"Stuart & Kathryn Fields" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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So, what is it, industrial planning? You want something like Japan's
MITI? Just what is it that you think will cure these "ills"?

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Ed Huntress
1. Restrict the government to those powers specifically granted by the
Constitution.

Ha-ha! Everybody's "solution." The job is to get five people to agree on
what those powers are, Stu. d8-) "To promote the public welfare," and "to
provide for the common defense," cover a lot of territory in different
peoples' minds.

2. Regulate the regulators whos ear marks and pork barrels are blatant
examples of abuse of power.

More government regulation? Of government regulators, no less? Are you sure
you're a libertarian?

3. Hold an open discussion on our foreign policies. (which by the way have
given us Korea, Viet Nam, the Panama canal farce, the delivering of our
anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran (which we may have to face) the
interference with other societies and attempting to force them to accept
our ideas of how governments are supposed to run) If the American people
could vote on whether the US should be the world policeman, what do think
the outcome would be? I know, I know the people don't know enough to be
judges of our foreign policy....Well after having some drinks with three
different Ambassadors from the Marshal Islands and listening to their
opinions of our foreign policies, we had to agree the Americans were
running all around the world with their arrogance pushing their beliefs
ignoring other cultures.
Again force the Federal Government to abide by the Constitution. If the
Constitutiont is dated and not presently affective then Amend it. But
don't just slide into the way of doing business with only "attitudes" as
a justification. Let the people know what the rules are that are to be
followed. Don't have the President fail to obey the same rules that he
enforces on his subordinants. You talk about regulation and control, we
need some regulation and control of our government. That to me is what
the Libertarian movement is about, not free reigning the corporations.

With all due respect, Stu, you are no libertarian. That's the opposite of
the entire thrust of libertarianism, with fewer "rules" that "are to be
followed."

I think we have come full circle to what I said in the beginning.
Libertarianism is a system of moralism, not a set of organizational
principles. You want less government and less regulation...except when you
want the government watching the government, and more regulation. The fact
that there are "rules...that are to be followed" tells me you have a
moralistic, authoritarian bent. That's Burkean conservatism, not
libertarianism.

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Ed Huntress