Fox Host Pushes Small Government: Walmart Did More Than FEMA After Katrina

Fox Business host John Stossel joined “Fox and Friends” Sunday morning to argue that small government and more “spontaneous order,” a concept developed by economist Friedrich Hayek, will actually lead to more order.

Stossel first made his point with a skating rink example, arguing that people enforce skating rules without police presence.

“If you hadn’t seen the skating rink, you would say, ‘No, you need skating police, people go in this direction,'” Stossel said. “Think of how much of life is spontaneous.”

“So much of life is spontaneous, but our instinct is to say, ‘Government, give us a plan,'” he added.

He then claimed that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Walmart served people’s needs better than the government did.

“After Katrina, Walmart and private charities helped people in many more ways than FEMA did,” Stossel said. “Because FEMA is incompetent because government tends to be. But also Walmart everyday needs to know what people need, and they were ready. They had more weather forecasters than some of the local governments do.”

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  1. I do believe that was the basis behind the criticism of the Bush Administration response to Katrina. Had the Bush Administration and FEMA responded properly instead of exposing their own incompetence then Wal-Mart would not have done more.

  2. I remember when Stossel did good work to help the consumer, instead of being a sellout tool to the reich-wing.

  3. Yeah Stossel, we don’ need no friggin’ laws an’ gummint…hell John all we need is a trusty gun the bigger the better to keep order with …wait… that means there’s disorder and …ahem…anarchy in the streets.

    Maybe folks will skate in the same direction w/o being told but scale it up to a nation and you’ll get chaos.
    Apparently idiocy knows no bounds. All Stossel need do is look at failed states around the globe where governments and laws are nonexistent to see his idea is BS. Somalia, Nigeria, Syria etc.

  4. Avatar for rawr rawr says:

    Government run by people who hate the government sucks. (Bush/Katrina) also (Christie/Sandy)
    Government run by people who don’t hate the government doesn’t sucks. (Johnson/Betsy) (Obama/Pick One)

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