Government spending extended the depression.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

I did not state that, please make your statements factual. However you implied that it 'caused' the depression. You apparently give the fed's drastic contraction of the money supply a pass.

Government spending deflates the currancy and inflates commodities.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

Can you show me in the constitution where authority to regulate education is granted?

My 'local' taxes pays 93% of the budget for my school district. Are you suggesting that if the DoE was removed that our educational system would fall apart?

Thanks to your line of thinking we have 'no child left behind' which actually means that 'no child gets ahead.'

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

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One man - the one NOT lobbying for government giveaways, did it quite well, and treated his workers well:

Under his direction, the workers began laying rails twice as quickly as the NP crews had, and even at that speed he built what everyone at the time considered to be the highest-quality line. Hill micromanaged every aspect of the work, even going so far as to spell workers so they could take much-needed coffee breaks...

The Truth About the - Thomas J. DiLorenzo - Mises Institute


I thought it was obvious. My point is that "They have robust welfare states, but also non-interventionist foreign policy and extremely free trade, which helps to balance it."

- R

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I was not disputing your statement only making my own commentary. The Scandanavian countries are operating under a different philosophy and a different distribution of genetic information.

Thank for you illustrating how market competition does not settle when better conditions are provided by one firm. For every worker who enjoyed a (relatively) acceptable condition, thirty were scraping pennies from gravel. Labor is not a normal commodity on the market. Like land, it's restricted far beyond natural resources. Liberals (libertarians) can't figure this out, even though it's been constantly pointed out by people like Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, and even (in some ways) the Friedman clan (Austrian schooler tend to deflect any criticism of the market god, whereas Chicago schoolers are at least reasonable on minor matters - even though I find them both perverse).

I was actually made aware of this article recently. I've been browsing the Austrian website and laughing at the comments made on the message board about "first come" being justification for practically aynthing.

What's even more interesting is that Hill supported many tenants of the Progressive Movement, including labor regulation. Wikimedia Error

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Oh. My bad. Carry on, then!

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Yeah, it's perverse what government intervention can do to labor competition.

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