| All the while, the Czech economy continues to perform nicely. Unemployment fell from 8.8 percent in August 2005 to 7.8 percent in August 2006, and economic growth is projected to reach 6 percent this year. The continued growth of the economy suggests that the investors perceive the Czech Republic as a safe place for their savings. That is a vote of confidence in the strength of the Czech institutional framework and the progress that the country has made since the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
Do the civil servants still carry on the business of government?
The legislature need not interfere in the day to day business of government , most of the government we have is appointed or just hired.
I imagine the Czechs have civil servants .
They do and they respect them not like our US RWers that hate all bureoucrats.
They do and they respect them not like our US RWers that hate all bureoucrats.
The Czechs are a peaceful and civilized people, we are not. The lack of govt here would be the same as it now is in Iraq.
I don't think that at all, Domer. Just the opposite in fact. But whenever the topic of minimizing or doing without government arises, the most common objection to arise is that without government to maintain social order, society would devolve into chaos. Clearly, at least in the Czech Republic, this is not the case, which was my reason for posting the info.
But this doesn't disprove that at all. Clearly the government, as far as the institutions of government (to which Plane alludes) still function in the Czech Republic. They simply function without the elected Parliament. Honestly speaking, most state governments function just fine when their elected assemblies are out of session or in recess. The institutions themselves remain viable and continue to serve in their legal capacity just fine. The only problem would be in regards to Czech laws concerning appropriations of funds. Once the budget runs out, then you might start running into legal troubles.
If anything I'd argue that this is a very anti-libertarian principle. The truth is that elected assemblies are probably not as important as most people think, though that depends very much on the legal democratic framework.
Please explain how people getting along fine without elected assemblies is an anti-libertarian principle. The notion that people don't need government to create social order is very much a libertarian idea. So I am just not following your apparent argument that people getting along without government proves that people need government. I mean, you seem to be saying that people can get along without government because they have government, which seems contradictory to me.
That is a good example of why I tend not to believe liberals when they talk about believing in and/or caring for their fellow man. When they start talking as if we're all brutal savages kept in check by government, believing that they're motivated by faith in their fellow human beings becomes extremely difficult.
Times like that are generally good for business because the government is not as busy changeing the regs.