"But who will build the roads?" the young lady asked me a few nights ago. The wine must have been getting to her. We'd been through this at least a half dozen times. I grinned indulgently and took it from the top. The wine must have been getting to me, too.
My statist friend meant no harm. In fact, she's to be commended on how receptive she's been to my explanations of the moral and practical superiority of a stateless, voluntary society. It's been fun to watch her grapple with the concepts and slowly come around.
With my time in the USSA growing short, my small handful of Minneapolis friends has been making a point of seeing as much of me as possible before I go. All of them are some degree of liberal collectivist, but they have also all proven very open to arguments for the non-aggression principle as well as the Austrian explanation of economics. It could be that I'm just unusally persuasive, especially after a couple of drinks. And I suspect that a couple of the lady friends have ulterior motives and are therefore pretending to be more receptive than they really are.
In any case my friend and I strolled from the wine bar through the pleasant streets of her South Minneapolis neighborhood and back to the very nice house for which she'd recently gone into tremendous debt. We talked late into the night about economics, anarchism and expatriation (my own upcoming expatriation in particular). My imminent departure for Galt's Gulch, Chile must be making me more wistful than usual. I look at my friend's life and part of me wishes I didn't know any of the things I know…that I could just happily take on a mortgage to live the American Dream on some quiet, leafy street full of handsome homes. With two cars in the garage. And two cats in the yard.
Alas, it cannot be. Being in America creates in me a constant tension. The tyrranical government, the brainwashed sheeple, the coming end of the monetary system as we have known it. As much as I wish things weren't so far gone here…as much as I wish I could stay and live somewhat in peace…I just can't ignore this frantic feeling that I need to get out.
If you get that feeling, too, then consider joining me in Galt's Gulch.
Regards,
Gary Gibson
Editor, The Dollar Vigilante
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MONDAY, July 22
Jim Karger takes Amerika to task for giving up on ambition.
“The decaying infrastructure in the United States slaps you hard across the face these days, the roads getting noticeably more dangerous each trip. Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the war criminal Lyndon Johnson, would roll over in her grave today if she saw the state of the medians on Interstate highways. She was all about beautiful highways, and I wish Lyndon had focused on those, too, rather than killing 60,000 American kids in Vietnam and an untold number of Vietnamese. In the end, they both failed. The USSA lost still another war and the median grass and weeds along Interstate 35 are now waist high in a lot of places.”
TUESDAY, July 23
Absolutely Not. Not Under Any Circumstances. Japan's Coming Debt Collapse
Tres Knippa on Japan’s coming debt collapse.
“For those who have not been following the day to day musings from Japan, the “Three Arrow” approach starts with a huge surge in monetary policy (check), an expansion of fiscal stimulus measures (check), and now the third arrow will be some structural changes in the Japanese business landscape (lower corporate taxes, international trade agreements, and increased market led competition in certain sectors of the economy). Let me state this clearly so there is no doubting my opinion on this matter. What is going on in Japan is an experiment. It is an experiment that has no basis in economic history.”
Wednesday, July 24
Slavey answers a question about Detroit’s bankruptcy.
"You bet there are silver linings for you folks in Detroit. You have little or no functional government! That means for the most part, Big Brother is off your back. I’ve been doing some digging to find out if that’s been bad for Detroit, and the answer is (yeah, except for the older people depending on their city pensions) that it’s all GOOD. Private enterprise is taking over government services that are now in chaos and they’re doing amazingly well.”
FRIDAY, July 26
Feedback Friday – July 26, 2013
In this week’s Feedback Friday: Big government and Trayvon Martin.
SATURDAY, July 27
The Weekend Vigilante July 27, 2013: Galt's Gulch, Gold and the Kanadian Mafia
In his weekly address to TDVers, Jeff Berwick discusses an endorsement of Galt's Gulch Chile, socialist enclaves, Bradley Manning, and more.
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