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To: Lane3 who wrote (97921)	3/14/2005 12:05:13 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

It's really difficult for me to accept that libertarianism is benevolent or at the least benign when you offer no really plausible concrete solutions to the homeless problem, or even respond to my specific questions. If libertarianism is an ethical philosophy, it seems to me that someone should be able to articulate why that is so. For the record, I don't think that any philosophy that justifies or does not address children going hungry or expects that charities alone can solve huge structural problems is a desirable one. And the problem as I see it with money going to Washington is not that our taxes go there, but that the current administration is spending them very unwisely, cutting programs for the needy, college students, schools in general, food stamps, etc. but giving huge tax advantages to the very rich and corporations. Your post states that you are clarifying the libertarian approach, but really I do not see a clarification in it. What am I missing?