Issues involving government these days are continually proving beyond a reasonable doubt the uselessness of government, its intrusions and its doing nothing but cause dysfunction in the United States of America, and throughout the world.
In The Two Faces of Interventionism, Justin Raimondo questions US governmental interventionist policies in Haiti, which has recently been suffering as a result of a devastating earthquake.
…the logic of intervention will embroil the US in Haiti’s tumultuous and often murderous politics, and from that kind of quagmire there is no easy extrication….While the benevolent visage of the American hegemon is on full display in Haiti, pardon me if I question the purity of Washington’s motives, which are, as always, based on purely political calculations…If we’re nation-building in Haiti, then why not in Afghanistan, too? Such a mindset is the very essence of modern, and specifically of American imperialism: the idea that the world must be saved from itself. But the world is too big, too unruly, and too ungrateful to be saved, from itself or anyone else: this is the bitter lesson history teaches us at every conjuncture…
In Socialism and Death in Haiti, Jacob Hornberger observes the difference between America’s wealth and Haiti’s poverty.
…What is the key to the creation of a wealthy society? Capital. Capital enables people to be more productive. More productivity means higher profits and higher wages. How does capital come into existence? Through savings? When people save a portion of their incomes, they put the money into banks, when are then able to lend it out to businesses that are financing the purchase of equipment, which makes workers more productive. It is a process by which everyone’s interests coincide — those of the employer, the employee, and the consumer…. Thus, the key to a wealthier society is precisely the opposite from that advocated by liberals. Socialism is not the solution to poverty, as liberals claim. Socialism destroys wealth and ensures that people will remain mired in poverty….
In Hurting People For a Living, William Norman Grigg compares people who for a living hurt people who hurt others (but not people who haven’t done anything to others) to people who for a living hurt people who haven’t done anything to others, and compares the New Hampshire “tax fugitives” to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s tax evasions and alleged conspiracies involving tax dollars.
…Steal hundreds of billions from taxpayers, and you’re a public servant; refuse to permit your legitimately earned wealth to be stolen from you, and you’re a felon…
And in Left-Liberals on free Speech and Campaign Finance Laws, Stephan Kinsella notes a recent Supreme Court decision that struck down campaign finance laws as violation of First Amendment free speech protections, but that it should have been because the Constitution doesn’t enumerate such as a power for government in the first place.
…If the Bill of Rights were absent, and the Court had struck down McCain-Feingold on the grounds that it is ultra vires–beyond the power of Congressional legislation absent an enumerated power in the Constitution–it would be hard to argue that this “lack of power” grounds could somehow apply to the States–unlike the unique federal government, the states have plenary legislative power (see The Unique American Federal Government)…
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