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To: elmatador who wrote (16361)	4/2/2007 3:41:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 218031

If you don't like the idea of "foot voting" take it up with TJ as he brought it up. Mobility of capital is one part of freedom. But capital is owned by human beings. The "foot voting" cited earlier could be called flows of human capital. People moving from a place to another, has nothing to do with the government there. Of course it has something to do with the govt there. At least indirectly. The busdrivers brothers you use as examples are moving to take advantage of economic opportunity. But economic opportunity is effected by the govts policies among many other things.

To: elmatador who wrote (16361)	4/2/2007 5:03:42 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218031

Elmat, People moving from place to place has nothing to do with government? Since when? Government built the roads upon which the cabs and busses operate. And government, unfortunately for me these days it is MY government, has fought the wars and is making the expenditures that enable the "ticket buying", by making jet fuel available or keeping the sealanes free of pirates and privateers, that enables your fairytale "brothers" to travel around the world at will. Even their apparent reason for migration, that the destination country pays better wages than where they started, is related to government, as maybe in the target destination the government has played a role in the favorable circumstances there. Of course there may be other factors, cultural, racial, environmental. Back in the 1970's I was for several years an early and very committed member of the the Libertarian Party, attending party functions and reading the LP propaganda. So much of what you post sounds very much like the doctrinaire LP arguments of those bygone days. Actually, your theory that "government has no bearing on human behavior" is an element of LP theory, and a very mistaken one. Another big failing of LP theory is the notion that man is an "economic animal". Some may be, maybe you are, but to put undue weight on economics is very mistaken. It is popular with theorists like LP fanatics because it is, like Marxism, a materialist construction, removing from their calculations any impossible to define human and spirtual factors that are at the root of everything people do. It is a gross oversimplification, in other words, akin to Marxism. Slagle