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June 4, 2010 at 9:03 AM #560507June 4, 2010 at 9:07 AM #559541EugeneParticipant
[quote]You can’t imply that there should be more government intervention in private business and at the same time defend the government for incompetence when they say they are on top of things. You can’t have it both ways.[/quote]
Yeah you can. It’s easier to prevent a spill than to fix a spill. Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation made the spill possible. Now that it happened, neither the government, nor the private sector know how to close it. That’s not incompetence, that’s a simple fact of nature.
June 4, 2010 at 9:07 AM #559643EugeneParticipant[quote]You can’t imply that there should be more government intervention in private business and at the same time defend the government for incompetence when they say they are on top of things. You can’t have it both ways.[/quote]
Yeah you can. It’s easier to prevent a spill than to fix a spill. Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation made the spill possible. Now that it happened, neither the government, nor the private sector know how to close it. That’s not incompetence, that’s a simple fact of nature.
June 4, 2010 at 9:07 AM #560139EugeneParticipant[quote]You can’t imply that there should be more government intervention in private business and at the same time defend the government for incompetence when they say they are on top of things. You can’t have it both ways.[/quote]
Yeah you can. It’s easier to prevent a spill than to fix a spill. Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation made the spill possible. Now that it happened, neither the government, nor the private sector know how to close it. That’s not incompetence, that’s a simple fact of nature.
June 4, 2010 at 9:07 AM #560242EugeneParticipant[quote]You can’t imply that there should be more government intervention in private business and at the same time defend the government for incompetence when they say they are on top of things. You can’t have it both ways.[/quote]
Yeah you can. It’s easier to prevent a spill than to fix a spill. Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation made the spill possible. Now that it happened, neither the government, nor the private sector know how to close it. That’s not incompetence, that’s a simple fact of nature.
June 4, 2010 at 9:07 AM #560522EugeneParticipant[quote]You can’t imply that there should be more government intervention in private business and at the same time defend the government for incompetence when they say they are on top of things. You can’t have it both ways.[/quote]
Yeah you can. It’s easier to prevent a spill than to fix a spill. Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation made the spill possible. Now that it happened, neither the government, nor the private sector know how to close it. That’s not incompetence, that’s a simple fact of nature.
June 4, 2010 at 9:08 AM #559536sdduuuudeParticipantI guess if we were living in a libertarian society, you’d be correct.
Also, “libertarian” and “unregulated” are not the same things.
Third – morons will be morons in any society, be it socialist, libertarian, representative democracy or dictatorship. No system of government can stop morons from being morons.
Simple answer is “no”
June 4, 2010 at 9:08 AM #559638sdduuuudeParticipantI guess if we were living in a libertarian society, you’d be correct.
Also, “libertarian” and “unregulated” are not the same things.
Third – morons will be morons in any society, be it socialist, libertarian, representative democracy or dictatorship. No system of government can stop morons from being morons.
Simple answer is “no”
June 4, 2010 at 9:08 AM #560134sdduuuudeParticipantI guess if we were living in a libertarian society, you’d be correct.
Also, “libertarian” and “unregulated” are not the same things.
Third – morons will be morons in any society, be it socialist, libertarian, representative democracy or dictatorship. No system of government can stop morons from being morons.
Simple answer is “no”
June 4, 2010 at 9:08 AM #560237sdduuuudeParticipantI guess if we were living in a libertarian society, you’d be correct.
Also, “libertarian” and “unregulated” are not the same things.
Third – morons will be morons in any society, be it socialist, libertarian, representative democracy or dictatorship. No system of government can stop morons from being morons.
Simple answer is “no”
June 4, 2010 at 9:08 AM #560517sdduuuudeParticipantI guess if we were living in a libertarian society, you’d be correct.
Also, “libertarian” and “unregulated” are not the same things.
Third – morons will be morons in any society, be it socialist, libertarian, representative democracy or dictatorship. No system of government can stop morons from being morons.
Simple answer is “no”
June 4, 2010 at 9:11 AM #559546sdduuuudeParticipant[quote=Eugene] Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation[/quote]
You aren’t wrong, but I would call that “Crony Capitalism” not libertarianism.
I can tell already. This is the thread where something other than libertarianism gets a bad name, but it is called “libertarianism.”
June 4, 2010 at 9:11 AM #559648sdduuuudeParticipant[quote=Eugene] Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation[/quote]
You aren’t wrong, but I would call that “Crony Capitalism” not libertarianism.
I can tell already. This is the thread where something other than libertarianism gets a bad name, but it is called “libertarianism.”
June 4, 2010 at 9:11 AM #560144sdduuuudeParticipant[quote=Eugene] Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation[/quote]
You aren’t wrong, but I would call that “Crony Capitalism” not libertarianism.
I can tell already. This is the thread where something other than libertarianism gets a bad name, but it is called “libertarianism.”
June 4, 2010 at 9:11 AM #560247sdduuuudeParticipant[quote=Eugene] Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation[/quote]
You aren’t wrong, but I would call that “Crony Capitalism” not libertarianism.
I can tell already. This is the thread where something other than libertarianism gets a bad name, but it is called “libertarianism.”
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