AceOfSpades wrote:
AstroGeek wrote:
ryan93 wrote:
AstroGeek wrote:
AceOfSpades wrote:
YippySkippy wrote:
Aren't libertarians and conservatives cousins anyway?
Liberals are about social freedom
Conservatives are about economic freedom
Libertarians are about both
The best of both words baby
Yes. Libertarians are all about economic freedom. They want to make sure everyone is free to starve on the street.
As opposed to the government taking 40% of your wage against your will to blow up Iraqi's for s**ts and giggles?
I am strongly opposed to militarism and violence of any type. But to be honest, I view taxation as necessary. Especially for the rich--no one
needs to be making millions of dollars per year. That money would be better spent on health care, education, and social programs. Of course, if the USA cut military funding they could probably lower taxes and increase social services at the same time.
Libertarians aren't anarchists. I'd much rather reform education and social welfare than throw more money at it. Whoever is able bodied and mentally functional should be put on workfare instead of welfare Education is fundamentally a complete joke and the whole system needs to be reformed. So what if no one "needs" to be making millions? Why are they less deserving of the fruits of their own labour than anyone else? One thing I differ from most libertarians on is that I am militarist to an extent. If another country has a tyrannical government, wipe it out. If it's a pissing contest between two nations, let em sort it out themselves.
I don't disagree that workfare seems better than welfare--I am a rather strange liberal in that way. I also agree that some reform is needed. However, I think that more money should be spent in addition to reform.
I am strongly opposed to overthrowing someone else's government--even if you don't like them. First, it could be that the people like that government. Even if they are misguided, it is that sort of interference which helps spawn terrorists. From a purely practical standpoint, overthrowing other governments doesn't work very well. And it creates a dangerous precedent. Case in point: a few decades back Chile elected a democratic Marxist government. The CIA helped to overthrow it (if is sometimes even claimed that a CIA agent was the one to kill the president) because, although being democratic this seemed a bit too much like communism. What right does the USA have to get rid of a government that had the popular support of the people of another country?
Someone else said that a large military is needed or everyone would be speaking Chinese and be living under Sharia Law. Uh...no. Canada spend very little on its military, as do most countries compared to the USA, and we get along just fine.
11 Apr 2011, 9:54 pm
