One Response to “The New Eugenecists”

1. Ross Says:
   April 26th, 2011 at 4:15 am

   When he’s says that the next step is government funded abortions I assume he means through “Obama-care,” since, unfortunately, U.S tax dollars have been directed towards Planned Parenthood and the UN Population fund for many years now, though some of that might have taken a blow in the recent budget cuts, thank God!
   BTW, the mention of Warren Buffett in this clip motivated me to do some brief research on the Malthusian Billionaire himself. I was surprised to find the following info about Buffet’s father on wikipedia:
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   Howard Buffett is remembered for his highly libertarian Old Right stance, having maintained a friendship with Murray Rothbard for a number of years. A vocal critic of the Truman Doctrine and the Korean War, Buffett “was convinced that the United States was largely responsible for the eruption of conflict in Korea; for the rest of his life he tried unsuccessfully to get the Senate Armed Services Committee to declassify the testimony of CIA head Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, which Buffett told [Rothbard] established American responsibility for the Korean outbreak.” Speaking on the floor of Congress, he said of military interventionism that,
   Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny at home. Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns. Persuasion and example are the methods taught be the Carpenter of Nazareth, and if we believe in Christianity we should try to advance our ideals by his methods. We cannot practice might and force abroad and retain freedom at home. We cannot talk world cooperation and practice power politics.
   In the summer of 1962, he wrote “an impassioned plea . . . for the abolition of the draft” in the National Review. Buffett wrote:
   When the American government conscripts a boy to go 10,000 miles to the jungles of Asia without a declaration of war by Congress (as required by the Constitution) what freedom is safe at home? Surely, profits of U.S. Steel or your private property are not more sacred than a young man’s right to life.
   In addition to non-interventionism overseas, Howard Buffett strongly supported the gold standard because he believed it would limit the ability of government to inflate the money supply and spend beyond its means. His son Warren Buffett is not an advocate of the gold standard.
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   Buffet’s Dad sounds like he’d fit right in with the likes of Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell or Alex Jones. Surprising how far the apple fell from the tree.

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