Market and Entrepreneur vs. State and Bureaucrat

Started by redcliffsw, November 19, 2017, 06:29:04 AM

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Market and Entrepreneur vs. State and Bureaucrat

People in the U.S. government naturally favor explicit control by government. They ignore and criticize the unplanned virtues of free markets. This is why they lauded fictional growth in the USSR that didn't benefit its peoples. The same error is being repeated in thinking of China as an economic giant that threatens America.

This country would do well to do the right thing, which is to get rid of its 100-year and more buildup of State bureaucracies, controls, regulations, wealth redistributions, subsidies, taxes, foreign meddlings and unjust judicial rulings that support the whole structure. Thriving free markets will be the result. America will not be led to regard China as an enemy. America will develop unheard of energy sources and transportation methods. The false justification for securing the oil of Saudi Arabia or any other foreign country's oil or any resource for that matter will be shown to be the phony excuse it has always been for U.S. interventions. America will not have to fear immigrants who come here to work and engage in productive activities. What it will have to fear and should always fear is the worship of State and bureaucrat and the accretion of State power over the people's lives. Americans should fear the backdoor invasion of freedom by ideas and cultural practices that introduce pathways to totalitarianism. Americans should always fear the strangulation of freedom and free markets, not their presence.
-Michael S. Rozeff   

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/market-entrepreneur-vs-state-bureaucrat/   

Wake-up!

Like Redcliff, I read Lewrockwell.com nearly every day. It is one of the top libertarian forums. It is also dominated by academic libertarians, those associated with colleges and 'think-tanks'. It is, rightfully so, full of criticism of the status quo government we have in DC and the fifty states. It's problem, in my opinion, is it rarely proposes solutions to the ills that control us.

Mr. Rozeff makes valid points. I agree with him across the board. My question to him, and others, is how do we "get rid of its 100-year and more buildup of State bureaucracies, controls, regulations, wealth redistributions, subsidies, taxes, foreign meddlings and unjust judicial rulings"? Voting doesn't seem to work. Every election cycle the plurality of registered voters support more regulations, not less. Every election cycle the so-called right seems to move further to the so-called left until the two are just one big pretzel. Just what steps are entailed in 'getting rid'? Any constructive thoughts, Mr. Rozeff? Redcliff? Others? Where is the discussion on action-items that will rid us of excess government?
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

The greatest mistake in American history was letting government educate our children.
- Harry Browne, 1996/2000 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate

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