Ep. 98 The Presidents: The Bad and the Less Bad

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 17 February 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Ivan Eland, author of Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty, joins Tom to talk best and worst in the history of the presidency.

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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 be afraid of you, dad.
0:28.3	Prepare to unshackle your mind.
0:31.3	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.
0:52.3	The Tom Woods Show.
0:56.3	Welcome, everybody. It is Monday, February 17, 2014, and we are talking U.S.
1:02.6	presidents today with my guest, Ivan Eland. Ivan Eland is a senior fellow and director of the
1:09.2	Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute, Independent.org.
1:14.6	He holds a PhD in National Security Policy from George Washington University.
1:19.6	He's the author of numerous books, most recently, The Failure of Counterinsurgency, Why Hearts and Minds Are Sel seldom one. And the book we're going to be
1:29.0	discussing today, recarving Rushmore, ranking the presidents on peace, prosperity, and liberty.
1:35.8	That book is from 2008. And Ivan tells me that in May, that book will be updated to include
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