The knowledge of the existance of government bailouts enocourages people to live in dangerous areas, and get killed, because a massive central bureaucracy just can't move very fast (as peoples' expectations). And then people are surprised and angry... The knowledge of the existance of government bailouts enocourages people to live in dangerous areas. You get more of what you pay for! If you send money and care and resources to people living in dangerous areas, surprise, surprise, you get more people living in dangerous areas (and then dying). You should reconsider your advocacy of increasing the big government of the US (federal government) (here in its modern role as big nanny). After all, the reason that gets pointed to for the obnoxiousness of the USA is the military intervention of the US federal government in other countries. Calling for an increase in the size and power of the US nanny state will encourage its growth, which will encourage its ability to intervene militarily in other countries. War is the ultimate government program! Notice how failed big government policies (inflation, leading to booms, then busts, suffering economies, etc) always seem to result in calls for more big government policies? -- Until finally what is called for is a nice big war! "That'll fix everything!" I have a friend in the states who is remarkably similar to you in his views and you would see eye-to-eye if you both lived in the same country! But there are few people who will butt heads harder than big-government advocates living in (different) nearby countries. Viz the lovely relations of the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany or with Red China - pacts dissolved into glowering hostility. Totalitarian regimes book not the slightest differences in viewpoint. Compare this with the historic longest undefended border between the comparatively very free countries of the USA and Canada. Really, it's the cancer of the US federal government that is taking over the beautiful USA and turning it into a nasty fascist prison camp. The constitution for the USA is a devilish bit of pyschohistory that has given the US federal government more reason to grow than a Godzilla chick on a weight-gaining diet. -Jim http://www.geocities.com/forpropertyrights (all contemplated flames have been routed to dev/null)
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Date: 2005-09-06 07:30 pm (UTC)enocourages people to live in dangerous areas, and get
killed, because a massive central bureaucracy just can't
move very fast (as peoples' expectations). And then
people are surprised and angry...
The knowledge of the existance of government bailouts
enocourages people to live in dangerous areas. You get
more of what you pay for! If you send money and care and
resources to people living in dangerous areas, surprise,
surprise, you get more people living in dangerous areas
(and then dying).
You should reconsider your advocacy of increasing the big
government of the US (federal government) (here in its
modern role as big nanny). After all, the
reason that gets pointed to for the obnoxiousness of the
USA is the military intervention of the US federal government
in other countries. Calling for an increase in the size
and power of the US nanny state will encourage its growth,
which will encourage its ability to intervene militarily in
other countries. War is the ultimate government program!
Notice how failed big government policies (inflation, leading
to booms, then busts, suffering economies, etc) always seem to
result in calls for more big government policies? -- Until
finally what is called for is a nice big war! "That'll fix
everything!"
I have a friend in the states who is remarkably similar
to you in his views and you would see eye-to-eye if you
both lived in the same country! But there are few people
who will butt heads harder than big-government advocates
living in (different) nearby countries. Viz the lovely
relations of the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany or with
Red China - pacts dissolved into glowering hostility.
Totalitarian regimes book not the slightest differences
in viewpoint. Compare this with the historic longest
undefended border between the comparatively very free
countries of the USA and Canada.
Really, it's the cancer of the US federal government that
is taking over the beautiful USA and turning it into a
nasty fascist prison camp. The constitution for the USA
is a devilish bit of pyschohistory that has given the US
federal government more reason to grow than a Godzilla
chick on a weight-gaining diet.
-Jim
http://www.geocities.com/forpropertyrights
(all contemplated flames have been routed to dev/null)