Market Farming

["Rainbow's End Farms & Orchards" <rainbowsend AT swva.net>]

RE:         "We no longer can live our lives as isolated as we once did since
we do have a mixed economy in much of the world. Part socialist and part
capitalist. The more socialist, the more invasive it becomes. But the trade
off for most people makes it worth it."

 

Sorry to have to STRONGLY disagree, but having watched the creeping socialism of the past become a runaway roller coaster of more government, more regulation, more taxation, more bureaucracy, more empires, and more people expecting the government to provide and do more, more on the dole and MORE, MORE, MORE it appears that there is truly a "monster on the loose" and it's our heads that are in the noose! The invasiveness so casually referenced is never "worth it" as inevitably rights of the individual ...rights so dearly won...are forfeited.

 

That conveyed in the initial quote is the same party line currently being communicated in our public institutions. In once asking a college student his view of the role of government I was told that it is to provide goods and services to the people. WRONG!!! The role of government is to govern. The role of the market..the free, open, unregulated, unrestricted, UNSOCIALIZED market is to provide goods and services to the people. Do they even teach world history in high schools and colleges anymore? Clarence W. Walker