Jim Choate wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ken Brown wrote: > > > The "crisis" wouldn't have happened in a free market. (Of course other > > crises would have that might be as bad or worse...) > > Oh Jesus Christ, so you're saying 'disease' doesn't happen in free > markets? Who said that? I said that *this* "crisis" (which isn't a crisis for very many people) wouldn't have happened in a free market. Not the same thing. [...] > Considering the amount, that seems reasonable. They don't have enough land > to raise the animals and plants they need to feed themselves. Yes we do, with government subsidy. Without subsidy then our producers are outcompeted by imports. As I said, you pays your money and you takes your choice. > Allowing > people to put up high rise buildings and parking lots wont' fix that. Well, it might if the people in the buildings are making profit they can use to buy food from y'all. [...] > My question stands, what is the crypto-anarcho-capitalist-libertarian > responce to a disease outbreak of this magnitude? My answer stands as well. It is to let the farmers go out of business. They should have got insurance. Does anyone bale your employers out when they make a bad business decision? The problem is probably aggravated by overstocking, inflated land prices, reduced livestock and crop diversity, overdependence on stored food, and unneccessary movements of stock that are used to qualify for this or that handout. But why ask me? I'm not an anarchist or a capitalist, I'm a nasty lefty socialist and a Calvinist. Not really the same at all.
