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Thats great, lets minimize government, lets privatize schools, police, prison, the fire department and everything else! "Ultra limited government" for the futur

by rlx0x 13y ago

Thats great, lets minimize government, lets privatize schools, police, prison, the fire department and everything else! "Ultra limited government" for the future! Lets deregulate everything, because you know you can trust Corporations! The part you need to realize is, there already are on their way to your utopia. The point is, that you need a strong military, police and surveillance state in order to make the transition fully. There some people that don't like to be corporate slaves so you need power to force people into their brave new world! :)

crusso 13y ago
Name the corporation that has the self-given legal right to take ALL our data and store in insecurely. Name the corporation that has the right to spy on us, and even when caught doing it contrary to the law, no one goes to jail over it. Name the corporation that when it runs out of money on its stupid ideas just prints more or can raise its prices indefinitely and FORCE you to buy however much of its products that it wants you to. Name the corporation that has the authority to break into your house in the middle of the night, shoot your dog, put a boot on your throat, then say, "Sorry we had the wrong house" ... with little or no negative consequences for their mistake. Name the corporation that can sick its money collectors on you for disagreeing with them and then they'll audit your income over and over to make your existence miserable. Name the corporate agents who have the legal right to manipulate the markets with the creation of new laws and bureaucracies and then can use that knowledge to do as much insider trading as they want to enrich themselves... and it's all legal. Name the corporation that has the means and the authority take away your house, your children, your very life, and I'll be right there with you. Until then, I'm going to go ahead and keep pushing against the government that has ALL of the powers mentioned above and that abuses those powers on a daily basis.
mindcrime 13y ago
Thats great, lets minimize government, lets privatize schools, police, prison, the fire department and everything else! Since when did "private" become a bad word? F%!# that, "private" business is me, you, your neighborhood plumber, the dive bar on the corner, IBM, Microsoft, Google and a whole range of "in between" companies. Nothing about a firm being "private" makes it "bad". In fact, I'd argue that it's just the opposite... anything that can be provided by a private firm, participating in a free market, should be provided by such, or not at all. Note, however, that "private firm" does not necessarily equate to "corporation" OR to "for profit business". The range of "private" organizations also includes various non-profit cooperatives, communes and collectives. Lets deregulate everything, because you know you can trust Corporations! If we were really serious about minimizing government, there wouldn't be any Corporations, as Corporations are a legal fiction which depend on the State for their very existence.
talmand 13y ago
Sorry, but limited government doesn't mean no government at all. Most of what you describe should be the responsibility of the local government in your area which is far more capable of dealing with such matters as opposed to a massive central government that can care less about your community's well-being. Most people who speak of limited government are speaking of the federal level, not local or state.

by rlx0x 13y ago

crusso 13y ago

Name the corporation that has the self-given legal right to take ALL our data and store in insecurely. Name the corporation that has the right to spy on us, and even when caught doing it contrary to the law, no one goes to jail over it. Name the corporation that when it runs out of money on its stupid ideas just prints more or can raise its prices indefinitely and FORCE you to buy however much of its products that it wants you to. Name the corporation that has the authority to break into your house in the middle of the night, shoot your dog, put a boot on your throat, then say, "Sorry we had the wrong house" ... with little or no negative consequences for their mistake. Name the corporation that can sick its money collectors on you for disagreeing with them and then they'll audit your income over and over to make your existence miserable. Name the corporate agents who have the legal right to manipulate the markets with the creation of new laws and bureaucracies and then can use that knowledge to do as much insider trading as they want to enrich themselves... and it's all legal. Name the corporation that has the means and the authority take away your house, your children, your very life, and I'll be right there with you. Until then, I'm going to go ahead and keep pushing against the government that has ALL of the powers mentioned above and that abuses those powers on a daily basis.

mindcrime 13y ago

Thats great, lets minimize government, lets privatize schools, police, prison, the fire department and everything else! Since when did "private" become a bad word? F%!# that, "private" business is me, you, your neighborhood plumber, the dive bar on the corner, IBM, Microsoft, Google and a whole range of "in between" companies. Nothing about a firm being "private" makes it "bad". In fact, I'd argue that it's just the opposite... anything that can be provided by a private firm, participating in a free market, should be provided by such, or not at all. Note, however, that "private firm" does not necessarily equate to "corporation" OR to "for profit business". The range of "private" organizations also includes various non-profit cooperatives, communes and collectives. Lets deregulate everything, because you know you can trust Corporations! If we were really serious about minimizing government, there wouldn't be any Corporations, as Corporations are a legal fiction which depend on the State for their very existence.

talmand 13y ago

Sorry, but limited government doesn't mean no government at all. Most of what you describe should be the responsibility of the local government in your area which is far more capable of dealing with such matters as opposed to a massive central government that can care less about your community's well-being. Most people who speak of limited government are speaking of the federal level, not local or state.