The point of a gun? Governments, when they work,
provide us with roads, schools, R&D from everything from the internet to
Apple and Tesla (who both received government money until they succeeded). The
gun was apparently put away in favor of a handshake.
What regulations are you talking about that caused
the S&L crisis? It was dysfunctional, to be sure, but dysfunctional as in
weak and under-used, not overly strict. Please provide counter-examples, if
there are any. BTW, we should bring back Glass-Steagall too - it's only a grade
B solution, whereas Public Banking and Land Value Taxation are grade A
solutions, but it's better than Gramm-Leach-Bliley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass--Steagall_Act)
that led to the wild west of banking we have today, and even bigger TBTF banks.
LETS are always voluntary arrangements, even
counter-government arrangements. DB once again expresses its incoherence by
opposing this Libertarian alternative that they ought to be embracing, if they
were consistent. The record-keeping you criticize is something its participants
require and want in order to make it work. You say you believe in "local
action" but then when LETS comes along, you dismiss that too. Just what
does DB actually propose?
Many in the reform movement see DB as offering no
solutions, and as actually being government apparatchiks themselves, working to
involve serious reformers in endless virtual time-sinks so they can't
effectuate actual change.
Well, I see you have admitted to being anarchists.
This has never been, and could never be, a workable arrangement for groups of
people to interact under. Governments has naturally arisen from within the
smallest tribes, to the largest nation-states, and, it's worth noting, we have
a lot more people today living under the latter than the former, so the trend
will only continue. Really, this argument, for or against government, as a pure
yes/no choice is really silly. Now, if you want to make government more
responsive to the People, I am all ears.
There are certainly too many people in prison, but it is closer to 2 million
not 6 million as you said (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate)
an interesting fact you chose to exaggerate. We should indeed release all of
the people locked up for mere drug offenses (about half the prison population),
but then we'd need to treat drug addiction as a disease, and DB has no patience
for that either, so the imprisonment will continue.
P.S. I am a blogger and Senior Editor for Opednews and I intend to gather up all these comments and publish them there at some point.
The Daily Bell Mod Scott Baker
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