In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >"Tim Bedding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > >>> Aww Dr. Tame, you're such a hard-liner. :-) I'd go for >>> just privatizing it and allowing competition. > >>Competition can only improve things if there are >>significant inefficiencies. > >>This takes us back to searching for a list of identified >>efficiency changes in FDA. > >>Do you, or Bill, have a proven list? > >I think there's a misconception here that's fostering confusion, >originating with the idea of "privatizing [FDA] and allowing competition". >FDA is a police agency. Its police functions could not be privatized, nor >could they be done competitively. The question is whether those police >functions are justified at all, not whether they're efficiently carried >out. > >Some of the investigative functions pursuant to FDA's police actions COULD >be privatized and done competitively, but for non-police purposes. Could >those be done more efficiently than FDA does? Probably, but that's not a >question of great importance; the competition would simply drive out >inefficiencies as they cropped up, but even if they were done less >efficiently than FDA has done, the gains in non-monetary terms would be >enormous. > >In Your Sly Tribe, >Robert
Yet again, you have beaten to me to it. This is precisely the case against the FDA. Libertarians are not in favour of more "efficient" concentration camps and gas chambers! Well put! Dr. Chris R. Tame, Director The Libertarian Alliance Suite 35 2 Lansdowne Row Mayfair London W1J 6HL Tel: 0870 2421712 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LA Web Site: http://www.libertarian.co.uk Free Life Web Site: http://www.libertarian.co.uk/freelife The Hampden Press Website: http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk LA Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertarian-alliance-forum "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom is Courage". Pericles' Funeral Oration (431BC) _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
