Truthmatters
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run away wothout discussing what Im asking you to discuss.
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I never hear them objecting to the nanny statism going on at the state and local level. That impacts our lives a lot more. If you have a bunch of liberals banning everything they don't like at the state level, it won't really matter too much what the feds are doing.
Actually, there is an even bigger embarrassment which most "Talk Radio Libertarians" never mention - and that's the relationship between government and corporations.
Do you understand the point of lobbying and election funding? The market winners have captured the centralized power of the state. Government now exists to subsidize and bail out capital.
John Galt (the icon of free market capitalism) now craves state intervention. Indeed, business wants patent protection for its products so it can put a monopoly fence around its investments. Do you know how much the tax payer pays to maintain the patent system? But it doesn't stop there. Corporations want military support for their overseas supply chains. [Read the labels on your clothes and consumer goods. These things come from dangerous places that must be stabilized by our military. Do you know how much money it costs to ensure that our capitalists get ultra-cheap labor from freedom-hating, dictator-lead nations?] Corporations also require advanced industrial infrastructure - another generous gift from the taxpayer. Or what about FDIC insurance so risk is underwritten for free? Or what about the legal system which is needed to enforce their contracts and protect their property and investments? The public pays untold trillions to ensure their property, and their markets, and their profits are protected. Worse: banks get virtually free money from the fed (under 1%) to lend out at a high interest rate. The consumer electronics boom of the 80s came from technology that was developed in the state sector (through the Pentagon and NASA budgets). Before you make silly posts, study Boeing and commercial aviation, specifically the amount of state support given to this fabulous profit cow. Let's not even talk about what big government does for big oil.
What scares me is that you have been drugged with cliches about Government Control, but you have not done any research outside of your party's tightly controlled information system. You should at least understand the other side of the story.
Don't be their useful idiot. They're trying to convince you that the capitalist represents freedom - and freedom is dying at the hands of the Stalinist State. What they're not tell you is that they own the state. When a senator does not vote for special interests, he faces a primary challenge. Do you know how many rightwing senators, who passed the 2003 Drug Bill, are now pharmaceutical lobbyists?
You've been turned, unwittingly, into an apparachik for the special interests which run government.
Turn off talk radio and FOX News and research who owns government.
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There is a good reason they wont discuss this MAJOR part of our history.
Its how the constitution got passed in this country.
yet they dont want to discuss it.
there is good reason why the refuse to discuss it.
TM - I'm going to bill you for replacing my scroll wheel mouse.
There is a good reason they wont discuss this MAJOR part of our history.
Its how the constitution got passed in this country.
yet they dont want to discuss it.
there is good reason why the refuse to discuss it.
First of all the federalist papers are not the constitution, they are not law.
Secondly what part do you think of the federalist paper Libertarians don't agree with. Try and be incredibly specific.
1) Give a full quote
2) Give your interpretation of that quote
3) Give us the interpretation you think Libertarians would have of that quote
4) Then tell everyone why your interpretation of the quote supersedes the actual law of the constitution.
For instance, Hamilton believed that only the wealthy should run the country... Why do you support that idea so much TM?
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
Federalists
Leader: Alexander Hamilton
Favored:
Rule by the wealthy class
Strong federal government
Emphasis on manufacturing
Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Democratic-Republicans
Leader: Thomas Jefferson
Favored:
Rule by the people
Strong state governments
Emphasis on agriculture
Strict interpretation of the Constitution
There is a good reason they wont discuss this MAJOR part of our history.
Its how the constitution got passed in this country.
yet they dont want to discuss it.
there is good reason why the refuse to discuss it.
First of all the federalist papers are not the constitution, they are not law.
Secondly what part do you think of the federalist paper Libertarians don't agree with. Try and be incredibly specific.
1) Give a full quote
2) Give your interpretation of that quote
3) Give us the interpretation you think Libertarians would have of that quote
4) Then tell everyone why your interpretation of the quote supersedes the actual law of the constitution.
For instance, Hamilton believed that only the wealthy should run the country... Why do you support that idea so much TM?
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
Federalists
Leader: Alexander Hamilton
Favored:
Rule by the wealthy class
Strong federal government
Emphasis on manufacturing
Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Democratic-Republicans
Leader: Thomas Jefferson
Favored:
Rule by the people
Strong state governments
Emphasis on agriculture
Strict interpretation of the Constitution
There is a good reason they wont discuss this MAJOR part of our history.
Its how the constitution got passed in this country.
yet they dont want to discuss it.
there is good reason why the refuse to discuss it.
First of all the federalist papers are not the constitution, they are not law.
Secondly what part do you think of the federalist paper Libertarians don't agree with. Try and be incredibly specific.
1) Give a full quote
2) Give your interpretation of that quote
3) Give us the interpretation you think Libertarians would have of that quote
4) Then tell everyone why your interpretation of the quote supersedes the actual law of the constitution.
For instance, Hamilton believed that only the wealthy should run the country... Why do you support that idea so much TM?
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
Federalists
Leader: Alexander Hamilton
Favored:
Rule by the wealthy class
Strong federal government
Emphasis on manufacturing
Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Democratic-Republicans
Leader: Thomas Jefferson
Favored:
Rule by the people
Strong state governments
Emphasis on agriculture
Strict interpretation of the Constitution