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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>General</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/27.aspx</link><description>Everything else.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88788.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:59:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88788</guid><dc:creator>Solomon</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88788.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88788</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Paying bureaucrats to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88777.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:19:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88777</guid><dc:creator>fezwhatley</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88777.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88777</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;the economy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88776.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:12:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88776</guid><dc:creator>Luis Buenaventura</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88776.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88776</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Digging a hole to Chine, after all that&amp;#39;s where all the mony is! &lt;img src="http://mises.org/Community/emoticons/emotion-4.gif" alt="Stick out tongue" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88754.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:25:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88754</guid><dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88754.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88754</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;The &amp;nbsp;Universal Church of Our Lord and Saviour&amp;nbsp;J.M. Keynes&amp;nbsp;and Historical Museum of Economic Stupidity, spanning the distance of Montana. Great public works project!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88753.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:22:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88753</guid><dc:creator>nirgrahamUK</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88753.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88753</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;haha, food for children, a slippery slope!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88752.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:22:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88752</guid><dc:creator>Stranger</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88752.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88752</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I would build myself a pyramid to honor me for eternity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88748.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:18:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88748</guid><dc:creator>nazgulnarsil</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88748.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88748</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;food for children.&amp;nbsp; while I don&amp;#39;t like socialism, children at least shouldn&amp;#39;t have to pay for the stupid economic decisions of their parents.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88746.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:09:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88746</guid><dc:creator>MatthewWilliam</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88746.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88746</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;The government should subsidise my alcohol consumption. Finally a government program that works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88745.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:08:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88745</guid><dc:creator>sirmonty</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88745.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88745</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/Themes/mises2008/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;nirgrahamUK:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it has been suggested that the government subsidise and therefore generate an overproduction of hazzlit&amp;#39;s economics in one lesson.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But....Hazlitt&amp;#39;s EIOL is a&amp;nbsp;polemic&amp;nbsp;piece full of melodramatic and ideologically charged material that passes itself off as textbook material and is&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;without substantial mathematical content so it isn&amp;#39;t really worth reading.....&amp;lt;----literally what someone said when I recommended it in another forum.....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88741.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:58:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88741</guid><dc:creator>nirgrahamUK</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88741.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88741</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;it has been suggested that the government subsidise and therefore generate an overproduction of hazzlit&amp;#39;s economics in one lesson.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;oh, and unicorns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88737.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:49:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88737</guid><dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88737.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88737</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Space programs so we can homestead other planets. In other words, science.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88736.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:46:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88736</guid><dc:creator>scineram</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88736.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88736</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Medicare, Medicaid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88734.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:41:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88734</guid><dc:creator>wombatron</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88734.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88734</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/Themes/mises2008/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;sirmonty:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you had to restrict all government spending to just one single area, what would it be?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I realize most here would say the state is illegitimate and shouldn&amp;#39;t even exist, but let&amp;#39;s say for the sake of this discussion that isn&amp;#39;t an option and you had to choose the &amp;quot;lesser of all evils&amp;quot;. &lt;img src="http://mises.org/Community/emoticons/emotion-4.gif" alt="Stick out tongue" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The regulation of unicorn ownership.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88732.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:34:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:88732</guid><dc:creator>sirmonty</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/88732.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&amp;PostID=88732</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;If you had to restrict all government spending to just one single area, what would it be and why?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I realize most here would say the state is illegitimate and shouldn&amp;#39;t even exist, but let&amp;#39;s say for the sake of this discussion that isn&amp;#39;t an option and you had to choose the &amp;quot;lesser of all evils&amp;quot;. &lt;img src="http://mises.org/Community/emoticons/emotion-4.gif" alt="Stick out tongue" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>