from my interview on Press TV –
The best solution to decrease U.S. poverty is to “vastly decrease the power in spending of the federal government,” says James Bovard, Maryland-based policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation.
“It’s the U.S. government that is dragging down the American economy and suppressing the productivity and creativity of the American people,” he told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Tuesday, a day after a report put the number of the poor in America at nearly 50 million.
On Monday, the Census Bureau said the number of Americans living in poverty was higher than previously estimated, and stands at 49.1 million.
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You can listen to my two-minute, early-morning-pre-coffee-semi-pre-verbal monologue on the topic here.
The role of Government in a liberal democracy is to protect liberty. It is certainly not a mandate to give that Government the right to be a bigger and bigger participant in the economy.
There is no point in voting in such a democracy unless there is a space for “non of the above”
When voting is not conductive to freedom and simply facilitate the transfer of more and more economic and eventually all other powers to the Government it makes that democracy becomes the enemy of liberty. The western world is at that point.
We end up voting against our own freedom.
and the exercise of voting becomes collective self destruction.
Democracy itself is the problem – democracy being nothing more than a fancy
Greek word meaning “mob rule.” 😀
If only we could find the Right Leader…
I’d nominate Claire. The steady and substantial income would do her good and she likes her quiet times so much that we’d never see her out pestering us for our own good.
And the rest of us could say we knew her when she was just a humble* blogger!
*for a Clairean value of “humble.” 😀
But would she favor repealing the federal tax increase on cigars????
The Federal Reserve of the US now holds about 16% of total outstanding US federal debt. Who voted for this incestuous Government financing ?
Jim.
There is no “mob rule” with out an agitator and an agenda to eventually exploit that mob.
Yesterday, driving through the blasted landscape of connecticut on election day, I noted a perfect sign for the times. Hand painted, nice colors, nailed to a power pole “Vote Jim, I need a Job”. Funny thing is, whoever Jim is, he’d likely do a better job than 9/10ths of the indentured servants currently serving the Great and Abiding Societeers of our Idiotic Government. Thats all for one and ehhhh, all for one.
If there weren’t any spelling errors on that sign, then the dude is qualified to be Commissioner of Education.