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 of course one again faces the question of how one circumscribes government power and keeps it circumscribed in a complex society when it is in the interest of neither capitalists nor consumers to refrain from using government power for their own ends but apart from that little conundrum without having a complete answer to this question i should think it obvious that the first step should be to convince people this would be a desirable result there are still quite a lot of people who feel that the command economies of eastern europe failed due to corruption rather than essential weaknesses of caommand economies and you still have a majority in this nation that favors keeping unenforced and unenforcible laws on the books in order to send a signal it would seem that a society with a failed government would be an ideal setting for libertarian ideals to be implemented now why do you suppose that never seems to occur i fail to see why you should feel this way in the first place constant combat isn t particularly conducive to intellectual theorizing also they tend to get invaded before they can come to anything like a stable society anyway regulation is such a vauge word i wouldn t call it vague i d call it elastic all regulation is not necessarily the same by opposing all government regulation some libertarians treat every system from a command economy to those that regulate relatively free markets as identical that s one reason many of the rest of us find their analysis to be simplistic umm is there any distinction between vague and elastic in this context aside from one having a more positive connotation than the other at any rate we ve been through all this before steve hendricks domain steveh thor isc br com one thing about data it sure does cut uucp uunet isc br thor steveh the bulls t r hofferbert ma bell incidentally this is a libertarian newsgroup you can get away with saying bullshit here you re welcome mr grinch
