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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (3136)9/28/2003 7:51:11 PM
From: Rock_nj  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
There really aren't many real libertarians around anyway. You'd have to look in the upper reaches of Alaska or other far away places to find people who actually live on their own without the benefits of collectivist society that libertarians suppossedly find some offensive and want to avoid.

I've gone through the whole debate routine with liberatrians. They're mainly a bunch of idealists who have no grounding in how the real world works. For example, if we had libertartian roads, we'd have to pay a toll everytime we turned down a new street, to pay the owners for the use of their roads. How many people would prefer that method of paying for our roads? Libertarianism in the abstract is a beautiful idea, but it's a utopian idealogy like anarchy that's about as practical as pure communism (the diametrically oppossed philosophy) is in the real world. The real world operates somewhere in between these two extremes.

Another fallicy of the libertarian idealogy is the belief in the superiority of the purely "free markets". Big Business and the wealthy elites who own them aren't really interested in "free markets" anyway. They never really have been, they've used the government to protect their industries from competition since the founding of this country. Look at all the federal largese that they're living off of under the suppossedly "free market" Republican party under Bush and his cronies in Congress. Big Business loves government subsidies and giveaways. It's like being a kid in the candystore. So much for "free markets". Free spending government is more like it.
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