They can be reached by writing to them at 33 East College St., ZC 49242. If I had children today, knowing what I know now, having the money, this is the college I would strongly encourage my children to attend.
Hillsdale College mails out a publication called Imprimis claiming 1,800,000 readers monthly. Imprimis has a different writer for each publication and the September issue features Ms. Amity Shales, among her many other achievements, author of the "Forgotten Man - A New History of the Great Depression". (Look her up on the Internet, she is a very talented woman). An audio version of Imprimus is also available online at Hillsdale.edc/imprimis
Ms. Shlaes article in the Imprimis is titled "The Rules of the Game and Economic Recovery", discrediting some of the myths of the depression and recovery of the 30's such as the NRA, a creation of the FDR's Brain Trust. She compares the game of Monopoly, originated during the great depression with its relevance to the 30's Depression and its relevance today.
The NRA deemed consumer choice inefficient and and an inhibitor of recovery and so established "The Code of Fair Competition for the Live Poultry Industry of the Metropolitan Area in and about the City of New York" among many other so-called recovery government controlled programs. Does history repeat itself? Of course, just with a different set of politicians.
In the NRA sponsored trial of a wholesale chicken butcher the government prosecution brought in a Harvard Law School graduate. On the stand was this small man in the poultry trade. After the butcher tried to articulate, in his simple and commonsense way, how the business really works the dialogue went like this:
Prosecution: But do you not claim to be an expert?
Defendant: No
Prosecution: On the competitive practices of the live poultry industry?
Defendant: I would want to get paid if I were an expert.
Prosecution: You are not an expert?
Defendant: I am experienced but not an expert...
Prosecution: You have not studied agricultural economics?
Defendant: No, sir.
Prosecution: Or any sort of economics?
Defendant: No, sir..
Prosecution": What is your education?
Defendant: Very little.
Prosecution: None at all?
Defendant: Very little.
Prosecution: And you would not endeavor to explain economic consequences of competitive practices?
Defendant: In my business I am best economist.
Prosecutor: What is that?
Defendant: In my business, I am the best economizer.
Prosecutor: You are the best economizer?
Defendant: Yes, without figuring.
Prosecutor: I wish to have that word spelled in the minutes, just as he stated it.
Defendant: I do not know how to spell.
"This dialogue matters because little businesses like this butcher are the natural drivers of recovery, and during the Great Depression they weren't allowed to do that driving. They weren't allowed to compete and accumulate wealth-or, in terms of Monopoly, to place a house or a hotel on their property. Instead they were sidelined".
Didn't our BEST AND OUR BRIGHTEST GET US IN THE MESS WE ARE IN NOW?
This case was eventually won by the business but the costs of lawsuits did not go away. Expect them to grow larger under this disaster of a government that now governs us with a hardening iron hand.
Ms. Shales quotes Benjamin Anderson a Chase economist at that time who summed it up in a book about the period: "Preceding Chapters have explained the Great Depression of 1930-39 as due to the efforts of the governments and very especially the government of the United States to play God."
History repeats itself, we have a false "God" again in 2010.
The Detroit News, Thursday, June 24, 2010 writes in an editorial by Nolan Finley, "Hillsdale College Continues to Just Say No. As the federal government continues to grow so much bigger and more powerful, it also becomes harder to avoid." Hillsdale creed is "Pursuing Truth - Defending Liberty". Hard to keep educating students about truth with the federal government offering taxpayer money for same sex dorms, toilets, and showers to liberal colleges, while hiring tenured liberal bent teachers and professors.
And governmental bodies hire their own lobbyists to lobby the federal and state governments for more tax dollars for local governments to spend while at the same time criticising the governments for not paying their bills.
I criticize people who don't vote. But, look at the choices the two Central committees give us to chose from. Why don't more QUALIFIED people run for government positions? They couldn't stand media and opposing party witch hunts. Eventually this means we WILL one day end up as a dictatorship. The era of Stalin, Hitler, the nut from Iran, the nut from N. Korea, Chavez, the Castro's and dozens or other across the globe, will continue to be extended until it hits us.
The medias in those countries seldom challenge events past. If they want to live.
We may be closer than you think but it won't be the guy in office now. He may just be setting the stage and picking the characters like Rahm Emmanuel who wishes to be mayor of the most corrupt city in the U.S.
As to what really ended the Great Depression? World War 2.
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