Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:

Very very strange words coming from a self-professed anarchist.

I agree that the government ought to be merely a (small) group of
agencies to serve some essential needs that can't be served in any other
way, as _employees_ of the citizens, _not_ rulers over them.

But it has grown, like a cancerous tumor, far beyond its constitutional
bounds to the point where it is now a power unto itself.



It is a perversion of the original idea. The Founders did not anticipate
capitalism, let alone think something like that would be allowed to
flourish. If we remove the profit motive from war, and institute public
financing for elected offices, we'd be able to get a better handle on
the rest.

It really beyond redemption without a complete teardown and reassembly,
but she's worth saving. A big-ass general strike and some debt
forgiveness would shake things up nicely. Stop everything just long
enough to put the moneychangers out of business. I'm guessing less than
a week...

On Dec 13, 9:12*am, dave wrote:
Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
Very very strange words coming from a self-professed anarchist.

I agree that the government ought to be merely a (small) group of
agencies to serve some essential needs that can't be served in any other
way, as _employees_ of the citizens, _not_ rulers over them.

But it has grown, like a cancerous tumor, far beyond its constitutional
bounds to the point where it is now a power unto itself.

It is a perversion of the original idea.

- The Founders did not anticipate capitalism,

'Special Dave' so 'none' of the Founding Fathers
* Own Land
* Ran a Business
* Bought and Sold anything . . .

RHF wrote:


'Special Dave' so there was 'no' Flourishing Free
& Open Economy in the American Colonies before
the War of Independence ? During the War and
Continuing after the War to this present day . . .

Capitalism is a nasty byproduct of the Industrial Revolution. I'm not
referring to starting a business. I'm talking about "business"
controlling everything else. Modern capitalism is a product of activist
judges in the late 19th century. It is a perversion of any noble idea of
hard work paying off.