Watch: Biden Delivers Nonsensical July 4th Speech, Claims Traffic Congestion Is Gone
Joe Biden delivered a July 4th speech outside the White House Thursday attempting to show he’s still mentally fit after last week’s disastrous debate, however he might have made matters worse.
During an impromptu speech, Biden stumbled over his words multiple times and struggled to maintain his train of thought, leaving Democrats apprehensive over the prospect he will remain the party’s nominee facing off against Donald Trump in November.
In one particularly troublesome part of the event where Biden went teleprompter-free, which was inexplicably promoted by paid White House Gen Z influencer Harry Sisson, he appeared to say he wanted to wrap up the speech early and sneak out to let people waiting outside get in.
Here’s President Biden, with no teleprompter and no preparation, talking to the crowd at the White House for 4th of July today. Why isn’t the media covering this? They wanted unplanned, unscripted events and here he is. BIDEN 2024! pic.twitter.com/UkCAxJ9hZt
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) July 5, 2024
“There’s 7,000 people waiting at the gate to get in. So if I don’t finish this, they can’t come in. So maybe if you’re hanging around, I’m going to sneak back out. That’s okay, all right? Thank you, thank you, thank you,” Biden told the crowd.
Next, in the same speech Biden appeared to confuse Independence Day with Memorial Day, saying,
“Remember that famous expression? Hello. They also serve who only stand and wait. I remember when our son was deployed, my wife would go to the stand in the sink in the morning drinking her coffee and saying that prayer, worrying, worrying, always concerned, and all of you. So we owe you.”
Finally, Biden in another non sequitur pivoted to claiming traffic congestion is a thing of the past, saying,
“One last thing. I used to think when I was a senator, there were always congestion on the highways. There’s no congestion anymore. None. We go on the highway, there’s no congestion. And so the way they get me to stop talking, they’ll say, We just shut down all the roads, Mr. President. You’re going to lose all the votes if you don’t get in. But anyway, I’ll be back out. Thank you.”
Elsewhere during the day, at an evening Fourth of July celebration Biden declared “Ho! Ho! Ho!” as VP Kamala Harris almost referred to him as “vice president.”
Overall, things seem to be going very well — for Republicans.
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What If Public Schools Were Abolished?
In American culture, public schools are praised in public and criticized in private, which is roughly the opposite of how we tend to treat large-scale enterprises like Walmart. In public, everyone says that Walmart is awful, filled with shoddy foreign products and exploiting workers. But in private, we buy the well-priced, quality goods, and long lines of people hope to be hired.
Why is this? It has something to do with the fact that public schools are part of our civic religion, the primary evidence that people cite to show that local government serves us. And there is a psychological element. Most of us turn our kids over to them, so surely they must have our best interest at heart!
But do they? Murray N. Rothbard’s Education: Free and Compulsory explains that the true origin and purpose of public education is not so much education as we think of it, but indoctrination in the civic religion. This explains why the civic elite is so suspicious of homeschooling and private schooling: it’s not fear of low test scores that is driving this, but the worry that these kids aren’t learning the values that the state considers important.
But to blast public schools is not the purpose of this article. There are decent public schools and terrible ones, so there is no use generalizing. Nor is there a need to trot out data on test scores. Let me just deal with economics. All studies have shown that average cost per pupil for public schools is twice that of private schools (here is a sample study).
This runs contrary to intuition, since people think of public schools as free and private schools as expensive. But once you consider the source of funding (tax dollars vs. market tuition or donation), the private alternative is much cheaper. In fact, the public schools cost as much as the most expensive and elite private schools in the country. The difference is that the cost of public schooling is spread out over the entire population, whereas the private school cost is borne only by the families with students who attend them.
In short, if we could abolish public schools and compulsory schooling laws, and replace it all with market-provided education, we would have better schools at half the price, and be freer too. We would also be a more just society, with only the customers of education bearing the costs.
What’s not to like? Well, there is the problem of the transition. There are obvious and grave political difficulties. We might say that public education enjoys a political advantage here due to network effects. A significant number of “subscriptions,” etc. have been piled up in the status quo, and it is very difficult to change those.
But let’s pretend. Let’s say that a single town decided that the costs of public schooling are too vast relative to private schooling, and the city council decided to abolish public schools outright. The first thing to notice is that this would be illegal, since every state requires localities to provide education on a public basis. I don’t know what would happen to the city council. Would they be jailed? Who knows? Certainly they would be sued.
But let’s say we somehow get past that problem, thanks to, say, a special amendment in the state constitution that exempts certain localities if the city council approves. Then there is the problem of federal legislation and regulation. I am purely speculating since I don’t know the relevant laws, but we can guess that the Department of Education would take notice, and a national hysteria of some sort would follow. But let’s say we miraculously get past that problem too and the federal government lets this locality go its own way.
There will be two stages to the transition. In the first stage, many seemingly bad things will happen. How are the physical buildings handled in our example? They are sold to the highest bidder, whether that be to new school owners, businesses, or housing developers. And the teachers and administrators? All let go. You can imagine the outcry.
With property taxes abolished, people with kids in public schools might move away. There will be no premium for houses in school districts that are considered good. There will be anger about this. For the parents that remain, there is a major problem of what to do with the kids during the day.
With property taxes gone, there is extra money to pay for schools, but the assets have just fallen in market value (even without the Fed), which is a serious problem when it comes to shelling out for school tuition. There will, of course, be widespread hysteria about the poor too, who will find themselves without any schooling choices other than homeschool.
Now, all that sounds pretty catastrophic, doesn’t it? Indeed. But it is only phase one. If we can somehow make it to phase two, something completely different will emerge. The existing private schools will be filled to capacity and there will be a crying need for new ones. Entrepreneurs will quickly flood into the area to provide schools on a competitive basis. Churches and other civic institutions will gather the money to provide education.
At first, the new schools will be modeled on the public school idea. Kids will be there from 8 to 4 or 5, and all classes will be covered. But in short order, new alternatives will appear. There will be schools for half-day classes. There will be large, medium, and small schools. Some will have forty kids per class, and others four or one. Private tutoring will boom. Sectarian schools of all kinds will appear. Micro-schools will open to serve niche interests: science, classics, music, theater, computers, agriculture, etc. There will be single-sex schools. Whether sports would be part of school or something completely independent is for the market to decide.
And no longer will the “elementary, middle school, high school” model be the only one. Classes will not necessarily be grouped by age alone. Some will be based on ability and level of advancement too. Tuition would range from free to super expensive. The key thing is that the customer would be in charge.
Transportation services would spring up to replace the old school-bus system. People would be able to make money by buying vans and providing transportation. In all areas related to education, profit opportunities would abound.
In short, the market for education would operate the same as any other market. Groceries, for example. Where there is a demand, and obviously people demand education for their kids, there is supply. There are large grocery stores, small ones, discount ones, premium ones, and stores for groceries on the run. It is the same for other goods, and it would be the same for education. Again, the customer would rule. In the end, what would emerge is not entirely predictable—the market never is—but whatever happened would be in accord with the wishes of the public.
After this phase two, this town would emerge as one of the most desirable in the country. Educational alternatives would be unlimited. It would be the source of enormous progress, and a model for the nation. It could cause the entire country to rethink education. And then those who moved away would move back to enjoy the best schools in the country at half the price of the public schools, and those without children in the house wouldn’t have to pay a dime for education. Talk about attractive!
So which town will be the first to try it and show us all the way?
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Liberty & Inflation for All: Fireworks Shows Are Scaling Down
While the cost of fireworks is down compared to last year, prices of just about everything else are way up. That means individuals are still buying fireworks to light off themselves, but the size and scope of municipal fireworks shows are being downgraded in many towns and cities across the country — and in some areas, have been canceled entirely.
By and large, fireworks are cheaper now than a year ago, but they’re still vastly more expensive if you go back a few years farther, to pre-covid. And a reduction in demand since then hasn’t fully stifled the cost increase, especially as fireworks produced in China still need to be shipped across the ocean to American buyers.
For towns and cities used to putting on extravagant displays, the costs are many. There’s a need for practical additions like portable bathrooms, shuttle buses, and trained pyrotechnicians. Some towns hire DJs to play music. But one of the largest costs is insurance, which every official fireworks display is required to have, and which has skyrocketed in cost.
Insurers know that if something goes awry and a claim is filed, the cost of dealing with it will be much higher than during previous years: fixing or replacing damage, handling medical emergencies, and planning for other externalities take much more fiat money than it did just a few years ago, and nothing is expected to change for the better. As Peter Schiff said earlier this year:
“The Fed printed an absurd quantity of money during the pandemic, and government deficits went through the roof. What has fundamentally changed since then?”
That’s even truer when you need specialized insurance coverage which has to cover a wide variety of things, as is the case for municipal fireworks shows. Towns don’t just need personal and property liability insurance to protect technicians and the public, but also insurance for transporting the fireworks, protection in case of event cancellation or inclement weather, and other aspects.
That’s why premiums for home, health, and car insurance have also gone way up, along with liability insurance and other types. Insurers know it’s going to cost way more to fix what breaks, whether it’s your home, your car, or a glitchy municipal fireworks demonstration going haywire and blowing up a public park.
Home Insurance Premiums, 2019-2024
The problem will only get worse, so expect to see even more downscaling next year, especially if Trump wins the election and imposes tariffs on Chinese imports, and further pushes up the cost of fireworks themselves.
Municipalities are going to have to deal with those higher costs and adjust their shows — and the expectations of residents — accordingly. On the bright side, your dogs and cats may get a break from all the noise. But on the downside, goods and services for Americans will be less affordable than ever before as Americans try to spend their devalued dollars.
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Bureaucracy: The Death Knell of Higher Education
Many small colleges are shutting their doors, and it is largely the fault of overexpansion, government protectionism, and bureaucratic infiltration.
If you are following any news in higher education, you are probably aware of the continued closures of many small colleges and universities. This has picked up as of late—almost to one small college a week—and comes as covid-19 relief money dries up, along with rising costs that are no longer covered by federal money, declining enrollment rates, and overall pessimism with higher education. However, all these problems can be traced back to one core issue: bureaucracy.
What is called “administrative bloat” by corporate media is a staggering trend that has continued since the 1970s. A study by independent researchers for the Review of Social Economy found that “between 1976 and 2018, the number of full-time faculty employed at colleges and universities in the US increased by 92 percent, during which time total student enrollment increased by 78 percent. During this same period, however, full-time administrators and other professionals employed by those institutions increased by 164 percent and 452 percent, respectively” (emphasis added).
Some administration is to be expected for universities, who of course need to handle tuition, records, and the like. However, the rate at which administrative employment is growing far outpaces the growth of the student body. Some growth might be attributed to the expansion of campuses, as larger facilities require more administration, but that can’t possibly account for such staggering growth. The origin is, as stated before, bureaucracy. Bureaucracies are like cockroaches: they spread quickly once they get in.
Ludwig von Mises identifies a “bureaucracy” as “the method applied in the conduct of administrative affairs the result of which has no cash value on the market.” Bureaucracy is the conduct of affairs with scarce resources that does not seek profit (even nonprofits seeks profit; they simply donate their excesses or use them for a charitable cause). By pursuing those ends of which cannot be engaged in economic calculation, bureaucracies have no means for gauging efficiency. They become wasteful and inefficient rather quickly.
However, the most interesting aspect of Mises’s analysis is that of the “bureaucratization” of private industry. What Mises may call the “German style” of socialism, bureaucracy can enter those businesses through mass regulation and legislation that affects businesses. Businesses make use of resources (land, labor, and capital) in anticipation of making a profit at some point in the future, and the value of the resources they employ are determined by their value in the service of creating consumer (or higher-ordered) goods.
When legislative edicts are forced upon businesses, whether that is social edicts being forced upon businesses or a limitation of profits, they deviate into bureaucratic management. Human resources may serve some function for profit management, but many of their job responsibilities only exist because of government edict. There is no gauge within profit management of its adherence to arbitrary government edict. This causes a deviation from profit management that ensures efficiency.
Once this deviation occurs, it becomes easier and easier to justify deviations from profit management. It is especially easier when you have a guaranteed funding stream from governments in the form of research grants, student loans, and covid-19 relief money. This leads to mass inefficiency.
The government’s entrance into universities has condemned them to death. Many predict that economic troubles from the 2008 recession will lead to a 15 percent decline in enrollment over the next five years. This is not accounting for conservative America largely abandoning higher education. Progressive orthodoxy has seeped into universities and created a toxic culture that nobody right-of-center wants to associate with. Conservative parents no longer want to send their children to universities if there is a chance that they become Marxists with “gender studies” degrees.
Progressive orthodoxy is also the fault of the government. This subject is worthy of its own future article but can be summarized here. Universities serve customers—their students. However, is it their customer base whom the universities are catering to? Not at all. If that were the case, those conservative students would not face the level of discrimination they have. Discrimination of any kind against potential customers is costly to the bottom line. However, universities are not funded only by those they provide services to. They also cater to governments that fund a significant portion of their budgets.
A plurality or even a majority of federal and state bureaucrats and employees in the United States are Democrats, even if their explicit political activity is restricted. Bureaucrats are the ones who issue research grants and control access to funds. Universities must cater to their own pocketbook, which ends up being those progressive bureaucrats. Even if they are not ideological progressives, they are incentivized to push for policies and research that justify their own existence. Universities want to cater to their funding sources, and thus the research and governance of universities must become aligned with those who fund them. Again, this is just a summary and is worthy of its own article, but it hits the core of this side of the issue.
Government has set universities and colleges up for failure. By mandating unprofitable missions for universities and allowing progressive federal employees to dictate the conduct of campuses, universities have become inefficient and have scared away their real customer base. The support given to many of these universities—propping them up from failure—has run out, and the bottom is falling out from under them. Perhaps one should celebrate the demise of these ideological boot camps for our youth. However, either way, your tax dollars go to fund it. Higher education deserves better than government.
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