Matthews: Chilean Miners Would Be Dead if They Followed Tea Party Philosophy
- Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:23pm by
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In one of the most outrageous mischaracterizations of the tea party movement’s limited government mantra, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speculate that if the trapped Chilean miners had followed the tea party’s “every man for himself” philosophy, there would be no survivors:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Okay let’s talk about what the…message to a lot of the people was. The message coming out of the Tea Party people — and a lot of them are good people — is ‘every man for himself,’ basically. ‘No more taxes, no more government, no more everything. No more safety net. No more health care for everybody. Everybody just get out there, make your buck, save it, screw the government, move on.’ Right?
RICHARD TRUMKA: Yeah.
MATTHEWS: You know these people, if they were ‘every man for himself’ down in that mine they wouldn’t have gotten out.
TRUMKA: That’s exactly right.
MATTHEWS: They would have been killing each other after about two days. This is a story of how people can work together, the people who were down there for two months. The people who were above ground from all over the world, using state of the art equipment not to get rid of the need for manpower but to save manpower in this case.
TRUMKA: You know this is just another example of how radical the Republican Party is becoming, do away with the minimum wage. You just talked about that. Bad policy, it will wreck the economy. If you didn’t have government regulation, you wouldn’t have clean water, you wouldn’t have cars that were safe, you wouldn’t have electricity that you could afford, I mean, just a number of things where you need a good, efficient government and they just throw all that aside.
MATTHEWS: Well why do people buy the rhetoric?
TRUMKA: I don’t think they do buy it.
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Comments (542)
Capt_Spalding
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:44pmNO… If the RESCUERS would have followed the Demoncrats, the miners would never have seen the light of day again. The Demoncrats would have shut down those companies that made the drilling materials and taxed them so hard they wouldn’t have anyone on the payroll to go assist in such situations.
Report Post »Nice try, Chrissy but you got this one backwards… again.
Wyoming
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 10:25amI totally agree – we want civil order – not government controlled chaos and collapse
Report Post »mrsdawn
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:44pmMaybe that tingle up Matthew’s leg was a sign of a stroke and he has lost his ability to think because of it.
Report Post »mrsdawn
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:43pmOne of the 33 rescued miners said, “There were 34 of us down there, because God was with us.” Amen. A miracle they are alive and many people came together to make that happen.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 10:25pmAmen! Let us pray for Mr. Mathews and Mr. Trumka that they can emulate the one Chilean miner who said he was torn between God and the devil, and he chose God.
Report Post »logoad1
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:11amMiracles do happen
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:40pmHis head would make for a good soccer ball because I want to kick the sh#t out of it. Semper Fi.
Report Post »REB182
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:41pmI second that!!
Report Post »thethrown216
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:40pmWhat? So we need government regulation to keep from killing each other? Is that what you too numbskulls are getting at? I wonder how the miners decided the order of their exit.. maybe they held death panels err… escape counseling Thank goodness the evac was a success, but I can think of a couple of people that should be put down there for a couple of months….
Report Post »mrsdawn
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:40pmThey just don’t get it yet. WE the PEOPLE does not mean every man for himself it means we count on each other not some unaccountable government or program.
Report Post »alamo
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:40pmConservative/Tea Party philosophy is so simple that its astounding when I see these attempts to degrade the Tea Party. We believe in individualism, doing things for yourself, and working hard to be successful. It is not every man for himself, but every man for his own success, so that he can help others. We do not want to help people who are simply lazy, but help the ones who CANNOT help themselves. Emphasize the word “cannot” because it is so important. In the case of the miners, they could not help themselves. Government is useful within its bounds, and when it works with the community instead of against it, great things can occur.
Report Post »Helen-of-Joy
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:38pmShoot, without socialist ideals we would all be Clampets! All rich and ignorant! Where would we be without Mr. Drysdale here and his trusted sidekick Ms. Hathaway?
Report Post »Sharkhaywood
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:38pmWell if the response to the miners being trapped was handled like the Obama Administration responded to the Gulf oil spill the miners would have never been discovered alive, let alone rescued.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:51pmShark
Report Post »There would have been 5000 lawyers hanging around the mine office just waiting for the owner so they could tell him what a scumbag he was. Obummer would be fleecing the mine company for a 20 million dollar slush fund so trumpka and his union buddies could plump up their kickback fund. Chris would have a stream of pee running down his leg.
Sailor
spirited
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 10:23pmWell,
Report Post »…. at least there would have been the threat of a boot to the neck of the mine owner!
BetterDays
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:38pmMissed by a mile Chris Mathews, a country mile. What the Tea Party represents (and I’ll keep this really simple so you can understand Chris.) is the “comming together of like minded individuals to insure the Nation in which the live remains free. If the Tea Partyers were “self centered” and “selfserving” then they could never “come together” in any common cause. This November you Chris Mathews, get to see with your own eyes the effect of the Tea Partys comming together. And then the leftist “takers” shall give way to the right wing “makers” (credit to John Stossle)..
Report Post »TMGallagher
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 10:00pmI love your post. I‘ve gotten to the point I can’t even listen to them any more. They say thing that are so unbelievable that no one, and I mean no one believes what they are saying. I believe they say it just to get under our skin. Once they know they don’t… they will move on to a new, equally repugnant plan.
Report Post »reconmarine
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:37pmSo much for MSNBC becoming a real news network.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:48amHe must’ve had an Obama “tingle” going up his leg when talking to Trumka and got confused(again)!!! They redid MSNBC, it got WORSE instead of better!!!
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:37pmI “Leaned Forward” and clicked the remote.
Report Post »It’s been long enough now Chris, it’s time you found out about the Tea Parties. Everyone else knows, why don’t you?
Tea Party bashing will fall the way of the “racist” bit. Get ahead of the game and stop now.
Helen-of-Joy
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:47pmOh hey now BoilItdown!
If we all are “leaning forward” to click the remote this might turn into the biggest mooning in history.
I just can’t take Muppet McClownface seriously. I’m surprised anyone takes the time to report anything he says.
Report Post »moonlight on the bay
Posted on October 15, 2010 at 11:30pmNow THAT’S a good reason to lean forward.
Report Post »angrymob
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:36pmThe tingle in America’s legs is gone and Obama is a sinking ship. They know it; we know it and they constantly see it necessary to attack us even if it is the most inappropriate timing imaginable.
How dare he say that! The Tea Party Movement is not about every man for himself. Our motto is Faith, Hope, and CHARITY!!! Charity is not everyman looking out for himself. He’s a moron.
Report Post »angrymob
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:00pmAnybody watching the Chile miners? They got them out!!!!!! I was glued to the tv.
Report Post »oldeagle101
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:36pmI can’t believe these idiots are still on the air..who watches MSNBC??
Report Post »njpatriot
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:35pmFor the life of me, I cannot understand this man’s hatred. He needs help and prayers. He certainly doesn’t think like a rational human being that has respect for their fellow man.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:35pmPresident Obama failed to mention Mr. Matthews as one of MSNBC’s “Invaluable” American media assets. Did that snub send Mr. Matthew’s chill back down his leg and onto the floor?
Report Post »Thizzy
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:12pmyo broker, im just wonderin what is you political philosophy?
Report Post »S_Malc13
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:33pmAt least the Tea Party would clean up their mess afterwards.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:51pmThumbs UP! And we wouldn’t stand around and wait for the government … we would start drilling! Matthews is an idiot. Not hate just a fact!
Report Post »jsDway
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:33pmMatthews & Trumka are both fools! Enough said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »DMD
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:33pmMatty is such a putz
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:17amComplete buffoon!
Report Post »TrueGrit
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 8:34amCONTROVERY SELLS!!!
Just ignore the fools….
all we do here is give them credibility to be more stupid.
Or open a pandora’s box of opposite views of stupid.
A visit to HuffPost every once in awhile… just for some comic refief.
The other side of stupid.
Wolverine
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:32pmYou can bet that no DemoNazi or Democommie administration could have pulled this off. These will be back to chasing little boys when they are off the air. Trumka is a filthy pig and I wish he would get up in my face.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 8:56amThe president of Chile took control of this disaster from day one. He called on the best brains and mining experts from all over the world. He showed the utmost care for the lives of the 33 miners. He allowed experts from NASA to advise and treat the trapped miners and prepare them for the trip to the surface. The president of Chile is a man of integrity, a man of Christian values and a true humanitarian. He stayed in command of the situation, listening to every and all proposal and plan, then selecting the best options. He made it an international effort, an effort which ended in success.
A far cry from Obama. When the oil spill disaster happened in the Gulf, He refused immediate help from numerous countries which offered oil skimmer ships and technology. He derided the BP oil company, and derailed many attempts to mitigate the disaster. Obama refused to over ride the stupid U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to not allow the gulf states to build sand dikes along the marshes to keep the oil out of those sensitive areas. Hundreds of individuals offered new technologies to help in the cleanup operations but they were turned down by the POTUS and the EPA because they mignt have been more effective than the feeble government attempts. He truly showed his disdain for the plight of the fishing industry and the free market approach to solve the crisis. His theory was “GOVERNMENT CAN SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS” yeah right.
Obama made a couple of photo op visits to the area but otherwise took a hands off approach. He caused thousands of jobs to be lost by instituting a moratorium on drilling in the gulf, on top of all the jobs lost by the fishing and tourist industries. Under Obama, thousands of people suffered needlessly.
I hope the voters along the gulf coast remember the absymal uncaring response by the Obama administration on the 2nd of November.
Of course, Chris Matthews and the rest of the MSNBC cast of bobbleheads couldn’t see that. What else can you expect from the moronic policies set by GE the parent company of NBC. GE is trying it’s best to profit from the radical agenda of Obama and his henchmen. Chris isn’t a reporter, he’s a puppet whose strings are being controlled by the Communists and Jeffrey Immelt the CEO of GE.
Report Post »More S*** (from) Nothing But Communism is a joke!
orkydorky
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:30pmBarry would have still been thinking about how he could get a photo op and get his numbers up while not wasting the disaster!
Report Post »delawarebill
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 4:28pmHow much golf did the Chile’s president play while this was going on?
Report Post »starman70
Posted on October 15, 2010 at 9:29amHow many vac`ations did the President of Chile take during the crisis?
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:32pmTruthtalker=idiottalker
Report Post »Uncle Sambo Lives Here
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:54pmWow, that’s really quippy. LOL
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 1:58amYeah Moosebrain, you told ‘em, LOL! Semper Fi.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:24pmEvery time I think stupid, I think CHRIS MATTHEWS!
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:29pmWhy did you delete the part where they start making out?
Report Post »angrymob
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 2:01pmChris Matthews go flog yourself!
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:29pmTwo inbreds, let us just hope one kills the other and the remaing maggot then shoots himself. LOL
leftylemn
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:38pmwow, that’s really hateful. leave the hate for the haters.
Report Post »alamo
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:43pmI know this comment is in jest, but it is still extreme and hopefully not representative of the views here on the Blaze. I just want to encourage some class amongst the comments.
Report Post »msnbciscomedy
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:35pmAgreed! No need to stoop to their level. We are better than that.
Report Post »logoad1
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:07amThanks LEFTYLEMN and ALAMO for reminding every one to take the high road in what we do and say. Nothing is improved with ugliness.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:08amIf it had been a union shop pulling them out, they would still be negotiating whether they get time and a half, double or triple time on the weekends. Name an industry that has had unions for 30 years and it will be on the down slide (UAW, USW, IBEW, etc.) or putting out terrible product (teachers, govt workers) or generally negatively impacting the competitiveness of the company. It would probably be better if unions had to re-certify periodically.
Report Post »lulu229
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:21amYou don’t need to lower yourself to their level!
Report Post »saneromeo
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:29pmMr Matthews, I would like you to know that the majority of Chilean miners were Christians, and they got through their ordeal because of their religion. The Tea Party is not every man for himself, because that is not what the free market system is, but thanks for the misrepresentation. I’m sure you would prefer “every man according to his need based on his ability”. Unfortunately if that were true, you would not have a job, because open soda bottles in the wind say more intelligent things than the drivel that spews from your mouth….
Report Post »awakeandalive2
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:17pmWhy are we giving this guy attention. He deserves none.
Report Post »And remind me…what did the TEA parties have to do with this anyway?
msnbciscomedy
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:29pmYea, every man for himself…….umm..kinda like half a million people peacefully gathering on the mall and leaving it spotless after praying, singing, and speaking about FAITH HOPE AND CHARITY! Yea, every man for himself. These people seriously think they make a difference with their ridiculous spin. And really??? Using a great story of hope and human response to crisis to bash the tea party?? Really? Thats how bad it has gotten for them? I think we just officially won.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:32pmExactly what The Tea Party has anything to do with this ? except wishing them safe return .
I guess his 1/2 empty BRAIN was tingling this time .
Robert .
Report Post »SCC
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 1:39amAnd Daniel Henninger of the WSJ argues capitalism saved the miners http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/capitalism_saves_chilean_miner.html
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 5:31amYou could see the genuine human concern for each other and you are right, their Christianity was on display from the top to the bottom. This is what made the difference.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:26pmHis idiot mind is showing again.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:42pmWasn’t it MSNBC that was trying to convince people that they were doing a re-work and going to be more “serious” about the news? Funny, I thought I read that just the other day.
At this point, I just want to know what they’re smoking because it sure is powerful stuff. Almost sounds like it could make the lame walk and the blind to see.
Report Post »Areyoukiddingme
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:48pmyeah the tea party’s slogan is every man for himself and kill your brothers and sisters if they get in the way…. what a moron.
Report Post »JimPoe
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 8:55pmEvery time you think they can’t say something stupider or more idiotic, liberals amaze you again.
Report Post »AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:08pmIf it would of been liberals, it would of turned out like the Donner party
Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:18pmThe foolishness of that comment is so deep that I can only ascribe it to higher education, you have to have gone to college to have said something that stupid. those miners where living under complete and total anarchy. It was more then peaceful. No government was formed and no lord of the flys B.S. ever took place. Not even the tea party is right wing enough to advocate for the system they lived under. Voluntary cooperation works just fine it seems.
I am for total and complete anarchy. This has proven itself to work just fine in the past. Only, in anarchy there is no way to rise or grab power without the voluntary help of others, who will not help you if they them selfs have nothing to gain.
selfishness is the key to human survival. Not obedience.
And to say that without government we would have no drinking water or safe cars is reckless. Its as if these people have never even heard the word economics let alone picked up a book on the subject.
All you Judeo altruists on this site bettor start reading up on political philosophy and fast or these boys will have you in check mate before you know it. they are placing the peaces in the media up for a strike at the very foundation of your beliefs. You may find that you are wrong but that most certainty wont make the statist right.
Read “Human Action” by ludwig von mises. Do it now!
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:18pmWhat a close minded ignorant SOB! People like him know NOTHING about what the patriotic Americans stand for. Every man for himself?? Try God helps those who help themselves, BIG difference! We believe in taking care of (including but not limited to) ourselves. If we are trapped in a mine together, WE would be OURSELVES! OMG he makes my brain ‘tingle’! lol
Report Post »urbanserf
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:20pmhow does this douche bag have a show?
CultureWarriors
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:21pmAgreed, Chris proves once again what small thinker and partisan hack he is. Probably one of the dumbest commentators of all time. But it doesn’t matter because only a moron would watch him … so who cares what he says.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ3OxZhXKQ0
Report Post »timeisnow
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:22pmNothing Matthews says is every right! He is a whack job who spews lies, and a typical Alinsky bashing Progressive. Of course he hates the Tea Party,they are beating the Liberals at their own game, they are protesting, and voicing their opinion very loudly, they are raising money and beating the pants off anyone with a Progressive Agenda, Dem or Rep… They are coming for the Dems in November and they are running scared. Cha Cha Cha I love doing the Alinsky dance on these Radicals…LOL
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:22pmYou ASS, if Obama had followed the wise choices of the Chilean president, the oil spill in the Gulf would have been cleaned up months earlier. He reached out to the world for the best possible problem solvers and the result was the rescue of 33 miners earlier than was expected. Do you have any idea how stupid you sound? Go to H-E-double L!!!!!
denswin
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:38pmIt‘s amazing isn’t it… they have these abilities to just throw out stupid statements and think people are going to believe it?? It was obvious it is the ‘every man for themselves” philosophy that put all those organized gatherings together and they were composed of dems, dependents and conservatives alike.
Report Post »Uncle Sambo Lives Here
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:47pmIs this really all the left has? Oh wait, it is.
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 10:26pmLUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
do not try to argue with the irrational. It is impossible to use reason in an argument with those who abandon reason to define there stance. what you need to do is find those, some on this site that live by reason, that is reality but are wrong. not due to an evasion of reality but wrong because of a lack of evidence or knowledge. they will be the only ones you can convince thus the only ones worth your time.
Chris is a simple man that knows, at least he must cater to his base, his costumers. They want dirt on the tea party and he will give it to them even if he must pull it out of his …… Hes not in the market of reason and its not likely that is viewers are. don’t let this get you down. when the day of redemption comes (much sooner then you think) they will be the first to abandon their fairy tail of wealth without production and knowledge without the mind, in order to survive.
human survival is the standard of life. What do you suppose the left’s standard is leading them to? Do you think that its unintentional?
Report Post »777phase
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 10:33pm! this LOON flaps at both ends, he only exists to get this nonsense out, if Nancy’s the queen of stupid this idiot has got to be the KING!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 10:41pmWhat?! Leave it to a liberal to twist a positive story into a negative.
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:10pmMSNBC proves their rework is over before it leaves the gate; they fail to understand that the disaster our country is facing is what is uniting them. Even if they believe in the “all for their fates” it still is in the American psyche that when disater hits we respond with everything that is needed – the people do respond, never count on the government to do so. Look at the Katrina disaster for that lesson of the government and the Super Dome fiasco.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mixed art)
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:13pmhe has a mind???
Report Post »APKSmith
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:25pmWhat do you expect from BSDNC??
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:33pmTo: ANARCHO CAPITALIST,
“they are placing the peaces in the media up for a strike at the very foundation of your beliefs”
You anarchists are a funny group, mostly because you believe in the old saying “from anarchy rises order”. Oh, and as far as your comment about the media striking at our foundation, n-o-n-s-e-n-s-e! We, at least most of us here, have been watching and listening very closely for more than just the last few months. I started “paying attention” back in the early 90′s, and continue to plan for my future and the future of my family. I see a future whereby the toads on the left try to make a big move for complete control of power, only to run into a wall of 80 million American patriots.
Final shot across your bow… ludwig von mises has been proven to be a nut-case long ago.
PatriotShops.com
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:55pmAnarcho Capitalist – Your right, except for one thing. Anarchy only works well for small groups.
Once the group gets larger, sub-groups band together to acquire mutual power (although, there is usually a leader of that group that wants all the power). In order to keep that power they grow bigger. In order to ensure other sub-groups don’t gain the same power, they regulate and control. The next thing you know, you have a dictatorship.
That’s why the founders opted for a republic with a limited central government.
The problem, of course, is that government also tends (just like any other group) to want more power than it has. The form the government takes does not effect this basic truth.
Being populated by politicians and lawyers, the most natural way to acquire that power, is by a combination of: salesmanship, lies, trickery, legal manipulation and social/political manipulation.
Fortunately, that stuff doesn’t work forever; and, our republic has more safety valves than most forms of government – IE: we have more time and chances to fix things, more peacefully, then most other forms of government.
The marks do tend to catch on eventually. We’re at that stage now.
The people have caught on to the game being played by the elitists in power.
That’s why libertarian conservatives won in Republican primaries; and, why the Republicans are winning, in big numbers, in poll after poll, around the country.
The old media have been pawns in this game – wielded by those in power.
Expect some of them to eventually, if grudgingly, come back around, someday.
Until then, the new media (Fox, Drudge, Radio, The Blaze, …) are gaining even more market share than the old media is loosing.
Things are looking up, Mathews (and his ultra low ratings) not withstanding.
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:08amTHEPATRIOTDAVE
Now now now. I would say the current financial crisis would prove to most people that like all neo-cons and judeo communist you have been proven to be a nut-case long ago. but you refuse to accept it. You refuse to see the truth. I will have you know that the next few year will be the years of that Justis that you chose to reject.
as far as the “anarchy” you may be referring to. I know nothing of it. and i don’t think you do ether. so as far as your “ Final shot across your bow” goes. im willing to bet you haven‘t read any book that glenn beck didn’t recommend to you. Im also willing to bet that you don’t have any insight into political philosophy that digs deeper then talk radio or fox news. How bout you go back to your plow, salt of the earth man.
and as far as your web page. isn’t that just a bit contradictory to your non selfish unearthly beliefs? Go back to church sissy boy and let the men discus real politics.
Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:11amMROBVIOUS
Report Post »read “For a New Liberty’ by Murray N. Rothbard so i don’t have to argue with you.
Perpetua
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:31amPlease, they really don’t get it do they? The state doesn’t have to help you. We help each other…just like the miners! Just leave us, our faith, our businesses, our children, our lives alone, and we will take care of each other as well as ourselves. The way it always was before the progressives took over.
Report Post »PlaneRick
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:31amI believe he was talking to the dangers of some of the Tea Party’s talking points when put into practice.
Report Post »Tea Party backed candidates talked of shrinking government by doing away with government regulartory agencies such as OSHA and MSHA in particular (and in one state, there was even talk of abolishing their state equavilants too!!!) Lest we forget why they were established. Those agencies work to protect workers not businesses.
Here in WV, the failure of Massey to meet regulation just recently killed the miners of the Upper Big Branch mine. Thankfully, these miners were in a harder ore reserve with some stability. Also, without their “big government” injection of tax money, those miners would probably be stuck down there. Without that government regulation or even the tax records of employers/employees, those miners would probably be written off as the “cost of doing business”, just as the railroads and mine companies did before the advent of legal worker’s unions (just as in China currently…we only hear of the reported deaths there). True unregulated free market capitalism has a value for a human life, history has taught us that much!
Tea Partiers should be well aware of Mr. Locke’s writing of “…life, liberty, health, and indolency of body…” (it help inspire our Founding Fathers), yet unfettered capitalism does not. Yet that is what the Tea Party seems to be aiming towards. Who does that benefit besides the company and their profits?
Also, to the anarchists, history has also taught us that anarchy usually lead people quickly towards a ochlocracy (mob rule). Where in history has gone well?
Caffeinated Texan
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:41amI guess Chrissy thought this one up between homoerotic fantasies about guys in Nazi uniforms…
Report Post »imerbusterit
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 1:00amHe does not understand the Tea Party at all. We are not about every man for himself. We are about every man can help one another better than one big, powerful government.
Report Post »DrammyCoke
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 1:03amThere are many rooms in Gods house, some are full of idiots like Chris Matthews.
Report Post »PlaneRick
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 1:20amIf I did not clarify even a little bit of the debate at hand and stand mistaken in my case, please elaborate. My case lay in more recent history than 1776, but it is still true and should not be forgotten. It is ignorant to say that the history I highlighted could not be repeated or to say that there were not good people working beside the dead who didn’t help. Please explain IMERBUSTERIT
Report Post »Hear Me
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 3:33amMatthews trapped in a mine “****-EROTIC”. I have never met a person that was so judgemental on their preconceived ideas of people. This bigot would have left Rosa Parks standing in the bus, four years ago.
Report Post »southerncross
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 4:34amif they’d listened to the advice of the ministeries, and not the president, then they’d be dead. As for the tea party “way”, well, i’m guessing that the miners would have been out last month if their “ideology” was adhered to. You see, the tea party are like USA military.they never leave a man behind! the same can’t be said of the Obama administration, or their social agenda. you see, Obama would have just considered them “dead already” and a “waste of time”…….which is exactly how they treat the american citizenry.
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 4:46am@culturewarriors….because morons, unfourtunately, vote.
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:12amChris Matthews’ pedestrian squawking really bores me.
Report Post »thesixfour
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:14amWhy does this dude still have a job… OH thats right GE owned by Obama owns most of NBC.
http://bit.ly/xsKXy
Who’s statements are getting more absurd? Matthews or Obama?
Report Post »Mrdon5091
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:20amMSNBC……… Lean Forward! Yeah Right
Report Post »79USMC83
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:29amLMAO!!! it is not about NO “Government Stupid” it is about less “Government Stupid” It is the FAR-Left thet wants ANARCHY!!! It was NOT “the Government Stupid” that saved the miners. It was the EVIL private mining industry and BIG business that came through ONCE AGAIN !! Last I checked the USA did not own any mines or mining equipment.
Report Post »judy1270
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:43amMatthew your a pig….thats all I can say!
Report Post »mendolover
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:45amI’d like to meet one person who actually pays attention to this idiot. I think he needs to check in for a battery of tests on his brain. I’m dead serious. I feel sorry for his family.
Report Post »thesixfour
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:47amTwo of the biggest shills for obama and special interest – making a miraculous combination of human spirit and hope – completely political.
Let us not forget these moments.
Report Post »AU Patriot
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 8:03amLoved your post Southern Cross. I agree how we would support the miltary way.
Report Post »thunder4570
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 8:03amthey had one thing right when they said “people” working together, not the gov. forcing them to do it! I have read that since all of this has started charities have had a major decline in donations. They need to do a story on that.
Report Post »obamusvobiscum
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 8:27amIf Chris would have his way, the 62 year-old miner would be required to stay behind to implode the mine. Afterall, he was 30 years-old once. The Bolivian would get unlimited healthcare while the chileans would be held to a $5,000 yearly expenditure. He‘s a friggin’ idiot!
Report Post »FrankSpeak
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 8:57amMatthews is blind fool! The Tea Party People ARE working together, to save our country!
Report Post »pmacres
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 9:06amhello,,,less government,,i haven’t heard the tea party slogan “no government” is it out there chris?
Report Post »Show us the banner,,prove it,,,oh that’s right all they have to do is say it and its up to us prove them wrong!!! rush had it right with “jackass’s”
bpac
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 9:22amThe problem with Matthews (and most progressives) is that they only think in EXTREMES. Most Tea Party Members know that there is a need for regulation and government. Matthews, grow up.
Report Post »flamingliberal
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 9:23amHis point was valid, if in-artfully communicated: You either come together as a people during emergency’s, or you devolve to the classic “Lord of the Fly’s” scenario where you tear each other apart.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 9:52amThe idiocy of Liberals gets tiresome. FYI Mathews – the technology to rescue these men came from a private company in the U.S., not from the bloated Chilean socialist bureaucracy.
Report Post »Conservative Grinch
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 9:56amIdiots like Chris Matthews and their stupid comments only serve out to bring out the hate in me. But, unfortunately for them my hatred and anger is not directed against the group that the seek to slander. (Tea Party Folks) My hatred and anger is directed against the people that make these libelous statements. (Chris Matthews) So, perhaps Chris Matthews would make a better case for himself if he’d keep his big mouth shut!
Report Post »cicero1776
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 9:58amThe miners would all be dead if NOBAMA had been in charge!!!!! For Liberty.
Report Post »Conservatarian WY
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 9:58amYeah, can someone get that guy a towel or something, his idiot mind is showing again…anybody?
Report Post »ClassicalLiberal
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 10:40amI like this “Anarcho Capitalist”!!!
Keep up on educating.
Mises.org has free books and audio books.
NOW PEOPLE GO and GET SOME!
Also, WSJ has a great article that because of capitalism, the minors were saved.
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Proud American in Buffalo
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 10:53amYou have to have a mind before you can use it. Im not sure what function that mass between Mr Matthews ears is actually used for.
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 11:16amAnarcho Capitalist writes: “I am for total and complete anarchy. This has proven itself to work just fine in the past.”
No, anarchy never works. You have to give up a small fraction of liberty in order to have any liberty at all. That is the basic premise of Classical Liberalism.
You cannot be free if, when you leave your farm to feed the animals in the fields, looters rob and burn you down. You are a prisoner of your property in an anarchy, subject to the whim of the strongest individual or gang.
Governments of moral people are created so as to secure your basic liberties, by protecting us from the depradations of our fellow man. It is when government goes beyond these basic duties that we begin to have problems, however total absence of government would lead only to a different form of tyranny.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 11:56amThere is a word for his actions other than stupid. It is called slander. Any TEA party member can now sue him for liable and I hope some one does.
Report Post »timeisnow
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 12:23pmLook how Obama handled the Oil Disaster! He threw the entire Gulf and its people under the bus. The tea party would have done what the president of Chile did, collect the experts from all over the world and bring them together and solve the problem successfully…
Matthews is a Radical @ss kisser and Obama is a failure as a president.
Report Post »klstj
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 1:20pmThey are so clueless…its the blind leading the blind. Even worse, they think they can see.
Report Post »A1955Rosie
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 4:45pmTrumpka! Right now (not if we follow) RIGHT NOW, if you‘re non union YOU pay YOUR state taxes for UNION UTOPIAN PENSIONS AND BENNI’S. The flip side that I think he was distracting you from is the forefathers theory of “Calculated Compassion.” Lastly (aclu fights this all the time) being believers in God we know “we’re our brothers keepers.” however WE DON’T WANT BIG BROTHER FORCING US…I’D RATHER CHOOSE WHO AND WHERE.
Report Post »AnnMarie
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 6:14pmHow much more of an idiot can this man be?? The Tea Party is never going to be people who will not help people. They just don‘t want to help people who can take care of themselves and don’t. This man is implying that maybe the Tea Party would not want to help after 9-11 or the oil spill and so forth. That could not be further from the truth. People helped each other during those crisis and will do so with God forbid and future ones. They want our government to be smaller, the deficit to be reduced, jobs to be brought back to the USA and our education process to improve teaching the children the history of this nation and the hope for the future.
Report Post »Poppa D
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 9:06pmthe hate and jealousy is getting out of hand on both sides… THAT comment was not even a step of faith to swallow…that one would take a Triple – Axel to choke it down….. God Help us.. then to use the rescue of the miners in the same sentence is just so wrong
Report Post »phylum
Posted on October 15, 2010 at 4:48amWhy is it that every time it rains, Chris Matthew has to go outside look upward and open his mouth thinking this is the only way to get water. Then we have to go out there, put him in the straight jacket again and haul his butt back into the padded room. I know he’ll never learn, so why don’t we just leave him out there?
Report Post »Porkins
Posted on October 15, 2010 at 9:12am@ AngryTexanFromAmarillo
I don‘t think liberal progressives would eat one another since they can’t stand the taste of their own crap.
Report Post »nc freedom
Posted on October 15, 2010 at 11:59amWhat a waste of time these two comrads are. They ceratinly do not understand limited government…we are not talking about no government, that would be anarchy.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on October 15, 2010 at 2:11pmI dislike Mathews so much, I‘m surprised I’m even making a comment, but my first thought was whether Chris was having a tingle in his leg, or if he forgot and peed on it.
Report Post »REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on October 15, 2010 at 3:58pmOnly one thing to say, Matthews is a bonafide idiot… takes up space, waste of good air… what a joke…
Report Post »chapmay
Posted on October 15, 2010 at 4:18pmJust for the record we all are still trapped in “the mine” and it ain’t the government that is going to rescue us.
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