Comments on: Government Not Needed

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:43:55 +0000

It sounds like the government, even if not ‘needed’, was instrumental and effective in organizing and supporting the efforts of private citizens.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:57:53 +0000

Steve only favors our governments assistance in helping other countries. Not our own.

By: darwin

darwin — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:19:14 +0000

It’s my contention that it helps alot, yeah.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:57:40 +0000

Lame. Is your contention that private citizens require federal assistance in a catastrophe?

By: darwin

darwin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:13:40 +0000

“so President Calvin Coolidge sent Hoover to mobilize state and local authorities, militia, army engineers, Coast Guard, and the American Red Cross.”

Yes, private citizens can help a lot. But from this description it hardly seems like no government was needed.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:00:32 +0000

From the passage I quoted in the post:

The great victory of his relief work, he stressed, was not that the government rushed in and provided all assistance. Rather, it was that much of the assistance available was provided instead by private citizens and organizations in response to Hoover’s appeals.

By: darwin

darwin — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:11:19 +0000

Don’t you think it’s pretty disengenuous to tilte a post ‘Government Not Needed’ and then post a text excerpt about how someone mobilized many different parts of local governments in order to solve a problem without intervention from the federaql government?