On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote:
> "You wrote the book yourself, it is very well written, it shows a lot of
> work and serious thought--and you call yourself a congressman?"
Yeah, that was a good one. Paul seems crazy, to me, and infuriating, in that
he will say something that seems about right to me (e.g., the Fed is a
problem) followed by something that seems like so much cant ("runaway
welfare spending," which is the Fed's fault, btw).
The thing that struck me last night is that seems to have no theory of
political power apart from the state. I'm all about the withering away of
the state and stuff, but his idea seems to be that if we could just get rid
of the state, except as the regulator of contracts or something, we would
have transcended political power (which only exists because of the state as
a locus for it -- he said that in his libertarian society "there would be no
halliburtons" because they wouldn't have the state to keep them going).
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