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The US Budget. Go read it but be prepared to send a lot of time. 20% more or less of the Budget is military, 10% of it is pork. What do you think the rest of it is?
How did the free market fail when it was not in use?
Actually that's true.
However, one would be making nearly as much sense if one posted
How can a the unicorn fail when it never existed?
Doubt me?
Which came first ... government or capital?
This is relevant because without government, capital cannot exist, and without capital, the concept of a free market is meaningless.
A barter economy is a kind of market of course, and a barter economy CAN exist sans capital, hence sans government.
But honestly, there will be very little use for a Tech Lawyers or internet publishers in that universe.
You and I, my friend, are captive creatures of a civil society.
And as much as I HATE government (and I know you probably cannot believe this, but I hate authority far more than you do) I see no alternatives to crappy governments that aren't actually worse than crappy goverments.
So my proposal is extrmely radical.
I think we should try to improve governments.
What a concept, huh? Why hasn't anyoine else EVER come up with such simply solution?
Yeah, I know... I'm a genius.
It's a gift.
No spending isn't more stimulative than tax cuts. The only thing spending stimulates is inflation. Especially so with poverty progams which now make up about 70% of the federal budget and about to increase further under Obama.
Before one says that the ideologues are wrong one should at least look into what the ieologies they represent have to offer. There is currently a war within the Republican party between the Country clubers and the conservatives. If the country clubers win then I become - against my better judgement -a libertarian and I suspect I'll have a hell of a lot of company. If the conservatives -they aren't actually conservative in the dictionary sense of the word - win then I suspect they will pull in a lot of libertarians.
The US Budget. Go read it but be prepared to send a lot of time. 20% more or less of the Budget is military, 10% of it is pork. What do you think the rest of it is?
Sorry but energy and transportation are mostly dealt with under pork by the U.S congress. One man's desperately needed highway is another man's pork. I doubt if the state department spends much more than 5% per annum if that. Make it 12 if you count the roughly 7% of the budget spent on bribing our allies to behave themselves. And a good chunk of that is attributed to the Pentagon as is the Corps of Engineers which deals with various maritime construction.
The US Budget. Go read it but be prepared to send a lot of time. 20% more or less of the Budget is military, 10% of it is pork. What do you think the rest of it is?
How did the free market fail when it was not in use?
Actually that's true.
However, one would be making nearly as much sense if one posted
How can a the unicorn fail when it never existed?
Doubt me?
Which came first ... government or capital?
This is relevant because without government, capital cannot exist, and without capital, the concept of a free market is meaningless.
A barter economy is a kind of market of course, and a barter economy CAN exist sans capital, hence sans government.
But honestly, there will be very little use for a Tech Lawyers or internet publishers in that universe.
You and I, my friend, are captive creatures of a civil society.
And as much as I HATE government (and I know you probably cannot believe this, but I hate authority far more than you do) I see no alternatives to crappy governments that aren't actually worse than crappy goverments.
So my proposal is extrmely radical.
I think we should try to improve governments.
What a concept, huh? Why hasn't anyoine else EVER come up with such simply solution?
Yeah, I know... I'm a genius.
It's a gift.
Well, as we've discussed before, capital does not require government. You could have private competing currencies.
As to improving governments, it's not possible.