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Yet when the government tries to plan for the whole society. that is too centralized. there is note enough room for competition and individual choice and not people planning with their own money to achieve their own purposes. you see it even with sarah palin who has libertarian instincts but when she sees a problem, her intuition, that government needs to come up with a plan to prevent overfishing. maybe the problem in the fishing area we don't sufficiently rely on property rights and markets. it might be difficult to figure out how to use property rights with ocean resources but that is the w...

Excellent book. got me excited. o solutions at least you, john, espouse and more voters need to think like reagan government too often is the problem. i want to argue with you on one point that you made. in the meantime, i'll tell you, the examples that you give throughout this book, really shed light on how nonsensical government is in assuming that it's role is way beyond what our constitution allows, federal centralizized government. >> john: and the people that you were hanging around on the today show. all those socialists. they have no clue about these ideas. [ laughter ] >> you know wha...

Sleeping on the job. >> and people want more government. we're joined by a dj who was a reporter on that video and nick gillespie. what did you learn? >> what did we learn? it's horrible. if you want to see private escalators working well, go to a mall. don't go to d.c. because you probably land in the hospital. >> d.c. is a city of museums and greatest museum is broken escalators. you can't get away from it. they are talking about taking eight and a half months to replace over 500 escalators and they are figuring 8 1/2 months it's going much longer than that. >> john: why do they happen with ...

Congressional incumbents. right now congressional incumbents don't really face competition. we think that really leads to the system breaking down. >> john: you are spending your own money to give people competition. how does that work? >> we engage in primary elections. people think elections occur in november. 85% of the districts are dominated by the republican party or democratic party. so the real decision over who serves in congress is made in the primary election. we want people, more people to go to the primary election and we want real competition there. the whole system is set up to ...

Cut out a middleman and cheaper and better. >> ihd not cheaper because they end up paying the mechanics much more. and there are too many of them. there is four es ka escalators per one mechanic. they say within the ranks, 10% of the work force does most of labor and private sector 25% is doing most of work. >> john: we don't say the private sector but it's better. >> if you screw up there are consequences to it. what happened with the d.c. escalators, it's same thing that happens with public schools. if you screw up, you get more aid or get another chance and another chance. in the end becaus...