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There are those who say that conservatives must make a choice between …

There are those who say that conservatives must make a choice between a message of economic growth and one of cultural renewal. Take your side, we are told, and the fight can begin. Make your decision between economics and cultural values.This choice is false; this conflict is destructive; and this decision, if forced on conservatives, would come at an unacceptable cost to their coalition. It is false in the realm of ideas because it ignores the full range of human needs, and costly in the realm of politics because it undermines the coalition of conscience that could transform the nation and renew its culture. Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp, USA Today Magazine, May 1995

By any objective criteria, the Federal Reserve has been a colossal flop. …

By any objective criteria, the Federal Reserve has been a colossal flop. Instead of maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar, the greenback has lost approximately 95% of its value since the Fed’s founding.The Fed was also supposed to use its tools to banish the business cycle, or at l east ‘smooth out’ the economy’s ups and downs. Instead, the Fed has given us the Great Depression, and nearly a dozen business recessions, including the deep downturns of 1973-75 and the off and on downturn of 1980-1982. Murray Sabrin
Dec 19, 2003

In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be …

In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be taken by one House without submission to the President; but it is crystal clear from the records of the Convention, contemporaneous writings and debates, that the Framers ranked other values higher than efficiency.

INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 958-59 (1983)