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eavesdropper…my post was simply meant as a tongue in cheek response to the original post on this thread: that government is the solution to all of our problems–that money confiscated by the government from the private sector is ALWAYS spent more wisely and more productively by the government than those that it was confiscated from.

CLEARLY this isn’t the case…

However, even as a conservative, I see the danger in unfettered free markets where externalities are ignored.

I do find it ironic, however, that the very people that advocate larger and larger governments seem to dance around events like the gulf oil spill (we had regulations and bureaucrats to enforce them that were corrupt or incompetent) or the continual problems with the food supply (ecoli in spinach and salmonella in eggs, recently) even though IT is also heavily regulated and we supposedly have an army of bureaucrats and inspectors policing the industry. These are examples of this awesome government that some want more of at work. Of course, some will argue “we just need more regulations and more inspectors”; these are the same people that, in spite of every increasing budgets and flat or declining test scores argue that the solution to declining education efficacy is more money…and of course, more laws and government involvement.

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eavesdropper…my post was simply meant as a tongue in cheek response to the original post on this thread: that government is the solution to all of our problems–that money confiscated by the government from the private sector is ALWAYS spent more wisely and more productively by the government than those that it was confiscated from.

CLEARLY this isn’t the case…

However, even as a conservative, I see the danger in unfettered free markets where externalities are ignored.

I do find it ironic, however, that the very people that advocate larger and larger governments seem to dance around events like the gulf oil spill (we had regulations and bureaucrats to enforce them that were corrupt or incompetent) or the continual problems with the food supply (ecoli in spinach and salmonella in eggs, recently) even though IT is also heavily regulated and we supposedly have an army of bureaucrats and inspectors policing the industry. These are examples of this awesome government that some want more of at work. Of course, some will argue “we just need more regulations and more inspectors”; these are the same people that, in spite of every increasing budgets and flat or declining test scores argue that the solution to declining education efficacy is more money…and of course, more laws and government involvement.

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eavesdropper…my post was simply meant as a tongue in cheek response to the original post on this thread: that government is the solution to all of our problems–that money confiscated by the government from the private sector is ALWAYS spent more wisely and more productively by the government than those that it was confiscated from.

CLEARLY this isn’t the case…

However, even as a conservative, I see the danger in unfettered free markets where externalities are ignored.

I do find it ironic, however, that the very people that advocate larger and larger governments seem to dance around events like the gulf oil spill (we had regulations and bureaucrats to enforce them that were corrupt or incompetent) or the continual problems with the food supply (ecoli in spinach and salmonella in eggs, recently) even though IT is also heavily regulated and we supposedly have an army of bureaucrats and inspectors policing the industry. These are examples of this awesome government that some want more of at work. Of course, some will argue “we just need more regulations and more inspectors”; these are the same people that, in spite of every increasing budgets and flat or declining test scores argue that the solution to declining education efficacy is more money…and of course, more laws and government involvement.

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eavesdropper…my post was simply meant as a tongue in cheek response to the original post on this thread: that government is the solution to all of our problems–that money confiscated by the government from the private sector is ALWAYS spent more wisely and more productively by the government than those that it was confiscated from.

CLEARLY this isn’t the case…

However, even as a conservative, I see the danger in unfettered free markets where externalities are ignored.

I do find it ironic, however, that the very people that advocate larger and larger governments seem to dance around events like the gulf oil spill (we had regulations and bureaucrats to enforce them that were corrupt or incompetent) or the continual problems with the food supply (ecoli in spinach and salmonella in eggs, recently) even though IT is also heavily regulated and we supposedly have an army of bureaucrats and inspectors policing the industry. These are examples of this awesome government that some want more of at work. Of course, some will argue “we just need more regulations and more inspectors”; these are the same people that, in spite of every increasing budgets and flat or declining test scores argue that the solution to declining education efficacy is more money…and of course, more laws and government involvement.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=meadandale][quote=briansd1]eavesdropper, that was a great post.[/quote]

Except for the part where he repeatedly referred to me as an ‘ultra-conservative’…which erodes most of the credibility for the rest of the rant.[/quote]

Mead: I would define you more as a classic Goldwater conservative, with a light dollop of libertarianism thrown in. Of course, others on the board might view you as wearing a good deal more brown, if you get my drift.[/quote]

Well, I certainly agree with him on this point:

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=meadandale][quote=briansd1]eavesdropper, that was a great post.[/quote]

Except for the part where he repeatedly referred to me as an ‘ultra-conservative’…which erodes most of the credibility for the rest of the rant.[/quote]

Mead: I would define you more as a classic Goldwater conservative, with a light dollop of libertarianism thrown in. Of course, others on the board might view you as wearing a good deal more brown, if you get my drift.[/quote]

Well, I certainly agree with him on this point:

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

[meadandale]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=meadandale][quote=briansd1]eavesdropper, that was a great post.[/quote]

Except for the part where he repeatedly referred to me as an ‘ultra-conservative’…which erodes most of the credibility for the rest of the rant.[/quote]

Mead: I would define you more as a classic Goldwater conservative, with a light dollop of libertarianism thrown in. Of course, others on the board might view you as wearing a good deal more brown, if you get my drift.[/quote]

Well, I certainly agree with him on this point:

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

[meadandale]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=meadandale][quote=briansd1]eavesdropper, that was a great post.[/quote]

Except for the part where he repeatedly referred to me as an ‘ultra-conservative’…which erodes most of the credibility for the rest of the rant.[/quote]

Mead: I would define you more as a classic Goldwater conservative, with a light dollop of libertarianism thrown in. Of course, others on the board might view you as wearing a good deal more brown, if you get my drift.[/quote]

Well, I certainly agree with him on this point:

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

[meadandale]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=meadandale][quote=briansd1]eavesdropper, that was a great post.[/quote]

Except for the part where he repeatedly referred to me as an ‘ultra-conservative’…which erodes most of the credibility for the rest of the rant.[/quote]

Mead: I would define you more as a classic Goldwater conservative, with a light dollop of libertarianism thrown in. Of course, others on the board might view you as wearing a good deal more brown, if you get my drift.[/quote]

Well, I certainly agree with him on this point:

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

[meadandale]

[quote=flu]Read, what’s that?

Do Piggington and Autoblog count?

I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”[/quote]

You need to get out more flu…

I read almost the entire catalog of Clive Cussler books over the last 6 months as well as a few odds and ends thrown in by Raymond Khoury and Dan Brown.

When I wasn’t reading fiction I was reading the following:

Farm City by Novella Carpenter
My Empire of Dirt by Manny Howard
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan
Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Barry (forward by Michael Pollan)

The only one I wouldn’t waste my money on again would be the one by Manny Howard.

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[quote=flu]Read, what’s that?

Do Piggington and Autoblog count?

I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”[/quote]

You need to get out more flu…

I read almost the entire catalog of Clive Cussler books over the last 6 months as well as a few odds and ends thrown in by Raymond Khoury and Dan Brown.

When I wasn’t reading fiction I was reading the following:

Farm City by Novella Carpenter
My Empire of Dirt by Manny Howard
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan
Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Barry (forward by Michael Pollan)

The only one I wouldn’t waste my money on again would be the one by Manny Howard.

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[quote=flu]Read, what’s that?

Do Piggington and Autoblog count?

I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”[/quote]

You need to get out more flu…

I read almost the entire catalog of Clive Cussler books over the last 6 months as well as a few odds and ends thrown in by Raymond Khoury and Dan Brown.

When I wasn’t reading fiction I was reading the following:

Farm City by Novella Carpenter
My Empire of Dirt by Manny Howard
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan
Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Barry (forward by Michael Pollan)

The only one I wouldn’t waste my money on again would be the one by Manny Howard.

[meadandale]

[quote=flu]Read, what’s that?

Do Piggington and Autoblog count?

I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”[/quote]

You need to get out more flu…

I read almost the entire catalog of Clive Cussler books over the last 6 months as well as a few odds and ends thrown in by Raymond Khoury and Dan Brown.

When I wasn’t reading fiction I was reading the following:

Farm City by Novella Carpenter
My Empire of Dirt by Manny Howard
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan
Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Barry (forward by Michael Pollan)

The only one I wouldn’t waste my money on again would be the one by Manny Howard.

[meadandale]

[quote=flu]Read, what’s that?

Do Piggington and Autoblog count?

I read “Linux for Dummies” and “Everything you wanted to know about an ARM processor but was too afraid to ask”[/quote]

You need to get out more flu…

I read almost the entire catalog of Clive Cussler books over the last 6 months as well as a few odds and ends thrown in by Raymond Khoury and Dan Brown.

When I wasn’t reading fiction I was reading the following:

Farm City by Novella Carpenter
My Empire of Dirt by Manny Howard
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan
Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Barry (forward by Michael Pollan)

The only one I wouldn’t waste my money on again would be the one by Manny Howard.

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[quote=briansd1]eavesdropper, that was a great post.[/quote]

Except for the part where he repeatedly referred to me as an ‘ultra-conservative’…which erodes most of the credibility for the rest of the rant.

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