Comment Re:Just the encrpyt bit (Score 1) 332
Well, there is quite a difference between government acting as a law enforcement agency, and government providing services to its people. My privacy is not invaded when the government builds a subway so I can get to work easily. My privacy isn't invaded when laws protecting my safety at my workplace are enacted. Ralph Nader sees these as duties of a humane and responsable government. So do I. Ralph Nader is a large privacy advocate, and without doubt, would be against such things as expressed in this bill.
I have a hard time seeing how libritarians can think that any government interaction is bad, and it should all be reduced to zero. There are good reasons for the government to have social programs, especially for those things that the "free market" has shown it cannot consistently provide. Who do you think paid for rural electrification? Who was the first to do free rural delivery of mail? (Even though it WAS at the bidding of mail-order companies) The government does good things, and should be steered in that direction. Shrinking it as libritarians would like will only cause disaster.
I have a hard time seeing how libritarians can think that any government interaction is bad, and it should all be reduced to zero. There are good reasons for the government to have social programs, especially for those things that the "free market" has shown it cannot consistently provide. Who do you think paid for rural electrification? Who was the first to do free rural delivery of mail? (Even though it WAS at the bidding of mail-order companies) The government does good things, and should be steered in that direction. Shrinking it as libritarians would like will only cause disaster.
