosevelt signed an executive order on February 19, [...] READ MORE Video: When You See This, Think “Blackmail.” Watch this short video. Be patient. At the end, you will find out why you needed to watch it. Then think about some of its implications. READ MORE And the Winner of Bush’s Iraq War Is . . . Iran! Ron Paul voted against the Iraq “not quite a declaration of war, but almost” resolution in 2003. Do you recall how many Republican Congressmen voted “no”? Take a guess. Six. If the media went to the Congressmen and Senators who voted for this resolution, and asked them to explain why they did so, what would [...] READ MORE Gun Control in the Senate: The Filibuster is Back! It has been all over for Feinstein’s gun grab for weeks. Her bill was dead on arrival, as I wrote two weeks ago. But now the Senate Democrats’ softer core version is DOA. There is a group of Republicans ready to imitate Rand Paul’s 13-hour marathon. They see the publicity he got, and they are [...] READ MORE Sequestration Undermines Federal Gun Control. The gun control crowd is facing a setback. Sequestration is going to cut into federal gun control efforts. U.S. News and World Report ran an article on the the federal government’s efforts in this regard. It concluded: “The U.S. court system has said that sequestration will have a major impact on the federal judiciary, including [...] READ MORE