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May 12, 2010
Doing The Conservative Thing
I'm still waiting to see a Conservative stance on the drug war: "We should do the conservative thing and go back to the way things were before Progressives screwed it up with their ideas of prohibiting plants and plant extracts in order to gain moral uplift."Conservatism these days is not a thought out ideology. It is just a series of conditioned reflexes. The idea that government can provide moral uplift either directly or by contracting out the job is non-sense on stilts. The incentives are wrong. Of course the other conceit is that by either macro or micro policies including a series of punishments and rewards the government can produce a producing economy. But real economies are different. The real economy is really a series of blind amoebas searching out higher concentrations of useful nutrients. i.e. What job needs to be done. Can I do it at a profit? Are there higher profit opportunities available? Are the rewards commensurate with the risks? What is the opportunity cost? What to do about low profit potential but vital support functions? You know. The kinds of things government doesn't like to think about. Any way, with government there is no incentive to solve a problem. The incentive is to get more money to solve a problem. Every year. As it is with economics. So it is with morality and culture. This rant inspired by something from The Other McCain. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 05.12.10 at 03:59 AM |
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I’m still waiting to see a Conservative stance on the drug war
And I’m still waiting to see a Conservative comment on the comment you left!