Jimbo wrote:Are you for real?
Well if that's not obvious to you yet I suppose I'll have to do a better job of demonstrating precisely how real I am in the future.
Jimbo wrote:First of all, with what will you buy shit? Oh, you will let the government print money?
Don't be daft. Libertarians are opposed to governments printing money. Some may grudgingly allow governments to strike coins but the exchange rate between the coins and paper money would be left up to market forces.
Jimbo wrote:How liberal of you.
Well yes. Libertarians are liberals, as the term was used in the nineteenth century. Or don't you even know that?
Jimbo wrote:And if your Smith and Wesson blows up in your hand how will you get recompense? Oh, via a court system, you think. Cool, daddyo. But the courthouse is downtown, how will you get there? On the government built road, of course. How else?
Well yes. A government monopoly over the road system has been in place for several hundred years so I don't have much choice there. But what precisely is wrong with seeking to preserve and expand my freedom of choice in other ways? Why the authoritarian impulse on your part? Are you that power hungry?
Jimbo wrote:Look, the system is far from perfect but the system can be perfected.
Look Jimbo. You know you've messed up your own life. Don't try to deny it. We all have. So what makes you think you can run everyone else's life as well, even in concert with your buddies in the government? There is no agency that can plan the life of even one individual. So why then does the government think it can plan the life of that collective of individuals known as the economy - especially with all the empirical evidence to the contrary?
Jimbo wrote:...and let's make a better place.
Sorry. I lack the authoritarian impulse that would have me trying to construct what I think should be a utopia for my neighbours. I'll let them work on their own. Hopefully they'll extend me the same courtesy.
Jimbo wrote:{Obama's) also made too many compromises, especially with libertarian/free market types.
Keep in mind that free markets, not governments, are the engine of wealth creation.
And what precisely troubles you about this concept of choice i.e. the free market? Why is it that you think it should be taken from individuals? Is it some grand social engineering scheme you have in mind? Do I need to remind you that the others that have been tried this last century and a half have been disasters?