X-Message-Number: 23057 From: Subject: Re: message # 23042 (Bryan Stewart) Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:22:04 +0000 My arguments lack coherence, are catch phrases and sound bites! Did you read my post? Please explain how you see my message as such...I am curious. I thought I explained why I felt this way.Since you believe the private sector should be regulated by government (i don't) there is no point for me to continue arguing against it. You fear private sector monopolies...do you fear government monopolies (they use guns to enforce the monopoly). The consumer is now and will always be in control. If he wishes to break a monopoly all he has to do is stop buying the product. Of course a single individual will be hard pressed to accomplish that but large groups sacrificing and pulling together could pull it off. I realize that requires time, effort, labor, and sacrifice. The lazy way out is what you suggest: "I don't have the time or desire to do what is required to break this monopoly so lets create another government bureaucracy, increase our taxes and let the government use guns to do it". The F.D.A. should be abolished for the reasons I gave...didn't you read them. I did not argue in a circle! The United States has SURVIVED as long as it has because of checks and balances. The United States is the most PROSPEROUS country because of the private sector and nothing else (and in spite of government meddling). Non Libertarian politicians have used Libertarians to push their agenda. I neither understand what this statement means nor has to do with anything I said. How does one balance the private sector with the government sector.By the way using "public" instead of "government" gives legitimacy to something that is not legitimate...like "public" schools. They are "government" schools and where in the constitution are they authorized (or is that something you care about?). What does "balance the private sector" mean? You fear "one force dominating the nation". That is already the case. That force is the Federal Government. Do you fear it? Your baked beans example is typical of statist. The private sector is good at giving consumers what it wants. If it tires of baked beans, I am certain some entrepreneur will provide something else, unless government regulators prevent it. I could go on and on but I grow tired of these discussions. I would like to run my life as I wish, not as the American people might wish. The only way to do that is less government...oh the horror of less government. What would we do if people could run their businesses and lives as they wish. I suppose it would be Armageddon Jerry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23057