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						<div class="hackadelic-series-info"><small>Other entries featuring <a href="javascript:;" class="hackadelic-sliderButton"onclick="toggleSlider('#hackadelic-sliderPanel-1')" title="click to expand/collapse slider Ronald Kitching">Ronald Kitching&raquo;</a> <span class="hackadelic-sliderPanel concealed" id="hackadelic-sliderPanel-1"></span></small></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>by Ronald Kitching</em></p>
<p>It would have been about 1962 that the Mount Isa Junior Chamber of Commerce decided to hold a Mining Exposition. A couple  of  the members called at my office and asked me if we could support the exposition by exhibiting an exploration drill in action.</p>
<div id="attachment_2261" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 222px"><a href="http://economics.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Image0002.jpg"><img src="http://economics.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Image0002-212x300.jpg" alt="" title="Ron Kitching in 1962 at Spear Creek" width="212" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-2261" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">John Campbell Miles and Ron Kitching at a Mining Exposition at Spear Creek, Mount Isa in 1962</p></div>
<p>I told them that it would be a very expensive operation indeed to engage in such a programme and explained a bit about how technology and geology play an important part in the cost of such an operation, not to mention the tremendous cost of diamond bits. However I was enthused by their determination  to stage a good show and told them to leave it with me for a few days while I thought over how we could help.<span id="more-2217"></span></p>
<p>That evening a great idea popped into my head, but it would take the co-operation of senior executives of Mount Isa Mines Ltd.</p>
<p>The idea was to drill a twelve and a quarter inch hole in our allotted area of operation with our water well drill, then fill it with some rich lead and copper oxide and copper  sulphide ore, cementing it into place with a sand and cement mixture.  Then the idea was to rig up a small mineral exploration drill and core the column over the two days of the show. I was hoping that the sandy cement holding the specimens together would look like a sandy shale as our core drill recovered it.</p>
<p>So I made an appointment with Mr. Jim Foots the General Manager of MIM, and told him what I had in mind. Mr. Foots smiled at hearing the story  and asked how he could help. I said that I would need some lead and copper ore crushed to about four inch minus, and would need his co-operation to get it from the mine.</p>
<p>Mr. Foots instructed me to go and see Mr. Malcolm Rose who was at the time the Underground Superintendent of the Mine. “By the time you see him, Malcolm will know what you are after and I’m sure he will help you”,  he said.</p>
<p>I was on good terms with Malcolm and when I arrived, he was all smiles at being involved in this conspiracy, to hopefully, have a successful exploration drilling demonstration. Malcolm, a very astute fellow, who enjoyed a bit of fun, did not need to be told that it was a highly “secret” operation.</p>
<p>We had six weeks to organise our plan. I contacted the men from the Junior Chamber of Commerce and explained that we would need to know where our particular exhibition site would be, because we needed to make certain preparations for our exhibition. However, I did not tell them  exactly what we were up to, as I thought we would reserve that for them as a pleasant surprise.</p>
<p>It was indeed fortuitous that our water well  drill was at that time, about to move from the Barkly Tableland, in the N. T., where it had been drilling some water bores, to the Boulia district, south of Mount Isa, to drill a series of experimental/discovery water wells for the Queensland Irrigation and Water Commission.</p>
<p>So, when the drill arrived back in Mount Isa, one afternoon Kevin Morgan, the drill operator and myself took the drill to the Spear Creek sports oval out next to the aerodrome. We drilled the twelve and a quarter inch hole,  sixty feet deep, transported all of  the considerable cuttings away and filled the sixty foot hole with our new “ore body”. We had a cement mixer and lots of Fondu cement, and procured a utility load of clean sand from nearby Spear Creek. Fondu cement,  by  the way, is a  quick setting black coloured cement,  which I though ideal for the job.</p>
<p>I decided to place twenty feet of lead sulphides on the bottom, followed by twenty feet of copper sulphides and then about twenty feet of copper oxides to the surface. I left the last foot free of “ore” and just used soil for that section, so that the “ore body” would  be suitably covered. We drilled another six inch hole about ten feet deep very close to the first hole. I filled it with concrete and a chain to use for an anchor to hold down our little exploration drill when it arrived. I then cleaned up the site, spread a small bag of fertiliser around our site, so that in the coming weeks it would all recover and be nice and green. I made sure it was , as I watered it a couple of times a week during the waiting period.</p>
<p>I was also careful to take bearings from a couple of sighters so that we would not lose our “ore body”. At that time, no more than about five people knew of the impending operation, and of course we all knew how to  keep a secret. In the case of drillers, they are forbidden to  talk about a client’s prospect in any case, especially after the drilling starts.</p>
<p>However, all of our preparation nearly came to nothing as the men running the show at the last minute, for some critical reason, wanted to move our site to the other side of the ground. They rushed into my office two days before with their new floor plan to show me why they had to move us. They had a great number of eminent mining supply  companies displaying their wares, it was going to be a memorable show. Of course I then had to explain to them  that our “ore body” which we had planted six weeks ago could not  be moved.</p>
<p>Then then asked me if it would be inconvenient to plant a new “ore body”. I explained that that option was impossible. The drill that drilled the hole was now down at Boulia drilling water wells for the State Water Authority. I also explained that I needed the Mindrill site next to me. Mindrill Limited was the principal drilling equipment supply company in those days. I had organised them as a fellow exhibitor, to hopefully add to the exploration drilling flavour of the show.</p>
<p>Mindrill planned to exhibit and operate a small water well percussion machine right next to us. They also exhibited diamond bits and other ancillary equipment. Their proximity was a big advantage as you will see as the story progresses. Their senior salesman Alan Ferguson was adept at demonstrating all equipment and of course, I informed him of our surprise plan.</p>
<p>Curiously, as luck had it, the Saturday night before the exhibition, I was at a social function which was also attended by Mr. George Fisher, the Chairman of Mount Isa Mines. He happened to ask me if we were exhibiting at the up and coming show. I replied in the affirmative and asked him if Mr. Foots had told him of our plans. He replied that he had not heard anything. So I told him in detail what we were up to. He smiled and enthused, “Ronnie m’boy we might have a bit of fun with this”. So I told him “mums the word” which he understood perfectly.</p>
<p>The Junior Chamber invited the State Premier Mr. Frank Nicklin to come and declare the show open. He could not come,  but sent his Minister for Transport, then acting Treasurer, Mr. Gordon Chalk.</p>
<p>The day before the show opened, we set up a nice little newly painted hydraulic Mindrill E-1000. We painted the tripod, even painted the U-bolts red. All was ready.  On the Friday evening the show was opened. The drill too, was decked out with electric lights it all looked very impressive. Drillers were dressed in white overalls, they all looked very smart indeed. We did not rush the drilling as we knew we had only 60  feet of ore body. As it turned out, once coring commenced, the black cement that held the specimens together fretted away leaving only the cored mineral specimens. It looked for all the world exactly as though we were passing through a rich highly fractured ore body.</p>
<p>The discoverer of Mount Isa, John Campbell-Miles was present as a special guest of honour, hosted by Mount Isa Mines Ltd, he was a grand old man and took a great interest in the drilling,  and an even greater interest in the core we were recovering.</p>
<p>Finally the official party led by MIM Chairman Mr. George Fisher arrived. He was accompanied by the eminent Government Minister, Mr. Chalk and other official dignitaries. The core was  in the box  and the drill was humming along. Mr. Fisher wandered over to look at the core in the box. Then he said in a loud voice to me, “Ronnie, I think you have got some copper here”. Without even looking at the box, I replied, “Oh I don’t think we’ll find any copper out here Mr. Fisher”. The he demanded sternly, “Ronnie, bring that box over here  under this light. I want to  have a good look at it”. So I did as I was instructed, whereby the Chairman removed a very nice specimen from the box and declared triumphantly, “There, look at that my boy, that’s as good a specimen as you would find anywhere!”</p>
<p>He then went through all of  the core and discovered it was copper all the way. I was astonished of course. You should have seen the acting Treasurer, he was beside himself with excitement to be in on the discovery of a great new cow to milk.</p>
<p>They stayed for some time to see the next run of core removed and blow me down if it wasn’t copper all the way too. Mr. Fisher his eyes sparkling with delight at our little joke, gave me a wink and departed with his guests, saying that they would return tomorrow.</p>
<p>So that we would not make a mess of the grounds, I ran the return water from the drilling operation right out of the grounds in a plastic pipe down the bank of Spear Creek. However, I was careful enough to first trap all of the cuttings from our drilling and, at  convenient times, took it next door to the Mindrill exhibit and helped  my partner in crime there, to mix it thoroughly with the cuttings he was retrieving from the hole he was drilling. I knew the “experts” of all varieties would soon descend upon the site, like bees around a honey pot. In the meantime, the local radio station, 4MI, broadcasting live from the grounds, ( a big deal in those days), announced to one and all that the Glindemann &amp; Kitching drill rig had hit rich copper under the Spear Creek sports ground.</p>
<p>Next day, we slowly drilled on. The drillers were having a picnic. By this time we had just hit the sulphides and only twenty feet from the surface too. The drilling had stopped as we had lots of time ahead of us. The drillers, all smart men as drillers mostly are, were adept at talking to the public and kept them informed about how the operation worked. This they were enjoying doing, when  Mr. Chalk arrived again to monitor progress. He demanded from me, like he was already the major share holder,  “Why aren’t they drilling?”. I replied that they were doing this as a voluntary effort for the Chamber and that there were no bosses about on an operation like this.  I then quietly suggested that if he bought them a few stubbies, and asked them nicely, they may start up the drill and do a couple of runs for him.</p>
<p>He disappeared in a flash and arrived back in no time with a half a dozen cans, offering the men a drink  to celebrate their success. In the meantime he talked intimately to them, getting all of the minute details — taking notes all the while too. He then suggested that they might like to do yet another run to show him how it all worked. Drillers love a good Captain, and the acting Treasurer was a beauty. They were of course, very happy to oblige. Not many drillers have had the acting Queensland Treasurer as a Captain, so they made the most of it. He repeated this exercise several times as a running commentary from 4MI kept the public aware of what was going on.</p>
<p>Throughout the day, we had engineers, geologists, the mine drilling superintendent, metallurgists, in fact everybody, who was anybody, made animated visits. Out of them all, only one lone MIM driller, John  Ebsbury, woke up to what was going on. After he arrived and had a look around, he came straight up to me and asked “Where did you get the core from Ron?” I replied., “Out of the hole” He snapped back, “Don’t give me that bullshit, I’m going to find out where it is coming from and it is not coming out of that hole.” So as the drillers were about to lower the core barrel into the hole for the next run, he grabbed a steel measuring tape,  extended it, and poked it  up  the little two foot barrel we were using, to make sure it was empty — it was. Then, scarcely blinking, he carefully watched the run and the core removed from the barrel. Still, with the evidence before him, that would hang a man, if it was a capital offence to core drill a formation, he was still not convinced.</p>
<p>He went back to the core box and slowly turned over every piece of core. Adhering to a lone piece, was a smidgen of the black sandy cement. I had deliberately placed it facing down in the box. You should have seen him smile as he pointed to the cement and looked at me. I simply nodded and smiled. He walked away looking as happy as a cat coming out of the dairy. This, better than Rumpole of the Bailey — Sherlock Holmes, had alone, solved the mystery.</p>
<p>Low and behold, late that afternoon, we hit the rich lead sulphide ore body. What a sensation. 4MI went ballistic about the riches that must exist between the sports ground and the mine five miles away. Minister Chalk, by this time, had all of my drillers half blotto. He was having the time  of his life. He, celebrating the great discovery with the men, was half blotto too.</p>
<p>Later on Mr. Foots told  me that, on the way home, he and a visiting dignitary had visited the RSL club and, at the bar, was standing next to Gordon Brown the local Mobile Oil Agent. Gordon was in the middle of betting some character ten pounds that G&amp;K’s drill had discovered a fabulous new ore body at the Spear Creek oval. Then Gordon, snapped to the doubting Thomas, “Here’s Mr. Foots, he’ll tell you its all true.” Mr Foots told me  that he quietly intoned to Gordon, “I wouldn’t bet on it”.</p>
<p>Bill Stretton was the local butcher — a wealthy man too. Bill inspected the core and declared, “Well, if you have it in this hole, they must be getting it out of that one over there”, indicating the Mindrill exhibition next door about 100 feet away. I said “Well I don’t know Bill,  why don’t you go over and pan some of his cuttings. Here’s a dish — go and try it out.” This he did and confirmed the discovery, copper all the way in that hole too.</p>
<p>Bill returned, greatly excited, showed me the cuttings and got very confidential. He suggested quietly, “Listen my boy, why don’t we peg this. It could be a bonanza. I can put up all of the expenses.” I replied that we had already filled out the application forms for pegging and that we had included Robert Gordon Menzies, (Australia’s long term Prime Minister), as a partner, as the airport would have to be shifted to make way for the huge open cut that was bound to follow. I said, “Old Bob should have enough influence to have that shifted”. I then produced the application forms in triplicate from my pocket and showed Bill the neatly typed document with my name, Jack Patrick Glindemann and Robert Gordon Menzies as applicants for a 640 acre lease. Anticipating that such offers may evolve, just for a bit of fun, I had my secretary prepare the documents through the previous week. Bill felt a  bit let down, but assured me that, “If you need any financial help let me know”.</p>
<p>Finally, Malcolm Rose told me once, that two years after the show, he went on a mine bus tour with a visiting relative from Melbourne. The Bus driver, Reg Waterhouse, drove the party to the top of the  hill overlooking the Black Rock Open Cut and after expounding on the rich operation below, declared to the enthralled visiting throng, “And two years ago  the local drilling contractors, Glindemann &amp; Kitching Enterprises, drilled, during an  exhibition, a hole at Spear Creek oval five miles away, and, discovered that these rich ore bodies extend at least that far away”, pointing to beyond the aerodrome in the distance.</p>
<p>What great fun we all had over that weekend. I would  have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Minister Chalk reported his new discovery to the Premier the following week. Like all politically ambitious politicians, I’ll  bet he had also made an estimate of the glittering new Royalties to be plundered.</p>
<p>Such an exhibition could never ever occur these days. It would take five years to get the necessary environmental impact statements in place. Even then, what with the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act, Native Title complications, and a dark green application for a National Park over the area, I doubt if it could even be contemplated.</p>
<p>The one thing the dark greens can be pleased about is that the Spear Creek ore body will never ever be mined.</p>
<div id="hackadelic-sliderNote-1" class="concealed">(in order of appearance on <i>Economics.org.au</i>)<ol><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/07/kitching-for-pm/">Kitching for PM and other news</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/08/kitching-on-the-canberra-kremlin/">Kitching on the Canberra Kremlin</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/08/no-arbiter-superior-to-the-always-democratic-market/">No Arbiter Superior to the Always Democratic Market</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/08/kitching-at-large/">Kitching at Large</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/08/kitchings-sensible-advice-to-canberra/">Kitching's Sensible Advice to Canberra</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/09/kitching-on-hogan-as-political-prisoner-and-more/">Kitching on Hogan as Political Prisoner and more</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/09/kitching-on-his-election-defeat/">Kitching on His Election Defeat</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/09/kitching-unimpressed/">Kitching Unimpressed</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/09/kitchings-weather-report-and-other-news/">Kitching on the weather and more</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/09/kitching-corrects-this-weeks-socialists/">Kitching Corrects This Week's Socialists</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/10/kitching-condemns-kafkaesque-canberra-kremlin/">Kitching Condemns Kafkaesque Canberra Kremlin</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/10/capitalism-coal-dam-and-other-profanities/">Capitalism, Coal, Dam and other Profanities</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/10/federation-has-failed-and-so-have-states/">Federation Has Failed and So Have States</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/11/astronomical-tax-black-hole-asteroid-antidote/">The Astronomical Tax Black Hole Asteroid Antidote</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2010/11/kitching-on-the-money-proposes-government-rules-foreign-nations-rather-than-their-own/">Kitching on the money, proposes government rules foreign nations rather than their own</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/ronald-kitching-introduces-his-book/">Ronald Kitching introduces his book</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/teaching-my-kids-to-read-write/">Teaching My Kids to Read and Write</a></li><li>G&K Discover New Ore Bodies at Spear Creek</li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/ronald-kitching-obituary/">Ronald Kitching Obituary</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/rip-ron-kitching/">R.I.P. Ron Kitching - pioneer, explorer, author, family man, entrepreneur, scholar</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/all-about-entrepreneurship/">All About Entrepreneurship</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/04/government-takes-over-milk-production/">Government Takes Over Milk Production</a></li><li><a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/11/social-justice/">Social Justice</a></li></ol><span style="display: block; margin-top: 3px; font-size: 7px"><a href="http://hackadelic.com/solutions/wordpress/sliding-notes" title="Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5">Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5</a></span></div><div class="snap_nopreview sharing robots-nocontent"><ul><li class="sharing_label">Share on:</li><li class="share-facebook share-regular"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-facebook share-icon" href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/gk-discover-new-ore-bodies-at-spear-creek/?share=facebook" title="Share on Facebook">Facebook</a></li><li class="share-email share-regular"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-email share-icon" href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/gk-discover-new-ore-bodies-at-spear-creek/?share=email" title="Click to email this to a friend">Email</a></li><li class="share-custom"><a href="#" class="sharing-anchor">Share</a></li><li class="share-end"></li></ul><div class="sharing-hidden"><div class="inner" style="display: none;"><ul><li class="share-digg"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-digg share-icon" href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/gk-discover-new-ore-bodies-at-spear-creek/?share=digg" title="Click to Digg this post">Digg</a></li><li class="share-reddit"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-reddit share-icon" href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/gk-discover-new-ore-bodies-at-spear-creek/?share=reddit" title="Click to share on Reddit">Reddit</a></li><li class="share-end"></li><li class="share-stumbleupon"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-stumbleupon share-icon" href="http://economics.org.au/2011/03/gk-discover-new-ore-bodies-at-spear-creek/?share=stumbleupon" title="Click to share on StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a></li><li class="share-twitter"><div class="twitter_button"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Feconomics.org.au%2F2011%2F03%2Fgk-discover-new-ore-bodies-at-spear-creek%2F&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Feconomics.org.au%2F2011%2F03%2Fgk-discover-new-ore-bodies-at-spear-creek%2F&amp;count=horizontal&amp;text=G%26K%20Discover%20New%20Ore%20Bodies%20at%20Spear%20Creek: " style="width:97px; height:20px;"></iframe></div></li><li class="share-end"></li><li class="share-end"></li></ul></div></div><div class="sharing-clear"></div></div>					</div>

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								<p>Never mind the drilling not being able to go ahead these days, if it hypothetically did and the drillers were swilling beer on site the drill owner and captain would be hauled of for DPI prosecution lol.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-70"><div class="section-header"><h2>Short fun welcome message</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p><i>by <a href="http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp">Murray Rothbard</a></i></p>
<p align="left">People tend to fall into habits and into unquestioned ruts, especially in the field of government. On the market, in society in general, we expect and accommodate rapidly to change, to the unending marvels and improvements of our civilization. New products, new life styles, new ideas are often embraced eagerly. But in the area of government we follow blindly in the path of centuries, content to believe that whatever has been must be right. In particular, government, in the United States and elsewhere, for centuries and seemingly from time immemorial has been supplying us with certain essential and necessary services, services which nearly everyone concedes are important: defense (including army, police, judicial, and legal), firefighting, streets and roads, water, sewage and garbage disposal, postal service, etc. So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing appears to many people as an attack on the service itself. Thus if one maintains that the State should not supply court services, and that private enterprise on the market could supply such service more efficiently as well as more morally, people tend to think of this as denying the importance of courts themselves.</p>
<p align="left">The libertarian who wants to replace government by private enterprises in the above areas is thus treated in the same way as he would be if the government had, for various reasons, been supplying shoes as a tax-financed monopoly from time immemorial. If the government and only the government had had a monopoly of the shoe manufacturing and retailing business, how would most of the public treat the libertarian who now came along to advocate that the government get out of the shoe business and throw it open to private enterprise? He would undoubtedly be treated as follows: people would cry:</p>
<p align="left" style="margin-left:33px"><i>How could you? You are opposed to the public, and to poor people, wearing shoes! And </i>who<i> would supply shoes to the public if the government got out of the business? Tell us that! Be constructive! It's easy to be negative and smart-alecky about government; but tell us </i>who<i> would supply shoes? Which people? How many shoe stores would be available in each city and town? How would the shoe firms be capitalized? How many brands would there be? What material would they use? What lasts? What would be the pricing arrangements for shoes? Wouldn't regulation of the shoe industry be needed to see to it that the product is sound? And who would supply the poor with shoes? Suppose a poor person didn't have the money to buy a pair?</i></p>
<p align="left">These questions, ridiculous as they seem to be and are with regard to the shoe business, are just as absurd when applied to the libertarian who advocates a free market in fire, police, postal service, or any other government operation.</p>
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<p><i>I consider economic laws comparable to natural laws, and I have just as much faith in the principle of the division of labor as I have in the universal law of gravitation. I believe that while these principles can be disturbed, they admit of no exceptions.</i></p>
<p><i>But, if this is the case, the production of security should not be removed from the jurisdiction of free competition; and if it is removed, society as a whole suffers a loss.</i></p>
<p><i>Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.</i><br />
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<i>Either communistic production is superior to free production, or it is not.</i></p>
<p><i>If it is, then it must be for all things, not just for security.</i></p>
<p><i>If not, progress requires that it be replaced by free production.</i></p>
<p><i>Complete communism or complete liberty: that is the alternative!</i></p>
<p>(Those who need a more popular authority to be swayed will be relieved to know that Molinari is following Adam Smith <a href="http://econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN20.html#V.1.64">here</a>.)</p>
<p>To spell out some of this: Monopolies tend to produce an inferior quality product at higher cost compared to if they had competition to contend with. If they had competition to contend with, then:</p>
<p>— they would have greater incentive to improve how they cater to customers, for if they did not, they would lose business; and</p>
<p>— they would tend to better cater to customers, since anyone would be allowed to compete by improving the price or quality of the service offered to customers, and to benefit from the increased custom attracted by their superior service.</p>
<p>It follows that monopolies in areas like law and order, money and banking, and education and roads, tend to provide products of inferior quality and higher cost compared to if the free market was allowed to provide those services.</p>
<p>It also follows that a monopolist of law and order, who did not allow free market competition in those areas, would tend to allow itself to get away with crimes and inefficiencies that free market law and order agencies would not.</p>
<p>In the words of <a href="http://mises.org/daily/2714">Albert Jay Nock</a>:</p>
<p><i>[T]he State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime ... [I]t makes this monopoly as strict as it can ... It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants.</i></p>
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<p><i>To the extent that intellectuals have deemed it necessary to </i>argue<i> in favor of the state at all, their most popular argument, encountered already at kindergarten age, runs like this: Some activities of the state are pointed out: the state builds roads, kindergartens, schools; it delivers the mail and puts the policeman on the street. Imagine, there would be no state. Then we would not have these goods. Thus, the state is necessary.</i></p>
<p><i>At the university level, a slightly more sophisticated version of the same argument is presented. It goes like this: True, markets are best at providing many or even most things; but there are other goods markets cannot provide or cannot provide in sufficient quantity or quality. These other, so-called public goods are goods which bestow benefits onto people beyond those actually having produced or paid for them. Foremost among such goods rank typically education and research. Education and research, for instance, it is argued, are extremely valuable goods. They would be under-produced, however, because of free riders, i.e., of cheats, who benefit </i>via<i> so-called neighborhood effects from education and research without paying for it. Thus, the state is necessary to provide otherwise un-produced or under-produced (public) goods such as education and research.</i></p>
<p><i>These statist arguments can be refuted by a combination of three fundamental insights: First, as for the kindergarten argument, it does not follow from the fact that the state provides roads and schools that </i>only<i> the state can provide such goods. People have little difficulty recognizing that this is a fallacy. From the fact that monkeys can ride bikes it does not follow that </i>only<i> monkeys can ride bikes. And second, immediately following, it must be recalled that the state is an institution that can legislate and tax; and hence, that state agents have little incentive to produce efficiently. State roads and schools will only be more costly and their quality lower. For there is always a tendency for state agents to use up as many resources as possible doing whatever they do but actually work as little as possible doing it.</i></p>
<p><i>Third, as for the more sophisticated statist argument, it involves the same fallacy encountered already at the kindergarten level. For even if one were to grant the rest of the argument, it is still a fallacy to conclude from the fact that states provide public goods that </i>only<i> states can do so.</i></p>
<p><i>More importantly, however, it must be pointed out that the entire argument demonstrates a total ignorance of the most fundamental fact of human life: namely scarcity. True, markets will not provide for all desirable things. There are always unsatisfied wants as long as we do not inhabit the Garden of Eden. But to bring such un-produced goods into existence scarce resources must be expended, which consequently can no longer be used to produce other, likewise desirable things. Whether public goods exist next to private ones does not matter in this regard, the fact of scarcity remains unchanged: more public goods can come only at the expense of less private goods. Yet what needs to be demonstrated is that one good is more important and valuable than another one. This is what is meant by economizing. Yet can the state help economize scarce resources? </i>This<i> is the question that must be answered. In fact, however, conclusive proof exists that the state does </i>not<i> and cannot economize: For in order to produce anything, the state must resort to taxation (or legislation) which demonstrates irrefutably that its subjects do </i>not<i> want what the state produces but prefer instead </i>something else<i> as <em>more</em> important. Rather than economize, the state can only re-distribute: it can produce more of what </i>it<i> wants and less of what the people want and, to recall, whatever the state then produces will be produced inefficiently.</i></p>
<p><i>Finally, the most sophisticated argument in favor of the state must be briefly examined. From Hobbes on down this argument has been repeated endlessly. It runs like this: In the state of nature before the establishment of a state permanent conflict reigns. Everyone claims a right to everything, and this will result in interminable war. There is no way out of this predicament by means of agreements; for who would </i>enforce<i> these agreements? Whenever the situation appeared advantageous, one or both parties would break the agreement. Hence, people recognize that there is but one solution to the </i>desideratum<i> of peace: the establishment, per agreement, of a state, i.e., a third, independent party as ultimate judge and enforcer.</i></p>
<p><i>Yet if this thesis is correct and agreements require an outside enforcer to make them binding, then a state-by-agreement can never come into existence. For in order to enforce the very agreement which is to result in the formation of a state (to make </i>this<i> agreement binding), another outside enforcer, a prior state, would already have to exist. And in order for </i>this<i> state to have come into existence, yet another still earlier state must be postulated, and so on, in infinite regress.</i></p>
<p><i>On the other hand, if we accept that states exist (and of course they do), then this very fact contradicts the Hobbesian story. The state itself has come into existence </i>without<i> any outside enforcer. Presumably, at the time of the alleged agreement, no prior state existed. Moreover, once a state-by-agreement is in existence, the resulting social order still remains a self-enforcing one. To be sure, if A and B now agree on something, their agreements are made binding by an external party. However, the </i>state<i> itself is not so bound by any outside enforcer. There exists no external third party insofar as conflicts between state-agents and state-subjects are concerned; and likewise no external third party exists for conflicts between different state-agents or -agencies. Insofar as agreements entered into by the state </i>vis-à-vis<i> its citizens or of one state agency </i>vis-à-vis<i> another are concerned, that is, such agreements <em>can be only self-binding on the State</em>. The state is bound by nothing except its own self-accepted and enforced rules, i.e., the constraints that it imposes on itself. </i>Vis-à-vis<i> itself, so to speak, the state is still in a natural state of anarchy characterized by self-rule and enforcement, because there is no higher state which could bind it.</i></p>
<p><i>Further: If we accept the Hobbesian idea that the enforcement of mutually agreed upon rules </i>does<i> require some independent third party, this would actually rule out the establishment of a state. In fact, it would constitute a conclusive argument </i>against<i> the institution of a state, i.e., of a </i>monopolist<i> of ultimate decision-making and arbitration. For then, there must also exist an independent third party to decide in every case of conflict between me (private citizen) and some state agent, and likewise an independent third party must exist for every case of intra-state conflicts (and there must be another independent third party for the case of conflicts between various third parties) yet this means, of course, that such a state (or any independent third party) would be no state as I have defined it at the outset but simply one of many freely competing third-party conflict arbitrators.</i></p>
<p><i>Let me conclude then: the intellectual case against the state seems to be easy and straightforward. But that does not mean that it is practically easy. Indeed, almost everyone is convinced that the state is a necessary institution, for the reasons that I have indicated. So it is very doubtful if the battle against statism can be won, as easy as it might seem on the purely theoretical, intellectual level. However, even if that should turn out to be impossible at least let's have some fun at the expense of our statist opponents. And for that I suggest that you always and persistently confront them with the following riddle: Assume a group of people, aware of the possibility of conflicts; and then someone proposes, as a solution to this eternal human problem, that he (someone) be made the ultimate arbiter in any such case of conflict, including those conflicts in which he is involved. I am confident that he will be considered either a joker or mentally unstable and yet this is precisely what all statists propose.</i></p>
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<p><i>Whether or not something is true, false, or undecidable; whether or not it has been justified; what is required in order to justify it; whether I, my opponents, or none of us is right — all of this must be decided in the course of argumentation. This proposition is true </i>a priori<i>, because it cannot be denied without affirming it in the act of denying it. One cannot argue that one cannot argue, and one cannot dispute knowing what it means to raise a validity claim without implicitly claiming at least the negation of this proposition to be true.</i></p>
<p><i>With the </i>a priori<i> of argumentation established as an axiomatic starting point, it follows that anything that must be presupposed in the act of proposition-making cannot be propositionally disputed again. It would be meaningless to ask for a justification of presuppositions which make the production of meaningful propositions possible in the first place. Instead, they must be regarded as ultimately justified by every proposition-maker. And any specific propositional content that disputed their validity could be understood as implying a performative contradiction […], and hence, as ultimately falsified.</i></p>
<p><i>The law of contradiction is one such presupposition. One cannot deny this law without presupposing its validity in the act of denying it. But there is another such presupposition. Propositions are not free-floating entities. They require a proposition maker who in order to produce any validity-claiming proposition whatsoever must have exclusive control (property) over some scarce means defined in objective terms and appropriated (brought under control) at definite points in time through homesteading action. Thus, any proposition that would dispute the validity of the homesteading principle of property acquisition, or that would assert the validity of a different, incompatible principle, would be falsified by the act of proposition-making in the same way as the proposition "the law of contradiction is false" would be contradicted by the very fact of asserting it. As the praxeological presupposition of proposition-making, the validity of the homesteading principle cannot be argumentatively disputed without running into a performative contradiction. Any other principle of property acquisition can then be understood — reflectively — by every proposition maker as ultimately incapable of propositional justification.</i></p>
<p><i>(Note, in particular, that this includes all proposals which claim it is justified to restrict the range of objects which may be homesteaded. They fail because once the exclusive control over some homesteaded means is admitted as justified, it becomes impossible to justify any restriction in the homesteading process — except for a self-imposed one — without thereby running into a contradiction. For if the proponent of such a restriction were consistent, he could have justified control only over some physical means which he would not be allowed to employ for any additional homesteading. Obviously, he could not interfere with another's extended homesteading, simply because of his own lack of physical means to justifiably do anything about it. But if he did interfere, he would thereby inconsistently extend his ownership claims beyond his own justly homesteaded means. Moreover, in order to justify this extension he would have to invoke a principle of property acquisition incompatible with the homesteading principle whose validity he would already have admitted.)</i></p>
<p><i>My entire argument, then, claims to be an impossibility proof. But not […] a proof that means to show the impossibility of certain empirical events so that it could be refuted by empirical evidence. Instead, it is a proof that it is impossible to propositionally justify non-libertarian property principles without falling into contradictions. For whatever such a thing is worth […], it should be clear that empirical evidence has absolutely no bearing on it. So what if there is slavery, the Gulag, taxation? The proof concerns the issue that claiming that such institutions can be justified involves a performative contradiction. It is purely intellectual in nature, like logical, mathematical, or praxeological proofs. Its validity — as theirs — can be established independent of any contingent experiences. Nor is its validity in any way affected […] by whether or not people like, favor, understand, or come to a consensus regarding it, or whether or not they are actually engaged in argumentation. As considerations such as these are irrelevant in order to judge the validity of a mathematical proof, for instance, so are they beside the point here. And in the same way as the validity of a mathematical proof is not restricted to the moment of proving it, so, then, is the validity of the libertarian property theory not limited to instances of argumentation. If correct, the argument demonstrates its universal justification, arguing or not.</i></p>
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<p>1. "Whenever two people A and B engage in a voluntary exchange, they must both expect to profit from it. And they must have reverse preference orders for the goods and services exchanged so that A values what he receives from B more highly than what he gives to him, and B must evaluate the same things the other way around."</p>
<p>2. "Whenever an exchange is not voluntary but coerced, one party profits at the expense of the other."</p>
<p>3. "Of two producers, if A is more productive in the production of two types of goods than is B, they can still engage in a mutually beneficial division of labor. This is because overall physical productivity is higher if A specializes in producing one good which he can produce most efficiently, rather than both A and B producing both goods separately and autonomously."</p>
<p>4. "Whenever minimum wage laws are enforced that require wages to be higher than existing market wages, involuntary unemployment will result."</p>
<p>5. "Whenever the quantity of money is increased while the demand for money to be held as cash reserve on hand is unchanged, the purchasing power of money will fall."</p>
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<p align="left">The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.</p>
<p align="left">The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a "protector", and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to 'protect' those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful "sovereign", on account of the "protection" he affords you. He does not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villainies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-21"><div class="section-header"><h2>But government is ok, at least at &#8220;X&#8221;</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p><i><a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/NoTreason/NoTreason_chap7.html">Lysander Spooner</a> counters:</i></p>
<p align="left">If any considerable number of the people believe the Constitution to be good, why do they not sign it themselves, and make laws for, and administer them upon, each other; leaving all other persons (who do not interfere with them) in peace? Until they have tried the experiment for themselves, how can they have the face to impose the Constitution upon, or even to recommend it to, others?</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-25"><div class="section-header"><h2>So, to repeat</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"Justice removed, then, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers? What are bands of robbers themselves but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is governed by the authority of a ruler; it is bound together by a pact of association; and the loot is divided according to an agreed law. If, by the constant addition of desperate men, this scourge grows to such a size that it acquires territory, establishes a seat of government, occupies cities and subjugates people, it assumes the name of kingdom more openly. For this name is now manifestly conferred upon it not by the removal of greed, but by the addition of impunity. It was a pertinent and true answer that was made to Alexander the Great by a pirate whom he had seized.  When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: ‘The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.’"<br />
~ Saint Augustine, <i>The City of God Against the Pagans</i>, ed. and trans. R.W. Dyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), bk. IV, ch. 4, pp. 147-48.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-57"><div class="section-header"><h2>A PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST OUR CRITICS</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p><em>by <a href="http://mises.org/daily/5327/The-Cruel-Wreckage-of-Socialism">Frédéric Bastiat</a></em></p>
<p align="left">[E]very time we object to a thing being done by government, [defenders of government intervention claim] that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of education by the state — then we are against education altogether. We object to a state religion — then we would have no religion at all. We object to an equality which is brought about by the state then we are against equality, etc., etc. They might as well accuse us of wishing men not to eat, because we object to the cultivation of corn by the state.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-61"><div class="section-header"><h2>If you don&#8217;t like it, why don&#8217;t you leave?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>Answer #1: This is an attempt to paint libertarians as hypocrites for staying under the self-proclaimed jurisdiction of a government we never consented to. One can flip this around and accuse the government of agreeing with and endorsing libertarians, since the government does not shut down <i>Economics.org.au</i>. If they don't like it, why don't they ban/censor/expel it?</p>
<p>Answer #2: Why should libertarians leave, and not statists? So libertarian views are unpopular at the moment, but the <i>status quo</i> has been known to change occasionally, and there’s no contradiction in libertarians staying in the country trying to effect change, or, as the case may be, staying in the country doing other things and hoping that others effect change.</p>
<p>Answer #3: We are not able to leave the country with all our property. Even if we sell it, the government will then confiscate part of the proceeds. Moreover, there are similarly criminal organisations called government in most other countries. And preferring one criminal to another does not make the preferable criminal not a criminal at all, which is precisely what the if-you-don't-like-it-then-leave argument entails.</p>
<p>Answer #4: Staying within this government’s borders no more means we approve of or consent to government's domestic fiscal, monetary, environment, education, healthcare and workplace policies than leaving the country would mean we approve of their foreign aid, trade and military intervention policies, which, by virtue of us being out of Australian territory, we would be subject to, and according to your logic, because we do not leave the area where Australia applies its foreign policies, we therefore approve of and consent to them, because we could always return to within Australia’s borders where its foreign policy does not apply. But what if we oppose both Australia’s domestic and foreign policies; are we meant to leave the planet? So leaving the country does not mean we’ll cease to be subject to the policies of this country’s government. What staying in the country may well mean is that we prefer a government’s domestic policy to its foreign policy.</p>
<p>Answer #5: Libertarians staying in the country and obeying this government’s laws does not prove consent. What it proves is that we take their threats seriously, respect their shows of force and do not want to risk having them restrict more of our liberties and confiscate more of our property. Acquiescence, via, say, paying taxes we never consented to pay and being threatened with fines and imprisonment if we evade paying, no more proves consent than paying a ransom to a kidnapper transforms the kidnapping into mere babysitting.</p>
<p>All this and more can be found <a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/05/he-says-if-i-leave-him-due-to-politics-i-should-leave-the-country-too/">here</a>.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-33"><div class="section-header"><h2>But anarchism will never be accepted!</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p><em><a href="http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/20/the-irrelevance-of-the-impossibility-of-anarcho-libertarianism/">Stephan Kinsella</a>  (<a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/kinsella/kinsella15.html">here</a> also) responds:</em></p>
<p align="left">[C]riticism of anarchy on the grounds that it won’t "work" or is not "practical" is just confused. Anarchists don’t (necessarily) predict anarchy will be achieved — I for one don’t think it will. But that does not mean states are justified.</p>
<p align="left">Consider an analogy. Conservatives and libertarians all agree that private crime (murder, robbery, rape) is unjustified, and "should" not occur. Yet no matter how good most men become, there will always be at least some small element who will resort to crime. Crime will always be with us. Yet we still condemn crime and work to reduce it.</p>
<p align="left">Is it logically possible that there could be no crime? Sure. Everyone could voluntarily choose to respect others’ rights. Then there would be no crime. It’s easy to imagine. But given our experience with human nature and interaction, it is safe to say that there will always be crime. Nevertheless, we still proclaim crime to be evil and unjustified, in the face of the inevitability of its recurrence. So to my claim that crime is immoral, it would just be stupid and/or insincere to reply, "but that’s an impractical view" or "but that won’t work," "since there will always be crime." The fact that there will always be crime — that not everyone will voluntarily respect others’ rights — does not mean that it’s "impractical" to oppose it; nor does it mean that crime is justified. It does not mean there is some "flaw" in the proposition that crime is wrong.</p>
<p align="left">Likewise, to my claim that the state and its aggression is unjustified, it is disingenuous and/or confused to reply, "anarchy won’t work" or is "impractical" or "unlikely to ever occur." The view that the state is unjustified is a normative or ethical position. The fact that not enough people are willing to respect their neighbors’ rights to allow anarchy to emerge, i.e., the fact that enough people (erroneously) support the legitimacy of the state to permit it to exist, does not mean that the state, and its aggression, are justified.</p>
<p align="left">In other words, it just won’t do ... to attack anarcho-libertarianism by arguing we haven’t shown that "a fully-fledged free-market private property based social order can be realised and maintained without [whatever]". In fact, since anarcho-libertarianism just means stringent opposition to aggression, to attack anti-aggressionism just is to defend aggression. And you can’t justify aggression by alleging that libertarians have not proved that a private property order can "work." What kind of argument is that? "Sir, why are you robbing me? Why are you entitled to do this?" "Why, because you haven’t proved that a private property order can work, that’s why!"</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-60"><div class="section-header"><h2>Is libertarianism a cult?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"Libertarianism is 'cultish', say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc."<br />
~ <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/95516.html">Thomas Woods</a></p>
<p>"Not to mention, Tom, the black-robed deities of the 'supreme' court dressed in black capes, surrounded by a giant mural of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments; a national capital littered with statues of all the state's former henchmen on horseback, its political bloviators in full bloviation; the Temple to Zeus (er, I mean, Lincoln), complete with fasces inscripted on the front; and of course the Roman-style 'motorcades' for our emperors whenever they step out for an ice cream cone after dinner."<br />
~ <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/95522.html">Thomas DiLorenzo</a></p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-32"><div class="section-header"><h2>Without government, won&#8217;t warlords take over? Just look at Somalia!</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"For the warlord objection to work, the statist would need to argue that a given community would remain lawful under a government, but that the <em>same community</em> would break down into continuous warfare if all legal and military services were privatized ... It is true that Rothbardians should be somewhat disturbed that the respect for non-aggression is apparently too rare in Somalia to foster the spontaneous emergence of a totally free market community. But by the same token, the respect for 'the law' was also too weak to allow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Somalia#Somali_Civil_War">the original Somali <em>government</em> to maintain order</a>."<br />
~ <a href="http://mises.org/daily/1855">Robert Murphy</a></p>
<p>See also <a href="http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/07/07/jesse-walker-4/">this history</a> of foreign government intervention into Somalia.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-71"><div class="section-header"><h2>But what about drugs, gambling, etc.?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"[O]nce the principle is admitted that it is the duty of government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments. A good case could be made out in favor of the prohibition of alcohol and nicotine. And why limit the government’s benevolent providence to the protection of the individual’s body only? Is not the harm a man can inflict on his mind and soul even more disastrous than any bodily evils? Why not prevent him from reading bad books and seeing bad plays, from looking at bad paintings and statues and from hearing bad music? The mischief done by bad ideologies, surely, is much more pernicious, both for the individual and for the whole society, than that done by narcotic drugs … If one abolishes man’s freedom to determine his own consumption, one takes all freedoms away. <b>The naive advocates of government interference with consumption delude themselves when they neglect what they disdainfully call the philosophical aspect of the problem.</b> They unwittingly support the case of censorship, inquisition, religious intolerance, and the persecution of dissenters."<br />
~ <a href="http://mises.org/humanaction/chap27sec6.asp">Ludwig von Mises</a></p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-3"><div class="section-header"><h2>Doesn&#8217;t business need government?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"I believe that any system which places enterprise in leading strings, in order that it may become bold and adventurous, which represses commerce in order that it may thrive, which tears Industry in its infancy from the generous breast of Nature to suckle it on duties of Customs, and compels it in youth to lean on crutches that it may become strong in mature age, is as disastrous in its consequences as it is contradictory in its principles."<br />
~ G.H. Reid, <i>Five Free Trade Essays</i> (Melbourne: Gordon and Gotch, 1875), p. 3.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-19"><div class="section-header"><h2>Doesn&#8217;t government help business?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"To the extent that the new spending causes a spending response from investors and consumers, this is more evidence of an uneconomic use of scarce resources. If the money is used to prop up failing companies, that's particularly bad since it is an attempt to override market realities, an attempt that is about as successful as trying to repeal gravity by throwing things up in the air."<br />
~ <a href="http://mises.org/daily/3215">Lew Rockwell</a></p>
<p>"The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration. The individual is always ready to ascribe his good luck to his own efficiency and to take it as a well-deserved reward for his talent, application, and probity. But reverses of fortune he always charges to other people, and most of all to the absurdity of social and political institutions. He does not blame the authorities for having fostered the boom. He reviles them for the inevitable collapse. In the opinion of the public, more inflation and more credit expansion are the only remedy against the evils which inflation and credit expansion have brought about."<br />
~ <a href="http://mises.org/humanaction/chap20sec9.asp">Ludwig von Mises</a></p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-36"><div class="section-header"><h2>For Kids</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p align="left">Joseph Sobran's "<a href="http://mises.org/daily/287">Teach Your Children Well</a>":</p>
<p>Because I write about politics, people are forever asking me the best way to teach children how our system of government works. I tell them that they can give their own children a basic civics course right in their own homes.</p>
<p>In my own experience as a father, I have discovered several simple devices that can illustrate to a child's mind the principles on which the modern state deals with its citizens. You may find them helpful, too.</p>
<p>For example, I used to play the simple card game WAR with my son. After a while, when he thoroughly understood that the higher ranking cards beat the lower ranking ones, I created a new game I called GOVERNMENT. In this game, I was Government, and I won every trick, regardless of who had the better card. My boy soon lost interest in my new game, but I like to think it taught him a valuable lesson for later in life.</p>
<p>When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say, $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed it and asks to be paid, withhold $5 and explain that this is income tax. Give $1 to his younger brother, and tell him that this is "fair". Also, explain that you need the other $4 yourself to cover the administrative costs of dividing the money. When he cries, tell him he is being "selfish" and "greedy". Later in life he will thank you.</p>
<p>Make as many rules as possible. Leave the reasons for them obscure. Enforce them arbitrarily. Accuse your child of breaking rules you have never told him about. Keep him anxious that he may be violating commands you haven't yet issued. Instill in him the feeling that rules are utterly irrational. This will prepare him for living under democratic government.</p>
<p>When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him to bed an hour early. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the rules, explain that you made the rules and you can interpret them in any way that seems appropriate to you, according to changing conditions. This will prepare him for the Supreme Court's concept of the U.S. Constitution as a "living document".</p>
<p>Promise often to take him to the movies or the zoo, and then, at the appointed hour, recline in an easy chair with a newspaper and tell him you have changed your plans. When he screams, "But you promised!", explain to him that it was a campaign promise.</p>
<p>Every now and then, without warning, slap your child. Then explain that this is defense. Tell him that you must be vigilant at all times to stop any potential enemy before he gets big enough to hurt you. This, too, your child will appreciate, not right at that moment, maybe, but later in life.</p>
<p>At times your child will naturally express discontent with your methods. He may even give voice to a petulant wish that he lived with another family. To forestall and minimize this reaction, tell him how lucky he is to be with you the most loving and indulgent parent in the world, and recount lurid stories of the cruelties of other parents. This will make him loyal to you and, later, receptive to schoolroom claims that the America of the postmodern welfare state is still the best and freest country on Earth.</p>
<p>This brings me to the most important child-rearing technique of all: lying. Lie to your child constantly. Teach him that words mean nothing — or rather that the meanings of words are continually "evolving", and may be tomorrow the opposite of what they are today.</p>
<p>Some readers may object that this is a poor way to raise a child. A few may even call it child abuse. But that's the whole point: Child abuse is the best preparation for adult life under our form of GOVERNMENT.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-50"><div class="section-header"><h2>BEWARE! LIBERTARIANISM IS NOT CHAOS, LIBERTY OVER SECURITY, IMMORALITY, BUSINESS-WORSHIP, UTOPIANISM, LAW OF THE JUNGLE, PACIFISM OR ARMCHAIR THEORISING</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>Libertarianism is a political philosophy <em>only</em>!</p>
<p>Libertarianism is <em>not</em>: (1) a morality; (2) a blind defence of anything calling itself a “business”; (3) a preference for chaos, destruction and liberty at the cost of safety; (4) an opinion of human nature; (5) lack of respect for law and humanity; (6) a return to helplessness and refusal to accept progress; (7) arm-chair theorising and ignoring practical matters. Because these seven areas often have certain terms associated with them, in the next paragraph I list synonyms for these seven areas to be clear and comprehensive.</p>
<p>Libertarianism is often confused with these seven examples of what libertarianism is not: (1) libertinism, <em>i.e.</em>, hedonism, vice, sin, immorality; (2) mercantilism, <em>i.e.</em>, business receiving government allowances, exemptions, handouts, privileges; (3) chaos, <em>i.e.</em>, instability, uncertainty, preference for liberty over safety and security; (4) idealism, romanticism, utopianism, <em>i.e.</em>, faith in humanity, markets, progress, technology, money, barter; (5) the law of the jungle, <em>i.e.</em>, survival of the fittest, every man for himself, dog-eat-dog, unbridled selfishness; (6) pacifism, primitivism, self-sufficiency, <em>i.e.</em>, claiming that just because libertarians don’t want government to provide something that therefore they don’t want anyone to; (7) theorising at the expense of practising, not participating in the public debate, <em>i.e.</em>, mere arm-chair theorising. For a quick paragraph or three on each on how they differ from libertarianism, click <a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/04/warning-libertarianism-is-not/#more-2561">here</a>.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-27"><div class="section-header"><h2>Why do you call yourselves Misesians when Mises wasn&#8217;t an anarchist?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p><P align="left">The arguments Mises used to defend government conflict with the arguments he used to defend the market. As Mises himself said:</p>
<p>"The issue is always the same: the government <i>or</i> the market. There is no third solution."<br />
[Mises, <i>Socialism</i> (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1981), p. 492, or <a href="http://mises.org/daily/2454#2">here</a>.]</p>
<p>"It is inconsistent to support a policy of <i>low</i> trade barriers. Either trade barriers are useful, then they cannot be high enough; or they are harmful, then they have to disappear completely."<br />
[Mises, <i>Money, Method, and the Market Process</i>, ed. Richard M. Ebeling (Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), p. 135-36.]</p>
<p>"Whatever some people may consider as just and fair, the only relevant question is always the same. What alone matters is which system of social organization is better suited to attain those ends for which people are ready to expend toil and trouble. The question is market economy, or socialism? There is no third solution. The notion of a market economy with nonmarket prices is absurd. The very idea of cost prices is unrealizable. Even if the cost price formula is applied only to entrepreneurial profits, it paralyzes the market. If commodities and services are to be sold below the price the market would have determined for them, supply always lags behind demand. Then the market can neither determine what should or should not be produced, nor to whom the commodities and services should go. Chaos results."<br />
[Mises, <i>Human Action</i> (Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1998), <a href="http://mises.org/humanaction/chap16sec15.asp">pp. 393-94</a>.]</p>
<p>"[O]nce the principle is admitted that it is the duty of government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments. A good case could be made out in favor of the prohibition of alcohol and nicotine. And why limit the government’s benevolent providence to the protection of the individual’s body only? Is not the harm a man can inflict on his mind and soul even more disastrous than any bodily evils? Why not prevent him from reading bad books and seeing bad plays, from looking at bad paintings and statues and from hearing bad music? The mischief done by bad ideologies, surely, is much more pernicious, both for the individual and for the whole society, than that done by narcotic drugs … If one abolishes man’s freedom to determine his own consumption, one takes all freedoms away. The naive advocates of government interference with consumption delude themselves when they neglect what they disdainfully call the philosophical aspect of the problem. They unwittingly support the case of censorship, inquisition, religious intolerance, and the persecution of dissenters."<br />
[<i>Ibid.</i>, <a href="http://mises.org/humanaction/chap27sec6.asp">pp. 728-29</a>.]</p>
<p>"People can consume only what has been produced. The great problem of our age is precisely this: Who should determine what is to be produced and consumed, the people or the State, the consumers themselves or a paternal government? If one decides in favor of the consumers, one chooses the market economy. If one decides in favor of the government, one chooses socialism. There is no third solution."<br />
[Mises, <i>Economic Freedom and Interventionism</i>, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (New York: Foundation for Economic Education, 1990), <a href="http://mises.org/EFANDI/CH9.ASP">p. 47</a>.]</p>
<p><P align="left">So, if we are wrong to call ourselves Misesians, you can blame Mises. See also <a href="http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/07/was-mises-an-anarchist/">this</a> and <a href="http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/07/was-mises-an-anarchist/#comment-100063">this</a>.</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-64"><div class="section-header"><h2>Do you mean free to starve?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"The most dim-witted attempt at argument ever heard in this mortal world is the supposed retort to any advocate of freedom: 'Do you mean free to starve?' No. We mean, do you think you can't starve with your hands tied?"<br />
~ <a href="http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Bgw2nKffTXMC&lpg=PP1&dq=god%20of%20the%20machine%20paterson&pg=PR48#v=onepage&q&f=false">Isabel Paterson</a> </p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-65"><div class="section-header"><h2>Do you mean, even in a severe depression, government should do nothing?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"Yes. Moreover, government should start doing nothing much earlier.”<br />
~ <a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/10/greg-lindsay-on-ludwig-von-mises/">Ludwig von Mises</a></p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-66"><div class="section-header"><h2>But it is out of respect for government that we stop at red lights</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p>"No, it is out of respect for trucks."<br />
~ Sy Leon, as reported to me by Mark Tier</p>
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		</div><div class="section" id="text-53"><div class="section-header"><h2>Unconvinced and refuse to engage?</h2></div>			<div class="textwidget"><p><a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/04/would-anything-possibly-convince-you-that-you-are-living-under-a-protection-racket/">Read this</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7cry-4pyy8">Watch this</a>.</p>
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<p>So economics is, by definition almost, politically incorrect. See, for example, what economics has to say about the minimum wage <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMMN3UIQmEk">causing unemployment</a>, the RBA <a href="http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=77">creating inflation</a>, government <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/i-pencil/">planning worse</a> than business and the importance of understanding <a href="http://mises.org/humanaction/chap8sec3.asp"> the division of labor</a>.</p>
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<p>(Do you have a better executive summary of libertarianism? Please write it after the <a href="http://economics.org.au/2011/04/libertarianism-in-an-executive-summary/">click</a>.)</p>
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