libertarian agenda and some notes on free trade... -- Council of The Grey

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Date Posted: 22:07:40 08/14/00 Mon
Author: steve
Subject: libertarian agenda and some notes on free trade...
In reply to: oyster 's message, "Re: heh..." on 21:45:54 08/14/00 Mon

Well, Libertarians maybe a hopeless cause, but there agenda is sound, and truly what this country was founded on I believe...minimal goverment intervention in everything, and a vast sense of both personal moral and economic freedom...I would like to see it take a step further, in which the Goverments role is designed as strctly insuring that sense of freedom...like on freetrade for example...

..the libertarians supposrt free trade, yet free trade is not always fair trade or best for the country, because these countries we compete with have no labor or enviormental laws...yet the libertarians would see them dismissed here as well, american worlers will never be as weakly paid, nor our enviorment raped as badly as it is overseas, thanks to the growing pains we have already dealt with in the early part of the century, yet, with a higher standered of working wage and enviorment, we are not on an equal level of competition to thoes who can charge slave labor and work people for 16 hour days then dump their waste in a river or something...granted because of capital and technology, we are more productive, thus this slightly offsets some problems...

...if we can settle these things, there is till one problem with resources, the portability of labor resource...which I see as a challenge that would merely strengthen this country and trim some lazy fat...in the future when we are more competive and there are less trade barries, we must have all resources, including labor, able to be swiftly manuverable to there best application to sucseed...granted we will be more specialized in producing what we can produce the best and is most marketabel, which will probably be technolgy mostly, but the market will shift and demands will change, meaing american workers must be more versitle, and able to drop one highly specialized vocation and go to another...this will force people to become more deversly educated and more widely cultured, thus through economics, we will finally have a better educated society...by the power of the market we can accomplish all things...it's a shame the market and greed is what drives us, that is why all our accomplishments are tainted I suppose...

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