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Monkey Face, TRH, and a few others, now is your chance to experience what you have been longing for. Almost total un -lawlessness. Just load up your families and move out to the NYC area for about a week. Then you will appreciate having a semblance of law and order, if you survive. And I doubt that you could.


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That's not anarchy government still exist. Government has chosen not to do it's job but that's not anarchy. Of course, if you want to call government anarchy that I would go along with.


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Derby, Google "Marshall law declared in Jersey Shore."

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Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.


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Originally Posted by Bigbuck215
Monkey Face, TRH, and a few others, now is your chance to experience what you have been longing for. Almost total un -lawlessness. Just load up your families and move out to the NYC area for about a week. Then you will appreciate having a semblance of law and order, if you survive. And I doubt that you could.


Those that promote it, have never experienced it...

Monkey face has been offered a taste of "Barakistan" & has to date refused the offer.

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If someone lives the life of a hermit, is any form of gov. even really noticed ?

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Originally Posted by Barak
Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.


Aren't some of those folks (NYC area) almost neighbor's of yours ?

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Monkey Face owns an airplane. Wonder who built the runway he uses? And the hanger? Plus any other airport that he might land at? And the facilities?


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Originally Posted by Bigbuck215
Monkey Face owns an airplane. Wonder who built the runway he uses? And the hanger? Plus any other airport that he might land at? And the facilities?


I think what you're trying to say is:

"You Didn't Build That!"











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Originally Posted by RDFinn
If someone lives the life of a hermit, is any form of gov. even really noticed ?


Yes...when you've worked your entire life looking for & filing a placer claim under the mining law of 1872 & are then pretty much chased out from your claim by threats from a minerals manager of the USFS who pretty much has the last word...what are you gonna do against the thugs who are gonna use helicopters & the local leo's to impound your equipment & lock your ass up under bogus charges??? I seen the writing on the wall...& it said I would either end up in jail or in a grave... mad

That claim had a horrendous amount of gold on it, & it had a lot in common with the "Big Nugget" claim on the discovery channel with the exception that it had well in excess of the meager values they show...the thing that really upsets me though is that I was willing to comply with any & all of this particular "minerals managers" demands & was told (by him) he'd NEVER approve my "plan of operation" for that particular piece of ground... mad

Mining has been my first love since I picked my first piece of gold out of the pan over 40 years ago but in my naivete, I figured I'd be protected....not only by our laws, but by the people that enforce them...I haven't checked to see if my old claim has been filed over, but it would surprise me if it hasn't...

Early on in my mining journey another spot I had intended to claim was on the North Fork of the American river, below a spot called "green valley" a schittload of gold, but in the infinite wisdom of the federal government, it was reclassified into a "Wild & Scenic" river a long time ago... cry

Every time I turn around, it seems as though "THE GOVT" in one form or the other seems intent on shoving it up my ass in one form or the other...

So yeah...even if you live the life of a hermit, you WILL be noticed...

One thing that I don't understand, & probably never will though is WHY??? What I mean is "why" anybody could be against another person pulling money "minerals" out of the ground & actually "creating" wealth...

My "retirement" plan for the past 40 or so years has been to collect social security & mine for gold...one way or another, I'll beat them bastards...




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Originally Posted by Bigbuck215
Monkey Face owns an airplane. Wonder who built the runway he uses? And the hanger? Plus any other airport that he might land at? And the facilities?


No federal, state or local government is needed to create such facilities and their creation without them is certainly much more efficient.

Obviously there are some fundamentals that you need to review.


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Originally Posted by Bigbuck215
Monkey Face, TRH, and a few others, now is your chance to experience what you have been longing for. Almost total un -lawlessness. Just load up your families and move out to the NYC area for about a week. Then you will appreciate having a semblance of law and order, if you survive. And I doubt that you could.
How do you confuse a strict constructionist constitutionalist conservative with an anarchist? crazy You are one mixed up MF.

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I guess it depends on if a guy supports an anarchist?


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Originally Posted by Barak
Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.


AMEN that Barak.


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I can't understand why pet definitions of words supersede the real ones.

The mind boggles...


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Originally Posted by eyeball
I guess it depends on if a guy supports an anarchist?
And who might that be?

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People who's actions help O in his election efforts.

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Originally Posted by eyeball
People who's actions help O
How is helping a statist totalitarian get elected a pro-anarchy act?

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That's what I'm asking you to do.

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Originally Posted by deersmeller
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Monkey Face owns an airplane. Wonder who built the runway he uses? And the hanger? Plus any other airport that he might land at? And the facilities?


No federal, state or local government is needed to create such facilities and their creation without them is certainly much more efficient.

Obviously there are some fundamentals that you need to review.


True, but how many people do you know that have built their own airport, complete with all the safety features that they have?

I know more than one person that has built a dirt runway but that is just the bare basics and not at all what I'm referring to. I doubt that MF would ever consider landing his rig at anything less than first class.


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Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.


Aren't some of those folks (NYC area) almost neighbor's of yours ?

How did you know I lived in the NYC area?


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Originally Posted by Bigbuck215
Monkey Face owns an airplane.

And how did you know I owned an airplane?


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Originally Posted by Barak
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Monkey Face owns an airplane.

And how did you know I owned an airplane?


Don't you remember taking me for a ride???


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Originally Posted by Barak
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Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.


Aren't some of those folks (NYC area) almost neighbor's of yours ?

How did you know I lived in the NYC area?


That's where Penny lives right ?

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Originally Posted by Bigbuck215
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Monkey Face owns an airplane.

And how did you know I owned an airplane?


Don't you remember taking me for a ride???

That was _you?_ Okay, but how did you know it was my airplane? My brother's looks almost just like it, and he's the one who made the deal.


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Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.


Aren't some of those folks (NYC area) almost neighbor's of yours ?

How did you know I lived in the NYC area?


That's where Penny lives right ?

Okay, fine--how did you know _Penny_ lived in the NYC area?


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Originally Posted by Plinker
Derby, Google "Marshall law declared in Jersey Shore."


Isn't that "marital" law? I could be wrong.


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It's obvious that most on here have no idea of what anarchy is or means.


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Derby, Google "Marshall law declared in Jersey Shore."


Isn't that "marital" law? I could be wrong.
He's referring to the law established by actor William Marshall, i.e., "Never Endow Artificially Intelligent Machines With Human Engrams."

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Derby, Google "Marshall law declared in Jersey Shore."


Isn't that "marital" law? I could be wrong.
He's referring to the law established by actor William Marshall, i.e., "Never Endow Artificially Intelligent Machines With Human Engrams."

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Oh okay. See I don't know everything. smile


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It's their favorite alinsky type buzzword for anything less than the current amount of government/laws/etc. & the bloated, unsustainable, empty teated pig she has become.

Statists, gotta love 'em. Todays Tories.


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Originally Posted by derby_dude
It's obvious that most on here have no idea of what anarchy is or means.
Ain't that the truth?

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Derby, Google "Marshall law declared in Jersey Shore."


Isn't that "marital" law? I could be wrong.
He's referring to the law established by actor William Marshall, i.e., "Never Endow Artificially Intelligent Machines With Human Engrams."

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Oh okay. See I don't know everything. smile


WTF are you nerds talking about?


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Originally Posted by oulufinn
It's their favorite alinsky type buzzword for anything less than the current amount of government/laws/etc. & the bloated, unsustainable, empty teated pig she has become.

Statists, gotta love 'em. Todays Tories.
Exactly. Any call for limited constitutional government under the rule of law and free markets is a call for anarchy to these folks.

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WTF are you nerds talking about?


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Originally Posted by Middlefork_Miner
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If someone lives the life of a hermit, is any form of gov. even really noticed ?


Yes...when you've worked your entire life looking for & filing a placer claim under the mining law of 1872 & are then pretty much chased out from your claim by threats from a minerals manager of the USFS who pretty much has the last word...what are you gonna do against the thugs who are gonna use helicopters & the local leo's to impound your equipment & lock your ass up under bogus charges??? I seen the writing on the wall...& it said I would either end up in jail or in a grave... mad

That claim had a horrendous amount of gold on it, & it had a lot in common with the "Big Nugget" claim on the discovery channel with the exception that it had well in excess of the meager values they show...the thing that really upsets me though is that I was willing to comply with any & all of this particular "minerals managers" demands & was told (by him) he'd NEVER approve my "plan of operation" for that particular piece of ground... mad

Mining has been my first love since I picked my first piece of gold out of the pan over 40 years ago but in my naivete, I figured I'd be protected....not only by our laws, but by the people that enforce them...I haven't checked to see if my old claim has been filed over, but it would surprise me if it hasn't...

Early on in my mining journey another spot I had intended to claim was on the North Fork of the American river, below a spot called "green valley" a schittload of gold, but in the infinite wisdom of the federal government, it was reclassified into a "Wild & Scenic" river a long time ago... cry

Every time I turn around, it seems as though "THE GOVT" in one form or the other seems intent on shoving it up my ass in one form or the other...

So yeah...even if you live the life of a hermit, you WILL be noticed...

One thing that I don't understand, & probably never will though is WHY??? What I mean is "why" anybody could be against another person pulling money "minerals" out of the ground & actually "creating" wealth...

My "retirement" plan for the past 40 or so years has been to collect social security & mine for gold...one way or another, I'll beat them bastards...





Last week i was up in the mts by prescott, on a ol stretch of river that they have been pulling gold out of since the 1800's. Saw these pretty signs Federal Mining clain. Heavy equipment in there they were working in the sand. Had to laugh, down river a mile or so was a camp, one of those cheap azz tents, quad with a plastic water container on it, some five gallon buckets. Saw the ol guy that was there riding back from a place he was getting water, he was working that spot for gold. If i would have had more time, i think i would have stopped to help him.
Down near congress was a homestead in my family since way before territorial days, there was a gold mine on it abandoned in the 40's due to water coming in they couldn't control. The ol lady that had the claim died, and her daughter in law neglected by a short period of time filing the necessary paperwork. The B.L.M. now owns it. The government is NOT your friend.


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Monkey Face owns an airplane.

And how did you know I owned an airplane?


Don't you remember taking me for a ride???

That was _you?_ Okay, but how did you know it was my airplane? My brother's looks almost just like it, and he's the one who made the deal.


Because_it_had a_ Monkey Face on the vertical fin_.


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Because_it_had a_ Monkey Face on the vertical fin_.

C'maaan--I thought you were serious.

But really--how did you know I owned an airplane?


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Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.
Are they really?
I thought they were people who buy vital services from mostly private companies whose products or distribution systems have failed, and are now looking to the government for assistance. But since you make that statement, I don't imagine you understand the role of the government or FEMA in the instance of a disaster.

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I thought they were people who buy vital services from mostly private companies whose products or distribution systems have failed, and are now looking to the government for assistance. But since you make that statement, I don't imagine you understand the role of the government or FEMA in the instance of a disaster.


All true, which makes it difficult to decide whether Barak or Bigbuck215 is the most incorrect.


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Alot of these government dependent people are people that are friend's of Barak's. You know, welfare dependent types who are potential inmates waiting for their next incarceration.

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Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.
Are they really?
I thought they were people who buy vital services from mostly private companies whose products or distribution systems have failed, and are now looking to the government for assistance. But since you make that statement, I don't imagine you understand the role of the government or FEMA in the instance of a disaster.

Sure I do. I just read an article about a guy who drove his pickup truck outside the gasoline-starved area and loaded up a bunch of food-grade 5-gallon plastic buckets (because that's what he had) with gasoline to take back in and sell to folks who needed it--that is, an entrepreneur taking the initiative to follow free-market pressures that stimulate distribution by attracting resources from where they're plentiful and cheap to where they're rare and valuable.

The government arrested him for carrying gasoline in unapproved containers and confiscated his cargo.

That's the role of government and FEMA in the instance of a disaster: to frustrate the free market, assault and kill people, and maintain conditions of squalor and dependence for as long as possible.


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Originally Posted by Barak
Sure I do. I just read an article about a guy who drove his pickup truck outside the gasoline-starved area and loaded up a bunch of food-grade 5-gallon plastic buckets (because that's what he had) with gasoline to take back in and sell to folks who needed it--that is, an entrepreneur taking the initiative to follow free-market pressures that stimulate distribution by attracting resources from where they're plentiful and cheap to where they're rare and valuable.

The government arrested him for carrying gasoline in unapproved containers and confiscated his cargo.

That's the role of government and FEMA in the instance of a disaster: to frustrate the free market, assault and kill people, and maintain conditions of squalor and dependence for as long as possible.
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Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.
Are they really?
I thought they were people who buy vital services from mostly private companies whose products or distribution systems have failed, and are now looking to the government for assistance. But since you make that statement, I don't imagine you understand the role of the government or FEMA in the instance of a disaster.


The private companies haven't failed it's the government and unions who have failed.

If the government and unions would get the hell out of the way mountains could and would be moved by private companies to get things going again. The same thing happened in NO during Katrina. It's always the government that's the stumbling block in these situations NOT private companies.

I realize I'm semi-retired and have the time to listen to radio and read the Internet which probably puts me ahead of the curve.


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Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.
Are they really?
I thought they were people who buy vital services from mostly private companies whose products or distribution systems have failed, and are now looking to the government for assistance. But since you make that statement, I don't imagine you understand the role of the government or FEMA in the instance of a disaster.

Sure I do. I just read an article about a guy who drove his pickup truck outside the gasoline-starved area and loaded up a bunch of food-grade 5-gallon plastic buckets (because that's what he had) with gasoline to take back in and sell to folks who needed it--that is, an entrepreneur taking the initiative to follow free-market pressures that stimulate distribution by attracting resources from where they're plentiful and cheap to where they're rare and valuable.

The government arrested him for carrying gasoline in unapproved containers and confiscated his cargo.

That's the role of government and FEMA in the instance of a disaster: to frustrate the free market, assault and kill people, and maintain conditions of squalor and dependence for as long as possible.


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Sure I do. I just read an article about a guy who drove his pickup truck outside the gasoline-starved area and loaded up a bunch of food-grade 5-gallon plastic buckets (because that's what he had) with gasoline to take back in and sell to folks who needed it--that is, an entrepreneur taking the initiative to follow free-market pressures that stimulate distribution by attracting resources from where they're plentiful and cheap to where they're rare and valuable.

The government arrested him for carrying gasoline in unapproved containers and confiscated his cargo.

That's the role of government and FEMA in the instance of a disaster: to frustrate the free market, assault and kill people, and maintain conditions of squalor and dependence for as long as possible.
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You're only half right. Here it's the union's [bleep] things up to get the power restored.

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You're only half right. Here it's the union's [bleep] things up to get the power restored.


I'm not half right I'm one hundred percent right as usual at least in these matters. Governments and unions are criminal enterprises by nature.


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I'm not half right I'm one hundred percent right as usual at least in these matters. Governments and unions are criminal enterprises by nature.
Legislatively perhaps. But collective bargaining is pure capitalism...supply & demand.

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I'm not half right I'm one hundred percent right as usual at least in these matters. Governments and unions are criminal enterprises by nature.
Legislatively perhaps. But collective bargaining is pure capitalism...supply & demand.

Only if the government stays out of it...which the government almost never does.


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I'm not half right I'm one hundred percent right as usual at least in these matters. Governments and unions are criminal enterprises by nature.
Legislatively perhaps. But collective bargaining is pure capitalism...supply & demand.
In a free market, it would be, but that's not been the case regarding labor relations in the US at least since the Wagner Act of 1935.

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In this instance you're half right. I'm not seeing where the gov is blocking power resoration here in NJ. I agree that both are criminal enterprises by nature.

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In this instance you're half right. I'm not seeing where the gov is blocking power resoration here in NJ. I agree that both are criminal enterprises by nature.


Well you are closer to the action than I am being about 2500 miles away but from what I understand the government has done nothing to shut down the union from stopping non-union line men from restoring power.


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I'm not half right I'm one hundred percent right as usual at least in these matters. Governments and unions are criminal enterprises by nature.
Legislatively perhaps. But collective bargaining is pure capitalism...supply & demand.


Collective bargaining is not pure capitalism because collective bargaining is based on theft. Nobody is going to consent to theft unless force is employed.

One person starts out with no marbles while the other person has all the marbles. The one who wants the marbles from the one who has the marbles uses force to obtain the marbles. That's not capiltalism pure or other wise.


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I'm not half right I'm one hundred percent right as usual at least in these matters. Governments and unions are criminal enterprises by nature.
Legislatively perhaps. But collective bargaining is pure capitalism...supply & demand.


Collective bargaining is not pure capitalism because collective bargaining is based on theft. Nobody is going to consent to theft unless force is employed.

One person starts out with no marbles while the other person has all the marbles. The one who wants the marbles from the one who has the marbles uses force to obtain the marbles. That's not capiltalism pure or other wise.
Absolutely incorrect. In the context of a free market, labor may coordinate freely in establishing their price (i.e., wage) just as merchants may do so regarding their prices, if they like. By doing this, however, in a free system, both expose themselves to the risk of other workers or merchants undercutting them. What government in the US does, however, is to outlaw the undercutting part, i.e., interfere with the natural operation of the free market establishing prices for labor (i.e., wages).

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In this instance you're half right. I'm not seeing where the gov is blocking power resoration here in NJ. I agree that both are criminal enterprises by nature.


Well you are closer to the action than I am being about 2500 miles away but from what I understand the government has done nothing to shut down the union from stopping non-union line men from restoring power.


In this instance they've done nothing to help or hurt the situation. If they did try to step in you guys would be saying they are evil for stepping in.

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I'm not half right I'm one hundred percent right as usual at least in these matters. Governments and unions are criminal enterprises by nature.
Legislatively perhaps. But collective bargaining is pure capitalism...supply & demand.


Collective bargaining is not pure capitalism because collective bargaining is based on theft. Nobody is going to consent to theft unless force is employed.

One person starts out with no marbles while the other person has all the marbles. The one who wants the marbles from the one who has the marbles uses force to obtain the marbles. That's not capiltalism pure or other wise.
Absolutely incorrect. In the context of a free market, labor may coordinate freely in establishing their price (i.e., wage) just as merchants may do so regarding their prices, if they like. By doing this, however, in a free system, both expose themselves to the risk of other workers or merchants undercutting them. What government in the US does, however, is to outlaw the undercutting part, i.e., interfering with natural operation of the free market in the establishment of prices. Wages are merely prices for labor.


As usual I'm right as I almost always am. In the context of a free market there is no such thing as collective bargaining. Collective bargaining requires a group of at least two and when you have at least two force always enters into the collective bargaining.


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In this instance you're half right. I'm not seeing where the gov is blocking power resoration here in NJ. I agree that both are criminal enterprises by nature.


Well you are closer to the action than I am being about 2500 miles away but from what I understand the government has done nothing to shut down the union from stopping non-union line men from restoring power.


In this instance they've done nothing to help or hurt the situation. If they did try to step in you guys would be saying they are evil for stepping in.


I think government is evil anyway but in this case the government has a legitimate function to step in and make the recovery move as fast as possible. But as usual, government is more a problem than a solution.


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As usual I'm right as I almost always am. In the context of a free market there is no such thing as collective bargaining. Collective bargaining requires a group of at least two and when you have at least two force always enters into the collective bargaining.
You are being self-contradictory. If I'm free, and so are you, then we are free to inform our employer of our intention to stop working absent some condition, such as higher wages or safer work conditions. If we are not free to do that, then the market isn't free. The problem arises only when the force of the state enters into the relationship preventing the employer from firing us and hiring permanent replacements. This interferes with the market finding the correct price for labor, i.e., that wage which results in the maximum efficiency in the production and distribution of resources.

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As usual I'm right as I almost always am. In the context of a free market there is no such thing as collective bargaining. Collective bargaining requires a group of at least two and when you have at least two force always enters into the collective bargaining.
You are being self-contradictory. If I'm free, and so are you, then we are free to inform our employer of our intention to stop working absent some condition we would like, such as higher wages or safer work conditions. If we are not free to do that, then the market isn't free. The problem arises only when the force of the state enters into the relationship preventing the employer from firing us and hiring permanent replacements.


I'm never self-contradictory. Collective bargaining is always force. I will agree that government helps collective bargaining work best but is not necessary. The Mafia has shown that.

I think where we get into trouble with these discussions is you tend toward the romantic and I do not.


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I'm never self-contradictory. Collective bargaining is always force.
An agreement on the part of employees to stop working absent a desired condition be met constitutes force??? How is choosing not to work (individually or as a group) an exercise of force? Preventing them from doing so would be force, more familiarly known as slavery.

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In this instance you're half right. I'm not seeing where the gov is blocking power resoration here in NJ. I agree that both are criminal enterprises by nature.


Well you are closer to the action than I am being about 2500 miles away but from what I understand the government has done nothing to shut down the union from stopping non-union line men from restoring power.


In this instance they've done nothing to help or hurt the situation. If they did try to step in you guys would be saying they are evil for stepping in.


I think government is evil anyway but in this case the government has a legitimate function to step in and make the recovery move as fast as possible. But as usual, government is more a problem than a solution.


So when it's convenient for you, the gubberment is good. Thanks for clearing that up.


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Because_it_had a_ Monkey Face on the vertical fin_.

C'maaan--I thought you were serious.

But really--how did you know I owned an airplane?


Barak,I'm pretty sure you've mentioned it before.Not in a bragging way...... it just fit in a post you made.Don't ask when. grin

Same with NYC,I guess.Although in THAT instance,somebody else may have "outed" you.grin

Point is,I knew - or thought I knew - those two things about you,


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I'm never self-contradictory. Collective bargaining is always force.
An agreement on the part of employees to stop working absent a desired condition be met constitutes force??? How is choosing not to work (individually or as a group) an exercise of force? Preventing them from doing so would be force, more familiarly known as slavery.


What creates force is stopping the employer from replacing the workers who refuse to work for whatever the reason. The problem with collective bargaining is it always results in the use of force one way or another whether there is government force to back it up or not.


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Because_it_had a_ Monkey Face on the vertical fin_.

C'maaan--I thought you were serious.

But really--how did you know I owned an airplane?


Barak,I'm pretty sure you've mentioned it before.Not in a bragging way...... it just fit in a post you made.Don't ask when. grin

Same with NYC,I guess.Although in THAT instance,somebody else may have "outed" you.grin

Point is,I knew - or thought I knew - those two things about you,

Reminds me of the old joke:

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So when it's convenient for you, the gubberment is good. Thanks for clearing that up.


Government is merely a management system managing the relationship between the people and the state. If people chose to organize into a collective unit of some sort, i,e, nation, state, county, city, or whatever than one legitimate function of that management system the people chose is to get things going again in a natural disaster. People hire managers and workers to run the management system unfortunately the only humans that tend toward the management system are the seekers of power, criminals, and the lazy. Hence, when the people need the management system to get things going again the only thing the management system is good at is creating even more problems than the natural disaster created.

Personally, I've never seen a management system between the state and the people ever work because self-interest is the motive of all human behavior. The best thing that the management system can do in a natural disaster is get the heck out of the way and let the people fix things.

Sorry for the confusion. All I was saying is that if there is a legitimate function for the management system it would seem like disaster recovery would be one of them. Much like if there is a legitimate function for the management system to have and use military assets defending an ambassador and company would be one of them.


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..unfortunately the only humans that tend toward the management system are the seekers of power, criminals, and the lazy....


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..unfortunately the only humans that tend toward the management system are the seekers of power, criminals, and the lazy....


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I'm never self-contradictory. Collective bargaining is always force.
An agreement on the part of employees to stop working absent a desired condition be met constitutes force??? How is choosing not to work (individually or as a group) an exercise of force? Preventing them from doing so would be force, more familiarly known as slavery.


In an anarchist society, employees should be just as free to form a cartel as businesses� After all, if businesses were to form a cartel to fix pricing in an anarchist society; who could stop them? Same thing for employees. If they are able to form a cartel and deny work, then that would be their right. However, they wouldn�t have the right to use force to prevent those who would break the �strike� to go to work in their place. But they would be free to use other means such as market pressure.

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I'm never self-contradictory. Collective bargaining is always force.
An agreement on the part of employees to stop working absent a desired condition be met constitutes force??? How is choosing not to work (individually or as a group) an exercise of force? Preventing them from doing so would be force, more familiarly known as slavery.


What creates force is stopping the employer from replacing the workers who refuse to work for whatever the reason. The problem with collective bargaining is it always results in the use of force one way or another whether there is government force to back it up or not.

I guess that's a good point. Given that union workers are bargaining for more pay or fewer hours or whatever, it seems that one of two scenarios must be the case.

On the one hand, perhaps these workers really are worth more money than they're being paid: if they left, they could get a jobs making more money for a competitor, and their current employer would have to spend a considerable sum of money getting replacements up to speed, and then have to pay them more to retain them.

But in that case, why would they join a union? Why wouldn't they just individually threaten to quit, and then simply do so if their demands weren't met? There's no coercion here, but I think this scenario is probably fairly rare in union conflicts, because no union is required. Unions are expensive; why would you bother with one when simply threatening to quit is much easier and cheaper?

On the other hand, perhaps these workers really aren't worth more money than they're being paid, so that if they left they'd have trouble finding equivalently-waged jobs elsewhere or perhaps any jobs at all, and they could be easily and cheaply replaced with folks who would be glad for the same amount of money or possibly even less.

There's no coercion so far in this scenario either, but if it remains coercion-free, then the obvious course of action is simply for management to fire the whiners and hire less-troublesome replacements. So if management does something else, it seems fair to assume that management is being coerced somehow--either by the government or by the union.

But I really have very little experience with unions and may be way off here somewhere.


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I thought they were people who buy vital services from mostly private companies whose products or distribution systems have failed, and are now looking to the government for assistance. But since you make that statement, I don't imagine you understand the role of the government or FEMA in the instance of a disaster.


All true, which makes it difficult to decide whether Barak or Bigbuck215 is the most incorrect.


Hey, man, let's be a little more careful in making these comparisons. whistle Anyway, of course I am the most correct.


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..unfortunately the only humans that tend toward the management system are the seekers of power, criminals, and the lazy....


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What creates force is stopping the employer from replacing the workers who refuse to work for whatever the reason.
Yes, that's force. Before adopting my position, however, it's conventional to admit to having been wrong previously. Instead, you pretend your position has always been mine, as if the record isn't clear. Poor form.
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The problem with collective bargaining is it always results in the use of force one way or another whether there is government force to back it up or not.
That's what the police are for, i.e., to arrest anyone who initiates force. And the courts are for the punishing of same. That only works, however, when the laws aren't designed to interfere with the free market to start with.

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Not all unions have the luxury of a work stop. Not if you are a LEO here in NJ anyway.

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Not all unions have the luxury of a work stop. Not if you are a LEO here in NJ anyway.
Government workers who threaten a work stoppage should instantly be fired en masse and replaced, but you have a complete right to threaten one, and to take part in one. No one is forcing anyone to continue in their current place of employment. It's a free country.

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So you're OK with the gov having that power over me or anyone else ? I'm surprised. Guess you don't really believe in workplace rights then either.

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So you're OK with the gov having that power over me or anyone else ? I'm surprised. Guess you don't really believe in workplace rights then either.
What power? That of not bowing to your demands as employees? Yes. Absolutely? You don't own your job. Your employer does. If you think you're worth more than what you're getting, or are required to work too many hours, or whatever, go find another employer offering terms more to your liking.

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So you're OK with the gov having that power over me or anyone else ? I'm surprised. Guess you don't really believe in workplace rights then either.
What power? That of not bowing to your demands as employees? Yes. Absolutely? You don't own your job. Your employer does. If you think you're worth more than what you're getting, or are required to work too many hours, or whatever, go find another employer offering terms more to your liking.




Is that what you teachers do ?

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Is that what you teachers do ?
If teachers demand more than the district is willing to pay, the teachers should walk and the district should replace them, should they decide that the cost of training new teachers doesn't exceed the cost of meeting the striking teacher's terms.

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Is that what you teacher's do ? Do you have some incidents where that happened ? Never heard of that happening here, that's for sure.

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Originally Posted by RDFinn
Is that what you teacher's do ? Do you have some incidents where that happened ?
I can't speak for any teachers other than myself. However, there's more than the teachers' side, just like there's more than the police officers' side. Deals need to be made between them without the interference of laws directed at labor relations, i.e., in accordance with the free market. If the teachers are asking more than they're worth, the districts should be free in the law to fire them and hire new teachers just as teachers are free to quit work and seek new employment. It's called the free market. I advocate it. Big surprise.

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Well, when I said "teachers" I was referring to you guys as a group. I think we both know the answer.

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Originally Posted by RDFinn
Well, when I said "teachers" I was referring to you guys as a group. I think we both know the answer.
I can only speak for myself.

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Glad you agree then.

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Originally Posted by RDFinn
Glad you agree then.
As usual, after being trounced, you stop making sense.

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Originally Posted by JOG
Originally Posted by KevinGibson
I thought they were people who buy vital services from mostly private companies whose products or distribution systems have failed, and are now looking to the government for assistance. But since you make that statement, I don't imagine you understand the role of the government or FEMA in the instance of a disaster.


All true, which makes it difficult to decide whether Barak or Bigbuck215 is the most incorrect.


Hey, man, let's be a little more careful in making these comparisons. whistle Anyway, of course I am the most correct.


Government has almost no role in emergency response, so you can't blame the current problems on the lack of government and Barak can't blame the problems on too much government. Government is simply a non-factor.


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Originally Posted by Barak
Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.


I respect how you attempt to reason with those who lack the facilities.

Hope springs eternal, eh?

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Originally Posted by RDFinn
Glad you agree then.
As usual, after being trounced, you stop making sense.


You acting like you didn't understand my original question, dragging it out further than needed only because you enjoy hearing yourself wax on, wasn't making a whole lot more sense either. Being trounced ? I must have missed your invisible post where that happened.

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Hmmm... it's reasonable that the abandonment came from private entities... Elec, gas, fuel, food, trash, medical, business open for employment... Why does Barak feel those people are dependent on government when clearly the private sector supply's life's necessities.

People not being prepared for a break in their fundamentals isn't the government's (our) problem, the responsibility is to open public infrastructure so that the private sector can resume business.

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Originally Posted by Barak
Those aren't free people, they're government-dependent people who have been abandoned by their nanny.


I respect how you attempt to reason with those who lack the facilities.

Hope springs eternal, eh?

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Originally Posted by RDFinn
Maybe Derby caught a case of Romnesia....


Nope, had to go get the wife and have supper. Besides, as usual, we are going far afield from Kevin's original post of collective bargaining and pure capitalism.


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Originally Posted by JOG
Originally Posted by Bigbuck215
Originally Posted by JOG
Originally Posted by KevinGibson
I thought they were people who buy vital services from mostly private companies whose products or distribution systems have failed, and are now looking to the government for assistance. But since you make that statement, I don't imagine you understand the role of the government or FEMA in the instance of a disaster.


All true, which makes it difficult to decide whether Barak or Bigbuck215 is the most incorrect.


Hey, man, let's be a little more careful in making these comparisons. whistle Anyway, of course I am the most correct.


Government has almost no role in emergency response, so you can't blame the current problems on the lack of government and Barak can't blame the problems on too much government. Government is simply a non-factor.


Bring me up to speed as I don't recall or find where I made a statement at all in either direction.


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Originally Posted by Bigbuck215
Monkey Face, TRH, and a few others, now is your chance to experience what you have been longing for. Almost total un -lawlessness. Just load up your families and move out to the NYC area for about a week. Then you will appreciate having a semblance of law and order, if you survive. And I doubt that you could.


Originally Posted by JOG
Government has almost no role in emergency response, so you can't blame the current problems on the lack of government...


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