05 Feb 2009
Libertarian plan to boost jobs

The cure, you dolt, is getting rid of all state intervention in the economy. Starting with the Federal Reserve and working down from there. It is not giving tax breaks to government chartered quasi-monopolies (aka "corporations"). It is not increasing the amount of theft (aka "taxes") government extorts on the sales of energy (or any other) products. It is not interfering with the ability of workers to organize and attempt to collectively bargain. It is not breaking the promises government made and effectively stealing from those who've paid Social Security taxes.

I get the distinct impression that what is meant by "free trade" here consists of us opening up to everybody's imports, irregardless of how they treat our exports. And that's not free trade at all. Maybe I'm wrong, but given the overall tone of the piece, I doubt it.

Abandoning Afghanistan before we have bin Laden? Well, in a perfect world, perhaps. In a perfect world, Osama wouldn't have bothered to attack us. But if government has any excuse for it's own existence, laying the whomp on those who attack us is it. Perhaps this so-called "libertarian" is implying that there's no excuse at all for government. No, wait, he's all for taxes on gas and using law to bust unions. That can't be it.

I'm all in favor of stopping the bailouts of businesses that took too much risk. But which ones are those? How about we just stop bailing out businesses period?

About the only thing he got right was Iraq and immigration. And those are the two items that have the least to do with the current economic crisis.

If this bozo's a libertarian, I'd better start calling myself a communist. He's "Republican Lite" - maybe a little less filling, but ends up tasting just as bad as the real deal.

When libertarians question the merit of President Obama's stimulus package, a frequent rejoinder is, "Well, we have to do something." This is hardly a persuasive response. If the cure is worse than the disease, it is better to live with the disease.

(link) [CNN.com]

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