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Old 10-16-2013, 05:51 PM  
tony286
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
Why would there be "no govt"?

Libertarians just want the govt. to be as inconsequential to your life as is possible while still doing the actual mechanisms of govt.

What is so hard for people to understand about that?

The amount of propaganda that the 2 ruling parties put out about anything that threatens their monopoly is astounding.

Again I say:
Do YOU want Pro-Choice for women?
Do YOU want to bring our troops home and stop invading and interfering with other countries (at a cost of trillions of dollars in overbloated military)?
Do YOU want to stop the "War On Drugs" and the accompanying multi-billion dollar prison industry that shamefully has more or our citizens in prison than any other country on Earth?
Do YOU, as a full grown man...think you should be able to pay and have sex with a woman of legal age?
Do YOU think that you are capable of running your own life?

I think you would answer yes to those questions when you step back and think about it.

Who decided that a bunch of career/lifetime politicians and bureaucrats should tell you that you can't pay a woman to have sex? Who decided that they could tell you that you can't get high on Friday night? Who decided to spend all this money on military while people are sick and starving in our own country?

I'm a full grown man. So are you. Yes, we need the govt. to govern. No, we do not need them to tell me in Las Vegas that I am not allowed to have a liquor drink in a full nude strip club with only adults in it.

It's downright ridiculous what the govt. does. (local, state, and federal)

And I certainly don't need them to tell me that I can't create or watch 2 consenting adults of legal age performing sex acts on a video or picture.
I agree with everything you said here. But I also believe in regulation and don't think the free market is the answer for everything. Look at prisons, we privatized them and now they only take contracts where the states can guarantee 95 percent occupancy which is what causing the growing prison pop we have. They were paying off a judge to send kids of jail for bullshit.
A big reason for the crash was the constant deregulating Wall St, Greenspan said himself he thought they would self regulate.

I dont think there is a simple answer for any of this. Thats why a guy goes in with dark hair as President and comes out an old man.

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