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Maybe these "older countries" should try --for a century or two-- laissez-faire capitalism and a government limited to the protection of individual rights.
by mkempe 12y ago
Maybe these "older countries" should try --for a century or two-- laissez-faire capitalism and a government limited to the protection of individual rights.
- Kalium 12y agoAnd maybe the rest of the world knows something we don't - like where laissez-faire capitalism actually leads. Hey look, I can toss around unsupported political assertions too!
- LLWM 12y agoIt would probably make more of a difference if they tried for a century or two expanding into a sparsely populated, resource-dense area many times their current size.
- mkempe 12y agoWhich is how Switzerland implemented its version of American government, freedom and prosperity starting in 1848?
- peteretep 12y ago> Maybe these "older countries" should try --for a century > or two-- laissez-faire capitalism and a government > limited to the protection of individual rights I used to work at an 800 year old pub. American tourists would helpfully come along and tell us we'd gotten the location all wrong.
- cylinder 12y agoWhy would someone want to limit government to protecting individual rights? This doesn't make sense at all. Is the minting of money protecting some sort of individual right? What about providing healthcare for the destitute? Are roads some sort of individual right?
- mkempe 12y agoCould it be that some people subscribe to the theory of the proper role and structure of government evinced by the Declaration of Independence? Maybe some are fond of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government? of rights as an inalienable attribute of the ultimate minority, the individual? and of a government limited in purpose and scope so that it protects us, nothing more?