The idea that government can be fixed, is a red herring.

Knowing that government is operating just like a government and knowing that it isn't broken is why people like Glen Beck are no danger to it. All that money and energy is is going to waste trying to fix something that isn't broken. Our republic was predicted to fail in around a two hundred years. Well here we are. I don't think that it took a genius to make that prediction. The dirty little secret is that government isn't broken. Its the freeman vs the slaver.

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We now have a "bandit economy", everybody stealing from everybody.

Our economy cannot be called capitalism, or free enterprise or laissez faire. We are moving so fast in a direction that will blow this economy up. why and what for. Getting back to what made our country great, (free enterprise)and exporting that to the rest of the world (by example) should be out quest

Fed Quantitative Easing No Help for Economy � "Five Short Blasts" Forum

Fed Quantitative Easing No Help for Economy � "Five Short Blasts" Forum

Moral hazard occurs when a party insulated from risk behaves differently than it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.

Anyone want to debate how morel hazard has affected our world?

The Civil Rights Act - less Free

The civil rights act took away freedom from both the blacks and whites. Neither group could not run their business as they pleased. Now government tells a person how to run their business, who they have to hire, who they can fire, what they have to pay, and more. If we would have canceled out the jim crow laws, the blacks would have their full freedoms. The whites also would not have lost freedoms. So the Civil rights acts made us less free.

Limited Government is an Oxymoron.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=32288 Our constitution had the right idea but once they gave some people power over others it was downhill from there. Check out the article at the above web site and give me some feedback.

So you think voting is a good thing.

The belief that the people of a democracy rule themselves
through their elected representatives, though sanctified by tradition
and made venerable by multiple repetitions, is actually mystical
nonsense. In any election, only a percentage of the people vote.
Those who can't vote because of age or other disqualifications, and
those who don't vote because of confusion, apathy, or disgust at a
Tweedledum-Tweedledummer choice can hardly be said to have any
voice in the passage of the laws which govern them. Nor can the individuals
as yet unborn, who will be ruled by those laws in the future.
And, out of those who do "exercise their franchise," the large minority
who voted for the loser are also deprived of a voice, at least during the
term of the winner they voted against.
But even the individuals who voted and who managed to pick
a winner are not actually ruling themselves in any sense of the
word. They voted for a man, not for the specific laws which will
govern them. Even all those who had cast their ballots for the winning
candidate would be hopelessly confused and divided if asked
to vote on these actual laws. Nor would their representative be
bound to abide by their wishes, even if it could be decided what
these "collective wishes" were. And besides all this, a large percentage
of the actual power of a mature democracy, such as the U.S.A.,
is in the hands of the tens of thousands of faceless appointed bureaucrats
who are unresponsive to the will of any citizen without special
pull.
Under a democratic form of government, a minority of the
individuals governed select the winning candidate. The winning
candidate then proceeds to decide issues largely on the basis of
pressure from special-interest groups. What it actually amounts to
is rule by those with political pull over those without it. Contrary
to the brainwashing we have received in government-run schools,
democracy—the rule of the people through their elected representatives—
is a cruel hoax!
Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral. If
one man has no right to impose his wishes on another, then ten
million men have no right to impose their wishes on the one, since
the initiation of force is wrong (and the assent of even the most overwhelming
majority can never make it morally permissible). Opinions
—even majority opinions—neither create truth nor alter facts. A
lynch mob is democracy in action. So much for mob rule.
The very word "government" means some men governing—
ruling over—others.2 But to the degree that men are ruled by other
men, they exist in slavery. Slavery is a condition in which one is
not allowed to exercise his right of self-ownership but is ruled by
someone else. Government—the rule of some men over others by
initiated force—is a form of slavery. To advocate government is to
advocate slavery. To advocate limited government is to put oneself
in the ridiculous position of advocating limited slavery.
To put it simply, government is the rule of some men over others
by initiated force, which is slavery, which is wrong. Isn't it?

market for liberty

None of the Above?

Would "none of the above" as a choice when you vote, make any difference and if so, how can we get the voting changed. I might even start voting again if i didn't have to choose between Twiddle Dumb and Twiddle Dee.

Free Market vs Government

Private enterprise maintains and expands itself by continually offering people things they want. Government maintains and expands itself by depriving people of things they want, by means of forcibly seizing their goods (taxation) and forcibly preventing them from trading and living as they choose (regulation).

What is Producerism

A stateless society that gives total freedom and responsibility to the individual. You can be a Democrat, Republican, Communist, a Buddhist, a Christian, an agnostic, a gay person, as long as you can support yourself and follow natural law, persuade do not force, you can be a producerist.

A non coercive society

A Society organized with natural law, property rights, contracts, and powered by the golden rule. No government, no taxes, and everyman free to do what he deems best for himelf as long as he doesn't take from his fellow man. Can you get behind that idea? We all know what is wrong, we have to put our energy into finding out what is right.