Subject: RE: [drugwar] RE: [OT] Andria joins the War is the life blood of the State-discussion Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:33:06 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:49:27 +0100, Efthimiou-Mordaunt,A wrote: >=A0So how come Europe countries , which has much stricter labor= laws , >=A0consistently have about twice the unemployment rate as US ? > >=A0>Because they are also affected by increasing economic= globalisation, I must admit I have basically the perspective of a global= citizen . I have too many friends from all over the world to feel the= people from where I come from should be protected from the people where they= come from or vis-versa . > and the > free-market, as I understand it necessitates= labor-fragmentation. I'm not sure what you mean . > I hadn't even > mentioned the U.S in my previous spiel B.A Remember the IMF and= the WTO are > both INTERNATIONAL entities Basically government to government institutions . >=A0I agree that the State should be more accountable: It's to massive and conglomerated - controlling the application= of force in all aspects of your life - to be controlled You've got= the equivalent of 1 dollar ( pound ) to spend at each level every= couple of years . I've come to feel the parliamentary structure may be somewhat better than the US . > And my bottom line is that right now as we speak business is= eating up > government integrity: That's an oxymoron . Power corrupts . > I think it proves how driven humans are by their own= needs/desires, > rather than reducing human suffering People are without question interested in reducing their own and= their family's suffering first . >=A0U could argue, and might in fact that all that consumerism does= reduce suffering; true, at least temporarily, but U know what= those Liverpool lads said - Money can't buy U love, though it= might buy U a few good lays, a lover who pretends to love U and= then may even actually love U - wonders will never cease. Those are the lyrics ? Guess I never listened closely . >=A0Hey Bob, can't we just agree to differ? I mean I was raised in= such a very strongly anti-materialist household. My Pa, a waiter= was a seriuous gambler. Money was nothing but pain for us. (That is the fear of not= having it) I am not poor. > I'm just not convinced that the only things we all need are= freedom > and money, which appears to be the basic tenets of the LP It's that money is the medium which allows you to carry the= credit you obtain in one exchange to apply in others . The only alternative= is Force . So markets and freedom are inextricably linked . Enjoyable as this is , I don't have time for it either . I am feeling the fear of not having any money ( the only income= I have had recently is $500 from being "double-dog-dared" into putting my= money where my mouth was into betting that not Weapons of Mass Destruction= would be found . I hate gambling , but any significant amount of money is= really assets of various sorts so gambling , hopefully based on= rational handicapping , is inevitable . But I don't like it anyway . Check some of the links on my Liberty page . I suggest= particularly http://www.mises.org/ if you want to get into the truly heavy= duty literature of some of the great minds of the last couple of= centuries . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Liberty : http://cosy.com/Liberty.htm =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/07/15 8:52:56 PM