Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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Like Jefferson, you live in a dream world were agrarianism is some kind of mythical utopia -- it's not and it never was.
The federal government has a duty to only protect liberty?
And this thread has nothing to do with liberty.
We fought your ideas long ago. With Jefferson/Madison and Marshall and with the traitorous insurrection commonly know as the Confederate rebellion.
Well I don't know about agrarianism being a mythical utopia, but it's basic economics to know that as prices go down demand goes up. So if the price of corn goes down more people are going to buy it.
Maybe in your mind it has nothing to do with liberty. But I bet the people who lived through the Depression wish their government hadn't forced them to suffer on behalf of farmers.
Yes, the battle between liberty and statism has been going on a long time.
Basic economic principles have failed us time and time again. Most economic models are a step above voodoo. Use them, sure, but believe they hold the key? crazy.
take things out of context all you want. you always need to in order to validate flawed premises.
The government forced people to suffer on behalf of farmers? Wow! those farmers must have had a strong lobby, lots of money and millions of votes.
Government intervention in the market has failed us time and again.
So you deny that the government paid farmers to destroy crops and slaughter animals rather than sell them to the public?