July Meeting:
Highlights from the TOC Summer Seminar
At our July meeting, GO member and webmaster John Drake will
share highlights of this year’s TOC Summer Seminar – Objectivism:
Theory and Practice. The seminar, held June 30 – July 7 at the
University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown, features lectures, workshops and
participant-sponsored sessions, as well as plenty of other activities
for a complete Objectivist experience.
John will recount the fundamentals of some
of the lectures and workshops, as well as his impressions of them. Also,
he will discuss the excursion to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and
the participant-sponsored session that he led.
Join us on Saturday, July 21, at 8 p.m. at
the home of Joy & Jeff Kiviat. Snacks and discussion will follow the
presentation. Call (314) 469-2723 for directions.
Another Stossel Success
Our last meeting continued the tradition of watching John
Stossel’s latest prime-time special. “John Stossel Goes to
Washington” looked at the waste and destruction of some government
programs and what the role of the government should be. Interestingly, a
number of scenes and interviews were filmed in St. Louis, including a
segment on all of the taxes that Americans pay.
Tibor Machan was featured as an expert on
what is wrong with the tax-and-spend government and what the founding
fathers believed were the only proper functions of government. Rep. Ron
Paul talked about why he votes against any bill that violates those
proper functions.
Stossel used examples such as public
housing, air traffic control and the welfare of American Indians to show
what has gone wrong when the government is in control, and how much
better and less expensive services can be when done by the private
sector. Stossel scheduled an interview with then-Secretary of the
Interior Bruce Babbitt to find out about millions of dollars missing
that were intended for American Indian programs. After 30 seconds,
Babbitt stood up, muttered, “I’m gonna fire whoever scheduled this
interview,” and walked out.
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