Senator Tex

[cub_driver]

I found this blog through the links of another one I routinely visit.  Anyway, I haven’t read through it all, but it appears to be a guy in Australia whom was asked to run for their senate by the Liberal Democratic Party, or “Libertarians with a douche bag of a name” as he referred to them.  Anyway he sounds too smart to actually run…  Damn shame,

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[raindropsmile]

Wouldn't work. Mainly because people have the right to enter into binding agreements with each other, which is basically what a government is. Enough people agree on a set of rules that they want to play by and everyone else either needs to abide by those rules or find their own sandbox. He is certainly welcome to try to change those rules, but I still don't think they'll work. Reason: those rules are there for a reason. If this trusting moron manages to destroy them one of two things will develop, they might just come back in some other form as non-governmental bodies start codifying regulations (want to live in OUR community, well then your house needs to conform to such and such regulations, want to come to OUR prep-school, then your beautiful child can't come to school hopped on meth) or some other sert of rules, probably worse, will be set into place. Take regulations off of business and they will eat private citizens alive (hmmm, unions, we don't want unions, we are going to lay everyone off then hire from the vast pool of

[cub_driver]

I agree with what you are saying IF we only had the federal government. What you are talking about should be the responsibility of state and local governments. I am of the opinion that rules should be made on the most local scale possible. This way the people that live in the community make their own rules. You don’t have the masses of people that live on the east coast passing federal laws that affect the west coast. You don’t have the Portland Metro area’s majority of the state population passing laws that effect farmers in John Day. This way, you have people who can go live with like minded people in a community where they are not affected by rules people want to live by elsewhere. What you are talking about is LOCAL governance, which is good.

[raindropsmile]

They tried that. It didn't work. Thus our current system of government. The biggest problem was that the states could each print their own currency, and they weren't responsible. I think it would be worthwhile to try again. Better yet, disband the union, leave a mutual defense treaty instead. And some sort of EU travel thing so if one state went nuts people could escape to other states freely. Then again, it is 1:20 in the morning and I'm dead tired.