A horrible idea
The Libertarian Enterprise
by L. Neil Smith
12/30/07
My point is that, whatever else is said and done about the price of gas, it has absolutely nothing to do with scarcity. Libertarians and conservative have long observed that starving people in the Third World are not starving because there’s any lack of food on the planet. They’re starving because governments, usually operating on insane political and economic theories, are getting in the way—sometimes deliberately—of getting food to the people who need it. People who, if their economies were disenslaved, would have no trouble paying for it. With regard to petroleum, we get to be starving Third Worlders—the American Productive Class—living on a planet virtually aswim with “black gold”, yet blocked by stupid, crazy, or evil politicians, bureaucrats, and cops from doing the simple things we need to do to survive...
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle449-20071230-02.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=L.+Neil+Smith
by L. Neil Smith
12/30/07
My point is that, whatever else is said and done about the price of gas, it has absolutely nothing to do with scarcity. Libertarians and conservative have long observed that starving people in the Third World are not starving because there’s any lack of food on the planet. They’re starving because governments, usually operating on insane political and economic theories, are getting in the way—sometimes deliberately—of getting food to the people who need it. People who, if their economies were disenslaved, would have no trouble paying for it. With regard to petroleum, we get to be starving Third Worlders—the American Productive Class—living on a planet virtually aswim with “black gold”, yet blocked by stupid, crazy, or evil politicians, bureaucrats, and cops from doing the simple things we need to do to survive...
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle449-20071230-02.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=L.+Neil+Smith
rudkla - 31. Dez, 11:14
