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You do have your opinion, but that is all you have in this video. I do want to thank you for Validating Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party and how much they are a Threat to your Leftist Views by the attacks and insults you threw. Thank You Good Sir, Please keep this up, the Libertarian Party needs this beautiful time in the spotlight and your amazing endorsement as well.
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Libertarians: Yikes
{… a Limerick and a PS}
re Third-party havoc, Libertarian: -
- Entirely too contrarian
‘gainst government’s
civil covenants.
They generate a mood barbarian.
PS:
Well, maybe they’ll make a bump
on the road of Donald Trump.
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A Sociopath for President
{… a limerick …}
Trump is especially alarming
since sociopaths are charming, …
… so folks fall for his schtick
‘tho’ with nonsense it’s thick, -
- and meanwhile our country they’re harming.
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"We the people" wasn't just a slogan that our Founders and Framers used to open the Constitution, it was a rejection of them British aristocracy's notion that only the rich and well-born should own anything of consequence and that all must serve them."
That's just stupid. There was no right to vote in the Constitution. Many were slave holders, the majority well off. The Constitution did not say that the federal government should aid the poor, construct poor houses, hospitals, prosecute monopolies or ensure just prices, make police or fire forces - all that was left to the states, which the states were expected to do.
Further, the Constitution did not say the federal government owned the land for the people, they did not confiscate private English estates or divide them up and give it to the people. They did not enforce any equality of property, but only of the application of law. There were no laws limiting how much a man may own, or mandating minimum standards or conditions of employment.
The only thing that kept things looking good was the fact there was so much land. But that would change.
"If you know the earth and the animals and plants and trees then you will not fit into the paradigm of capitalism but you will never be alone."
Why? Aboriginals traded a bit. Western settlers traded more, and worked and new the land quite well. And they also worked in common with each other. Capitalism does not have to be inconsistent with public rights to nature - provided you can lease the land and have freedom to profit from the land. For example, Alaska leases land to oil companies. The profit goes to all the citizens, who are free to live in the wilds if they want.
Your real problem is that a mixed economy is on average so much better than living off nature in a tent. Our lands support hundreds of millions, and many millions can actually enjoy nature without the terrible penalties that one often had to endure.
"I know what it is like growing up in a cradle-to-grave socialist environment"
Who are you? Think about it. First, I have no idea who you are. Second, I have no idea if what your saying is true. Third, I have no idea if what you are saying is significant.
Further the idea that you actually want the government to hire, feed, clothe everyone is absurd: that is not what Sanders wants at all.
The reason why good men like yourself can have such great experiences is because you have a higher purpose in life. Most people don't, which is why you need the competition of the workplace.
The actual evidence - as opposed to your personal experience - is overwhelming.
"Banksters on Wall Street did the same thing in 2008 when they robbed the American people"
Some banks sold some mortgage packages to *other* banks that did not care to look inside them.
And the banking regulations should have *prevented* people from getting loans.
To say this is *robbery* of people is ludicrous.
And the rest of your article is simply argument by analogy and only has rhetorical power to those who agree with you. In in order to prove libertarianism is false, you must show it is inconsistent, right here, right now. But even more absurd is that your meaningless diatribe is false: Libertarianism would be perfectly fine with groups of people doing any non-matket altruistic endeavors.
Agreed! Bernie is a coalescing force that we, the people, have been yearning for; the sense of community and "getting each other's back" that is experienced in the military and, in some memories, the communes of the sixties and earlier. The country is ready to rally around a strong, no bullshit center in order to recover from the fraudulent decadence of the past fifty years. The oil economy is being challenged for real now, and there is an opportunity to swing the apparatus of government to represent the true wishes of the people, united.
I hope Thom reads this on the air and comments on it, because I've never really heard it discussed on his show before (although I don't listen to every minute of every show, just wish I could).
I know what it is like growing up in a cradle-to-grave socialist environment, because my father was a career Army officer. Dad had a job provided for him by the US government. He received a decent wage, and we were not fabulously well-to-do but lived what I would call a middle class lifestyle. He made the same amount as an Army doctor or an Army lawyer of an equivalent rank and time in service, though he was actually in the ordnance corps.
We lived in government-subsidized housing on base, ate government-subsidized food from the commissary, and wore government-subsidized clothes from the PX. We went to schools and churches and doctors and playgrounds that were all provided by the government. At some of the bases we lived, there were even golf courses and horse stables, all provided by Uncle Sugar.
My father enjoyed a decent pension from the Army, and when he died in 2011 he was buried with full military honors on behalf of a grateful nation. After high school, I myself joined the Navy and saw first-hand what a socialist worker's paradise it is. When I was on a ship, we got "three hots and a cot," meaning that basic needs were provided for us. Pay was low, but I didn't have to spend any of it on rent or bills. Now I am 57, and even though I basically served five do-nothing years during the peaceful Carter administration, I can use the VA hospital and be treated like the war hero I am not.
So anyone who wants to complain about Bernie Sanders being a socialist or how socialism just can't work in America can come talk to me, because I lived it for nearly all my life. I've even heard someone try to posit the following: "Socialism has failed in every country it's been tried!" Baloney. You need look no further than the US military.
Beginning with the Roman Empire, hierarchical forms of government took from those of us with Celtic ancestors that which we can never get back. Living close to grandmother earth in a tribe. The next best thing is Native American cosmology which of course fits North America but gives us a chance to have some idea of how our distant ancestors lived. They had sacred groves of trees, sacred springs and sacred mountains and animal totems as do aboriginal Americans. The Hopi among others say we were given "original instructions" for living in harmony on the planet but along came the Greco-Romans who re -wrote the instructions and or destroyed them. We have been suffering from 2000 years of ignorance forced upon us by a hierarchy of leaders like Constantine and Alexander the not so great. If there was no rich class then there would be no poor class.
If you know the earth and the animals and plants and trees then you will not fit into the paradigm of capitalism but you will never be alone.
Dear Thom,
A book that reinforces this point is the modern classic: "Little Big Man." When the young man is "captured" by the Indians and then lives with them, he describes his experience as wonderful, like being on a vacation. It is just so that people are not meant to live alone. It is not complicated. We are like the wolf or dog family, not cats.
The problem is where the tax money has moved from the middle class to the top .01 percent for the last forty years. Taxes were used, at one time, for the benefit of the majority. Where do you think all these multibillionaires came from?
Today we remember. Let us also understand that within the service community it is 'us'. At home, it becomes: each for ourselves, sink or swim, dog eat dog, knife in back. And then we wonder why so many escape by a gun in our mouths to remember no more.
More government spending is the answer. The rich avoiding paying their fair share of taxes is the problem. America could be "great again" if greed didn't keep getting in the way.
What is a tipping point? Consider the Larsen B ice shelf. Prior to a collapse of a section 200+ meters in depth, the area of Rhode Island in 2002, scientists had been studying the destabilization and expected it's collapse would take decades; tipping point reached, it took a little more than 30 days!
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If government spending is the answer how come after going in debt almost a trillion dollars a year for the last 7 years, things are not perfect. What comes after trillion?
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I agree with Louise!
Moreover, Elizabeth Warren is the DREAM VP candidate for either Clinton or Sanders. (PS ... and what Great insurance against assination attempts! ; ) ).
I have hoped incessantly that she and Bernie would team: I, for one, would be in political heaven. What's more, I think disillusioned, small-d democratic Republicans would be also! Thay don't recognize their own party, Thom!
Make no mistake, there are a lot of disillusioned USers, and not all of them think like I do.