05-23-2016, 11:54 PM
(05-23-2016, 11:27 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: It doesn't matter if a few tidbits like a massively-watered-down version of socialized medicine managed to get through after 35 years of YOUR economic policies, and CONTINUED policies for these last 7. YOUR guys have continued to block legislation and executive action on almost everything else for 40 years and counting. YOUR guys may continue to support many anti-libertarian policies that I also oppose, but honesty and truth is not what YOUR guys are interested in; they are only interested in protecting their profits from liberals. And that is the ONLY real effect or purpose of libertarian economics.
I am simply amazed by your ability to ignore all of the facts in pursuit of blaming libertarians for what has been going on for 40 years. It is quite an achievement for a political party that holds no national offices. Anybody who know anything about the libertarians know that the spending cuts they would implement, given the chance, would dwarf anything that the hated Paul Ryan has ever come up with.
(05-23-2016, 11:27 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: I like your signature quote from Mencken better than Clueless Mises, but what you neglect to realize is that your libertarian ideas are idealistic and utopian. They have never been implemented and never CAN be implemented. But the slogans that convince people that they can be, put out by faux libertarians like Reagan, and paid for by libertarians like the Koch Brothers, do enormous damage.
I put a Mises quote back in since you like him so much. I doubt you are qualified to have an opinion on Mises because it is unlikely that you have read anything he wrote. I would also not that for at least the first century of its existence the US was about as close to libertarians as the world has ever seen. In fact it did very well until the Progressive Era when things started seriously to go downhill.
Here you might want to hear what some libertarians have to say about the Koch brothers and why so many avoid the Cato Institute.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises