DEMOCRACY
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work – because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.
The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal government does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interests at the expense of the common interest.
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I’m not trying to say that we shouldn’t have lobbyists or we shouldn’t have lobbying to petition our government. It’s in the Constitution, and it’s something that should be honorable and good.
If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.
I’m not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations – I’m not an anarchist.
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That’s done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it’s interstate in nature. And federal government – this is one area we…
We’ve got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.
I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven’t seen that.