Thursday, August 31, 2006
Comments
This nanny state stuff is pathetic.
If government exists to protect us, and if the federal government’s farm policies are supposed to protect the farmers, then why do politicians insist on using band-aids to heal broken legs?”
Government does not exist to protect farmers from natural disasters. It exists to protect its citizens from external and internal threats to person, property, and liberty in the form of brute force.
I’ve got to agree with HG here. The government doesn’t exist to protect us. It exists to promote and protect an economic environment where we are all as free and as capable as possible to take care of ourselves.
But aside from that, you’ve got a point Brett. At what point to we end bandaid fixes in favor of empower farmers to be independent of government aid? I think if we left it up to people like Kent Conrad we’d never get away from the band aid fixes. Because being in charge of the band aid fixes helps him stay in power.
Government does not exist to protect farmers from natural disasters. It exists to protect its citizens from external and internal threats to person, property, and liberty in the form of brute force.
It doesn’t do a very good job of any of either.
I’ve got to agree with HG here. The government doesn’t exist to protect us. It exists to promote and protect an economic environment where we are all as free and as capable as possible to take care of ourselves.
It exists to protect us from “dangers, foriegn and domestic.” But that’s where it ends.
Where open borders fit into that is beyond me.
Where are the strategic
sugar beet reserves stored?
Where are the strategic
sugar beet reserves stored?
Is sugar a strategic item in the class of petroleum?
What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity? I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.












