Cobra Commander replies, “What? Forget it, this is California remember?”

Government is the only thing that can fulfill Levi’s dream of forcing other people to pay his bills and fix his problems

The average left-winger has that exact dream: the dream of *compelling* others to respect him, recognize him, deal with him, and finance him. Like a kid with unresolved narcissistic anger at his parents, who wishes he could compel them.

He dislikes situations where people deal with each other voluntarily; that is, where he might be held to some external standard, because people have the option of rejecting him. Conversely, the left-winger loves situations where there are no standards, where he can feel ‘unconditionally accepted’ – like an OWS protest, a sex orgy, or a pot-smoking circle.

If people don’t have an education, they get taken advantage of by swindlers.

Isn’t that the very model of every cell phone service store in the country?

Do I recall that Levi is a paid swindler in the cell phone service racket?

Or has he switched to pay-day lending, check cashing, rent to own appliances and furniture or investment advice?

If I learn that Levi is busting his hump at Chick-fil-a or holding the flashlight for a certified plumber, I will back off a bit. But, somehow, I believe that the little fascist puke is drawn to swindlers and predators. Maybe he is a runner for Corzine or a community organizer for scamming the welfare system. Maybe he is a distributor for Obamaphones. Maybe he is a paid protester. Maybe he just schleps schlock to the rubes. Whatever he does, it must complement his non-existent critical thinking powers.

No surprise there. To you, the government is all. If the government had a monopoly on shoe production, you would be out here saying “I can’t even imagine what the shoe industry would look like in this setup.” That a free market could produce good outcomes, escapes you. Again, no surprise.

Nailed it, ILC.

Again, Levi’s fixation with government is simply as a means to an end. Government is the only thing that can fulfill Levi’s dream of forcing other people to pay his bills and fix his problems without his having to raise a finger, so he exhorts government as the be-all and end-all and demonizes private industry as awful and evil.

Why? Again, because government rewards based on how you vote, not on how you work. Obama’s cronies, as we saw with Solyndra, can run a business into the ground and get fat bonuses for doing so, with all loss shoveled off onto the taxpayers.

Levi’s incompetence, malevolence, bigotry, and general ignorance make it unlikely that he can ever be hired for more than menial jobs; there are simply too many other qualified, intelligent, and tolerant people who can do things better. The only thing that Levi has to offer that is in any way “equal” is a vote, so he simply votes for the party and candidate who promises to revenge him against those qualified, intelligent, and tolerant people who got the job he didn’t and are making far more than he does.

The best things you can to protect life, liberty, and freedom is guarantee a baseline of economic stability

Which is exactly what left-wing policies *don’t* do, as Obama gives us daily proof.

If people don’t have food, they commit crimes.

That’s typically vile, deceptive left-wing thinking. In reality, *criminals* commit crimes… not “people”. Real people scramble to get jobs when they are hungry; if they are prevented from doing so, it’s GOVERNMENT (policies which prevent a free labor market, block economic growth, etc.) which prevent them from doing so. And finally, if they really can’t work, then they get help from family, charity and church – all of which Levi despises and so chooses to ignore.

If people don’t have an education, they get taken advantage of by swindlers.

Or, if people DO have an education, they get taken advantage of by swindlers. Right now, I am personally helping a highly educated man whose education did nothing to protect him against a swindle – and may well have hurt his ability to discern it.

There is no reason to think that education has anything to do with people avoiding swindles; again, as Obama gives daily proof. His entire economic policy is a giant swindle that hurts, among others, the very people who vote for it.

And once more, you overlook the fact that just become something is good, doesn’t mean it should be provided by government. Which brings us to your next sentence:

I can’t even imagine what the healthcare and financial industries would look like in this set up.

No surprise there. To you, the government is all. If the government had a monopoly on shoe production, you would be out here saying “I can’t even imagine what the shoe industry would look like in this setup.” That a free market could produce good outcomes, escapes you. Again, no surprise.

What about the FDA?

Google “Underwriters Laboratories” sometime. There is no reason why industry standards/quality agencies must be government agencies. None at all.

Presumably, there could be some punitive and financial punishments in your system for a peanut butter manufacturer that was responsible for a salmonella outbreak

They would have their reputation destroyed in the market, as their first and foremost punishment. AND they would be open to civil torts. And, depending on the details, perhaps criminal charges for fraud.

In other words: They wouldn’t be around, because they wouldn’t last for ten minutes. Free markets mean that the producer and consumer must deal with each other voluntarily, to the profit (the benefit) of both. While regulated ‘markets’ mean that the government regulator is king over both, to the detriment of both, because now the producer focuses on dealing with (and hopefully ‘capturing’) the government regulator INSTEAD OF serving the consumer. Regulated ‘markets’ are WORSE for the consumer.

I’ve explained all this before. I know that not a word is going to sink in. But maybe another reader will benefit. But that’s all the time I have. Don’t assume I lack answers for anything else you’ve written; I haven’t read it because I must stop here, there is simply not enough time or interest in correcting your errors endlessly.

For example:

If people don’t have food, they commit crimes.

Nope. Normal people get jobs and work so they can purchase food, or they go out and grow it themselves.

But you don’t want to do either. Instead you want to steal from someone else. You have no desire to work or grow your own food; you want it delivered to you.

Hence your addiction to government. You see it as a methodology for you to steal without being punished. You and your fellow Obama supporters kick and scream and cry that government should take from those who work and give it to those like yourself who refuse to work or contribute to society. Indeed, you and your Barack Obama have abolished any requirement that welfare recipients even TRY to work, and instead demand that welfare recipients stay on welfare for their entire life if they want.

And then this:

If people don’t have an education, they get taken advantage of by swindlers.

Yes. As we see from Jon Corzine, who Obama and “progressives” endorse and support, swindling is normal behavior for the Obama base.

Which is also why “progressives” oppose any type of educational system that actually produces results. “Progressives” like Levi and his fellow Obama supporters demand that children be trapped in failing schools with drunk teachers because they know that stupid people are easier to manipulate and swindle with Obamaphones.

Half of Detroit’s population is functionally illiterate. This is because of the school system that Levi endorses, that Levi supports, and that Levi insists needs no change whatsoever. Levi refuses to educate minorities and the poor for the same reason that Levi’s ancestors fought the education of slaves; it is all about control.

And again, it all ties back to what Levi wants. Levi wants slaves, aka the Obama Party base, who can be easily purchased with food stamps and Obamaphones and will thus vote him and his Obama into power. Once in power, Levi and his fellow Obama supporters pass laws to force people to give them all their money or be thrown in jail, even as they allow people like Corzine to swindle, cronies like Solyndra to cash fat government checks, and supporters like Rangel, McCaskill, Kerry, Sherrod Brown, and Warren Buffett to defraud the welfare system and dodge taxes.

I just have a hard time envisioning the model that you’re describing.

Wow, apparently Levi can tell the truth once in a while.

I’ve said over and over and over that government has 3 legitimate – and necessary – functions: police, courts and military for the impartial protection of individual rights to life, liberty and property.

Levi doesn’t care. He’d rather respond to what he wishes libertarian-conservatives say, rather than to what they do say. Hence, Levi’s typically irrelevant, mendacious and stupid rant above.

I just have a hard time envisioning the model that you’re describing. It seems to me that police, courts, and the military would be hugely expensive and inefficient if we didn’t maintain some form of public education or social safety net. The best things you can to protect life, liberty, and freedom is guarantee a baseline of economic stability, and I’m not sure how your exclusive police state is supposed to do that. If people don’t have food, they commit crimes. If people don’t have an education, they get taken advantage of by swindlers. I can’t even imagine what the healthcare and financial industries would look like in this set up.

What about the FDA? Presumably, there could be some punitive and financial punishments in your system for a peanut butter manufacturer that was responsible for a salmonella outbreak, but it would be completely reactive in nature if you didn’t have anyone inspecting food or compiling public health statistics. You could have 1,000 dead people before anyone even notices there’s a problem. How are you supposed to privatize a function like that? According to you, the only thing the government should ever do is punish people for harming others, but what about preventing harm from happening in the first place? The only thing you can offer in your set-up is the fear of punishment, is that not right? You assume too much if you think that fear of punishment will motivate people to do the right thing every time, there are undoubtedly a good number who will only be motivated by fear of punishment to not get caught.

And since you’re so keen on pretending that the government can only impede markets and growth, I don’t suppose you’ll want to maintain the internet, highway system, public transportation, GPS, weather service, the FCC, or any of these other strangling barriers that weren’t worth the cost and never benefited the private sector at all. What do they have to do with protecting life, liberty, and property?

Since 1970, the city has been run exclusively by progressive Democrats who followed Levi’s policy prescriptions to the letter: raising taxes to spend on education and all those other wonderful social programs Levi thinks are so critical to economic success.

How is Detroit Fairing after forty years of enlightened progressive rule?

Somalia has no government. According to the extremely sophisticated conservative argument “We Built That!”, Somalia should therefore be a hotbed of innovation and a world leader in economic growth. But for some reason, that isn’t the case.

And in Cuba present and the former Soviet Union, the government owns and controls everything.

Therefore, using Levi’s own argument, that proves that liberalism destroys economic growth and leads to repression and destruction.

Looks like the whining little Levi brat was humiliated again. But that’s typical; the whining brat doesn’t have any intelligent argument. He’s just a pathetic whore, a desperate little coward who is trying to rationalize why people who actually work and create value should be compelled to contribute to lazy moochers and looters like himself who won’t work and want government to finance their rape habit.