Really opened my eyes to some of the stuff going on and how things actually work.

ive been recommending people everywhere to view it

Its a 20 part series to view online. or a dvd can be purchased.

Incidently have you viewed The Crash Course by Chris Martenson. i think you would like the content. or at least i some referance materials for new posts.

Our defense budget for me makes a lot of sense because the Australian government see the future in regards to the US: their party is over. Their ability to fight wars overseas in defense of other nations will soon be over once their dollar significantly devalues or dare I say collapse. So the Aussie government has to basically factor that in to it’s military strategy… we need to be able to defend ourselves when America isn’t there, which means a big military boost. That’s not so bad if we concurrently cut other major items off our budget that aren’t legitimate powers to the Federal government.

First off I’d just like to say that I appreciate the keen interest… it’s great to find another Rothbardian in the blogosphere!

What have I been reading? Well I’ve been listening to a lot of stuff from the Mises institute… Woods, DiLorenzo, Block, Rothbard, Tucker etc. I’ve also read a little of ‘A Case for a 100% Gold Dollar’ by Rothbard, which I though was fantastic. I’m in the middle of reading Meltdown, but it’s really nothing new. I got into all of this through Peter Schiff though, so he’s a heavy influence.

All your points are correct, although in my experience an ‘anarchy now’ approach isn’t something I’d personally prefer. I’m a constitutional republic kinda guy, so I’d like to see political reform. I think for the sake of most people in the mainstream, going into my 5 point plan would have to happen in steps. People really do care about transitions, so I think this is where the libertarian movement should invest some time in developing.

My girlfriend was saying that they must know something that we don’t. I’m certainly concerned by the news at the moment which seems to offer war and rumours of wars as well as civil unrest and military coups. People sure do seem extra nervous at present.

Haven’t heard of optional debentures before. Are you essentially talking about term-deposits, CDs, what Rothbard calls “timed deposits”?

I reckon you can merge 2 and 3 but I guess it depends on where you’re coming from (you’re miniarchist and I tend now to favour “anarchy” but I hate the term – I prefer “voluntarist/voluntaryist”). Your number 3 is what I’d refer to as “free banking”. In this scenario, you could allow FRB to die a natural death. I reckon it would be difficult or impossible to ban FRB outright/instantly anyway. In order to have private monies it seems necessary to get rid of CGT and GST otherwise the other monies could not compete on an equal footing – so your step 4 works right in with that. Probably should abolish the legal tender laws too as part of private-coinage/free-banking.

If you’re going to allow the state governments to tax me to death then I’d want the option to personally “secede” from the state. I think of this as “opting out”. I’ve heard this called micro-secession or panarchy but only came across those terms recently.