Letters to the Editor
bucky1
Published Letters: 1714
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There's just one problem with your thesis, LWM
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]LWM: "... I am a libertarian."
What a hoot. I read a fellow write hate against the only libertarian candidate in a major party in my long life-time and he now wants to be called a "big-government" libertarian. Or even better, he wants to be a war-libertarian! (see earlier posts)
Like all lefties, he goes for the intelligence insult early and often --- especially to avoid the subject. Take the test and get back to me, "Mr. Libertarian".
http://www.mises.org/quiz.asp
Tell you what, "Mr. Libertarian", name me a federal power that you would do away with and then name an agency that is outperforming what could be expected of the private sector.
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re: Ron Paul is not plotted here (abortion)
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]LWM: ... Paul is not pro-choice on abortion. Voted against stemcell research. ...
What a cheap shot. What position do you think a baby doctor (real live MD) is going to take?
The libertarian position is clear. Abortion is horrible and should not be done --- but, it is not any of the government's business to get involved in the issue.
Does that make me "not pro-choice" also? That will certainly surprise the wife.
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re: 'Scuse me, but....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]William: --> Bucky1, I'm not trying to pick on you, honest, but this: 'The fact the PO is amazing to you, does not prove the private sector would not do the job a thousand times better.' sounds more rational than it is. One of the things which the Post Office has always done, which no private carrier is likely to have wanted to do, is deliver stuff to everybody, not just to places where there was a profit to be made. ...
And I respond that your objection sounds more rational than it is. I am not even sure we need to send snail-mail anymore, but I am convinced the private sector could do a much better job. Now wait, I do not mean private companies controlled by federal regulations --- that is fascism. I mean totally free markets.
Then if some poor hillbillies (like myself) do not get mail service, then you can spearhead the charity to buy service for them from a private company. Or, gods forbid, the government could buy the service from the private sector.
I hope this clears up my thinking this morning on this issue. You were ever so polite and I do appreciate it.
William: ---> ... in the decades following airline de-regulation, one of the first things you noticed was the disappearance of local service to unprofitable, usually smaller, rural airports. It made perfect sense for a capitalist enterprise, but one has to ask if the public was served as well as it might have been.
I read an article at the Mises institute on that subject a few months back. (mises.org)
The central problem is that we de-regulated planes but not the airports. Almost every damn commercial plane that comes into Central Florida to OIA. The Feds control everything.
That is no topic to use to prove markets do not work.
William ---> ...What's my point? It's a simple one, really. There are some public goods and services which it isn't in capitalism's interest to provide, but might very well be in the public interest to have.
There is no service that comes without cost. If the public wants it, someone will make it available. What you want is for the majority to play Robin Hood using armed thugs. (but in pretty uniforms)
I on the other hand, blame government for so much poverty in the first place. Imagine how much you yourself might give to the needy if you got to keep most of you income. I trust that you would lend a helping hand; I know I would do what I could.
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re: No, not
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]William: ---> ... this from my own experience: 1965. Memphis, TN. I'm waiting for a bus with a middle-aged white man, thin, sun-baked, probably blue collar. The bus pulls up, the door opens with a hiss. There's a middle-aged black woman sitting behind the driver. The man beside me hesitates, pitches his voice loud enough for everyone in the bus to hear, and says I'll die and go to hell before I'll sit behind a nigger. I get on the bus, the door closes with another hiss, and we drive away.
Does anyone here believe that big government taught him to say that?
Great story. I see it is from 1965. That is after a long, long time of government pitting one race against the other. You do not think that Atwater or Nixon was the first guys to think up things like this?
This comes after "reconstruction", "Jim Crow" and many other little great ideas. Whites and blacks have lived together in peace and relative harmony in various places and times in history --- why the racism here?
Why did the students at Seminole High School elect a black male as "senior class president" in Sanford, Florida in 1970 (or 69?) even before official integration?
You do not really think people must be beaten until they learn to live together do you? LWM does; he thinks you need federal agents to beat people until moral improves. (is he a closet Republican?) :-)
PS: Do you think all whites in Mephis were the same as that asshole back in 65?