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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 30 But...Somalia!

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Benjamin Powell, Director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech, asks "What's the real deal in Somalia?".

Transcript

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0:00.0

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:09.9

In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.

0:14.9

Now's not that time.

0:16.5

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

0:18.3

Oh, why everything?

0:19.7

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

0:21.9

And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

0:25.9

Don't be afraid.

0:26.7

I'll feel free, that.

0:28.3

Prepare to unshackle your mind.

0:31.2

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

0:36.9

Your professor has arrived.

0:41.1

Tom Woods.

0:46.8

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:52.0

The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It is Friday, November 1st,

1:02.1

2013. Tom Woods here. Friday, November 1st is a very important date, because later today,

1:09.5

my wife and I will very likely be finding out if child number

1:13.4

five is going to be a boy or a girl. Now, if you know anything about the composition of our family,

1:19.0

you know that this is not exactly super suspenseful here because we already have four girls

1:25.6

and no boys.

1:33.7

So you never know, of course, you hear a lot of stories about we had only girls and all of a sudden we had a boy and vice versa.

1:38.7

But I tend to think we're looking at another girl, which would be perfectly fine with me.

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