Letters to the Editor
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A few thoughts
While I completely respect Paul for being a self made man, anyone that thinks they could pay to go through medical school today by doing menial side jobs is insane. BTW, what schools did he attend? Were they all private or were some state (government subsidized) colleges? Once he was successful $$$, it's a hell of alot easier for his kids to not need government assistance to go to school. Warren Buffett is not a libertarian and yet his kids did not need government assistance either.
Another thing, regarding engineers (and programmers, similar personalities) and their viewpoints. I'm an engineer and things have been pretty damn good for the last 18 years. Before that was a lull that was very humbling. Many of the people in the workforce today (similar to the financial industry) have never experienced a serious downturn that discounts their competence and just plain doesn't need them. I ended up waiting tables on the side to make ends meet, the thought of that to many today is mind boggling. One of my firms in the 90's paid a nuclear engineer (Master's degree) $8 an hour ot draft for us, he felt lucky to get a job in the engineering field. He has a successful business of his own today.
On a side note, I know a few anarchists (kind of cracks me up, I guess some of my hobbies introduce me to a wide field) and their views do not seem that different from the hard core libertarians I know, the exception being that anarchists hate corporations, libertarians don't see them as bad.