{"id":24,"date":"2008-01-02T01:51:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T09:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-01-02T01:51:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T09:51:20","slug":"unclear-on-the-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/24\/unclear-on-the-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclear on the Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that every time libertarianism comes up in a conversation, some statist buffoon inevitably asks &#8216;b-b-but what if the government stopped doing X or made Y legal?!!1!&#8217; as if it&#8217;s some sort of amazing gotcha question? How hard is it to understand that we really don&#8217;t want the Federal government doing, well, much of anything really? Are most people really so helpless without a government bureaucrat to hold their hand that they simply can&#8217;t imagine anybody being able to do things on their own? Let alone the  thought that some people might actually *gasp* <em>want<\/em> to make their own decisions and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. How do these people manage to make it through a day by themselves without walking in front of a bus or something?<\/p>\n<p>As for the roads and education straw men that they always bring up as a smoke screen, do we really need the Feds to do that? Without even getting into privatization, public education is a disaster already in large part due to Federal interference.  And roads, well, like 99% of them are actually built by State and local government agencies anyway. Why on earth are we paying the Feds to waste a large portion of the money in a bureaucratic (and pork-laden) maze before they hand it right back to the States which could have just done it all to begin with? It&#8217;s like they think DC is populated with fairies and elves.<\/p>\n<p>But, yea, just think, these people will be voting in Presidential primaries starting tomorrow. What a depressing way to start the new year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that every time libertarianism comes up in a conversation, some statist buffoon inevitably asks &#8216;b-b-but what if the government stopped doing X or made Y legal?!!1!&#8217; as if it&#8217;s some sort of amazing gotcha question? How hard is it to understand that we really don&#8217;t want the Federal government doing, well, much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}