Thanks to lewrockwell.com for posting this article from the New American regarding the NSA and its desire to watch, listen, record, etc. everything we say and do, every day, all year long. All of those dystopian sci-fi flicks the past 20 years, entertaining us with the idea that governments were everywhere - are actually coming true.
Taxpayer dollars being used to create a massive surveillance center to spy on - yes, taxpayers! For some reason, I wish I was born in like 1640 and lived until 1725 or so. I would have been 99.9% free, with a life basically untouched by government. Those were the days.
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As much as I can appreciate the facts that they posted on what the NSA is doing it is still years and years and years away from being able to do what it thinks it can do. I hate to say it, but the NSA is going to fight a losing battle. Privacy is something people fight for every day and with the right resources (which are not that hard to get) one can have that privacy. Does it make it right that they are doing what they are doing? No, of course not, but I believe that the NSA is going to be one of those agencies that will be seen in American History as a joke for trying to accomplish what never could be accomplished.
And there's at least a 50% chance that you would've died at a much earlier age; most likely during childhood during those times in America. Those rates go up sharply if you're a woman. I prefer the present myself, but Integrity of the our data communications is something that we the citizens must take notice of and take action to uphold. We can do something about it (i.e. SOPA). I would think a good capitalist such as yourself would see this as an opportunity to give the market what it wants--anonymity.
Hmmm. I think 50 years of liberty may be better than a longer lifetime filled with government edicts, surveillance, massive taxation, regulation, etc. As we see now in Spain, which is imploding, everything the govt does turns to mud. Spain's govt, a la Keynesianism/socialism, has destroyed the economy there. Markets work, central planning doesn't. And neither does half way measures. The proof is in the pudding.
But you didn't have liberty back then either. Hence the revolution. You decry Keynesian economic policies, but those same policies prevented our recession from becoming a depression, which can't be said if we had a laissez-faire economy. The proof, as you say, is in the pudding.
"Markets work, central planning doesn't." The largest bank in the country (JP Morgan) just lost 2Billion dollars because of moronic statements such as this one. Wealth is being destroyed right now in the financial markets because critics of all things government, like yourself, have fought off policies that would prevent this kind of behavior at commercial banking institutions. Its well understood that governments should not control every aspect of all human endeavors, but nonetheless there are things that governments are needed for. And you being a professor should not dismiss the fact that unchecked markets have the potential to fail spectacularly.
Sorry, Will, you're watching too much MSNBC. Those Keynesian policies will create the depression. They just kicked the can down the road by printing more money. The proof IS in the pudding. Just look at m1, m2, m3, and mzm under the current fed chief, Bernanke.
Anonymous, you need to bone up on monetary policy, and u.s. monetary history. If you knew both, you would not have posted what you did. Start with America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard and the healing can begin. Look what central planning did to Greece and Spain. France is next.
Well, you know what they say; "the only thing we learn from history is that we DON'T learn from history."
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