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 slagle apr sgi msd lmsc lockheed com slagle lmsc lockheed com writes it is the government that is preventing entry to the market the desire of those running established businesses to prevent or restrict the entry of competitors is an understandable though generally unpleasant human failing but without a means to act on this desire without a government with sufficient power to restrict the options of the potential competitor the anti competitive desire remains just an unpleasant wish the government is the linchpin so we seek to disengage it so we don t get the shaft once again mark you don t specify the means through which the government is to be prevented from becoming the tool of business interests as a left wing big government conventional liberal i m just as willing as you are to vote against anti competitive regulations that favor auto dealers but what i hear from libertarians is a desire to limit incumbents terms to weaken government by eliminating its power to enforce antitrust laws and a desire to eliminate legislator s pay each strikes me as a particularly ineffective way to insure that auto dealers and other special interests cannot influence public policy in fact they seem clearly designed to accomplish the opposite this is similar to my saying that clinton s timber summit does little to fix the health care problem look at the whole picture not just randomly picked libertarian positions if government is not allowed to use non initiated force to achieve its goals than no special interest can influence the government to use non initiated force on their behalf the means to reaching such a restricted government is another topic which i ll address briefly it certainly won t happen until libertarianism is the dominate philosophy what means do we have to make libertarianism the dominate philosophy statists run the education monopoly so we have to be creative the advocates for self government reports of their seminar participants embrace libertarianism that s the best means i ve seen yet we should lobby for compulsory seminar attendance in jest roger collins it s amazing to me that governments around the world will try every aspect of government control before as a final last resort after everything else fails they will try individual liberty andre marrou libertarian candidate for president
