If the government didn’t have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced was foie gras.
The fable of Purim ends with the slaughter of over 75,000 non-Jewish Persians by the Jewish Persians after one official’s (Haman’s) plot to kill the Jews is exposed when the king is alerted by his Jewish wife. That’s a mighty big conspiracy! God makes no appearance. An inspiring story for sure! The closest thing today to the villain, Haman, is Netanyahu and his team. Boo!
Nearly everyone complains about capitalism’s defects, or market failures. In fact, those are social failures, not specifically market failures, which show up when many rational individual actions create a social situation that displeases everyone. This means that government dirigisme — state direction or displacement of the market — cannot be a remedy because who do you think staffs the government and how do they get there? A big difference between the two systems — market and state — is that while the market diminishes social defects, the government magnifies them.
It’s great.
The Future of Austrian Economics | Murray N. Rothbard
Probably-ISIS just attacked civilians at a theater in Moscow.
I have no reason to believe the U.S. is currently backing these terrorists like back in the Clinton and Bush years, other, perhaps than that they did then, but regardless, this terrorism should be a reminder that it was the bin Ladenites who killed thousands of Americans in this century and the last, not Russia. Not Iran. Not the governments of Syria or Yemen or Palestine.
This is not a call to war. We should end the war on terrorism. But to fight al Qaeda and ISIS’s enemies, just like supporting Israel’s merciless murder of the Palestinians and occupying bases on the “Holy Peninsula” is ultimately treason against the American people and our country.
After ignoring all their warnings about the impending, and later even the beginning of the attack, the most moral and brave army in the world climbed out the window and left them behind:
the female spotters were abandoned by soldiers and officers stationed at the same base, who did not attempt to rescue them.
“If each one of the soldiers who ran away had taken one spotter by the hand,” he said, “And dragged her to the window where they themselves escaped, Roni and the other girls would still be alive today.”
Oh but don’t worry, they really respect you though, as they steal your money and deliberately slaughter babies with it.
The establishment debate over foreign policy isn’t between realists and whatever their opponents call themselves. It’s a debate over who’s more realistic. It reminds me of the debate between the Federalists and Antifederalists. No one wanted to be considered against federalism, but the centralizers had beaten the real federalists to the label Federalist.
Centralized power has a problem: the individual. Every person is a potential disrupter of The Plan, and disruption must be forbidden. Otherwise, why have a central plan? This applies regardless of whether the planning is economy-wide or for particular sectors, such as medical services. (See F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom.)
