Uh no, but nice try to smear me as a quisling. The risk takers are the entreupreneurs who try to provide good products and services, despite the obstacles govt. puts in from of them.
Oh, so you mean like drug kingpins who use violent urban gangs to sell drugs and enforce their territories? They take great risks - law enforcement could find them and bust them, rivals could gun them down, people within their organization may be waiting for an opportunity to take them down and take over. But just imagine all the jobs and prosperity they create and how much money they contribute back into the economy. So, you're talking about this kind of "risk taker" so oppressed by the obstacles government puts in front of them?
And those who exploit women and force them into prostitution? They're risk takers too as are the prostitutes themselves. To make a living they risk violence at the hands of rivals, violence from their clients, sexually transmitted diseases including some that are fatal, and of course the risk that law enforcement will bust them and throw them in jail. But the pimps and whores put all kinds of money into the economy and provide employment. Are these the kind of "risk takers" that you're championing against the mean old government who puts so many obstacles in front of them?
What about those "risk takers" who would want to set up terrorist training camps in the U.S.? They've got the cast to invest and the entrepreneurial spirit to make such an enterprise work. They'd set up Madrassas to educated low income children. They would provide jobs and put all kinds of money back in the local economy. But the risk they take that they might be busted by the FBI or DHS, or worse that they may be overwhelmed with a riotous swarm of supporters from the ACLU, Democrat Party, CAIR, Hollyweird actors, and FR's OBL cabal certainly makes them "risk takers". Too bad they have government obstacles in front of them too, right?
Maybe we should set up taxpayer funded facilities where these "risk takers" can engage in commerce without as much risk. Kind of like the day labor centers set up for your criminal invader heroes. Maybe we should offer amnesty plans under various euphemisms (like "guest worker plan") to get government off these entrepreneurial "risk takers'" backs.
I think you're on to something, Dane.