Well its a matter of degree. There’s bloated and there’s bloated. According to Daniel we’ve got to get from 1.1 million down to a component of the 150,000, say 30,000 ?. Thats a 36:1 ratio. Sounds like quite a stretch to me.
Tell me how this is not central planning?
I’ve noticed, from observing many of your postings on multiple threads, that your posts are very often non-sequiturs. And this is a fine example.
It’s been a problem on the forum lately. People have what they want to talk about, and instead of making new threads, they inject it into any current discussion.
@ the premise of the thread,
Hoppe is an anarchist. Block is an anarchist. I don’t know if Doug French is an anarchist, but I know he was a student of Rothbard’s, who was an anarchist. There are far more anarchists @ LvMI (GMU and other institutions may differ) than there are minarchists. There are minarchists, but in almost all cases, they are very radical, and firemen are not part of radical minarchism. A fireman has nothing to do with justice, he is merely a service provider, no different from pest control or flood restoration service.
There is a reason why many of us are anarchists. Two years ago, I was a Ron Paul minarchist. I’m also a Schiff fan, and he is very radical. Now whether he is or is not an anarchist, I don’t really know. Obviously, with a potential campaign, he has to parse his words, so I don’t think we could call his radio show and get a definitive answer.
As far as Mises and Hazlitt, they have passed. A lot has changed in the world since they were in the debate, and knowledge has continued to advance.
Ron Paul, definitely an anarchist at heart. No one who references Lysander Spooner and supports secession down to the individual level could be a minarchist. A minarchist is not for a minimal voluntary state, a minarchist is for a minimal involuntary state.
yes and I can think the same of you. that gets us nowhere. We’re obviously not communicating affectively. So what are you talking about when you are asking how many firemen and police there will be in a free market? Why are you asking these questions?
you answered the OP seemingly. i simply wanted to know why the OP is wondering about how many firemen, police, etc… there will be. I asked in response to his post. notice i didn’t give an answer as to how many or what have you, i mean wouldn’t that mean hijacking the thread? i asked why he is asking these questions - so - by default it’s obvious the OP is veering from his own OP. a person could effectively argue that I am enabling the OP in veering from his initial post, but the whole general theme of this thread has basically veered by numerous posters away from the initial post - including the Oposter him or her self.
Dear “liberty student”,
Thank you for that excellent answer, thats just the kind of thing I wanted to know.
it’s only a non-sequitur if we are debating. you might think we are debating. I don’t. I think I’m trying to ask you a question referring to what you are talking about. it’s a discussion - i’m not trying to pin you down on some fallacy or something.
Sure, but that is not what you were asking. Oh wellz!
That wasn’t my question!.. Either concentrate and pay attention, or don’t post.
The problem is Macro theory. It gathers statistics (a record of reported information gathered by the state), then attempts to direct them. GDP is a perfect example.
Tell me this. Do you make your personal economic decisions based upon GDP, NDP, NX, GX, TR, TA, Y, I, or any of the other meaningless variables in macro theory? If you do, I would guess you are doing about as well as the government. i.e. you will never be able to get out of debt. Your question is pointless because it is based on a false fork in the road. The fork was never there, so discussing what lies down it is pure fantasy.
This is an attempt to kill the messenger. Stupid tactic. It never solves the problem
if that’s NOT what you are asking then what is this?
True, but it was close enough. It answered the gist of my question.
or this?
or this?
Please, go through the posts again from the beginning - slowly, or better still ask a grown up.
or this?
should I go on?
You are correct. It’s what he wanted to know, not what he asked.
Sometimes, people are asking for one thing, and they want another. Communicating in text has its limitations. That’s why it is important to be a sensitive reader (listener). We have to make up for the lack of tone, context and body language when using this medium.
No. Please don’t.