And if libertarians ever do acquire power, we may expect a farrago of bizarre policies. Many support abolition of government-issued money in favor of that minted by private banks. But this has already been tried, in various epochs, and doesn’t lead to any wonderful paradise of freedom but only to an explosion of fraud and currency debasement followed by the concentration of financial power in those few banks that survive the inevitable shaking-out. Many other libertarian schemes similarly founder on the empirical record.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/article/2005/mar/14/00017/
Excellent article - read it!
“Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop the people talking.”
-Clement Attlee
Took 3 pages of images to get to the one I wanted. The anti-socialism smear online is very….image-centric =/
Any self respecting revisionist democratic socialist (like myself) would bookmark my political blog! http://foxandthemask.wordpress.com/
I am tired of the spin
on the cable news channels about the military action in Libya. A lot of noise is being made about the president making actions without congress getting involved. They’re also spouting article 1, section 8 of the constitution which states congress has the unshared power to declare war.
Article 2, section 2 grants the president the role of commander-in-chief, and controls military operations even without the declaration of war. War has not been declared by the president, so as of right now, everything in the constitution is being followed as it is written.
I’m not a constitutionalist, but if you’re going to throw around the legitimacy of a 200+ year old document (which is horribly out of date, example, section 1 article 8 talks at length about militia control…), at least understand what it says.
/rantoff
