Libertarianism is plagued with the wrong idea of “pull your self up by your boot straps, work hard and you’ll get ahead” (not that thats a bad idea, if you don’t try you’ll never get anywhere but if the deck has been stack against you it dose not matter how hard you try you’ll never get anywhere). That idea is wrong, most people are born with limited opportunity’s and some are born with none and if you don’t have the right opportunity’s you can not rise up the ladder and become a success. Some times you need the government to step in and give people opportunity’s.

True public schools in this country are failing however that does not mean public schooling is bad, in other country’s its succeeding but the public schools in this country are run by idiots.

One of the failings of libertarianism is the idea of not regulating large businesses. With out minimum wage laws company’s would pay people $1 an hour, with out child labour laws company’s would hire 10 years olds to work in factory’s (in fact in many country’s those are happening and being done by American company’s). With out regulations capitalism would divide society between the wealthy and the wage slaves. But too much regulation can be as bad as no regulation and illogical regulations can be even worse. But socialism is no answer (It has problems of its own) and communism is just stupid. Regulation is needed but its better to under-regulate than over-regulate.

Libertarianism is not all bad though, its got some good but so does every other system. The problem is people think there is one system that is an answer to everything and works every where. There isn’t.
The best system would be one that take all the parts of capitalism, socialism, libertarianism, communism, conservatism, liberalism, anarchism and all the other political and economic system that works cut off the parts that don’t squish them together cut off the parts that don’t work together. And you would have the best possible system. However what works and what does not depends on allot of factors, what works in a wealthy country where the vast majority are strongly loyal to the country and government will not work in a country where people are generally poor and loyalty’s are too there tribes, ethnicity’s, religions and so on.

A apologise for my spelling.

I look forward to your post!

I have you to thank for understanding enough about the Libertarian view to appreciate what I was seeing during my research for the BlogActionDay topic of poverty. It was fun to think about you as I read over the ideas of Henry George and Fred Foldvary.

Having tried to correlate economics to government ideas in three days caused my head to explode.

I am going to need your opinion on some of these ideas…soon as my vision clears!

Cheers,

Mitch

Miss Moneypenny Adams! I doubt either candidate consider civic virtue to be important in today’s world. Republican used to actually mean something.

According to my Grandparents research, John Adams was my relative. We never questioned their credibility since my Grandparents needed to prove their lineage to an ancestor who aided in achieving our independence. My Grandmother was a member in the Daughters of the American Revolution and my Grandfather was a member in the Sons of the American Revolution. Fortunately, both my Republican Grandparents were not alive to see what the Bush’s have done to our nation.

Can McCain and Obama spell “Civic virtue” to find the meaning of Civic virtue???

I wonder if my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather, John Adams, would be happy to hear he was a constitutional anarchist?

For me, Zen is the philosophy of the highest order and of spiritual agnosticism. Every religious person and especially every atheist should learn Zen. It is in “not knowing” that we find all truth.

The reason I’m not on the left, is because corruption, dishonesty and greed will always grow in the hearts of powerful people; therefore, the government – regardless of any regulation – can never be trusted to own and take care of people