re limiting govt was re employment was re why not concentrate in article apr isc br isc br com steveh thor isc br com steve hendricks writes in article apr tijc uucp pjs tijc uucp paul schmidt writes steveh thor isc br com steve hendricks writes as noted in another thread limiting govt the problem libertarians face is insuring that the limited government they seek does not become the tool of private interests to pursue their own agenda it is a failure of libertarianism if the ideology does not provide any reasonable way to restrain such actions other than utopian dreams you seem to be saying that a limited government will provide more opportunities for private interests to use it to pursue their own agendas and asking libertarians to prove that this will not happen while i can t offer such a proof it seems pretty damn plausible that if the government does not regulate a particular area it cannot become a tool of private interests to pursue their own agendas in that area i rather suspect that it s the sort of government we have now that is more likely to become such a tool and that it is such a tool in many instances just as marxism fails to specify how pure communism is to be achieved and the state is to wither away libertarians frequently fail to show how weakening the power of the state will result in improvement in the human condition i suspect that this is because improvement in the human condition as you define it is not the primary goal of libertarianism and would not be the primary goal of a libertarian government my impression of libertarianism is that its primary goal is the elimination of government coercion except in a very limited cases ian sutherland ian eecs nwu edu sans peur
