{"id":6317,"date":"2019-03-06T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2024-11-22T17:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:03:38","slug":"kol-the-greenest-member-of-congress-guest-thomas-massie-ep-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/kol-the-greenest-member-of-congress-guest-thomas-massie-ep-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greenest Member of Congress | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie | Ep 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-4) joins Matt Kibbe to talk science fiction, economics, and the Green New Deal. 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MSNBC\u2019s Keith Olbermann called Kibbe \u201cThe second worst person in the world.\u201d \u00a0 Dubbed \u201cthe scribe\u201d by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don\u2019t Hurt People and Don\u2019t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (HarperCollins 2014), and Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (HarperCollins 2012). He coauthored Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (HarperCollins 2010). Kibbe has appeared frequently on national television, including FOX News, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Before launching FreedomWorks, Kibbe served as a congressional Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Associate. He was also Budget Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Economist for the RNC under Lee Atwater. Kibbe did graduate work in economics at George Mason University and received his B.A. in economics from Grove City College. 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