Is libretarian a European spelling of libertarian? Anyway, they are mostly nutballs with pie in the sky ideals. Libertarianism has never worked as a viable precept for government. If you had nothing but libertarians, who would take away from their selfish endeavors long enough to run a government? No-one. That is one reason it will never work, there are many others. The libertarian individual is way too involved with self to care or invest time with others, It's the me, mine, and nobody elses that fill the empty heads of libertarians.
Strange, if Libertarianism has never worked how do you explain the lack of Warfare in the History of the United States from our founding until the dictatorship of the Federal Government was established over the states at the end of the Civil War.
From this country's founding until the end of the Civil War we fought fewer wars, and were not involved in as many police actions as we have been since the Civil War.
Then there is the fact that the roots of the Industrial Might of the United States find their roots in the Libertarian/Night Watch Government that existed from 1798 - 1913.
The inertia created during that 120 year period was so great that it essentially carried us through to modern times, with only cry baby politicians and imbecilic economists that have no idea how markets work interfering despite the fact that because of Industrial Progress there were periods of deflation.
In fact, a look at the history of the United States Dollar will show that under a free market deflation is the norm with the period from 1800 - 1913 being marked by 15% deflation of the price of goods. That is the Dollar was worth 15% more in 1913 than it was in 1800.
Since 1913 and the inception of the Federal Reserve (Another GSE like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) the Dollar has lost more than 96% of its value because of the preachings of those that are pushing a flawed economic theory.
Instead of teaching the truth (that deflation is the natural state of things due to increasing productivity, and that it is unnatural for things to stagnate and stay level (including prices)) modern economic theory is filled with the fraudulent idea that prices must be held steady.
Ironically the mission of the "Federal" Reserve is supposedy to hold the value of the Dollar steady. If that was truly their mission then the dollar would still be on par with its value in 1913 instead of worth less than 4¢ against it.
Gold, against which the dollar was fixed, would not be worth $800+ Dollars, because the Dollar would still be worth 1/20th of an ounce putting its value at 20/oz of gold. This would of course mean that we would probably be discussing prices in mills (1/1000ths of a dollar) instead of in dollars right now, but that once again is the natural state of progress.
The increasing size of government has lead to increasing periods where its mismanagement of the economy has caused great harm to this nation.
Great Depression - 1929 - 1942 - Had the government not taken any action the market would have cleaned out the mismanaged forms and went back to growing.
Stagflation - 1970 - 1980 - Climbing Unemployment and Climbing Inflation
High Inflation - 1980 - 1986 - Interest Rates peaking at 20% due to government mismanagement of the money supply.
Internet Bubble - 1992 - 2001
Housing Bubble - 2003 - 2008
Ironically, there was a 2 year period at the start of the 1920s during which the United States' economy experienced a correction. The lack of government intervention meant that it became nothing more than a burp that is not even thought about or mentioned in history classes in modern times despite the fact that during that 2 year period the unemployment rate crossed 20%.
However it can be identified as a period during which industry had to retool to shift back from war time production to peace time production.
Outside of the mismanagement of the Economy the government has also acted as a belligerent.
It'd be easier to list nations where we haven't interfered in their politicis some how than to list nations that we have in the last century, but just for starters.
1899 - Spanish American War - (Spain, Cuba, Phillipines, etc.)
1903 - Panama Canal (Panama, Columbia)
1917 - World War I (France, England, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Ukraine, Poland)
1930s - Spain
1940s - World War II (Europe, Asia)
1950s - Korea
1960s - Vietnam
1980s on
Panama
Nicaragua
Haiti
Somolia
Beirut
Lebanon
Iraq
Iran
so on and so forth.
Sadly there are fewer nations that the United States does not have military bases or soldiers in by a large margin than nations that we do have military bases or soldiers in (180+)
Libertarianism doesn't just represent true equality of individuals, which is also the ideal behind a Republic, and is represented by the traditional images of Justice being blind, but also a less corrupt and more peaceful government.
Not only was the Republic founded on Libertarianism (or Classic Liberalism) but the founders firmly believed in its principles, as can be witnessed by Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, and Benjamin Franklin's abolitionist sentiments.
It is also mentioned in one of the most mentioned quotes by George Washington about avoiding foreign entanglements (alliances) but extending the hand of friendship and trade to all.
The founding fathers were for small government, free trade, self-responsibility, and equality of all before law.
Of course the existence of that English Custom of Slavery and Indebted Servitude may mar their record for truly being Libertarian, but it does not mean that they were not in fact Libertarian.
