[extropy-chat] Re: FEMA

Technotranscendence neptune at superlink.net
Thu Sep 15 11:43:44 UTC 2005


On Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:54 AM BillK pharos at gmail.com wrote:
>> FEMA is part of the problem.  Here's a blast
>> from the past on them:
>>
http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=213&sortorder=articledate
>>
>> and, especially, here:
>> http://www.mises.org/story/227
>>
>> Part of the reason this is so is because the
>> costs of living in these places have been
>> made artificially low by government intervention.
>> Creating a "disaster recovery army" will
>> only increase such incentives.
>
> Mises have the luxury of being able to criticize
> everything as they don't actually have to do the
> job.

Whoa!  They're a think tank devoted to Austrian economics and the like.
Their job is to analyze stuff, make recommendations, and offer
opinions -- not to effect hurricane rescue.

> As all opposition parties well know. The vote-
> catching slogans soon change if they get
> voted into power.

Since they're mostly anarchists, I don't think they want to get "voted
into power."  In fact, many of them -- Hoppe, for instance -- are
strictly anti-democratic.

> I am no great supporter of FEMA, but they do
> seem to have been virtually crippled by Bush
> since 9/11.  (An action mises would
> presumably have supported??).

Seems like the broken window fallacy.  Yeah, FEMA does some good stuff.
Yeah, the current regime is messing with that.  But all the good stuff
is predicated on a lot of bad stuff.

Regards,

Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/~neptune/




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