Letters to the Editor
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This sounds familiar
Choosing good defaults is an essential part of good user interface design. Opt-in and opt-out can have very different consequences. Why not apply the similar ideas to social policy?
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Scalpel
Just knife me now - I am over whites - blacks - usa - you and all things socially acceptable - I am a racist - I wasn't untill recently - now I am and I feel fine - I embrace and love all of me - including the parts that don't sit well with you - or you too.
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SAY WHAT?
"Thaler and Sunstein describe a style of government in which citizens are free to choose -- how they invest their money, how they give away their money..."
AND WHAT FREAKIN' MONEY MIGHT THAT BE?
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KNOW WE KNOW...
exactly which kooks are pulling the strings in the Obama-rama Carnival Show! I don't want anything called "paternalistic" in the White House anymore! Screw Daddy and the advisors he rode in on!
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Planning and True Libertarianism
When the libertarian paternalists say they will make planning less invasive to the citizenry they miss the entire point of libertarian systems. The whole notion is that instead of planning you rely on spontaneous orders of actors as minimally bound as possible. The sum of this spontaneous order is itself the social good, as it is defined chaotically by society itself at the maximum speed of social transmission. To plan, however benignly with the softest velvet glove is still to plan.
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Oboma is no libertarian
Libertarians believe in individual liberty and few government restraints.
Barack Obama is a marxist. He believes in equality--created an enforced by Government.
Are these nuts at the UofC Obama supporters trying to confuse imagery, sell illusions and falsehoods. It's the marxist thing to do. Saul Alinsky encouraged it.
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he's not a libertarian...i was/am but now...
Obama is definitely not a libertarian. That's just outright stupid.
Once upon a time i considered myself libertarian. And i guess in a perfect world, an alternate universe, I still am.
It would be great if it could be reality.
But I have found that as the world changes I have had to examine my own views. I cannot be static and ossified. I have to reevaluate on an on-going basis. I think more people and countries should do this. (the USA gets stuck a lot because we won't consider change - look at the resistance to national health care, election procedures etc.)
I don't think i like this 'new term' mentioned in this article. It sounds stupid and will be a PR flop. Two words everyone hates? Together? Right. Its dead in the water.