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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Legislatively perhaps. But collective bargaining is pure capitalism...supply & demand.

Legislatively perhaps. But collective bargaining is pure capitalism...supply & demand.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.