Abolish the State!

Laissez faire, huh? Well maybe I should let you in on something; Celtic Ireland didn't have human rights, often had violent crimes against other tribes, and everyone lived in forts to protect themselves. Ringforts, and the like. My first point would be that you have far too much faith in Humanity's virtues and honour. If every service is privatised, you must remember non-profitable organisations like charities, police, hospitals, national security, These industries do not make enough money to be attractive, and any that are virtuous enough to enlist will not be enough to cover the whole country. This demographic will also not be the most qualified, and schools will be privatised too. Now, I have spent my time in a private school, and it's about to go public because private schools don't make enough money. This system inevitably leads to the richest company hiring the private police to wipe out the competition, and establish colonial dicatorships to produce their products. If not that, then they only hire workers at the lowest possible wage, localised sweatshops. The next issue is the disadvantaged. Those who cannot provide a service have no possible income. Normally, these people would receive some sort of welfare, but with the lack of government, these people all have no support. Your naivety allows you to claim they can survive on donations from the wealthy... What?! Are you dense? Do you actually think that there are enough donations in the world, let alone the US, to provide for the unemployed and disadvantaged? No! And if there was? Who would distribute this money? Anyone who did would keep most of it for themselves as there are no police to enforce this. And with the end of the US government, the civil servants all become unemployed, and you have an excess of currency left with the politicians. Now the printing press owners are the richest, and inflation increases. If you try to establish a new currency, what would that be? Who would make it? How would everyone agree? How will you make Congress or the UN agree to this? Your notion that Capitalism is good for the poor is untrue. Behold! Using my history studies, i shall explain why. In the industrial revolution, skilled workers became unnecessary as machinery that required little maintenance was used. Many people were injured, and received little pay for their work. It was the MP wages that allowed poorer people to enter politics that allowed them to improve the working conditions and pay. Socialism offers someone a crutch when they are injured, so when they are better they can return to work without long term harm, whereas Capitalism accuses the injured person of being lazy and living off welfare. i also study economics. I'm doing Schools of Economic thought right now, so here's a free lesson. Adam Smith; the father of free enterprise. he believed that the government should stay out of business affairs and that the Invisible hand would improve overall standards. However, even he understood that government regulation, intervention and action was necessary. For instance, here in Ireland, we would have no bus service if not for the government as many routes are not making a profit. Education is free and healthcare is mostly paid for by the state (no one has to pay more than 100 euro for medicine) Sounds expensive, right? But what's our national debt? A hundred thousand times less than America's. And we are out of recession now, thanks to the theories of another economist, John Maynard Keynes, who favoured monetary policy with economic injections. http://www.financedublin.com... http://www.brillig.com... The solution is a mixed economy and government with private enterprise and essentials ran by the government. The best of both worlds. Corruption will occur even in an anarchistic society like yours, just more violently, as religious right wing paramilitaries soon begin to take over. The key is vigilance and monitoring of the government. Your speech has been quite a clustered read, so if anything you felt I left untouched, leave a comment and I will answer your questions either there, or in my next speech. I will end with a quote from Churchill; "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." See you next round, Duncan