Brian Defferding
05-11-2010, 03:32 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20100511/letters11_st.art.htm
They edited some stuff out. This was what I actually wrote to them:
Dear Editor,
I want to thank Bob and Cal for addressing the desperate need to start cutting government's size down in Thursday's edition of The Forum. Our government, simply put, spends too much. This debt our government has reached is an unfortunate result of the Keynesian economic theory that deficit spending on certain areas of the economy would result in some sort of economic boost. Rather, it is doing the opposite, with the result of a central bank that is over-lending and over-monetizing to cover our financial insolvency, and an economy that is way too dangerously dependent on that insolvent system.
All the programs and subsidies Congress claims to help us, or sanctions and wars our President claims to fight for is just propping us up on a house of cards. Perhaps it would be best for them not to gamble our future away enabling everyone on such dangerous dependency, and allow us to start finding ways to recover on our own. This requires a sea change in our attitude towards personal and economic libertarian causes, something I staunchly support in hopes our economy can grow soundly and independently - not at the hands of central bankers or our elected officials, but through the grand voluntary means of exchange of citizens helping out others and helping themselves. Something some have called the free market.
Thank you,
Brian Defferding
Note they edited out "Keynesian" in the printed version. Nice.
They edited some stuff out. This was what I actually wrote to them:
Dear Editor,
I want to thank Bob and Cal for addressing the desperate need to start cutting government's size down in Thursday's edition of The Forum. Our government, simply put, spends too much. This debt our government has reached is an unfortunate result of the Keynesian economic theory that deficit spending on certain areas of the economy would result in some sort of economic boost. Rather, it is doing the opposite, with the result of a central bank that is over-lending and over-monetizing to cover our financial insolvency, and an economy that is way too dangerously dependent on that insolvent system.
All the programs and subsidies Congress claims to help us, or sanctions and wars our President claims to fight for is just propping us up on a house of cards. Perhaps it would be best for them not to gamble our future away enabling everyone on such dangerous dependency, and allow us to start finding ways to recover on our own. This requires a sea change in our attitude towards personal and economic libertarian causes, something I staunchly support in hopes our economy can grow soundly and independently - not at the hands of central bankers or our elected officials, but through the grand voluntary means of exchange of citizens helping out others and helping themselves. Something some have called the free market.
Thank you,
Brian Defferding
Note they edited out "Keynesian" in the printed version. Nice.