Posted on 01/04/2012 6:50:05 AM PST by Vintage Freeper
Mr. Tucker has given us some great quotes and an elegant history. But he leaves us unsated. In a world where the state is growing exponentially, how do we render the state impotent, or at least limit it to its few legitimate purposes? Surely, if Mr. Tucker knew, he would enlighten us.
Do the leaders of either political party know?
It should be obvious to anyone that the Democratic party is committed to growing the state. The Democratic Party is the antithesis of freedom and laissez-faire. While it is not discussed or admitted by anybody, it is self-evident that the Democratic Party is anti-freedom and in truth, and in fact, un-American. Can there be any wonder that the Democrats, academia, and the media were scared to death of Joe McCarthy?
What about Republicans? If the Republican leadership knows how to restore our American Republic, it should be obvious from the current debates associated with the candidates campaigning to run for President. With the exception of Ron Paul, the Republicans seem to only want to slow the rate of growth of government, not abolish ninety percent of it.
Congress? You're kidding, right?
Congress is the source of the problem. Herein lies the clue to solving the problem:
You, Laissez-Faire Books, Bill Bonner, Addison Wiggins, and Agora could greatly expedite the realization of laissez-faire and capitalism.
Any one of you might be able to send a link to Charles Koch, David Koch, or Richard Fink. Alternatively, you may know someone who can.
The Kochs have the means to implement and lead an effort that has the potential to restore our American Republic, and with it, laissez-faire capitalism. Here is the link that you are being asked to send them:
“Hands off”.
LLS
Laissez les bons temps roulez!
First, it is going to be necessary to "hand-cuff" the government.
Take a good look at those who control our two political parties. You will find that most hide behind two facades, The first facade has some proclaiming they are Republican others Democrat. Peal away the first facade to find a second facade where all of them claim to be progressives. Behind that second facade you find their core political philosophy, communist/socialist.
Our two party system is really one party where they work hand in hand to destroy this nation as a bastion of freedom with torch held high where it can be seen world wide by those who yearn for those same freedoms.
The world wide communist/socialist utopia can not be attained as long as we exist.
I don’t think you’ll find many on this website who will disagree with the concept that society functions better, the smaller the government is.
The only question is, how do we actually go about achieving real government shrinkage?
“The left is inclined to think that if we let the economic sphere be free, the world will collapse, which advances some theory of the disaster that would befall us all without government control. The right is similarly convinced that the state is necessary lest the world collapse into violent, warring, culture-destroying gangs.”
I don’t think that captures the difference between the left & the right. In my experience, the left believes businessman are evil because they’re only after profits. They are not worried about gov’t, because gov’t doesn’t make a profit - they are only their to ‘help’.
Those on the right (particularly religious right) realize that human beings are ‘fallen’ or at least not uniformly good, so gov’t is there to constrain those that will do harm.
Lefties will never understand the real issue is human beings. They trust human beings in gov’t, but not business. I have friends (some former now) who just could not get that point.
Government has a life of it’s own and the only solution to making it smaller is a revolution. Does anyone believe that once granted power, anyone is going to give it up? Look at the life Obama and Michelle are living on the public purse, do you think they want to give that up willingly? He will spend a billion dollars to retain his power. That’s a billion of someone else’s money.
Laissez-Faire is what I told my first boyfriend was my dating policy when we went to the drive-in.
Agreed. As I told a friend the other day, the American people are tense enough to 'storm the Bastille', but no one wants to be the first to step over the line.
Heaven help the tyrants, if someone does. It'll spark a full-scale revolt, and it won't stop until the America of the Framers is restored.
Indeed.
LLS
bmfl.
I'll cut to the chase and say that I don't hold out much hope for us reducing the gargantuan size and reach of the federal government by working within the system. The system itself has been compromised beyond all recognition, and has become corrupt beyond redemption, in my view.
I see 'interesting times' ahead for some of us and our progeny.
When people indict the business community or condemn anyone seeking profit, give them a link to this page or print the article and give them a copy:
You are simply speculating. No one has a crystal ball that works. And at least once in every century, there is an interval of time during which large changes are made possible.
Under Austrian economic theory, fractional reserve banking is the source of the business cycle. But super-imposed on the business cycle are several other larger cycles that likely take their roots from the same source. Of these, the Kondratieff cycle appears to the largest and longest.
First inflation produces a boom (spring), followed by a peak/plateau (summer/fall), and then by a deflationary bust (winter). If the Austrians are correct, and if the global economy is at the edge of Kwave Winter, the stage is set for large numbers of people to recognize that the current model is not working, and maybe take the next step in recognitition, the realization that the current model does not work at all and is the source of our recurring malaise.
Think of our gargantuan government as an inverted pyramid balanced on the apex point of the pyramid. One push at the right time and place, and the whole structure will topple (major paradigm change).
After you have read ALL of the articles posted here, you will see that it outlines a simple and easily executed plan that could result in a stable government very much like the one put in place by the Constitutional Convention with the added benefit of the modern Constitution having been amended in several keys areas designed to prevent the politicians and bankers from corrupting it again.
Read the articles for yourselves,
Thanks! I’ve bookmarked it.
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
Friend, you're trying to have a much deeper conversation than I have the time or inclination to engage in right now. That's why I said, "I'll cut to the chase."
Why not just 'cut to the chase' and give me your bottom line on what you feel the way forward is? Thanks.
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