12-03-2016, 11:37 PM
(12-03-2016, 03:06 PM)taramarie Wrote:(12-03-2016, 05:54 AM)Galen Wrote: This is why libertarians on the whole tend not to want to impose a solution from above the way liberals and progressives do. With the degree of centralization that exists in the US there is a tendency to use the Federal Government as a club to beat opponents over the head with. You haven't really spent much time around the red necks in the US and the mainstream media is less than reliable.What would be your solution to this particular subject?
The same one that has always worked. Return the federal government to the strict confines of the Constitution which is really a free trade treaty and mutual defense pact. Sadly, this would require the liberals and progressives to stop considering the government to be the solution to all problems which isn't going to happen. Eventually the situation will resolve itself and it is likely that with the rest of the world becoming unwilling to finance the deficits that the US will move toward a smaller government out of necessity.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises