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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC, and Cumulus Media radio
 
Hour One
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 1, Block A:.  Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow, in re: VdR: Pres Trump’s tax reform speech in Missouri yesterday & tax cuts; first: corporate. Several Democrats may actually join GOP for this.  LK: Am sceptical about having any non-Republican vote for a tax cut. Mnuchin: 70% of tax cuts go directly to the wage-earner.  VdR:I didn’t care for his Keynesian analysis saying that the savings go into people’s pockets and then get spent to revive the economy.  LK:  Reagan also said that; it; up to us to explain it. Both Trump and Mnuchin sticking to 3% growth and 15% tax level. Can't have a tax cut unless there’s a full-fledged budget resolution – not a continuing resolution.
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 1, Block B:  Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow, in re: . . . Can't have a tax cut unless there’s a full-fledged budget resolution – not a continuing resolution.   VdR: I can't I imagine the GOP want to face the 2018 elections if they've missed the best opportunity of the last thirty years. . .  If there’s one thing that unites Republicans it's tax reform. It’ll be slow and frustrating, but I refuse to believe
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 1, Block C: Steven Horwitz, Mercatus Center, in re: . . . In Katrina, Louisiana and New Orleans officials had no clue what to do when Walmart sent dozens of trucks in to carry supplies so the bureaucrats stopped them   In Texas, Gov Abbot has integrated the private sector in to rescue and restorral    Recall the thousands of yellow school busses parked in parking lots during Karina, not evacuating people who later drowned.
Recall handmade sign: “We asked for help and the gvt didn't”; next to it, a Walmart employee with a T-shirt: “How can I help?”
The Cajun navy.
LK:  One of the solutions to these disasters is to have a strong and health private sector.  Louisiana did not; Texas and Florida comparatively do.   JB: Anheiser Busch routinely in changing runs from ne kind of beer to another routinely uses the time to build up great supplies f water to distribute for free during emergencies.   LK:  Strong economies always do better than weak one in catastrophes.
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As Texas recovers from Harvey, it will be important that officials give maximum scope to the private sector’s role in helping the recovery process. One of the lessons learned from Katrina was the key role played by firms such as Walmart and Home Depot in ensuring that necessary supplies were available, often days or weeks ahead of FEMA. Walmart in particular was praised by New Orleans area leaders as being a key factor in ensuring that supplies were available and that recovery got under way. Other firms also played important roles. Proctor and Gamble brought mobile washers and dryers and provided free laundry services for displaced residents. McDonald’s fed first responders for free.
Since Katrina, Texas has been a leader in integrating the private sector into its disaster response protocols. As the waters recede, law enforcement and disaster response officials should give as much leeway as is possible (and compatible with safety) to private firms moving goods and services into flooded areas. So far, that seems to be the case, as indicated by a much-circulated picture of HEB grocery trucks lined up and waiting to spring into action.
The private sector has to get resources where they need to be quickly and cheaply every single day, not just during disasters. Letting them do what they do best will be key to a quick and effective recovery from Hurricane Harvey.
More from Steven Horowitz on disaster response:
· https://www.mercatus.org/podcast/2015/08/27/steve-horwitz-talks-hurricane-katrina-coffee-and-markets-podcast
· https://ppe.mercatus.org/video/walmart-katrina-and-disaster-response?_ga=2.125285514.1276668902.1503951569-1846836796.1503951569
· https://www.mercatus.org/podcast/2015/08/24/steve-horwitz-discusseses-10th-anniversary-katrina-potus
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 1, Block D: Adam White,  Director of Center for the Study of the Administrative State at Scalia School at George Mason University, in re: Regulatory reform. FEMA and the regulatory state: FEMA needs to have a lot of money; but how do you evaluate how much it needs? Think of Alexander Hamilton . . .  When the floodwaters are rising is the wrong time to consider it.  We see that local govt and charities need to be wholly integrated into the overall scheme.  When an administration doesn't have a real pan in advance, that only opens the door to waste in a time of crisis. 
DACA: the administrative state is like an IED planted seal years ago and now exploding Tragic because we al much sympathize. Pres Obama promised not to follow law, even well past his presidency, which is impossible; thereby left the next administration is an awful, awful situation for all parties involved.   http://www.weeklystandard.com/regulatory-rollback/article/2009500
 
Hour Two
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re: Putin, it turns out, is not an enemy of the United States. Rather, if you looks at the data and recent history, it’s clear that he’s as good an ally as the US could want in Russia.  Relevantly, Putin’s continuing position depends on substantial and successful trade with Europe and even, to some extent, with the USA; why would he risk sabotaging his country’s economic foundation. Why would he destroy the markets he depends on to restore Russia? Answer: there is no answer.
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 2, Block B:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re: Vl Putin (see text from Block A). Pres Putin at the BRICSa conference.  . . . He speaks German fluently, and bean to Study English.
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 2, Block C:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:  Vl Putin (see text from Block A).
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 2, Block D:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; in re: Vl Putin (see text from Block A).
 
Hour Three
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 3, Block A:  Jed Babbin, American Spectator, in re: Israel’s three-pronged war.
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 3, Block B:  Charles Ortel, Washington Times and charlesortel.com, in re: French money in the Clinton campaign.
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 3, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:
 
Hour Four
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 4, Block A:   Jonathan W. Jordan, American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 4, Block B:  Jonathan W. Jordan, American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 4, Block C:  Conrad Black, The Flight of the Eagle
Tuesday  5 September 2017 / Hour 4, Block D:  Conrad Black, The Flight of the Eagle