NP: No gov't; best gov't..from John Lanchester LRoB

[Richard Fiero]

Paul Mackin wrote:
>On 9/5/2011 10:07 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>Since other reads are faltering, maybe we all ought to read some good
>>n-fic along the financial lines so many have been talking about...
>>
>>I did a bit of 'refutational' reading a while back with Von Mises'--grandaddy
>>of all of them there Viennese witchdoctors--Human Action......it was easier
>>than I thought to show-up his supposed premisses and first 
>>principles, if I say
>>so myself, and I have to, since i had no one to challenge me and 
>>don't know how delusional
>>I was....
>
>Well, the very fact you're considering the possibility means you're 
>not delusional.
>
>But, practically no one is totally wrong about everything.
>
>No matter how problematic it is, the market system at least has  a 
>mechanism for setting prices and allocating resources, while the 
>socialist system must rely on central planning, which is even more problematic.
>
>Too bad everything's not as free as cyberspace, although THAT 
>unlimited resource does produce a lot of clutter.
>
>P

Certainly von Mises and Hayek are an ideology without evidence.
If one doesn't like central planning, then Mexico may be one's 
favored model. Otherwise Brazil and China might be examples of 
successful economies. The US which is becoming a right-to-work state 
may consider Canada a better model. Canada has a higher standard of 
living than the US. Its citizens pay their takes and get far more 
services than US citizens and US non-citizens that form its permanent 
working non-voting underclass.
It's very important that US citizens vote their interests in spite of 
our dumbed-down news reporting.