Subject: RE: [drugwar] Was Souder, Now OT: free market
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:21:18 -0500
To:        <drugwar@mindvox.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:03:28 -0500, Preston Peet wrote:
>=A0still seems to me that you are missing the point Bob, that a=
 government,
>=A0especially the US government, is supposed to be By and For all=
 the people
>=A0(in my own mind anyway), whereas rich private doners don't have=
 anyone to
>=A0answer to but themselves, and usually don't.

 Sorry , don't have time to extend this lesson thread now .=
 You'll have to
 wait for my book . In the mean time , there is a tremendous=
 number of
 resources on the web including many links on my Liberty site .

 Libertarians tend to be middle class , not rich . ( We sure wish=
 we had a
 Soros or a Corzine . ) But it's a stereotype that we are quants=
 . One
 recent article made the distinction between "numbersmiths" and
 "wordsmiths" . We tend to look past intentions to structures=
 and
 principles . We see , both in theory and practice , that=
 individual
 freedom provides the greatest good for the greatest number . We=
 see
 that the necessity to use forced monopoly ( "all must" ) as an=
 organizing
 principle of society , as in the fractional slavery system in=
 which we
 live , never produces better results than market ( "any you can=
 find" )
 systems .

 That applies to charities as well as any other product .
 
 I'd recommend Friedrich Hayek's 1948 "Road to Surfdom" ,=
 particularly its
 famous chapter "Why the Worst Get on Top" for more on the=
 "Dictator
 Fallacy" I mentioned applying to Souder's disillusionment . 
 But it applies to all political ( force ) decisions . 

 The simplest way to have government "by and for" the people is=
 to
 maximize their freedom to make there own choices .

--
 No argument that Bush Jr is the most dangerous president in our
 lifetime .  I predict that the Libertarian vote this year will
 be the margin that defeats him .

 One of the 2 leading Libertarian candidates was on Fox yesterday=
 .
 Here's the video :
  http://www.neuralspace.com/lp/Russo_FNC-BigStory_03-12-04.rm

>=A0(Did anyone else see Michael Moore's The Big One the other=
 night on tv, 

 Michael Moore works at being an idiot .

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