by rothbardian » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:32 am
yesferatu--<br><br>You ask why didn't I answer your questions. I answered a lot of questions. Can't answer them all at the same time, can I? <br><br>Again, seems like a little bit of unnecessary roughness. I gave a good effort to address a lot of disingenuous baloney from a handful of posters in my last post.<br><br>It was you and they who created all these 'off topic' peripheral issues. I was minding my own business, and sticking the thread topic.<br><br>Anyway...you describe this example of the Libertarian politician forcing the community to cover the cost of some guy who injured himself: You have it completely wrong. It doesn't work that way in a free world (libertarian world). <br><br>The guy who injured himself would have to pay his own way. So...you're misunderstanding the scenario, I would say.<br><br>I can partially address the issue of 'false flags' (i.e. artificially manufactured crises) in relation to domestic social issues, by simply re-quoting what I said earlier about the health care industry and drug industry:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Instead of recognizing...that the PTB have colluded with corrupt politicians to drive the cost of medical care and drugs up to stratospheric levels, lefties turn a blind eye towards all of that and insist that the government drive our nation into bankruptcy with Disneylandesque tax-funded health care and prescription drugs.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>$90 per pill" medications are a false flag operation, a huge scam, a deliberate rip-off...and mainstream libs (with some pleasant exceptions here among more savvy RI libs) buy it ALL...hook, line and sinker.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>There's your 'false flag'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> by the way, yesferatu-- the government creates an artificial crisis (the burning of the Reichstag, the 9/11 scam, $90/pill medications)...which then gives it the excuse to step in with a "solution". It's the age-old 'protection racket'.<br><br>Once the health care officials have immorally colluded with corrupt politicians to channel huge percentages of health and medical costs through government, they can then easily jack up the prices to almost anything they want. <br><br>Anyone who follows the news has heard the horror stories of how the military paid $700 for a single toilet seat...or work that was contracted out by the Education department was charged at $500/hour etc. etc.<br><br>This allows the 'Public Safety' (bicycle helmet) official to then rationalize--"Gosh, the cost of medical care is monstrous. It costs $5000 just to get 10 stitches at the emergency clinic. We need to impose intrusive new safety regulations...and by the way, we'll now need a bigger budget and I will need expansive new powers." This, of course, makes the bureaucrat very sad. Not.<br><br>The bicycle helmet bureaucrat doesn't care any more about our actual safety than the military defense bureaucrat actually cares about defense. It is pollyannish to think otherwise.<br><br>Do the nitwits at the Pentagon care about national defense? They do not. They care about themselves and their own personal well-being and aggrandizement.<br><br>Again (with apologies to Jezebel?), liberals generally tend to understand this negative dynamic only when it comes to the military bureaucracy...but apparently see the other bureaucracies through rose-colored glasses. Their enthusiasm for government-funded health care is a case in point.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>In fact, coercive government has such a strong inclination towards rottenness, that in most cases a given bureaucracy will be the very SOURCE of the problem it is purporting to address:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>In other words, for example, the worst threats and dangers to <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>our national security</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> right now, are coming from precisely those who have been entrusted with our national security. <br><br>According to Gary Webb (of the San Jose Mercury News) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the DEA</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> has been heavily involved in smuggling drugs...and smuggling them INTO our country (along with the CIA).<br><br>The <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Federal Reserve Bank</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, presumably tasked with the oversight and health of the U.S. currency has been counterfeiting our currency into a slow but certain destruction, for almost 95 years.<br><br>The <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Education Department</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> is doing just the opposite of education. Public schools have been cynically shaped into "obedient, illiterate sheeple" factories. As evidence, I would present to you 800 million semi-literate Americans who obediently hang on every word that proceeds forth from CNN and Fox News.<br><br>The #1 priority of any bureaucracy is...it's own well-being...not bicycle helmet security and not national security. <br><br>Consequently, it will have a strong tendency to literally PRODUCE artificial problems that, in turn, create an artificial requirement for the bureaucracy's "services".<br><br> <p></p><i></i>