Yes, I'm a dork. I watch C-Span2. More specifically, I watch BookTV. (senate hearings are hella boring) Sometimes, though, they have panel discussions that you see and you just might never really get to see again. That sucks, especially when they're great discussions. Christopher Hitchens on the Religion and Culture panel at UCLA where he called 9/11 Truth member who was trying to interrupt the Q&A session a "crackpot fascist," comes to mind. Another is Joel Miller's speech at the CATO institute discussing his book, Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom.
Well, fortunately, C-Span has an archive. So, now you can go and see some of the older speeches that, unfortunately, never made their way to YouTube or elsewhere.
This debate is something that really everyone should see. If for nothing else, at least for when Miller shows the difference, literally, in size of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution versus the appendix of the 2006 budget for the federal government. (@ 7:00)
Joel Miller and Jonathan Rauch at the CATO Institute, Washington D.C.
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