Its a wonderful thing when all the pieces of the puzzle come together so you can see the actual picture.
Lets see what we have here:
Mark Thornton is a Libertarian.
Not relevant to the soundness of the arguments themselves.
Libertarians are an extremist group supported in elections by the tiniest numbers of voters.
Not relevant to the soundness of the arguments themselves. Also an attempt at ad hominem (he's a libertarian therefore he's automatically wrong and you can ignore his arguments) and an ad populum (they're unpopular therefore they're wrong).
Libertarians despise much of what government is and what it stands for and what it does.
Not relevant to the soundness of the arguments themselves. Also an attempt at ad hominem (he's a libertarian therefore he's automatically wrong and you can ignore his arguments).
But Libertarians are failures at the ballot box so they must come up with some sort of alternative strategy to implement their anti-government beliefs.
Not revelant to the soundness of his arguments themselves.
Mark Thornton appears on the prestigious "Lew Rockwell Show".
Not relevant to the soundness of the arguments themselves. Also an attempt at ad hominem (he's a libertarian therefore he's automatically wrong and you can ignore his arguments).
Rockwell is a noted Libertarian gatherer and outlet for all things Libertarian and anti-government.
Not relevant to the soundness of the arguments themselves. Also an attempt at ad hominem (he's a libertarian therefore he's automatically wrong and you can ignore his arguments).
Thonton, throws out his theory that maybe this idea of small government is bad. When Rockwell picks himself up off the floor, Thornton explains that he is not talking about government services or programs, just the way the House of Representatives functions. What we need is 10,000 people serving in the House of Representatives.
Not relevant to the soundness of the arguments themselves.
There is more than one way to skin a cat says the old adage. And it appears that the Libertarians are now taking a page from other extremist groups whose anti-government mantra has been "bleed the beast". In other words, destroy the government and its power by bleeding it dry of money, support and resources.
Finally an actual argument. It is your opinion that if the federal government had then thousand more employees, it would have far too many employees and therefore collapse.
So the Libertarians want government out of our lives and to reduce its power in our lives. What better way to do it than this ridiculous idea to expand Congress to 10,000 people and thereby destroying Congress as any sort of functioning body.
Inserting the word "ridiculous" doesn't make it so.
If I were a Libertarian, I would say it is a master stroke of Machivallien political evil genius.
Inseting the words "Machivallien" and "evil" doesn't make it so.
As I am not a Libertarian, its just a foolish and blantantly transparent ruse.
Inserting the word "foolish" doesn't make it so.