You're absolutely right. I was engaging in a little mental masturbation there. It didn't net anything at all, but it made me feel better for about 2 minutes.
My apologies. I would very much like to see your comments come to fruition, along with some of the other laissez-faire suggestions.
Unfortunately, the addictive, and potent, cocktail of power, adulation, outright theft, and the ability to enslave through entitlement will ultimately destroy civilizations.
To paraphrase Gibbon, and Pogo, the Barbarians at Byzantium's Gate are us.