The Fraud of Voting
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT
Russell Madden at Laissez Faire Electronic Times -
Voting Fraud: Circuses and Diebold - all the talk about fraudulent
counting of votes misses the big point: the very concept is fraudulent
of voting for someone to make decisions we all are forced to live
by. [grabbe]
"Voting fraud" became a problem the instant people forgot that an election's goal is no more -- and no less -- than to select a group of dedicated individuals who will work tirelessly, ceaselessly, solely to preserve and protect the freedom, the rights, the lives of each and every American.
Period.
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - Look Outside Politics for Blackout Solution - government is responding with in its typical knee-jerk manner to last week's electicity black-out, more regulation. Dr. Paul reminds us that what is really needed is more power plants, and those will be provided by less, not more, regulation.
As economist Thomas DiLorenzo points out, the fundamental problem is government interference with supply in the electricity market. The nation's population has risen dramatically in the last 30 years, causing a huge increase in demand for electricity. But supply has increased little if at all, thanks to environmentalists and land-use bureaucrats at both the state and federal levels. The Neo-Luddites, as DiLorenzo terms them, are adamantly against building new nuclear power plants, hydroelectric dams, and especially coal or natural gas-fired electric power plants. When demand grows without a corresponding increase in capacity, the entire electric grid becomes overloaded. Last week demonstrates that it doesn't take much to tip the balance and crash the system over a large area.
Electricity, from coal burning sources or not, is likely to remain our primary form of power for decades. We simply need to accept this and build more electric power plants. In a free market, profit-seeking companies would be happy to build new plants and sell power to an ever-growing population. Unless and until government stops restricting supply and controlling prices, however, we can only expect the electric power system to remain vulnerable. It is precisely because electricity is so vitally important in our modern world that it should be delivered by the efficient free market, rather than the dismal bureaucratic sector. In this day and age, it is preposterous that we have problems delivering simple electric power where and when it is needed. The recent blackout cannot be blamed on technology or a lack of capital, and certainly not on a supposed market failure. The real problem- too much government regulation- is likely to be ignored as Congress rushes to engineer a wholesale federal takeover of the electricity industry.
Kim du Toit - RE: Retired Cops - Kim responds to reader mail on granting CCW to retired cops. [kimdutoit]
In case I haven't made myself crystal clear, here's my final word on the matter:
Any ex-cop who supports CCW for themselves but not for everyone, is no different to Dianne Bitch Feinstein who wants to ban guns for everyone except her own f***ing bodyguards.
